The Founder Initiative

193 Folgen

1. a16z Invested; $231M Raised Sub 2-years; Decagon's Founder, Jesse Zhang & Amex Ventures's Managing Director, Kevin Weber; Building & Funding Unicorns

   Vom: 9.9.2025
2. YC S24 -Accepted After 3:00am Interview, Hitting PMF Via Onboarding Research?

   Vom: 2.9.2025
3. Accepted to YC, no product, website, or co-founder: Coval's CEO, Brooke Hopkins; PMF & funding journey

   Vom: 26.8.2025
4. a16z & Sequoia Invested in Rillet; Nic's Journey to PMF & Closing $100M+ In Funding

   Vom: 21.8.2025
5. [$50M+ Raised] From 4 Weeks To Shutdown To Round Closed; Metadata's Funding & Growth Story

   Vom: 20.8.2025
6. Stanford Dropout Raises $42M; Teddy Solomon, Founder of Fizz

   Vom: 19.8.2025
7. [VC Pitch] YC Founder Pitches NEA ($25B AUM) Partner in San Francisco

   Vom: 14.8.2025
8. Uber's Former Head of AI; Now Founder of Proshort; PMF Journey & Landing First Customer

   Vom: 13.8.2025
9. [$200M VC] How To Cold Email A VC, Importance of Founder Evangelism; Urban Innovation Fund's Julie Lein

   Vom: 12.8.2025
10. Harvard Dropout Builds Fastest Fintech App To Hit 1M Downloads, Raises $47M; Steven Wang, Co-Founder of dub

    Vom: 24.7.2025
11. MasterClass's Pre-Revenue Investor, Alex Gurevich, Managing Director, Javelin Ventures; Top Changes In Early Stage Investing, Investment Decisions, etc

    Vom: 22.7.2025
12. [Stealth Founder] $7.5M Round, Blok's Co-Founder, Tom Charman; First Customers, Closing Round, & Moving to San Francisco

    Vom: 21.7.2025
13. [Real VC Pitch] $5B Lux Capital Partner, Shaq vs. ex Google/Apple Engineer, Founder Hoa

    Vom: 16.7.2025
14. 0-600 Customers: How Dan Bladen, Hit PMF After A Massive Pivot - and Landed Intel & Porsche

    Vom: 15.7.2025
15. (YC W21) Indian Startup Denied 3x by YC, Accepted 4th; Sarthak Goel, Founder of Invoid

    Vom: 15.7.2025
16. Small Town Founder, Got Into YC Without Pedigree; Joseph Johnson, CEO, LedgerUp

    Vom: 9.7.2025
17. [$25M Raised] Getting Into YC, Top Fundraising Learnings & Hitting PMF, Matthew Watts, Co-Founder, Lendflow

    Vom: 8.7.2025
18. From Rejection to $2.5B GMV: The Product-Market Fit Playbook

    Vom: 1.7.2025
19. [$4B VC] Greycroft's Partner, Mark Terbeek, Behind the Curtain - intros, top sectors, etc

    Vom: 24.6.2025
20. How Rinse Raised $70M: The Fundraising Lesson Every Founder Needs

    Vom: 18.6.2025