Managing Partner at @SeaplaneVC. 2X founder. Host of the @InvestNStartups podcast.
Aug 1, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Happy to hear that Square is buying Afterpay for $126 a share. We first invested back in 2017 at $2. We took some profits along the way but nonetheless a big win for our clients. (1/n)
What we saw at the beginning was a business that had come from nowhere to claim 15% of all Aussie online apparel sales. User growth was 1,100% year-on-year and merchant growth was 75% in the latest quarter. The business clearly had escape velocity. (2/n)
Feb 28, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Selling software into government customers is difficult but once you are in you are IN. From @BW:
San Francisco isn’t alone. As of 2016, the US Treasury was using two systems that were around 56 year old: