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Lovely beginning, but the narrative suddenly goes dark 3 paragraphs from the end, with the line: "Whilst I'm no longer at the company ..." So what happened!?!?
by GCA10 11y ago
Lovely beginning, but the narrative suddenly goes dark 3 paragraphs from the end, with the line: "Whilst I'm no longer at the company ..."
So what happened!?!? I'd love to believe that anyone with such a clever hack could get some mileage out of whatever came next. Alas, it sounds as if this is the classic Cinderella story with only mice and pumpkins at the end. Darn! A follow-up post with the rest of the story would be very welcome.
- jaksmit 11y agofair point. I mainly wanted to focus here on the aftermath of the linkedin campaign. The sequence of events basically was: - Thursday saw the TC post, same day created Linkedin ad campaign - Friday got a call from Thomas - next week we got the final spot (on about a Thursday) - about 3 days later we were on a flight to san francisco to join Angelpad (+ $120k at this point) - about 10 weeks after moving to San Francisco we started raising our seed round. We ended up raising ~$2 mil led by Google Ventures - about a year later raised $6.5mil Series A - about a year after that raised $17m Series B - after that the company kept growing and has opened offices in various countries etc for myself personally, I moved more towards advising a few different startups.
- zachmachuca 11y agoWhat was your role during growth? From the outside peeking in it sounds like you were possibly pushed out. Nothing wrong with that, as you have accomplished so much regardless.
- jaksmit 11y agothe evolution of my role at Vungle would be a bit of a longer story. I wouldn't describe it as being 'pushed out' exactly. But I feel that my business partner scaled with the company a lot better than I did personally. Me leaving certainly wasn't as dramatic/interesting as something like the Twitter founding story for example.