Kevin Jurovich

Co-founder/CEO at Hubble

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@USMNT - 2 vs Australia - 0

USA moving onto the knockout stage and win the group! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Mood…

#worldcup #usmnt

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10 Richest People In The World

1. Elon Musk: $1.1 Trillion
2. Larry Page: $257 B
3. Sergey Brin: $237 B
4. Bezos: $224 B
5. Zuck: $222 B
6. Larry Ellison: $190 B
7. Bernard Arnault: $171 B
8. Jensen: $154 B
9. Buffett: $149 B
10. Amancio Ortega $148 B

That gap from 1 to 2 📈

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YouTube: 65 employees → acquired for $1.65B

Instagram: 13 employees → acquired for $1B

WhatsApp: 50 employees → acquired for $19B

Waze: 100 employees → acquired for $1.1B

Twitch: 100 employees → acquired for $970M

Less was always more.

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I’m bullish this is the best time in human history to start a company.

You have:

1. Tools making teams insanely efficient
2. Talent globally
3. Distribution for anyone with a phone
4. Access to mentors, operators, and founders who’ve already done it

There aren’t any excuses.

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Founders...early on, your most important job is belief.

Making the vision so clear that people will leave cushy jobs to take real risk with you.

It’s easier said than done, but if you can’t do that, it’s usually a sign the road ahead will be harder than it needs to be.

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If your investor meetings don’t end like this, they are not the one. 💸

Trust me.

#venturecapital #startups #fundraising

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The first version of the product won’t work.

I’ve yet to see a startups first version of their product work well.

In you don’t have PMF do this:

1. Talk to your customers

2. Improve the product based on their feedback

Those are the only two things you should be doing.✌️

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18 Years of Perseverance 🚀

First photo, @elonmusk stands over the wreckage of Falcon 1—a setback that nearly bankrupted both SpaceX and Tesla.

In the second, a few days ago, SpaceX’s first commercial spacewalk.

It's those who keep pushing that ultimately make history.

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@Coach_Sanford2 That’s about as ginger of an easy up as I’ve seen…hard to see him being more than just a decoy for a series or two. Hope I’m wrong.

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Founders about to sign away 80% of their company to a bottom-tier European family office…😳

Right before Garry Tan swoops in, and goes full 'founder-mode.'

#venturecapital #startups #ycombinator #foundermode

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The MVP in Figma vs The MVP in the App Store

#product #tech #startups

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In 1976, Ron Wayne made a $300 billion decision. 😳

As Apple's forgotten third co-founder, Wayne sold his 10% stake for just $2,300 total, 12 days after the company's founding.

At 41, he saw risks working with the young Jobs (21) and Wozniak (26).

#tech #apple #venturecapital

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@isabellacomelli You are such a little badass 📈

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@isabellacomelli Legendary

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@Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on the best advice he's gotten.

Paul Graham, the founder of YC.

"𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 100 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵."

#tech #startups

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@isabellacomelli So sick!

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Jack Ma’s Original Sales Pitch for Alibaba in 1999 🚀

Jack Ma pitched Alibaba to 17 colleagues in his apartment, outlining how they would compete and win against the top companies in the US.

Today's valuation? $174 billion

#tech #startups #entrepreneurship #success

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Gonna tell my kids this was Jack Dorsey & Jensen Huang

#nvidia #startups #VentureCapital #tech

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Founders — when your startup IPOs, how much of the company will you own?

Some prominent names in the valley:

#startups #tech #VentureCapital #fundraising #ipo #equity

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In 2001, Coca-Cola announced that it had sold 4x more than Pepsi, this was the company’s response.

This is how competition should be.

#pepsi #CocaCola