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Christian Reber

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Feb 15, 2021
Disclosure
Reber: Pitch received a $20M seed valuation offer with zero product
“The first fund that made us an offer made us an offer that I just couldn't believe. I think the seed valuation was twenty million with nothing, no co-founders, no deck, Just the idea, and I was like, holy shit, this is insane. Okay, I'm going to take this offe…”
Christian Reber Feb 15, 2021 ▶ 16:26 20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
Feb 15, 2021
Disclosure
Reber: Pitch raised $50M pre-launch entirely through preemptive investor offers
“We raised fifty million in total exactly that way, by not fundraising.”
Christian Reber Feb 15, 2021 ▶ 17:31 20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
Feb 15, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Reber: Angel investments rely on instinct rather than product understanding
“When I'm looking at investments as like angel investments, I ask myself that every single time I look at something, I only trust my instinct. Do I get along with the founder? Do I believe the founder understands the market? I don't necessarily have to understa…”
Christian Reber Feb 15, 2021 ▶ 8:44 20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
Feb 15, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reber: The initial version of Wunderlist was built in six weeks
“So I wrote Wunderlist myself with two of my first engineers within six weeks or so.”
Christian Reber Feb 15, 2021 ▶ 5:36 20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
Feb 15, 2021
Disclosure
Christian Reber Limits Angel Investing to One Hour Per Week
“I spend an hour a week, I would say, on angel investments, maybe one to two hours a week on Superlist, and the rest of my time is pitched non-stop.”
Christian Reber Feb 15, 2021 ▶ 13:28 20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
Feb 15, 2021
Insight
Reber: Software design intuition requires consuming all software and hardware
“I think if you are building software like I am, you have to spend an enormous amount of time with software and hardware of all kinds.”
Christian Reber Feb 15, 2021 ▶ 23:05 20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
Feb 15, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Reber has reinvested 50% of his personal wealth into venture capital
“I have actually, I think I've taken 50% of my personal wealth and reinvested it into venture capital by investing into funds and startups.”
Christian Reber Feb 15, 2021 ▶ 12:25 20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
Feb 15, 2021
Assertion Supported
Reber: Pitch has eight co-founders in total
“So at Pitch, we're eight founders in total.”
Christian Reber Feb 15, 2021 ▶ 21:17 20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
Feb 15, 2021 negative
Disclosure
Reber: Selling Wunderlist to Microsoft felt like selling to the enemy
“When I sold Wanderlust, it felt like I'm selling my child to the enemy. I didn't want to get bought by Microsoft. I viewed Microsoft as the enemy, and it was just stupid.”
Christian Reber Feb 15, 2021 ▶ 21:50 20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
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