David Castells

VC @Mission_Fund & wannabe Surfer

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

@madbuilders_ @inigodelasantas 👀👀

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

@GuliMoreno @exp8fellowship @oscarpierremi @victornavgar @dumenac Can't wait🫡, see you there :)

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

Apply on Luma: https://t.co/YAEekrtCJC

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[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

Nov 21, Madrid: Founder’s Day.

The best founders in Spain and the best talent, in one room.

@maex242 (Causa Prima) and @GuliMoreno (Capchase) will share how they built their companies.

Looking to join the next big thing? Spots are very limited 👇

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

@jon__ortega 100%, in our case I would say we are lucky to be in the second option 🫡

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

This morning @jon__ortega and I talked about something we’ve both noticed: there’s no line between work and “normal life” anymore.

In Spain, this all in work culture isn’t always well seen. But if you want to build something bigger, your 20s are for grinding. Simple as that

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

@jon__ortega @inigodelasantas @Mission_Fund No agenda with this thread, just curious who else here feels the same.

You have to be a bit obsessed to be writing this from a Rodilla (not a Starbucks this time 😅) on a holiday.

If that’s you, reply :)

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

@jon__ortega @inigodelasantas And still, it’s nothing like what the founders I know go through. From my seat at @Mission_Fund, I have it far easier, without their level of risk.

They risk it all. I watch up close.

However hard I work, it’ll never be the same as being a founder 🫡

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

@speridlabs

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

@jon__ortega Intensity is the price of excellence. Sigue metiéndole cañita!!🫡🫡

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

Thanks to everyone who sat at the table 🙌

Every week, a new table. Only 4 spots left for the next one 👀

https://t.co/NHpXJJ174S

Seguimos!

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

Yesterday hosted our first Blind Dinner.

The idea is simple: 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁.

10 cracked people. One table. Nobody knew who they’d meet. No pitches, no agenda.
Just great conversations and good food.

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

@mrloldev TTWO. La empresa dueña de Rockstar Games. GTA VI sale en menos de un mes y van a romperla en sales.

Not financial advice, yo solo he perdido pastas desde que compré lol, pero sigo holding porque sí creo que GTA 6 es defining game.

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

Amazing timing to launch with Arc shutting down. Will definitely give it a try.

[Charles Maddock @charles_maddock]

Delete Chrome
Delete Granola
Delete Claude

Strawberry 1.0 is here, the AI browser that saves your team >100h/week

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

@fildotai @DonUhr24 @salanova_ Tissot PRX ice blue
Hamilton khaki field. Leather strap
Omega-swatch(Neptune,mercury o luna)
Seiko gmt(SSK003, el wannabe batman)

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

There are levels to success.

Watching @davidsenra's episode, I made my own ranking:
1.Going on probably the biggest founder stories podcast in the world wearing the wolf meme shirt 😂🐺
2.Deleting LinkedIn forever
3.Answering emails like WhatsApps

What else would you add?

[David Senra @davidsenra]

You would have made billions if you gave seed checks to everyone who was at @alexandr_wang’s 19th birthday party:

- Jeff Yan (@chameleon_jeff) went on to start Hyperliquid (~$20B)
- @ScottWu46 went on to start Cognition ($48B)
- @thejessezhang went on to start Decagon ($4.5B)

And Wang himself who started Scale AI, and got $14.3B from Meta for 49% of it.

Wang explains:

“I was doing a winternship at a trading firm called HRT.

There were 12 of us, almost all of whom were students at either Harvard or MIT.

I recently met up with the founder of HRT and they were talking about, ‘We're starting to do some private investments.’

I was like, ‘Just invest into the interns! All the interns get seed checks!’”

[David Castells @CastellsDavidd]

@inigodelasantas Lo puedes configurar con los atajos del iPhone. Atajos - abrir app(grokbot) - añadir widget en pantalla de inicio.

[Íñigo de la Iglesia @inigodelasantas]

The data doesn’t always back up the claims we make and hear in the startup ecosystem.

Last week’s trip to London helped me put things in perspective. So I wrote this post to bring the data and those conversations together.

Let’s discuss! https://t.co/AFqdcJkTSP