Jai Malik
502 posts
- Today, I’m excited to launch the Advanced Manufacturing Company of America. We've raised $76M in initial funding from Caffeinated Capital, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, a16z, and others. The best time to build this business is right now, but the real work began decades ago.
00:00 - Quickly learning that I have more AI in my name than startups have in their products
- Early hires at startups are the real MVPs.
- Lord, grant me the confidence of a 20 yr old male YC founder raising an uncapped convertible note
- There is only one NFT I’m interested in right now, and that is Nuclear Fusion Technology
- By December 2014, Theranos had raised $400m+ in VC funding & was worth $9 billion. The secret to their success? Elizabeth Holmes, AKA the next Steve Jobs. Elizabeth exclusively wore black turtlenecks since she was 8. Lesson: If you're raising money from VCs, wear a turtleneck.
- How to raise a $20M Seed round in 2022: Step 1 - change your website domain from “.com” to “.ai”
- All startups are hard, but hard tech startups are really fucking hard
