Building Fires Podcast

Building Fires Podcast

[Building Fires Podcast @buildingfires_]

Looking for a new podcast? This week we're highlighting @adellearcher and her incredible company Eterneva. Adelle breaks down her startup journey, touches on her experience with Shark Tank, raising multiple funding rounds, and more. https://t.co/kLpjMjYyEq

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

The man originally quoted with ‘I’ll Sleep when I’m dead’ has sadly died in his sleep. His last words were, “okay just this one time”

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

Last night @thegarrettscott and I had the launch party for our podcast studio inside of Blue Norther Tasting Room while also celebrating @CapitalFactory Startup Week

250+ came through and @michaelwmarra @mattadoyle setup “Street Tank” giving away cash to startup pitches

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

Earlier this year we had partnership signed with Barstool Sports to collaborate with us on our daily sports trivia game https://t.co/bvLHbvjaaG

After months of on/off radio silence we finally found out that nothing was happening because some random guy on the Barstool team that was supposed to be a big part of the project wanted to launch his own trivia game so he was just ignoring emails from their marketing team and not doing anything they said he would do in the agreement lol

Now that @stoolpresidente is back I'm hoping it's a tighter ship

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

I've officially started planning The WeStrive Games

It will be a collection of 5 fun weightlifting competitions, each with its own theme + sponsor

Ex: if we get @BuschBeer to sponsor we would do a keg carry with their logo

50% proceeds + all donations go to @AmericanCancer

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

So last week I tweeted an updated version of my deck and @TheNileDesign DM'd me that he was going to update it for me... and he CRUSHED it

Pumped to start our raise next week with this shiny new deck. If you need your deck updated I highly recommend messaging this guy 🔥

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

The 3rd Austin Tech Beer Pong tourney was such an incredible experience

600 players, 100's of startups, and thousands of $$ for our winners

Huge thank you to @AriSalafia & @goTaxTaker for being our main sponsor

See you next year for the ATX Startup Games 😏

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

Nothing better than having one of your favorite founder friends as the main sponsor of your event

Shoutout @AriSalafia with @goTaxTaker

She not only was the main sponsor but she even made 50 custom shirts just for the event and flew her whole team in for it.

10/10 CEO

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

Yesterday I threw the largest beer pong tournament in Texas history

We had founders, investors, and tech employees from all over Texas and it was absolutely ELECTRIC

350+ players and the winners actually lost in the championship last year

See you next year 👀

[Just Push Record Studios @justpushrecord]

A lot of people know Jon Werner from the ATX startup scene... but nobody knows he's the founder of Bones in Motion. They were the first-ever run-tracking app and were acquired by Adidas in the mid-2000s.

🎥 Watch the full episode here:
https://t.co/GplHjYzgCr

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

So @AriSalafia and her team at @goTaxTaker put in $10K and are the main sponsor for the ATX Tech Beer Pong Tourney

They are now printing 70 shirts for everyone in their division to have. These are the design options 🤯

Which one do you like more?

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

Twitter: “Elon, how many characters should we increase to?”
Elon:

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

Another 🔥 ATX tech happy hour. Thanks for everybody who made it out!

I found a dope art gallery that I love and it’s now my 3rd time hosting there

Huge shoutout to @brexHQ & @figure for the sponsorship

Let me know if you want to go to the next one 🫡

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

Just finished the layout for the ATX Tech Beer Pong tourney.

This is a MASSIVE venue so I'm hoping to have about 1000 people in attendance

- Winners get $3K
- 512 players
- Top tech startups competing

See you on April 1st!

https://t.co/Q8zq0gyEhP

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

Lol this Tech Beer Pong tourney has gotten so big that it's costing $30K to put on. So insane.

With the 70 tables, corporate banners, DJ stages, bartenders, security, food trucks, etc. it’s basically turning into a startup festival

ATX on April 1st 👀

https://t.co/Q8zq0gzc7n

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

New studio views 🔥

If you're looking to rent a podcast studio for your business in Austin - just shoot me a DM!

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

The main event sponsor is
@goTaxTaker
& we just landed our 1st divisional sponsor
@TWO12_CO

We'll have at least 250 startup teams in attendance. Winners get $3K. 750+ attendees.

DM me if you want to sponsor

If you want to play in the tourney:
https://t.co/h382RWPDuj

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

The 3rd & final ATX Tech Beer Pong tourney is officially booked for April 1st

Ari and her team at @goTaxTaker came in with a massive $10K sponsorship so we could book the venue way in advance!

Winners get $3K
512 Players
100's of startups

See you then!

https://t.co/h382RWPDuj

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

Moving the Why We Strive Podcast over to its own channel ended up making a ton of sense

Had to basically restart but already at 11.5K views and 250 hours of watch time in the first month

Head to https://t.co/bU4nYEE8XA to watch interviews with some of Austin's top tech founders

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

So @thegarrettscott launched Factle in 2 hours back in March... they've had 10 MILLION games played since then.

I took over growth and now we have Factle Sports

Give us a quick vote on PH if you can 👇

https://t.co/wrkFTl0ZUH

[Cory McKane @CoryMcKane]

Me working next to the secret bookshelf door at Capital Factory pretending to be shocked as @CarleyDeardorff opens the hidden bookshelf for the 14th tour of the day