Startups

Have been lucky to meet with or study hundreds of companies in 2021. Here's an ongoing list of company attributes that I find interesting...

I was at Amzn early '00s when we lost 95% of our market cap. Later at FB I negotiated a down-round in '09, and then in '12 our stock dropped 50% post-IPO. I was on the board of a public company that went bankrupt (Borders) and a start-up that went under (Hello). Some lessons: