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Chris Bakke

@chrisjbakke

Meandering.

Founder with exits to @X @Indeed @Zillow

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How many startups have raised $40M series As in 2025 by taking their best hour of non-recurring gross revenue and extrapolating it into ARR?

How many startups have raised $40M series As in 2025 by taking their best hour of non-recurring gross revenue and extrapolating it into ARR?
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Jerry Buss bought the Lakers for $67M in 1979, and just exited for 149 times his money at $10B in 2025. If he had instead bought Bitcoin in 1979 and held he would have over $2T today.

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My local dry cleaner was really struggling. I noticed he recently listed his business for sale so tonight I asked him: “Why don’t you just do dry cleaning for free?” “What are you talking about?” he asked. I explained that his customer base would easily double overnight and

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I’ve started joining every Google Meet 30 seconds early. When you join early, everyone’s virtual note takers join early too. I spend the first few seconds screaming about how I’m on the Titanic, we’ve just hit an iceberg, the end is near, and I need immediate assistance. I

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Explaining to my kids that this quaint development used to be a bunch of ugly trees and owls but we sold it in 2025 with 250M additional acres to cover 4 days of federal deficit spending.

Explaining to my kids that this quaint development used to be a bunch of ugly trees and owls but we sold it in 2025 with 250M additional acres to cover 4 days of federal deficit spending.
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People being terminally online and posting anything they do has effectively ruined all hopes of military secrecy. 72 hours before the Iran bombings some food influencer is like: “My catering company just dropped off 1,400 lbs of lobster to feed the troops at Whiteman AFB!!!

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Me and the boys pulling up to look a VC dead in the eyes and say: “We have $3,400 MRR, 87% monthly churn, we literally don’t know what the word ‘margins’ means, and we’d like $40M at $200M pre”

Me and the boys pulling up to look a VC dead in the eyes and say:

“We have $3,400 MRR, 87% monthly churn, we literally don’t know what the word ‘margins’ means, and we’d like $40M at $200M pre”