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A day in the life of a VC 🚀 Not all heroes wear capes… #VentureCapital #startups #tech #vc #Entrepreneurship

DoorDash’s First Public Pitch 📈 In August of 2013, Tony Xu, CEO and co-founder of DoorDash, presented to investors at Y Combinator demo day. The only Dashers they had were the co-founders. Their office? Student housing. Their marketing? Fliers on dorm bulletin boards.

When you get rejected by every VC 📉 But then "random European family office guy' hits you with the "you up" DM on LinkedIn and saves the day. We're back baby!! #startups #fundraising #venturecapital

Tech founders after finally raising pre-seed🚀 Now they can pay themselves for 3 months before needing to raise more money. #venturecapital #fundraising #startups #meme #tech

The 26 Biggest Startup Pivots of All-Time 🚀 Instagram: Check-In App ⤷ Social Photo Sharing Slack: Multiplayer Video Game ⤷ Communication Platform YouTube: Dating Site ⤷ Online Video Platform Success is almost always in the pivot. #startups #tech

16 years ago, Airbnb launched, and today, it's worth $91 billion 📈 On June 26, 2008, Brian Chesky, the co-founder, presented their idea to seven VCs. $150,000 at a $1.5 million val. Post meetings, rejection emails started coming (see photo). The other two ghosted them.

In 1971, Phil Knight overheard a student say she couldn't afford a class, so he paid her $35 to create a logo for his startup shoe company. He gave the student 500 shares. With 7 stock splits since then, she now has 64,000. Those shares are valued at $5,952,000 as of today.

AirBnB co-founder, Brian Chesky on the best people in your life.💙 Surround yourself with people whose eyes light up when they see you coming. To a great week ahead my friends. #startups #entrepreneurship #tech

Mastering The Investor Update Email 📈 As a founder, one of the simplest yet most impactful tasks you can do is send regular updates to your investors. Our best warm introductions to new investors often come from our existing ones. Don’t ghost those who initially believed.

Napster launched 25 years ago and changed the music industry forever🎵 Sean Parker, the visionary behind Napster, predicted the rise of music streaming long before it was a reality. An iconic moment in tech history captured here by MTV News. #tech #startups #music

In 2001, Coca-Cola announced that it had sold 4x more than Pepsi, this was the company’s response. This is how competition should be. #pepsi #CocaCola

Founders — when your startup IPOs, how much of the company will you own? Some prominent names in the valley: #startups #tech #VentureCapital #fundraising #ipo #equity

Gonna tell my kids this was Jack Dorsey & Jensen Huang #nvidia #startups #VentureCapital #tech

Jack Ma’s Original Sales Pitch for Alibaba in 1999 🚀 Jack Ma pitched Alibaba to 17 colleagues in his apartment, outlining how they would compete and win against the top companies in the US. Today's valuation? $174 billion #tech #startups #entrepreneurship #success

In 1976, Ron Wayne made a $300 billion decision. 😳 As Apple's forgotten third co-founder, Wayne sold his 10% stake for just $2,300 total, 12 days after the company's founding. At 41, he saw risks working with the young Jobs (21) and Wozniak (26). #tech #apple #venturecapital

The MVP in Figma vs The MVP in the App Store #product #tech #startups

Founders about to sign away 80% of their company to a bottom-tier European family office…😳 Right before Garry Tan swoops in, and goes full 'founder-mode.' #venturecapital #startups #ycombinator #foundermode

18 Years of Perseverance 🚀 First photo, Elon Musk stands over the wreckage of Falcon 1—a setback that nearly bankrupted both SpaceX and Tesla. In the second, a few days ago, SpaceX’s first commercial spacewalk. It's those who keep pushing that ultimately make history.

The first version of the product won’t work. I’ve yet to see a startups first version of their product work well. In you don’t have PMF do this: 1. Talk to your customers 2. Improve the product based on their feedback Those are the only two things you should be doing.✌️

If your investor meetings don’t end like this, they are not the one. 💸 Trust me. #venturecapital #startups #fundraising