The Founder Initiative

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1. a16z Invested; $231M Raised Sub 2-years; Decagon's Founder, Jesse Zhang & Amex Ventures's Managing Director, Kevin Weber; Building & Funding Unicorns

   Gepubliceerd: 9-9-2025
2. YC S24 -Accepted After 3:00am Interview, Hitting PMF Via Onboarding Research?

   Gepubliceerd: 2-9-2025
3. Accepted to YC, no product, website, or co-founder: Coval's CEO, Brooke Hopkins; PMF & funding journey

   Gepubliceerd: 26-8-2025
4. a16z & Sequoia Invested in Rillet; Nic's Journey to PMF & Closing $100M+ In Funding

   Gepubliceerd: 21-8-2025
5. [$50M+ Raised] From 4 Weeks To Shutdown To Round Closed; Metadata's Funding & Growth Story

   Gepubliceerd: 20-8-2025
6. Stanford Dropout Raises $42M; Teddy Solomon, Founder of Fizz

   Gepubliceerd: 19-8-2025
7. [VC Pitch] YC Founder Pitches NEA ($25B AUM) Partner in San Francisco

   Gepubliceerd: 14-8-2025
8. Uber's Former Head of AI; Now Founder of Proshort; PMF Journey & Landing First Customer

   Gepubliceerd: 13-8-2025
9. [$200M VC] How To Cold Email A VC, Importance of Founder Evangelism; Urban Innovation Fund's Julie Lein

   Gepubliceerd: 12-8-2025
10. Harvard Dropout Builds Fastest Fintech App To Hit 1M Downloads, Raises $47M; Steven Wang, Co-Founder of dub

    Gepubliceerd: 24-7-2025
11. MasterClass's Pre-Revenue Investor, Alex Gurevich, Managing Director, Javelin Ventures; Top Changes In Early Stage Investing, Investment Decisions, etc

    Gepubliceerd: 22-7-2025
12. [Stealth Founder] $7.5M Round, Blok's Co-Founder, Tom Charman; First Customers, Closing Round, & Moving to San Francisco

    Gepubliceerd: 21-7-2025
13. [Real VC Pitch] $5B Lux Capital Partner, Shaq vs. ex Google/Apple Engineer, Founder Hoa

    Gepubliceerd: 16-7-2025
14. 0-600 Customers: How Dan Bladen, Hit PMF After A Massive Pivot - and Landed Intel & Porsche

    Gepubliceerd: 15-7-2025
15. (YC W21) Indian Startup Denied 3x by YC, Accepted 4th; Sarthak Goel, Founder of Invoid

    Gepubliceerd: 15-7-2025
16. Small Town Founder, Got Into YC Without Pedigree; Joseph Johnson, CEO, LedgerUp

    Gepubliceerd: 9-7-2025
17. [$25M Raised] Getting Into YC, Top Fundraising Learnings & Hitting PMF, Matthew Watts, Co-Founder, Lendflow

    Gepubliceerd: 8-7-2025
18. From Rejection to $2.5B GMV: The Product-Market Fit Playbook

    Gepubliceerd: 1-7-2025
19. [$4B VC] Greycroft's Partner, Mark Terbeek, Behind the Curtain - intros, top sectors, etc

    Gepubliceerd: 24-6-2025
20. How Rinse Raised $70M: The Fundraising Lesson Every Founder Needs

    Gepubliceerd: 18-6-2025