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Austen Allred was homeless for 3 months when he was fundraising for his first company Grasswire, a media platform that lets everyone create collaborative news reports by voting on and fact-checking social media content in real-time. Austen was so broke that he couldn't afford to rent a place in Silicon Valley to meet with investors.

To still have a

OKR has a single owner,

As billionaire PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel put it: [You] probably won’t have a bunch of equally good distribution strategies. Engineers frequently fall victim to this because they do not understand distribution. Since they don’t know what works, and haven’t thought about it, they try some sales, BD, advertising, and viral

The level of confidence and the boldness of entrepreneurs today is a magnitude bigger than when I started, which is amazing for angel investors. If founders set goals like “colonize Mars,” our return on investment is going to be much bigger than if they set goals like “make software for people who want to launch a satellite.”

Having seen this example, Palantir partnered with a secondary fund to offer liquidity to its employees so that they would never trip the five-hundred-plus owner barrier.