During our seed round in 2020, an investor laughed when I was pitching, called Gamma "the worst idea I've ever heard," and hung up mid-call.
We've now raised at a $2.1bn valuation.
This is the story and every fundraising lesson I learned: https://t.co/99WDYN02hF
One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people:
Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing.
Sounds simple on the surface - the hard... See more
This story is insane.
The founders of Fireflies AI (now worth $1B+) pretended to be an AI notetaker before the tech existed.
The founders would:
> Join meetings on mute as "Fred from Fireflies"
> Take notes by hand while sitting... See more
Brian Chesky explains how Airbnb solved the chicken-and-egg problem
“Marketplaces are incredibly defensible at scale, and maybe it’s because they’re incredibly hard to start. And the problem is simple - they call it the chicken and egg problem.”
As Brian explains, it was tough to bootstrap... See more