Chris Gardner

Founder, board member, former PayPal Exec, partner @UnderscoreVC

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

Great time at the @UnderscoreVC Academic Founder Happy Hour last night! This is my favorite type of event. No agenda, just good beer, great food and brilliant founders. Fun!

#founders #startups #Boston

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

@rexsalisbury It's because they are all still on COBOL. 😀

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

Congratulations to the @Pagos_AI team on being recognized as one to the Top 250 Fintech companies in the world! Well deserved!
https://t.co/cNrqLFrCfN

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

What a fun fintech fundraising panel discussion yesterday #CollisionConf! Our terrific moderator @chebante kept me, and the fabulous @EmmalynShaw and @King__goh on track, on message and under control. Thanks all! #Fintech #Fundraising #Startups #UnderscoreVC

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

I’m looking forward to bringing some Fintech heat to a panel discussion on fundraising at @CollisionConf Toronto this afternoon at 2pm EDT. @UnderscoreVC is in the house so join the fun and come heckle! #Fintech #Fundraising #Startups #VC

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

@UnderscoreVC @movemint_cc @movemint_cc is building a modern technology stack for endurance event and Zack, Taylor and Julia couldn't be better suited for the job. Here's why we invested! https://t.co/GuQsKq4glN

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

Pagos just released an AI Copilot for their world's best payments optimization and analytics platform. IAny retail and ecommerce payments shop should take notice!

Check out their blog post: https://t.co/9JqpGAyoBi

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

@jaredhecht @pitdesi Should also contemplate post-employment exercise window. Just spit-ballin' here. Lots of complexity.

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

@jaredhecht @pitdesi How about a new vesting approach that would be triggered when a founder departs pre-exit that reverts their vesting to a % of time served between company founding and exit? Would have to contemplate secondary sales though.

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

@rexsalisbury Snuggles!! Congrats, Rex.

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

The founders of @AirconAi are the real deal and are solving a problem that only people with decades of experience can tackle. Air freight consolidation streamlines supply chains and saves shippers big money in a giant market. Congrats guys!

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

TFW your freshman in college (who has a summer job) is bragging that he also has "passive income" and you realize he is talking about the 50 bucks a week he still gets as an allowance.

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

It's so exciting to see a great team execute and be recognized by a new group of investors. Congrats to the https://t.co/NUl5yj5yRM team. Go get em!

[Underscore VC @UnderscoreVC]

🎉 🎩We're tipping our hats to Slang AI's Founders, @sambvani & Gabe, on their $12M Series A led by @Homebrew! When we backed them in 2020, generative AI wasn't yet all the rage, but Slang's vision and execution were compelling as heck. Read more: https://t.co/qJziLHJ0Lk

[Underscore VC @UnderscoreVC]

A big thank you to all of the Core Members who joined us at the Boston Go-To-Market Summit yesterday at Salsify! Your energy and insights were unmatched. Subscribe to the Core Bulletin to learn about future Core event opportunities: https://t.co/k0cE13Sru2

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

Full house for Underscore’s Boston Go-to-Market Summit at #Salsify’s HQ!
#GTM #UnderscoreVC.

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

Look what we made! Our content team managed to get the whole Underscore gang on video talking about seed fundraising. There is all sorts of good stuff in here including process, pitching and networking. Check it out!

[Underscore VC @UnderscoreVC]

🚀 Today we launched a *NEW* Startup Secrets video series that breaks down the nitty-gritty details on raising your startup's Seed round.

✔️ Tactical advice
✔️ Templates
✔️ Check-lists
✔️ Real talk

We even snuck some fun in there 😉

📺Tune in here: https://t.co/BIzPXhyyvg

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

@UnderscoreVC Now this was fun! We get asked about topics like building a fund raising process, pitching, valuations and more every single day, and we managed to everyone in a room in front of a camera to share our thoughts. We hope you like it!

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

@PaulBaier Because it is still pretty bad at simple things search engines are great at:

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

@roshanpateI I so want that to be real.

[Chris Gardner @ccgardner]

This is an important topic for all early stage founders to grasp. I’ve personally made nearly every mistake in here, but if you are intentional about this from the beginning, it’s much easier to stay on top of it. Nice.

[Sasha Orloff @sashaorloff]

I was in one of the most incredible founder groups of all time. And there was one universal problem we all ran into at 50 employees, and by 75 employees it was too late. We all naively underinvested in it, until we didn't realize it was too late.

The topic: compensation.