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

Patrick Collison

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Remembering the time one of my investors sent me a competitor’s website and was like have you heard of these guys so I sent back sequoia’s website and said have you heard of these guys.

Jack Altman

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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

Peter Thiel doesn’t need much of an intro. He has been at both sides of the fundraising table, sometimes concurrently. He first invested in a precursor to what would become PayPal and soon after joined it in the early days as a co-founder and CEO. Later he founded and invested in Palantir, which specializes in big-data analytics. In August 2004, Th

Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

It was late 1996, and eBay’s online auction business had been solidly profitable since it was launched; the company did not need a cent. But Pierre Omidyar, twenty-nine, the original founder, and his new partner, Jeff Skoll, thirty-one, were the rare entrepreneurs who knew they needed to hire a CEO and other seasoned executives with skills they lac

Randall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

he worked as Netscape's product manager to pivot the server product line. Microsoft's IIS had all the features they had, was five times faster, and was free. Mike Homer and he worked furiously to acquire and partner. they beat Microsoft and grew the server line to $400M.

Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz

Rich Barton is hardly a household name. Perhaps this is because he’s not based here, and makes relatively few investments. However, while there are more visible founders (like Bezos and Zuckerberg) who’ve built bigger businesses, market cap and notoriety aren’t the only measures of a founder. And Barton is a strong contender for the title of best c... See more

kwokchain.com • Making Uncommon Knowledge Common

Flickr became a modest success and was acquired by Yahoo for $35 million in 2005, making Butterfield a Super Founder who, like many other Super Founders, went on to start a multibillion-dollar company next.