Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Jeffrey Kloezeman
@yungkloezoe
Jeffrey Hayes
@jlhayes
But it was Geoff's introduction to Vinod Khosla, who ultimately funded the company along with Geoff, that really made the difference. Vinod interrupted the demo and said, "Can your technology scale? Can it search a big database?" And we said, "That's an interesting question. Nobody's asked us before." We liked the fact that he d
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Jeff Berman
@berman
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
Kaeya and Team. Kaeya has been in ecommerce since going on Shark Tank at 19 (video below, of course) and has been on both the seller and platform sides. She’s building a high-quality team with super relevant experience
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Forerunner Ventures’ Kirsten Green , Into the Gloss co-founder Nick Axelrod (now at UTA Ventures), or Emily’s former assistant, Morgan Von Steen
After the Gloss: What’s Next for Emily Weiss
What's particularly impressive is that Jeff is so brilliant that it would be easy for him to state his thinking in complex ways that us mere mortals wouldn't grok. But true genius is stating the complex simply.