FTX, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where FTX comes up
He pivoted at $1M ARR—then raised $120M. | Kevin Tian, Co-Founder of Doppel · PMF Show
- ▶ 18:02 Kevin Tian It was a five million dollar seed round with FTX. 2 times in the scene
He invested in 684 AI startups—& realized that quitters always win. | Jack Kuveke, Founder turned... · PMF Show
- ▶ 11:39 Jack Kuveke Remember when, I remember FBA FTX, everyone was like, it's the biggest crypto exchange in the world. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:07 Jack Kuveke We, literally a third of our fund went into FTX, um, which they were really happy about, because that was a huge write-off for them right immediately.
He interviewed users, built a waitlist & raised $1.1M—but it still didn't work. | Frankie Le Nguy... · PMF Show
- ▶ 14:15 Frankie Le Nguyen Like, right after Terra, but before FTX, so like, in between two shitshows, like, just the viable amount of time needed, because I had, we'd been like a few weeks. 2 times in the scene
1st time founder completely pivots after YC—then grows 30x in a year to $2.2M ARR. | Pablo Palafo... · PMF Show
- ▶ 28:18 Pablo Srugo FTX crashed.
He sold his startup to Stripe for $1.1B—in just 2.5 years. | Zach Abrams, Co-Founder of Bridge · PMF Show
- ▶ 0:52 Zach Abrams I mean, we started, Sean and I decided to start the company in, like, March of twenty-twenty-two, and, uh, Terra Luna, you know, Terra Luna happened pretty shortly after that, then FTX happened after that, and Silvergate Signature happened…
- ▶ 10:21 Pablo Srugo And even in the macro, like, even with FTX falling, all these things falling, you're like, the crypto's gonna be fine.
- ▶ 20:59 Zach Abrams Um, that being said, what, what happened was like over the course of a year, there were like, you know, a whole bunch of failures in the space and their company was impacted by it, indirectly impacted by FTX and so on.
- ▶ 27:06 Zach Abrams There was nothing that we, like, while, like, we built a bunch of our infrastructure and we were trying to work with FTX and then FTX collapsed 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:05 Pablo Srugo It's never that up and to the right, but even in your case, like, there was a lot of times where, ah, you could have given up, frankly, for lack of a better word, like a month in, for sure, ah, you know, FTX is another time, like, the, the…
- ▶ 51:33 Zach Abrams FTX and Sofergate and whatever else.
He grew to $90M ARR, was about to exit for $1.5B—and then, it all fell apart. | Yanni Giannaros, ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 44:28 Yanni Giannaros Then you had FTX, like.
How I lost $6M, Why hype means nothing, Plus a dozen other lessons from our last startup · PMF Show
- ▶ 56:24 Pablo Srugo SBF, founder of FDX, gets on Forbes, jail.