Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) (#780) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
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Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) (#780) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
As far as billion-dollar companies go, most investors are lucky to have one in their portfolio. In my study, I found a number of angel investors who had five or more. Many of these top angels were former founders. Elad Gil (who started Mixer Labs and Color Genomics), David Sacks (PayPal, Yammer), Dave Morin (Path), Jason Calacanis (Weblogs.com), Je
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Almost immediately, I raised $1.1M from an all-star cast of angel investors and venture capital firms, including Max Levchin, Chris Sacca, Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, Collaborative Fund, Accel Partners, and First Round Capital. A few months later, in May 2012, we raised $7M more. Mike Abbott from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), a top-t... See more
Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
“What’s your moonshot?” leading me to re-explore many of the questions and concepts in this profile.
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Rich Feloni of Business Insider, have written entire feature-length pieces on how this app has changed their lives.
Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Tim Ferris: "It's not even the first inning. It’s like the anthem before the game has even started. And I have never seen so many highly intelligent, ambitious, capable people drop whatever they’re doing, in many cases really attractive things, to dedicate their time to this."