Dylan S Phillips (@dylsphillips) 's Twitter Profile
Dylan S Phillips

@dylsphillips

Content Lead @tryfondo. Previously co-founder at PizzaBottle (25M monthly active readers & 1M+ followers on fb).

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Best jobs to have before you start a company: 100. Founder 99. "Software engineer" whatever that means ... 8. CVO (Chief Vibecoding Officer) 7. Ideas guy 6. Person who has an Ideas Guy AI agent 5. People named David 4. CEO of OpenAI 3. Backward deployed engineer 2. Baby < 24 mo

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We launched Fondo five years ago from a coworking space in San Francisco In the last 12 months: - Multiple Fondo customers reached $100M+ ARR or annualized revenue - Our community of founders grew to over 2,500 - We've crossed $10M+ ARR - Enterprises started putting their

We launched Fondo five years ago from a coworking space in San Francisco

In the last 12 months:
- Multiple Fondo customers reached $100M+ ARR or annualized revenue
- Our community of founders grew to over 2,500
- We've crossed $10M+ ARR
- Enterprises started putting their
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FACT: Jeff Bezos quit Amazon on July 5, 2021 FACT: That was their first shareholder meeting after the 2020 tax deadline, so he must have been sick of dealing with Amazon's taxes and accounting Or was it a COINCIDENCE? Probably

FACT: Jeff Bezos quit Amazon on July 5, 2021

FACT: That was their first shareholder meeting after the 2020 tax deadline, so he must have been sick of dealing with Amazon's taxes and accounting

Or was it a COINCIDENCE? 

Probably
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Competitors raised 30x more capital: Spring still became no. 1 ...for 3 consecutive years "We picked a lane and owned it. Our sales accelerated"

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The product worked. The buyer didn't. He changed who pays, not what they get When desire is universal but revenue isn't: change the buyer 🎙️ New ep. on Startup Growth Podcast: fondo.ai/48vjohM

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My best advice for raising a round in 2025: Don't raise money, unless you need the money to scale, in which case raise a bunch of money, but definitely not too much money, because too much money is usually bad, unless you hit your metrics, then it's great, so if you know you'll