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Aronow: Yuga Labs Was Wildly Profitable Prior to Its VC Round
“I mean, at the time, we were so wildly profitable that, like, we didn't really need to raise, but we started thinking, okay, well, there's a couple of reasons to do this.”
Walker: Entrepreneur-in-Residence roles force founders to think inauthentically
“Being an entrepreneur in residence, it's interesting, because I've never met one who's enjoyed it. That's myself included. But it's spending a lot of time to think about things in an inauthentic way.”
Walker: Ben Horowitz initially pushed for a hair extensions startup
“Well, in fact Ben really wanted me to do the hair extensions idea.”
Butterfield pitched early Slack investors on a $1B valuation target
“We went in there and told them our plan and, you know our grand ambition, which was, hey, we believe that there's, you know, we could one day get to a hundred million dollars in revenue with this business and thereby be a billion dollar business.”
Systrom: Andreessen Horowitz invested $250,000 in Instagram's seed round
“And that initial check went from 50,000 to 250,000 dollars. And then there was another investor, Andreessen Horwitz, who came in and put 250,000 dollars in.”
Systrom: Instagram raised a $500K seed on just a prototype
“And that initial check went from 50,000 to 250,000 dollars. And then there was another investor, Andreessen Horwitz, who came in and put 250,000 dollars in. So here are two guys with, like, basically a prototype and a couple of computers, no office who raised …”