Hipcamp's first angel check was funded by selling a Twitter handle for $13,000
Alyssa Ravasio · 20VC: How To Solve The Chicken and Egg Problem in Marketplaces? How Important Is Differentiated Supply? How To Prevent Leakage? How to Create Marketplace Defensibility and more with Alyssa Ravasio, Founder & CEO @ Hipcamp · Mar 27, 2020 · at 26:18
Hipcamp founder and CEO Alyssa Ravasio recounts how the startup secured its very first angel investment.
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“Our first check-in to HipCamp was my friend Jeremy Grosser. He was an engineer at Uber, and he heard that another friend of mine, Catherine Krug, had committed some investment, which she ironically did In the middle of a conversation with me telling her how I was going to run out of money and everything was totally screwed up. Her response to which was, you'll figure this out. I want to invest in you. He heard that happened, ended up writing the check first by selling his Twitter handle, Sinek, for 13,000 dollars.”
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