Tictail

“There's this belief amongst people that, like, building a startup or building a company, you're supposed to have this eureka moment, this idea that no one has ever thought of, that just came to you, and that's when you can start a business. And I actually thin…”

“Well, they're different in the way that you're pitching completely different things. Like, when we went out and raced the Series C, we had a 10 slide long pitch deck, and it was all about the team, the product, and the vision. As you go on to race the Series B…”

“What we did when we started pitching, and we were supposed to go out and raise our seed round, we started by pitching other startups. And we would just contact other startups and their founders and say, like, hey, we're a startup as well, we have this pitch, a…”

“I think at the time we were six or seven people working at TickTail, and we all just brought, like, air mattresses into the office and worked literally 24 hour shifts for two weeks, just cranking out the first version of the platform.”

“The first pitch deck we had was terrible. It was like, 60 slides, it had, it took like, an hour to go through, and it talked about all of the things that Picketail could become. It was just like, it was such a visionary, like, naive, we're going to take over t…”

“Every new hire in the New York office is onboarded for one or two weeks in the Stockholm office, so that they can really kind of, like, understand our culture, our history, our vision, what the company is based upon.”

“We have more than 85,000 brands across 100. Yeah, no, it's incredible. Together they sell more than two million unique products. They're spread across 140 markets, although our growth is concentrated to five markets. Sweden, the UK, Germany, France, and of cou…”