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Bilt Rewards went from $0 to $1.5B valuation in under a year post launch. I had the pleasure of hearing Ankur Jain, Bilt’s founder and CEO, speak at FintechMeetup. It was extremely inspiring and I had to dig deeper. What is Bilt? The core idea of Bilt Rewards is simple and compelling. Why can’t your rent payments contribute towards home ownership in the future? Most of us pay rent through our bank since paying with a credit card adds an additional 2.5-3%. With the Bilt MasterCard, you not only avoid fees but earn points on your rent payments: redeeming 1 point for every dollar spent up to 100K points per year - that you can apply towards your down payment. Fascinating tidbits: 1. Before Bilt, you weren’t legally allowed to use points towards a down payment. So Ankur and team spent 18 months working with regulators to create the regulations required to make a system like this possible. 2. Ankur worked on the idea by himself for a year, pitching to real estate owners and finessing the model before even hiring the first employee. 3. Almost every real estate owner Ankur pitched to initially was opposed to the idea. Over the course of 4 years, Bilt built a distribution network of 4M+ rental homes that allows residents to pay with Bilt. Ankur shares lessons valuable to every entrepreneur: 1. Distribution and customer acquisition strategy needs to be at the forefront of your pitch. 2. Creative relentless vs hard-headed relentlessness: “No just means ask again differently. Slightly different changes. Slightly different approach. Slightly different person you are asking. That’s the key. Doing the same thing over and over again will only get you the same results.” 3. A great product will not sell itself. To break through change aversion and transform consumer behavior, you must out execute with relentlessness: “The irony is when you think about building a company, you’ve gotta have the right product to solve a real problem. You have to have the core business economics and all that stuff. But what people don’t talk about - it doesn’t matter how good your idea is or how perfect the timing is. If you are not relentless at taking no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no over and over again and still being willing to come to the plate, it doesn’t matter. That is the single most important trait I’ve found. Because for whatever reason, the world likes to reject change. There is such inherent resistant to anything different. So you have to literally will your idea into existence. It’s exhausting but fulfilling.” Keeping especially the last takeaway in mind as we forge new paths ✨
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Over the years, we at GFR Fund have solidified our investment thesis, which is that we invest in "emerging digitally native communities." These communities can be built around games, social media, and any consumer applications. Now, founders have many easy-to-use tools to build user communities, such as Discord, X/twitter, Instagram, etc, and we believe the founders should start building communities even before they launch a product. The communities can help founders: - reach PMF faster - acquire users cheaper - retain and engage users longer - build better UX/UI, and - hire early employees Below, you can see how RTFKT and Omeda Studios built the community and then worked with them to create a product the users really wanted. We would love to talk to the founders who think the community is essential in building a product!
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Alexander Israel
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Dan Levitan
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Jeremy Bamberg
Should we prioritize people, or tech innovation in our large-scale development projects? The strategy's slowly shifting to people. And that’s exactly how California Forever CEO Jan Sramek wins over skeptics like Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. Not bad. “There’s a lot of baggage that tech has created in building new cities that, unfortunately, we are at the receiving end of”, explains Sramek. So smart cities and tech libertarian network states aren't the focus here. Quite the contrary. He calls the project (in this context) “really, really boring.” The focus: ∙ More housing ∙ Walkable cities ∙ Affordable by design* ∙ Improving the country for residents *(housing prices to start at $400k) I recently covered California Forever, dubbing it a future ‘Tech Utopia’ given its massive Silicon Valley backing. So it’s exciting to see Sramek's positioning and skillful handling of the grilling. Is the era of the smart city over due to its 'baggage'? Time will tell. More on California Forever and other visionaries designing new cities from scratch here: https://lnkd.in/e9-i386q Full interview: https://lnkd.in/eMnT8QhU #futureofcities #urbandevelopment
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Zoe Samuel
Time to post this again, alas: if you were impacted in today's Google layoffs, and you might like to get involved in climate tech, please reach out. I am happy to advise on ways to find opportunities to put your existing skills to work. Also, next week is #SanFranciscoClimateWeek, so sign up for events to start your job search immediately: https://lu.ma/SFCW2024 Do also check out workonclimate.org, climatedraft.org, and terra.do to see the smorgasbord of climate hiring going on and connect with fellow climateers. And I will repeat myself: a layoff says nothing about you personally, and (the way Google does it) isn't related to performance. It won't be held against you in the job search. As Googlers, you're talented and hardworking and you deserve the great opportunities you're going to find out there. Feel your feelings, by all means, but don't hunker down and hide. REACH OUT. #xooglers #xoogle #googlers #google #layoffs
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Nathan Murthy
I am incredibly inspired by and grateful for my teammates at Verse for achieving our first fundraising milestone together: we recently secured $20.5 million in Series A financing led by GV (Google Ventures) 🙌🏾 🎉 with participation from Coatue, CIV, and MCJ Collective. I've been trying to contain my excitement for weeks 😊 as am sure are my colleagues now that we can share the good news. I'd like to give a big shout out to the engineering team - Jessica Greenfield, Kaleb Pace, Shawn Toubeau, Brandon Clayton, Ryan Kladar, Ryan Triolo, Yuzhou Jiang, and Mahdi Kohansal - for the speed and precision of every line of code they've written, and to Seyed H. Madaeni, Ph.D., Matt Penfold, Shehzad Wadalawala, Dane McKay, Alison Mickey, Debi Ryan, and Tanner McAuley for leading and driving us on the business front. We'll be on the look out soon for more folks to join us 😉 As we used to say at my last job: "We haven't won yet." The path to decarbonization will be a multi-decade, if not multi-generational effort. Verse is just one organization in a constellation of thousands developing real solutions to the climate change problem. Until we achieve net zero emissions at a global scale 🌏 🌍 🌎 our mission remains to be done. #software #ai #energy #sustainability #climatechange #startups https://lnkd.in/gG-DEX5x
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Taylor McLoughlin
🎙️ Excited to share a recent convo I had with Justin Wolz on #FounderWellness and #Burnout. Reflecting on my last ten years in tech and especially these four intense years as a founder, I’ve learned a lot about what keeps us going in high-pressure roles. At Ambient, we're focused on Chiefs of Staff, Heads of Ops, and Founders—people who thrive in ambiguity and uncertainty. Through my conversations with many of you, it's clear we share many of the same challenges and strengths. ✨ These roles demand courage, as they often involve stepping into the unknown and solving complex problems before they're fully defined. Ambiguity is where you SHINE! ✨ 🔥 Building #RESILIENCE is key, and it's something we talked about a lot on the podcast. I think there are valuable takeaways for anyone who’s navigating high-stakes environments. 🥂 Cheers to all #ChiefsofStaff #CoS #Founders #BizOps #COO
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Roli Agarwal
A great example of the ecosystem coming together to do this important work: "Symbiosis will work to solve this by setting a new benchmark for best-in-class nature restoration projects that have a high certainty of positive climate impact. We’ll develop shared criteria for project design and measurement, update these criteria based on the latest science, and pool demand for carbon removal credits that meet our high bar. We'll also share our project criteria publicly, helping other companies to adopt best practices and increase their confidence in high-quality, nature-based carbon removal projects."
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Ariel Nurieli
Sad reality of Columbia University 2024: For those who are seeing this footage for the first time, it’s as bad as it looks (do a quick google search). After two weeks of completely occupying the grass with in the center of campus, these IVY LEAGUE students, mixed with tresspassing anarchists, have completely stripped away all dignity that Columbia University once had. Students who pay good money to attend this “top tier” institution with the hopes of setting themselves up for success, trying hard to focus on what they came here do, can’t seem to do anything but stare helplessly at the chaos that is ensuing around them. Classes going remote, campus closed, and professors/faculty with zero integrity playing along with this foolery, indicating to protesting students that what they are doing is okay and will actually help the Gazan people. The brains have left the building. This isn’t protesting, this is anarchy, and Columbia has let it take hold without much to do about it. Now this didn’t happen over night, it’s the cause of years of indoctrinating students to think they can get want whatever they want if they kick and scream, and because of the professors they hire to instill such ideas. Little did they know it was only going to come back and bite them. As a Columbia student myself I ask: why pay them all this money? Why attend this school? Why continue pretending that all of these the once great institutions are anything but houses of cards (that can be toppled by mindless children)? I also ask, why should I leave when I, and many other like me, are not breaking the rules. We aren’t the ones that are skipping classes to go glamping on campus lawns instead of sitting in the classroom. We are the ones who are taking financial risks to get this degree with 100% of its glory; why should Columbia let hooligans take that away from us. To me the Columbia is becoming worthless by the day, and I can only imagine how sour it has become in the eyes of employers and those watching from afar. I would like to see Columbia fix this, and restore some order and integrity, but this has become wishful thinking. If so, then this was all just a very expensive life lesson that currently attending students and alumni will have to pay for giving our money to a school clearly abides by values that hold no weight and are now clearly the fuel for chaos. We had the signs, we chose to ignore them. . . . But it’s definitely exciting to see how this all plays out right!
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Dayna Grayson
Thanks for the interview Connie Loizos. More to come about investments yet to be announced and the founders who are working every day to build in these spaces. Excited to have shared the gamut across where we invest from Earth to TimberEye to Monaire. We're investing out of $440m under management across 3 funds and are thankful every day that we started this focused fund to partner with entrepreneurs who are ready to turn the last bastion of old world industries into tech sectors. The physical world is driven by huge industries that need to change...and not simply by completing work incrementally better or by fitting into existing buying cycles and budgets. Many of our companies are totally reinventing how products are made or services are delivered and their customers win. We want to see more of this in every sector including industrial, transportation, energy, defense, space, manufacturing to name a few. https://lnkd.in/e-TqpvFh
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Justin Gordon
I’m so excited to announce the new name of the vetted community for startup founders I'm building: Village Lane Village Lane connects ambitious early-stage startup founders, both in-person and online, who have at least $100k in ARR or $250k in funding. The name Village Lane is deeply personal to me... It's the street I lived on after business school, in an apartment with my friend Andrew - the kindest, most welcoming, supportive person I’ve ever met, who sadly passed away suddenly a few weeks ago at only 31 years old. It’s also the place where I went full-time on Just Go Grind for the first time when it was a daily podcast and then joined VITALIZE Venture Capital. It was a special time and place and where I took a giant leap in my career. I envision Village Lane (the community) being similar - a special place filled with kind, supportive members looking to take a giant step forward with their businesses. Several experiences have led to the creation of Village Lane: - A transformative MBA experience at USC - Working at VITALIZE Venture Capital for 2.5 years - Growing my social media audience to 40,000+ followers - Building this newsletter to 21,000+ subscribers - Hosting 400+ podcast interviews with founders & investors - Creating an angel investing community with hundreds of members Now I'm focused on helping founders connect, build their personal brand, and create more successful businesses. Village Lane's in-person events will include things like: - Co-working - Social activities - AMAs - Retreats The online component of Village Lane will include: - A member directory - Slack group - Vendor suggestions - Tech stacks - An investor database - Media exposure and amplification - Personal branding assistance We'll also phase in monthly digital peer groups as membership grows. This will all be built around our members and their needs. I’ll share more details as this evolves. Interested in joining? Learn more and apply below.
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Lesego Tladinyane
We've invested in some really compelling teams with awesome products. As they transition from startup to scale-up, you reach a strategic inflection point where the company begins considering its options. The Power Law is a mathematical nicety (copium), but the cold reality is that not all exits are ideal. For a winning startup, an acquisition or an IPO can accelerate growth, provide access to greater resources, and create opportunities for expanded market reach and innovation. But, for a struggling company, an acquisition is a responsible consideration to safeguard employees’ jobs, preserve the company’s mission, and provide stability by integrating with a financially stronger organization. A lot has been written about how startups are acquired, but not much about *why* startups are acquired. I penned some thoughts on how to be more 'acquirable' and build with the end in mind. https://lnkd.in/dHdbXpPt
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