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To Everyone Who Knows Me
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I’m trying SO hard to make this an insanely valuable community for all seed stage founders. My goal is to bridge the insider knowledge of Silicon Valley to the ugly startups out there. Every single founder deserves a chance to raise capital, scale a business, and literally change their life and maybe if you exit for enough $$$ then you’ll even change your future generations lives. I’ve seen people do it from absolutely nothing. Esteban an immigrant with everything to prove met me, got introduced to his first angel investor by myself in 2016, and the rest is history. TRM Labs is now a billion dollar startup. I met him when he was just a kid at a cafe working alone. I know it’s possible that anyone can do it. My goal is to give you the best chance ever at getting into the Silicon Valley game. We scale fast, we break stuff, we build iconic companies, and we use VC funding strategically. Your job is to become the best entrepreneur ever by improving yourself every single day. It’s way easier to grow yourself as a person if you have friends by your side. So reach out to other people in this community.. YOU ARE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT!! 🛥️ And, reach out to other founders you love and bring them in here. Let’s make this community the online version of YC. Let’s make this thing sing. Let’s prove ugly startups become beautiful. ~Don Stein |
Don Stein
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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...