There are levels to success.
Watching @davidsenra's episode, I made my own ranking:
1.Going on probably the biggest founder stories podcast in the world wearing the wolf meme shirt 😂🐺
2.Deleting LinkedIn forever
3.Answering emails like WhatsApps
What else would you add?
You would have made billions if you gave seed checks to everyone who was at @alexandr_wang’s 19th birthday party:
- Jeff Yan (@chameleon_jeff) went on to start Hyperliquid (~$20B)
- @ScottWu46 went on to start Cognition ($48B)
- @thejessezhang went on to start Decagon ($4.5B)
And Wang himself who started Scale AI, and got $14.3B from Meta for 49% of it.
Wang explains:
“I was doing a winternship at a trading firm called HRT.
There were 12 of us, almost all of whom were students at either Harvard or MIT.
I recently met up with the founder of HRT and they were talking about, ‘We're starting to do some private investments.’
I was like, ‘Just invest into the interns! All the interns get seed checks!’”
David Castells retweeted
The data doesn’t always back up the claims we make and hear in the startup ecosystem.
Last week’s trip to London helped me put things in perspective. So I wrote this post to bring the data and those conversations together.
Let’s discuss!
Being one of the fastest funds in Spain to decide means keeping the pace outside the office too.
Out for a run with @julio_ribes so we don't slow down 🏃♂️
David Castells retweeted
Mom, I made it onto @humalike’s livestream.
Just to promote the @barracafh x @soti_fam hack night!
📍 València, Spain
🗓️ October 22nd
cc @rdelcampog @_MarcosValera
Scrolling , saw Instinct just raised again.
From seed to a $10B valuation in ~5 months.
The last jump: 4x in a single month.
My first reaction: AI bubble (even sent it to @Mission_Fund team)
Then I listened to [@noahrshinn ]'s first long form interview. Not so sure anymore
Then you realize @noahrshinn is 23.
I'm 23 too. First question that comes to mind: what am I doing with my life? 😅
Exception of the exception, sure. But a good reminder for young people: think bigger.
Seguimos!
Just my mini breakdown.
Full episode on @patrick_oshag 's Invest Like the Best, worth the listen
My colleague @inigodelasantas lit the bat signal 🦇 So here I am.
23, VC at [@Mission_Fund ] and founder in the making.
I'll share:
Day to day in VC
[@babyvc] and Madrid's best events
Founders > VCs(always)
Young and ambitious? DMs open.
Seguimos!
