I have known @codorniou for 5 years.
He has seen me at my very best, he has seen me at my very worst.
I trust him like a brother
He is one of the greatest partners a founder could wish for.
Plus, he is a Mama’s boy.
Welcome to 20VC. Time to build my bro. 🔥 👇
I saw this question on TikTok, this would be my answer:
1. Work like an absolute dog. Get ahead when you are young.
2. Relationships rule all. People remember the little things.
3. When it comes to product, care obsessively. The details are not the details. They are the product.
4. Choose a tribe of 5 people you admire and would go to war for. Make them your priority.
5. Send the email that night. Not tomorrow, not later. Speed is everything.
6. Love your mama. There is no relationship like it.
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Ten years ago today, I pressed publish on the first ever 20VC episode with Guy Kawasaki.
I was 18, had $50 to my name and didn't know a single VC. The recording studio was my mother’s kitchen.
10 Years Later:
💵 $750M raised.
🎙️ 2,800 episodes.
🚀 125M downloads.
I walk a marathon a weekend with my mother. This weekend, I reflected on the lessons marathon running has taught me over the 10 years of building 20VC, I present you with 10 today.👇
This is the show we have all been waiting for.
Revolut is one of the generational companies of our time.
Today we get answers to the questions we all want to know.
🏦 Where & when will Revolut IPO?
🚀 How does Revolut plan to reach $100BN valuation?
🇺🇲 How will Revolut win the US?
My 8 🔥 takeaways 👇
The @HarryStebbings Effect:
– 200+ Applicants
– Every Tier 1 Investor in my DMs
– ~€4.000.000 of potential revenue in my DMs
– 3.000+ LinkedIn Requests
– 300+ Twitter Followers
That’s actual, tangible value added.
OpenAI is one of the most impactful and defining companies of our time.
@sama on:
🚀 Will model capabilities continue to improve at this rate?
🤖 The most exciting agent use case
🚂 Which startups will be steamrolled by OpenAI
My 9 🔥 lessons 👇
Revolut is one of the fastest growing fintechs on the planet. The numbers are simply insane:
💰 $45BN valuation
🌎 45m+ customers
🚀 $2.2BN revenue in 2023, up 95% YoY
Today we reveal the growth playbook that allowed them to scale to be a global giant with Antoine Le Nel 👇
The 1st time I met Max, it was a Sunday afternoon.
He jumped on a call with me, apologised for being 2 mins late... He had just driven 3 hours, in the snow, back from a warehouse in some random town in northern Germany 🇩🇪
He had spent the previous night and early morning in a warehouse speaking to a dozen road freight drivers that they had recently on-boarded to the #ZeKju platform 🚛
Him and his co-founder, Hendrik, did this EVERY weekend... Doing things that don't scale and looking at unloved industries with first principle thinking.
A no-brainer to bring into the @20vcFund portfolio 🙌
Hear from @20SALES_vc, #20Growth and myself on why we backed these legends 👇
And delighted @destraynor, @patcummins30, @MarioGoetze, @rosbergxracing and many others have joined this 🚀