The Founder Initiative

194 Epizód

1. Real Pitch of a $2B VC, Cybersecurity Founder, Ajay Gulati & Sierra Ventures's Partner Vignesh Ravikumar

   Közzétéve: 2025. 09. 10.
2. a16z Invested; $231M Raised Sub 2-years; Decagon's Founder, Jesse Zhang & Amex Ventures's Managing Director, Kevin Weber; Building & Funding Unicorns

   Közzétéve: 2025. 09. 09.
3. YC S24 -Accepted After 3:00am Interview, Hitting PMF Via Onboarding Research?

   Közzétéve: 2025. 09. 02.
4. Accepted to YC, no product, website, or co-founder: Coval's CEO, Brooke Hopkins; PMF & funding journey

   Közzétéve: 2025. 08. 26.
5. a16z & Sequoia Invested in Rillet; Nic's Journey to PMF & Closing $100M+ In Funding

   Közzétéve: 2025. 08. 21.
6. [$50M+ Raised] From 4 Weeks To Shutdown To Round Closed; Metadata's Funding & Growth Story

   Közzétéve: 2025. 08. 20.
7. Stanford Dropout Raises $42M; Teddy Solomon, Founder of Fizz

   Közzétéve: 2025. 08. 19.
8. [VC Pitch] YC Founder Pitches NEA ($25B AUM) Partner in San Francisco

   Közzétéve: 2025. 08. 14.
9. Uber's Former Head of AI; Now Founder of Proshort; PMF Journey & Landing First Customer

   Közzétéve: 2025. 08. 13.
10. [$200M VC] How To Cold Email A VC, Importance of Founder Evangelism; Urban Innovation Fund's Julie Lein

    Közzétéve: 2025. 08. 12.
11. Harvard Dropout Builds Fastest Fintech App To Hit 1M Downloads, Raises $47M; Steven Wang, Co-Founder of dub

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 24.
12. MasterClass's Pre-Revenue Investor, Alex Gurevich, Managing Director, Javelin Ventures; Top Changes In Early Stage Investing, Investment Decisions, etc

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 22.
13. [Stealth Founder] $7.5M Round, Blok's Co-Founder, Tom Charman; First Customers, Closing Round, & Moving to San Francisco

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 21.
14. [Real VC Pitch] $5B Lux Capital Partner, Shaq vs. ex Google/Apple Engineer, Founder Hoa

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 16.
15. 0-600 Customers: How Dan Bladen, Hit PMF After A Massive Pivot - and Landed Intel & Porsche

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 15.
16. (YC W21) Indian Startup Denied 3x by YC, Accepted 4th; Sarthak Goel, Founder of Invoid

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 15.
17. Small Town Founder, Got Into YC Without Pedigree; Joseph Johnson, CEO, LedgerUp

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 09.
18. [$25M Raised] Getting Into YC, Top Fundraising Learnings & Hitting PMF, Matthew Watts, Co-Founder, Lendflow

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 08.
19. From Rejection to $2.5B GMV: The Product-Market Fit Playbook

    Közzétéve: 2025. 07. 01.
20. [$4B VC] Greycroft's Partner, Mark Terbeek, Behind the Curtain - intros, top sectors, etc

    Közzétéve: 2025. 06. 24.