At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the British rowing team unexpectedly won the Men’s Eight Rowing gold medal. One simple question was instrumental in their success. “Will it make the boat go faster?” This question could also be vital for your early-stage team & company. 1/15👇🏾

Pet-peeve: Investors taking credit for the success of their portfolio startups. Here something i wrote half a year ago as part of a remotefirstcapital.com investor update. Still resonates true with me – if not even more. ✌️

There are other criteria for success in business that are more important than fundraising: 1. profitability; 2. growth rate; 3. customer success; 4. impact on the business environment and 5. employees' happiness.

The PayPal Mafia has contributed $1.3 trillion of startup value. Founders or investors in these companies: • Uber • Tesla • Stripe  • Reddit • Square • Palantir • SpaceX • Linkedin • YouTube • Pinterest

I just interviewed the man who invented Amazon Prime. He started a business worth $40 billion today and served on Amazon's board for 15 yrs. Here are lessons from Bing Gordon that'll save you years of mistakes:

Weekly French vaccination thread. The French vax rollout, far from idling after hitting its 20m 1st doses target a week ago, has moved into higher gear. In the last 7 day, the average daily number of jabs given in Fr. was 533,432 – only a shade behind the UK on 534,795. 1/10

My first company @twitch sold for a billion dollars. My second one lost $75 million in 36 months. People love talking about success, but today I'm going to talk about failure. It's time to be honest about Atrium:

EXCITING NEWS My co-founder, Robin Bonduelle and I are proud to announce that Claap has raised $3M in a pre-seed round from LocalGlobe, Headline, and a group of 30 angel investors. techcrunch.com/2021/06/14/cou…

#code #éducation L’école 42 signe un partenariat avec l’Education nationale, pour enseigner le language du code et de la culture du numérique aux classes de CM1 à la 6ème 🧒 👦🏼 👧🏻 universfreebox.com/article/491060…

Jim Allchin to Bill Gates: "I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft" January 7, 2004

1 year ago, I joined a start-up as employee #1. Since then, we 20x our revenue, went from 3 to 15 team members and raised €7m in seed after 9m of existence (huge commercial traction). Here are the 5 advices I would (humbly) give to every start-up early employees:

Fleet thinks companies should rent laptops instead of buying them techcrunch.com/2022/03/14/fle…

€12M de revenue anuales, en <3 años - bootstrap. Fleet nos cuenta 4 trucos que les ayudó a crecer rápido, y cómo decidir si necesitas financiación externa. Además, 14 rondas de financiación + 12 growth jobs. 🧵Resumo en hilo👇: startupriders.io/p/-bootstrap?s…

Fleet Cockpit allows hybrid teams to: 👩‍💻 Track and organize devices easily ⌛️ Save time in IT fleet management 🚀 Get new computers in a minute Device management for hybrid teams: meow.ph/fleetcockpit

El gran Alexandre Berriche lanza Fleet.co, una propuesta muy interesante para startups & scale ups que están en fase de crecimiento, te permiten simplificar la gestión del IT y de mantener el cash para crecer 👇🏻 fleet.co/es-ES/

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Alexandre Berriche Fleet

One of my best performing portfolio companies now with many millions in ARR: Lost 2 of 3 co-founders. Pivoted the entire product. Lost their Head of Sales. All in one month. Nothing is ever up and to the right. This is a game of who can survive the longest. 💪🏼

#discovery Alexandre Berriche co-fondateur de Fleet. "On essaie d’avoir un impact environnemental et social ". "On assure une deuxième vie à des ordinateurs en les recyclants ". #MKN23

Looking to connect with Product Hunt success stories! 🚀 Who should I reach out to? #ProductHunt #SuccessStories cc Alexandre Berriche