The Founder Initiative

191 Episodo

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

   Publicado: 26/8/2025
2. a16z & Sequoia Invested in Rillet; Nic's Journey to PMF & Closing $100M+ In Funding

   Publicado: 21/8/2025
3. [$50M+ Raised] From 4 Weeks To Shutdown To Round Closed; Metadata's Funding & Growth Story

   Publicado: 20/8/2025
4. Stanford Dropout Raises $42M; Teddy Solomon, Founder of Fizz

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

   Publicado: 14/8/2025
6. Uber's Former Head of AI; Now Founder of Proshort; PMF Journey & Landing First Customer

   Publicado: 13/8/2025
7. [$200M VC] How To Cold Email A VC, Importance of Founder Evangelism; Urban Innovation Fund's Julie Lein

   Publicado: 12/8/2025
8. Harvard Dropout Builds Fastest Fintech App To Hit 1M Downloads, Raises $47M; Steven Wang, Co-Founder of dub

   Publicado: 24/7/2025
9. MasterClass's Pre-Revenue Investor, Alex Gurevich, Managing Director, Javelin Ventures; Top Changes In Early Stage Investing, Investment Decisions, etc

   Publicado: 22/7/2025
10. [Stealth Founder] $7.5M Round, Blok's Co-Founder, Tom Charman; First Customers, Closing Round, & Moving to San Francisco

    Publicado: 21/7/2025
11. [Real VC Pitch] $5B Lux Capital Partner, Shaq vs. ex Google/Apple Engineer, Founder Hoa

    Publicado: 16/7/2025
12. 0-600 Customers: How Dan Bladen, Hit PMF After A Massive Pivot - and Landed Intel & Porsche

    Publicado: 15/7/2025
13. (YC W21) Indian Startup Denied 3x by YC, Accepted 4th; Sarthak Goel, Founder of Invoid

    Publicado: 15/7/2025
14. Small Town Founder, Got Into YC Without Pedigree; Joseph Johnson, CEO, LedgerUp

    Publicado: 9/7/2025
15. [$25M Raised] Getting Into YC, Top Fundraising Learnings & Hitting PMF, Matthew Watts, Co-Founder, Lendflow

    Publicado: 8/7/2025
16. From Rejection to $2.5B GMV: The Product-Market Fit Playbook

    Publicado: 1/7/2025
17. [$4B VC] Greycroft's Partner, Mark Terbeek, Behind the Curtain - intros, top sectors, etc

    Publicado: 24/6/2025
18. How Rinse Raised $70M: The Fundraising Lesson Every Founder Needs

    Publicado: 18/6/2025
19. (YC S24) How Offstream Got Into YC With Screenshots, a Deck, and Low Traction — Varsha’s Blueprint for Founders

    Publicado: 17/6/2025
20. [$370M Exit] Neubird's Founder, Gotham Rao; selecting your next startup idea

    Publicado: 11/6/2025