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Oct 21, 2025

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Marietti: I took Stanford's signup list and pitched all 400 contacts overnight

“We steal the things with all the email and the registration. And we walk home with that. And that night till five AM, I writes all the 400 emails about, Hey, you need to know about Michelle.”

Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 2:38 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure

Oct 21, 2025 negative

What-if

Augusto Marietti realized API marketplace economics would not work even at scale

“I could never make the economics works, even if this thing would have scaled.”

Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 18:42 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure

Oct 21, 2025 positive

Disclosure

Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt invested in Mashape's 2011 seed round

“And then we got a long tail, which was, like, Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt into the funds.”

Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 11:31 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure

Oct 21, 2025 neutral

Disclosure

Mashape raised its Series A with only $50,000 in gross volume

“For a marketplace, you need a million in gross volume. We were like at 50 K.”

Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 14:59 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure

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