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Great interview with Mada Seghete, co-founder of Branch and one of the most inspiring female founders in enterprise software.
Founder & GP of Defiance Capital Backing extraordinary founders changing the world with AI
What’s the next frontier in enterprise sales optimization? This week Mada Seghete and I dig deep on her immigrant founder journey, the hurdles to turning Branch into a unicorn and frontier AI models for enterprises sales attribution. https://lnkd.in/dnPACCJ4
We love Christian’s talk with Arshan, the founder of Contrast Security.
Founder & GP of Defiance Capital Backing extraordinary founders changing the world with AI
Cybersecurity has never been more important and I think you’d enjoy my interview with Contrast Security and Pixee founder Arshan Dabirsiaghi on our Defying the Odds podcast. Arshan is a former hacker, that cringes when he hears the words “Silicon Valley” and “Founder” - he is probably the most “below-the-radar” unicorn founder you’ve never heard of :-) https://lnkd.in/ds3dACDR
Don’t miss Christian and Simon Borrero’s talk about the growth mindset.
Founder & GP of Defiance Capital Backing extraordinary founders changing the world with AI
This week I’m excited to share my talk with Simón Borrero, co-founder and CEO of Rappi, Latin America’s first unicorn company. Simon is one of the most thoughtful and inspiring founders in my community and someone who’s actively been honing his growth mindset since his teenage years. #entrepreneurship #growthmindset https://lnkd.in/dadCa_ws
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Looking forward to speaking at Collision in Toronto tomorrow and sharing our research insights on the common traits of unicorn founders. Spoiler alert - it’s less obvious than you may think.
A great non-obvious unicorn founder story not to be missed.
Founder & GP of Defiance Capital Backing extraordinary founders changing the world with AI
This week I am excited to share my conversation with Hai Tran, the co-founder of Masterworks, which recently reached unicorn status. Hai’s life journey is remarkable - from arriving in the US as a refugee following the Vietnam war - to learning to code on a gifted PC - to becoming the first creative director at Zynga and eventually creating Masterworks. So many valuable lessons for young entrepreneurs in this episode!
One of our most inspiring episodes to date.
Founder & GP of Defiance Capital Backing extraordinary founders changing the world with AI
This week I had the pleasure of talking with Saturnin Pugnet, founding member of Worldcoin (with Sam Altman). Sat is a physicist, computer scientist and futurist that is building the infrastructure for a future with an Artificial General Intelligence. What are worthwhile pursuits for VCs in AI, tune in to find out. Have a nice weekend.
Join us live or on Zoom to learn how to best identify founders with unicorn potential at the Seed stage.
Founder & GP of Defiance Capital Backing extraordinary founders changing the world with AI
J.P. Morgan and Defiance Capital are inviting founders, angels and LPs to an exclusive event on June 11th in London (Zoom possible), to discuss how to best identify founder unicorn potential at Seed and the implications for selecting new GP managers. Guest speakers include Jonathan Sibilia (Molten Capital), James Heath (Dara5), Andrew J Scott (7pct VC) and Christian Dorffer (Defiance Capital). Sign up for free, RSVP by June 10th to efe@defiancecapital.com Hope to see you there.
In this episode of our Defying the Odds show, Christian interviews JC Glancy from ZenBusiness about his inspiring entrepreneurial journey from a small town in Ohio to co-founding a unicorn.
Founder & GP of Defiance Capital Backing extraordinary founders changing the world with AI
This week I’m excited to share my talk with ZenBusiness co-founder JC Glancy, the unlikely unicorn founder from Ohio that has made life easier for thousands of small businesses across America. Tune in to the Defying the Odds show on Spotify https://lnkd.in/dhv8UzhJ #unicorns #entrepreneurship #mindset
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2021 produced more new unicorns than the previous five years combined! But why did the top 10 VCs only participate in 28% of the seed rounds? Legacy VCs rested on the laurels… and the best new managers delivered astonishing DPI. Read my #Superventure article for full details. https://lnkd.in/dGUenQ7H
Curious to learn from the world’s most successful non-obvious founders. Follow our Defying the Odds show on Spotify https://lnkd.in/gbjBDTRb
Founder & GP of Defiance Capital Backing extraordinary founders changing the world with AI
After analysing the backgrounds of all 2,500 unicorn founders in the US and Europe in the past decade, we’re excited to formally publish our Defying the Odds show on Spotify today! This is gold for the most ambitious founders and investors looking to get a deeper understanding of what drives alpha in early stage VC. Our podcast show already features 23 episodes with unicorn founders who defied the odds to success with companies like Esusu Aviatrix Branch Vivino ZenBusiness Contrast Security Masterworks Andela Oyster® https://lnkd.in/gQjAbw55