1/back as many great founders as you can, as early as possible
2/if their company fails, be the first investor in their next project
3/if their company grows more than 3x year-over-year keep investing until you reach 15%+ ownership
Early stage can apply at our accelerator to work with me and my team for 20 weeks, meeting 1,000+ investors: launch.co/apply
1/🧵People quitting instead of coming back to offices is very real
Amazing for startups who will recruit the most talented folks who are well paid (some might say overpaid) at big companies—but who will take significantly less in order to work from home #remotework#WorkFromHome
2/Executives have figured out how to manage remote workers so well, that they will need 20% less of them. basically, low performers “have nowhere to hide” in a remote world where folks do an SOD and EOD (start of day and end of day) on SLACK
3/plus 20% less overall cost of maintaining an office, which even if you do offsite meetings will still be 10-15% savings
1/Been getting a ton of questions from founders about the $4b Clubhouse valuation
Here's how to do the math.
-- CH will make ~$10 a year per users
-- With 5-10m users that's $50-100m in revenue
-- 10x revenue is $250m to $1b in value
so why $4b?? read on ...
2/When a startup is growing fast in a hot market people give credit for 2-5x their performance in order to "get the deal"
That surges CH's valuation to $500m to $5b--in this case it landed at $4b
This makes no sense... unless you invested in Facebook, Uber, or Google!
So..
3/How do you get in on a valuation like this as a founder?
a) you need to grow VERY fast (50%+ a month)
b) you need to have big brand names on your cap table
c) you need to a competitive marketplace/bubble
d) you don't want revenue because it pins the valuation to reality
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1/Most folks don’t have a startup, they have an *idea* or *plan* for a startup
no one invests in ideas or plans today
I haven’t seen ideas/plans get funded for ~20 years
So what gets funded?
— Growing Startups
— World-class products
— Track Records
— ... then everything else
2/Investors pick their inventory in three phases.... First, they look for “the chart.” Basically, you’re growing ~20% a month, consistently, for ~six months
After VCs can’t find any more investments with the chart they move on to the second tier startups....
3/Those startups have either a world-class product design or founders with track records.
World-class design means your product can stand with Uber, Calm, Robinhood, Instragram, Snap, Wealthfront, etc.
World-class track record means you build a startup already & sold it.