Hope your week’s been awesome! We've been busy on SKOOL—thrilling convos, buzzing posts, and even an avatar event that took our member networking to *virtually* a whole new level. Scroll down for photos from our event. At the end of the newsletter I’ll share more details on why to RSVP for our Wednesday Conversation where we are thrilled to be joined by Catalin from Ello AI, a founder with multiple exits, sharing his journey of his brand new startup that closed a $15 Million Series-A led by Goodwater Capital. A Journey into the Virtual World:On Wednesday, Feb 5th, we leaped into a new networking dimension. With brilliant support from Jose at Virtway, we harnessed webXR and the 3D web to transform our members into digital avatars, sparking an electric energy as everyone explored our immersive virtual space—connecting, collaborating, and having fun! Experience the magic:​ Other than Tejas stealing my outfit, and Christine stealing my shoe style, it was a 10/10 event :) Get ready to chat with Catalin—an innovator who’s been shaking things up since high school (yes, he built a mobile payments system with Steve Capps!). From pioneering AI-based augmented reality therapy for kids with autism to leading a project using natural language processing to identify racial disparities in the California criminal justice system at Stanford, his journey is as inspiring as it is impressive. Hoping to see you there on Wednesday! -Don Stein Want help raising capital? Join our fundraise accelerator — Apply For Funding​ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donstein/​ |
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Special Guest, Richard White Founder of Fathom AI, and UserVoice Yesterday was an absolute treat - we hosted repeat founder, Richard White ($20M+ raised, Linkedin). He founded UserVoice, scaled that, and then started a second company which he runs today. Fathom AI is backed by Zoom's fund, Justin Kan (Twitch Founder), and many more incredible people on his cap table of 100+ investors. We've had incredible guests over the last year (45 of them), but certain CEO's are able to speak from a place...
RSVP for tomorrow: We are joined by a 3x founder who just raised $20M+ Three-time founder Richard White compares launching a startup to playing an open-world video game. It takes time to figure out what to do and how to do it. You need to learn the rules. But when you’re dropped in for a second time, you arrive knowing how to play the game — “speed run it," he says. In 2020, Richard stepped away from his previous startup UserVoice to establish Fathom, a AI app that records, transcribes and...
LIVE FROM NYC A Day in the Life of Ugly Startups 5 AM: Wake up 6 AM: Gym 7 AM: Prep for the day on my laptop at a cafe 8 AM: Walked to Target looking to buy a webcam, couldn't find, had to improvise 10 AM: Set up podcast studio in downtown NYC 11 AM: Guest begin to arrive 2:30 PM: The podcast room is so sweaty we have to abandon it 3:00 PM: 5 founders gather for convo in a classy lounge by a fire pit 5:00 PM: Get back to my hotel - I find out the audio has major issues 6:00 PM: Send the audio...