Slava Rubin

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Dec 15, 2025 negative

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Rubin: Indiegogo board replaced him as CEO after growth debate

“Definitely not. No, I mean, that was me having a debate with the board as to how we needed to grow. I really wanted to create a massive company, and I really thought we had the opportunity to create the Airbnb of crowdfunding, because it should all be consolid…”

Slava Rubin Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 55:07 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

Dec 15, 2025

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Indiegogo co-founders each committed $30,000 of their own money to launch

“I remember each of us committing 30,000 dollars of our own money, which was a big chunk of our savings, or at least for me.”

Danae Ringelman Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 27:03 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

Dec 15, 2025

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Indiegogo turned down early pre-launch investment offers at low valuations

“We got offered some money and we turned it down. We were like, we don't need your money at a low valuation.”

Slava Rubin Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 26:05 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

Dec 15, 2025 negative

Insight

Rubin: Replacing founders too early handicaps a company's potential

“If you take out a founder too early, I do think you handicap the potential of the future of that company. And I think you see that with some of the results of Indiegogo.”

Slava Rubin Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 55:37 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

Dec 15, 2025

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Rubin: Bootstrapped founders have no runway except willingness to push

“The way people think about running out of gas is they actually look at their gas tank and they actually look at the meter go down. So eventually the meter is at zero. So they now have no gas, but if you have no meter, nothing gets to go down. You only get to d…”

Slava Rubin Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 38:18 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

Dec 15, 2025 positive

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Rubin: Indiegogo always planned expanding beyond film, copying Amazon playbook

“Since day one, the idea was to democratize it for all funding ideas. We just started with film because trying to take a, you know, page out of the playbook of Amazon, you know, starting with books only and then expanding to other stuff.”

Slava Rubin Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 41:05 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

Dec 15, 2025 negative

Insight

Slava Rubin: Disrupting finance cannot be done from within traditional finance

“If you want to change finance, you can't do it in the finance world.”

Slava Rubin Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 17:18 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

Dec 15, 2025 neutral

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Rubin: Indiegogo received 93 investor rejections before first check

“Yeah, we got 93 no's before we got a yes.”

Slava Rubin Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 35:52 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

Dec 15, 2025

Assertion Supported

Indiegogo operated without raising outside funding for three years

“We actually didn't raise a dime for, was it four years? Three years.”

Danae Ringelman Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 27:14 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

Dec 15, 2025 positive

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Rubin: Most Series A partner meetings resulted in same-day term sheets

“In the same day, most of them will come back with yeses and term sheets, et cetera.”

Slava Rubin Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 46:41 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

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