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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted on all counts in federal court yesterday. His own testimony may have helped seal his fate. ‘I Cannot Recall’ From The New York Times: Mr. Bankman-Fried’s decision to take the stand allowed him to argue he had no intent to steal money and defraud…
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Travis Kalanick’s first company got him sued for $250 billion. Most people would’ve given up after that. But Kalanick didn’t. Super Pumped by Mike Isaac recounts Kalanick’s amazing story, all the way from his first company, Scour, to Uber. A Born Salesman Kalanick was a born salesman. Even as a…
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“One of the things with outliers is the ideas often seem completely nuts up front.” Marc Andreessen thought this couchsurfing app was crazy. Someone’s going to get murdered! A Startup Not Even a Mother Could Love Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, the Airbnb co-founders, pitched just about every investor in…
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+ Airbnb, Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Money, Silicon Valley, Stanford, Startups, Stocks, Tech, Venture Capital+
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“I called them every month for five months and finally got my audition with Larry and Sergey.” Ron Conway Ron Conway is one of the best known angels in Silicon Valley. But getting into Google still wasn’t easy. A Little Project at Stanford The story began at a party. Conway…
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I didn’t need the money when I started this job. So why do I invest in startups? For the last 2.5 years, I’ve spent my days meeting founders and investing in early stage tech startups. Any payday is ten years away — but the fun of angel investing goes way…
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Illegal crossings at the southern border are the highest ever recorded. Even President Biden is planning to build a wall. But what if we could solve the problem for less than a billion dollars? That just might be possible by using a new technology called Integrated Fixed Towers from Elbit…
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If you’re starting a venture fund, you want to raise as much as you can, right? Not according to Founders Fund’s Brian Singerman. “Raise as small of a fund as you can in order to just crush it, because then you can write your ticket for a number of funds.…
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Two and a half years into my angel investing experiment, some of my companies are doing great, and others are struggling. But I have a trick that gooses my returns, big time. Big Bucks, No Whammies! I’m a true believer in every company I invest in. At the moment I…
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I had never seen a startup ship this fast. Almost every day, these guys were releasing a new feature. Now, their hard work was beginning to pay off… Product Velocity in Action This summer, I invested in a company called Micro1. They connect companies with top engineers using AI. Founder…
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Startupland is all about getting big, fast. But for venture funds, smaller is better. Funds below $250 million have outperformed larger funds significantly in recent years. Smaller funds delivered comparable or better performance in most periods, according to Pitchbook data going back to 2017. Twilight of the Megafunds? The boom…
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