Parr: Examine.com founder Sol Orwell raised $400,000 from tweets for Afghanistan
Sam Parr · What Venture Capital Will Look Like in the Future | My First Million #215 · Sep 1, 2021 · at 52:26
Sam Parr shares an example of decentralized crowdfunding for Afghanistan relief on My First Million.
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“The guy, his name is Sol S O S O L space. And then Orwell is his last name. He owns a examine.com. He just tweeted out that he was going to do this. And he was like, I'm going to give it away. He's like, I vetted this. I know where the money's going to go to for this. I know exactly what's happening. You, if you trust me, then you'll, then you can trust that this is going to be good. And he raised 400,000 dollars off a couple of tweets.”
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