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Well, when Mark Zuckerberg was raising money for Facebook, he couldn’t show profits or even sales, but what he did have was a pathway to customer acquisition. At the time a million people were subscribed to Facebook, and venture capitalist Peter Thiel told Mark, “I’ll give you $5 million if you can show me how you’re going to get ten million subscr
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joincolossus.comOnly after CZ turned him down did Sam decide to create an exchange himself. The idea was simple: the first crypto futures exchange that was well enough designed that it would serve the needs not just of crypto people but also of big professional traders, like Jane Street. Still, Sam was deeply uneasy about it. “We were going to build a product that
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Greedy VCs who will invest only if they can take an outsized piece of your company. Typically a VC needs between 18 and 22 percent to make their model work—step
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Chamath Palihapitiya: The #1 Secret to Becoming Rich
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Severance for All + Why Carta is Undervalued
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