Koray Can

aisthetikos, logike, ethikos - product guy @reuters, @skype, @symphony, @Go_Brightside, Zenbase...

[Koray Can @HappiePasha]

@icon @BoredElonMusk Icon

[Kennan Frost @icon]

3 months ago, I sold my 1st company, Skio, for $105M cash.

Now my 2nd company, Icon, just raised $30M to launch something the world has never seen.

For $1000, we make 6 human creator ads (no AI, 100% real).
We find creators, ship products, write scripts, & edit videos.

It's risk-free:
- Full refund if you don't love your ads.
- You don't pay until you review 6 scripts.
- Unlimited human revisions.

Today, Icon introduces the world's first Agency.

We're not building a normal agency:
- We bought a $12M domain.
- We're backed by Founders Fund and OpenAI + Google DeepMind leaders.

It’s impossible to hire a creative team like ours for even $30K/mo:
- Creative Directors who've worked with $100M brands (IM8, Obvi, Ridge). They update our format library daily based on winning ads (street interviews, skits, & 20+ more).
- 12+ scriptwriters with $80M in Meta adspend.
- 200+ in-house editors who've edited 100K ads.

One more thing...

We're giving away our internal Google Drive with 1000 winning ads that have driven $100M+ in revenue.

You can make $100K copying these ads if you know what you're doing.

Want the Google Drive?

1. Retweet this post.
2. Comment "icon".
3. DM me this post’s link & I'll DM you back with the Google Drive.

[Bonus] Get 3 free human creator ads if you do the above and we end up working together.

[Koray Can @HappiePasha]

@nntaleb Not sure where you are going with this but Young Turks had prominent Armenian, Greek and Jewish members as well.

[Henry Shi @henrythe9ths]

I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup.

After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach.

Were we solving the right problem?

What were we doing wrong?

Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing?

Were we the right team to build this?

We tried everything: different pitch angles, new deck structures, and reframing the problem.

Then came the 145th meeting, where we closed our first growth round.

That yes made everything worth it. But getting there took years of mistakes and hard work.

We went through a lot of trial and error just to figure out what resonates with investors.

We tried dozens of approaches to figure out what made investors engage.

Some landed, most didn't. But each iteration taught us something about what builds conviction versus what just sounds good on paper.

And once we cracked that code, our Series C closed faster than expected.

And today, I see so many founders in the exact same position I was in 10 years ago: grinding through rejections, questioning everything, and trying to figure out what works.

So today I want to give you the resource I wish I had back then:

Something that shows you exactly how to structure these conversations and navigate the entire process

(because the fundraising cycle can be a big distraction and take a toll on you as a founder).

So I've partnered with Notion's Startups Team to create the essential fundraising resource that helps you avoid the mistakes that cost me years.

Here's what you are getting:

• The actual decks I used to raise $150M for Super[.]com (Series B, C)

• 50 real examples from funded startups like Eleven Labs and Artisan AI

• A searchable database of 10,000+ investors - angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately (this alone would take months to build manually)

• An AI-powered fundraising agent built into Notion with step-by-step prompts (no separate ChatGPT needed)

Want access?

• Like and share this post

• Comment "FUNDRAISE"

• Follow me so I can DM you the link

I'll send it over ASAP.

P.S.: If you are serious about fundraising (now or in the future), you should grab it right away.

[ℂosmin Lehene @clehene]

AI for coding is the future

[Koray Can @HappiePasha]

@WhileTravelling Ozgur Demirtas la alakasi yok.

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@chamath Allies? Canada, Ukraine?

[Koray Can @HappiePasha]

@APompliano Coining democratic manufacturing to avoid saying nationalizing manufacturing. Almost there, keep going.

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@APompliano You’re not serious people. How are we balancing the budget again?

[Beav53 @Beav53]

@MacroAlf This is what Trump has pushed for , Europe is stronger when the countries of the EU step up and decide their own faits. Let’s see if they can start to protect their own boards as much as they want to protect Ukraines

[Koray Can @HappiePasha]

@APompliano And you also believe that Canadian, Mexican and European direct investment will line up to build in US. You are not serious people.

[Koray Can @HappiePasha]

@clehene @martin_casado Use it at your own risk

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@nikitabier How about in SF?

[Koray Can @HappiePasha]

@michelletandler Hamas would call themselves the most religious, most god fearing. Would that make them most righteous, driven by morality?

[Koray Can @HappiePasha]

@Jason @Jason ask the same question on threads and compare the comments

[Koray Can @HappiePasha]

@clehene 😂

[Koray Can @HappiePasha]

@shreyas If they are reporting to the product CEO they don’t even get to do that and just make sure that things get delivered regardless of taste.

[Alperen @alperennsengun]

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[Koray Can @HappiePasha]

@sferik @elonmusk Can I directly upgrade to Premium+ or first need to upgrade to Premium?

[Koray Can @HappiePasha]

@RadioAnis @INTERAC btw. can't DM you thanks to @elonmusk requiring us to be verified to DM. Can't wait for you to have an account on https://t.co/4NvzTyFA0u