you either die as a founder-run company or live long enough to see your company run by an indian dude
Walter Chen
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Walter Chen
@smalter
co-founder of @sacrainc, investor at goldenwok.com and chairman at @animalzco. previously co-founder at @idonethis.
- the thiel fellowship has an insane track record $ETH $420B @oyorooms $8B @scale_AI $7B @Upstart $7B @luminartech $7B @figmadesign $2B what started in 2011 to pay talented kids $100k to drop out of college now counts billionaire startup founders among its alums 👇
- duke's not known as a startup factory like stanford. but duke '08-'12 has produced 4 unicorns—coinbase, airtable, cameo and plaid—along with a bunch of up and comers. here's the path their founders took from duke to $1b 👇
- follow me if you wanna get acquired
- if you raise $60m, you'll get offered $60m more still hard to raise a pre-seed for a 1st time founder though
- in 2005, @naval and @laserlikemike sued bill gurley, benchmark and august capital, saying the VCs cheated them out of millions after the acquisition of epinions they settled 15 years later, naval and mike speiser have been two of the biggest forces in disrupting and remaking VC
- Replying to @matthewstoller and @HawleyMOshe's not an 'ex-hedge fund lawyer', she's a former law firm partner who represented a hedge fund. the inability to understand that distinction is at the core of hawley's moronic line of questioning.
- i cut $300k into startups, small businesses and funds in 2020. i was gonna do an ama but i thought it would make more sense for everyone else to give me advice because i have no idea what i'm doing.
- based on the recommendation of my VCs, i am moving all of my money to a neobank that last month my VCs told me to move all my money away from
