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Data-Driven VC

Where venture capital and data intersect.

Mike Boyle

@mikeboyle

It is remarkable how little our strategy changed from dollar zero to a billion in sales. The most important thing we did throughout the journey: resist the ever-present temptation to muck with the strategy.

Frank Slootman • TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story

From @MorningBrew: "e-scooter company Bird, which became the fastest startup ever to land a $1 billion valuation, was delisted from the NYSE and is now worth $7 million. That’s less than a third of the $22 million its founder paid for a Miami mansion in 2021."

Tom Shea x.com

We sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. Since then, Elon Musk has founded SpaceX and co-founded Tesla Motors; Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn; Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim together founded YouTube; Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons founded Yelp; David Sacks co-founded Yammer; and I co-founded Palantir. Today all seven of th

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One

Was Chatting With a Well-Known Founder Yesterday About the "Founder...

Patrick Collison x.com

Michelle Silbernagel

@silbernagel

Miles Greenberg

@wooperscooper

software development actually suffers from diseconomies of scale: the more engineers, the slower it goes.