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Getting user feedback and creating a two-way dialogue

Tiger: VCs are rarely (if ever) helpful at the growth stage, so the best product I can offer founders is a high price (i.e. cheaper, less-dilutive capital), a quick & minimally distracting fundraise process, and to stay completely out of their way when we’re on the cap table. This approach also enables me to invest at high velocity despite having a... See more

“Heroic individualism and its most prevalent symptoms — restlessness, feeling rushed, low-level angst, scattered mess, exhaustion, burnout, periods of emptiness, a compulsion to keep chasing the next thing, and recurrent longing — all of which are supported by mounting data that we’ll soon examine, describe what so many people report feeling these ... See more

Sora puts high school students in the drivers’ seats of their own development with a remote-first, network-based model. Through a combination of small social pods, self-directed projects, and student-run organizations, high schoolers shape their academic and extracurricular experience, as well as the governance of the school.

-Startups have always had the ability to raise vast sums of money with promises of future profit: a decent diagramm on a napkin might solicit $2M from VCs in actual capital as well as an additional $10M of phantom capital known as “equity” for a $12M valuation. Social tokens allow anyone to raise this way without needing VCs to dictate terms. And i... See more

Rule of thumb: People stop lying when you ask them for money