a16z invested $1M pre-seed without requiring Browder to leave Stanford
Joshua Browder · Being a Rebel to Build a Movement: Non-Traditional Approaches to Scale | DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder · Apr 6, 2023 · at 9:12
Joshua Browder, founder and CEO of DoNotPay, discusses raising his pre-seed round while attending Stanford University.
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“I made a special deal with Andreessen Horowitz where they would invest a million dollars in the kind of pre-seed, but I wouldn't have to drop out.”
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