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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where FOMO comes up on 20VC, Top Founders, Startup Acquisition Stories, My First Million
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:59 Harry Stebbings Paul at FOMO.
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:07 Harry Stebbings I did a deal into FOMO.
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings Today we have Paul Erlang, co-founder and CEO of FOMO on the show. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32 Harry Stebbings I think it's important to set context for those that don't know what FOMO is. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:24 Paul Erlang But I think that initial round was really core to the success of FOMO.
- ▶ 4:35 Paul Erlang And this is actually one of the biggest, largest competitive advantages for our company is in the on-chain and crypto industry specifically, the users are very passionate about using the products. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:29 Paul Erlang And at FOMO, we think it's the social graph.
- ▶ 11:08 Paul Erlang I think this is a really cool corollary to FOMO because FOMO is a public network. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:42 Paul Erlang And our team is senior enough and also has enough ownership where they feel like FOMO is theirs.
- ▶ 22:49 Paul Erlang So currently FOMO is extremely horizontal.
- ▶ 28:25 Paul Erlang So for example, on FOMO, we could just be an LLM, you execute trades, et cetera.
- ▶ 30:16 Paul Erlang So I'm not trying to get LeBron James to trade on FOMO.
- ▶ 31:08 Paul Erlang So for example, one of the most important things on FOMO are the share cards. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:23 Paul Erlang I think that we're building a huge media arm at FOMO.
- ▶ 43:13 Paul Erlang But FOMO web is like a whole different experience.
- ▶ 46:08 Paul Erlang How important social is on FOMO?
- ▶ 48:14 Harry Stebbings You can give one piece of advice to yourself starting FOMO again.
- ▶ 49:14 Paul Erlang I think at FOMO, there's no, we don't put numbers to it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:17 Paul Erlang Like whenever there's a decision at FOMO, you're asking, we're asking every single person, especially the core team, what they think about it, and we're talking it out and coming to the right conclusion.
- ▶ 51:02 Paul Erlang The goal for FOMO, as cheesy as it sounds, is to be a beacon of light.
Startup Acquisition Stories wtih Ryan Kulp, Founder of Fork Equity
- ▶ 1:18 Ryan Culp One of them was called FOMO, and we sold that, and in the midst of all of that started, as you mentioned, Fork Equity, which is a micro PE fund, and we've been buying, growing, and selling small-ish SaaS apps for about four or five years…
- ▶ 1:40 Andrew Gazdecki Um, so congrats on the, the FOMO acquisition.
- ▶ 10:58 Ryan Culp So our first acquisition, which became FOMO, you know, I had to go to the Shopify website and say, what is Shopify? 2 times in the scene
Startup Acquisition Stories with Sam Lillicrap, Founder of Alignr
- ▶ 17:37 Ryan Culp One of them was called FOMO, and we sold that, and in the midst of all of that started, as you mentioned, Fork Equity, which is a micro PE fund, and we've been buying, growing, and selling small-ish SaaS apps for about four or five years…
- ▶ 17:59 Andrew Gazdecki Um, so congrats on the, the FOMO acquisition.
- ▶ 27:17 Ryan Culp So our first acquisition, which became FOMO, you know, I had to go to the Shopify website and say, what is Shopify? 2 times in the scene
How to launch a $100M DTC brand | My First Million #194
TrustMary: Transition from $2m Agency to $200k SaaS
- ▶ 2:27 Nathan Latka I think my audience is familiar with tools like Use Proof or Get Proof and FOMO and these kinds of tools.
How to Acquire a $180k Revenue SaaS Company for $3k With Ryan Kulp
- ▶ 4:25 Ryan Kulp We then took that, rebuilt it, and turned it into what's FOMO today.
- ▶ 4:29 Nathan Latka Ok, so, so explain to me the cap table of FOMO.
- ▶ 7:42 Ryan Kulp We each put in, Justin and I put in, like, 1500 dollars one time, maybe month four, month seven, because we barely overspent on dev, so kind of silly, kind of a joke, and then when we wanted to rebrand it and rebuild it from scratch as…
- ▶ 17:17 Ryan Kulp That's on FOMO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:24 Ryan Kulp When we tried to find it the other way around, like disenfranchised FOMO people went to them, we didn't find it.
- ▶ 25:11 Ryan Kulp When we started FOMO in 2016, we bought usefomo.com. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:41 Ryan Kulp Uh, we actually used debt to buy the FOMO.com domain. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:31 Nathan Latka 2015, went to New York City, launched an agency, then joined a company, a VC firm called GrowthX in 2015, found a cool app called NotifyApp.io, doing about 15 grand a month in revenue at the time. 5 times in the scene