Michael Houck 💡
Follow me to learn how to build and grow startups. Founder of: 💡 https://t.co/x0JvPXmyjH (80,000 subs) 📣 https://t.co/1nIFzbC8IX ($35K/mo) 🏠 https://t.co/xfoJaPbEvY ($15M raised)
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This is Travis Kalanick. He founded Uber and grew it to be worth billions. But he was forced to resign as CEO by investors days after his mother died. Here's how he got revenge...
This is Peter Thiel. He's worth $7.1 billion after founding and investing in numerous unicorn startups. I read his book Zero to One to learn what he looks for in founders. Here...
Y Combinator has launched startups worth over $600 billion. When Sam Altman was CEO of YC he wrote a playbook for founders. Here are 22 principles from his startup playbook:
16 movies every startup founder should watch: 1. The Founder "The only thing that matters is getting it done." https://t.co/w9SCZiaaRa
Sequoia Capital invested $5 million in YouTube Their stake was worth $214 million when Google acquired YouTube 1 year later I found and analyzed their internal investment memo ab...
Equity is the most valuable thing startup founders can offer But most founders don't know how much to give early employees Use these 8 factors to determine how much to offer:
Peter Thiel is worth $4.2 billion He wrote the manual for building startups — Zero to One Here are the 12 main takeaways from the book about startups:
Sam Altman is the founder of OpenAI and was president of Y Combinator. I used GPT-4 to analyze all of his best startup advice. Here are his 10 most important lessons for founders...
How to be a Top 1% startup CEO:
40 AI threads that will teach you more than any computer science class:
11 new AI tools that supercharge startups:
OpenAI is worth $20 billion It was founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others and has raised over $2 billion But years before launching ChatGPT it was started as a non-profit...