Josh Muccio

If you would have told me a year ago that a founder would raise $1.4M on our podcast!!?? I would not have believed you. Kavitta Ghai broke all the records on our show in one of the most impressive pitches I've ever heard from a founder. From the moment she entered the room… 🧵

@jspujji that photo looks fake

A 50-year-old immigrant monk bootstrapped a biz from nothing to over $1 BILLION in sales with 30%+ profit margins. It took only 8 years. The crazy part? It doesn't even have 200 employees. Buckle up for this one  👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Behind Genius portfolio company Lotus featured in Time's Best Inventions of 2025...as in awe of Dhaval today as I was the day I met him on @thepitchshow! time.com/collections/be…

@NWischoff Sounds fun! Would love to join

Lease signed for our first SF office!!! Monthly wine nights and coffee/breakfasts kicking off in November in Jackson Square. Let me know if you want to join.

The largest AI deployment in education 🤯 Congrats to @KavittaG and the team at @NectirEducation 👏

Excited to share my conversation with @joshmuccio of @thepitchshow! Josh has a huge following but is usually on the other side of the mic so this was fun. We talked about: 🐑 The dangers of consensus investing 🎥 The behind-the-scenes of how The Pitch works ⚖️ Whether the market matters more than the founder Josh is great and I have a lot of respect for what he's built with The Pitch. It helps that my son loves The Pitch as well. I hope you enjoy and shout out to @peterliu for introducing us!

@cyantist OMG I LOOOOOVE 🤩

Isn't she pretty??

@caiguy Working on it!

@joshmuccio Season finale already? We need season 14 ASAP.

Go live in 3... 2.. 1

"Where else in the world can a founder raise $1.4 million in 30 minutes?!?" - @KavittaG 🚨FOUNDERS 🚨 I'm excited to announce that The Pitch Show is taping a new season w/@voxmedia this August! Applications are open, we want to hear your pitch! Fundraising for startups is notoriously hard. But founders on The Pitch… they make it look easy. Over the last 5 seasons, 40 startups have collectively raised $13,781,087 directly from our show. Here's the breakdown: - $6,855,000 from The Pitch Fund + VCs featured on the show - $6,926,087 from listeners investing angel checks or via SPVs we host But it’s more than capital, it’s community. Founders get access to a community of 100,000+ founders, angels, and LPs who don’t just listen, they engage. Your next Fortune 500 customer, strategic partner, key hire, or angel investor is already tuned in, waiting to hear your pitch. We’re looking for 18 startup founders with grand ambitions of building a generational company and changing the world. If selected, you’ll get undivided attention from some of the top early-stage VCs & angels in the world. - @dunkhippo33 @HustleFundVC 🚐 - @cyantist @LongJourneyVC 🚀 - @chudson @PrecursorVC 🌱 - @srcasm @flybridge 🌉 - @immad @mercury 💳 - @katepmcandrew @_baukunst 🎨 - Rohit Gupta @ Future Communities Capital 🏘️ - and more! (BTW: We’re looking to bring more emerging managers on the show. Comment below if you’re interested or know someone who’d be a good fit) Founders get a solid 30-40 minutes to pitch VCs in-person. Lisa, Peter, Anna and I do everything we possibly can to prepare our founders for success in the room. 🎯 Craft your pitch for maximum impact — We deconstruct your standard investor pitch and rebuild it with a clear narrative flow – adding tension, momentum, and emotion. 🧠 Tell a story people won’t forget — We help you zero in on the one thing that truly matters and cut everything else. From vision to traction to market, every part of your pitch is framed to land with maximum impact. 🤝 Get matched with the right VCs — We carefully pair you with investors based on stage, thesis, and the underrated X-factor: vibes. What’s the catch? Founders travel to the Bay Area for a few days, if you land a deal on the show, we ask that you hold allocation for The Pitch Fund to coinvest. No bs contracts, predatory terms or BS. We’ll invest our time and resources to help you pitch the best VCs in the world. In return, we just ask that you let us go on the journey with you! We want to change the world just as much as you do. We’re building the venture platform we wish existed when we started. Are you in? To apply: take 2-minutes to fill out our form! Applications close June 30th. Google/ChatGPT “Apply to The Pitch” OR drop a comment below and I’ll send you the link. PS: We invest in just about every kind of startup – building in cities all across the US and abroad

@cyantist This sounds incredible!! Sign us up. What if we recorded @thepitchshow on the train!?

Getting closer to being able to launch a site for the train trip! We now have 3-4 cars pinned down, a fleet manager, and a route. We should be able to publish a gauge of interest form sometime this summer and tickets will go on sale in the fall. The current plan is we would leave Chicago sometime in late May 2026. There will only be about 30 beds total that will go up for sale, some day passes and a conference either in Denver or Emeryville. A few of the rooms will become available during the day for podcasting and turn into beds at night. It’s going to be a ride of a lifetime. Stay tuned!!

@ericbahn have you taken your van to the track yet?

I was only able to attend YC Demo Day for a few hours today, but was asked probably six times how my minivan is doing...

This is exactly the plot for Mountainhead 😧

@InfiniteJulian0 that's brutal! Reminds me a little bit of this story cnbc.com/2025/06/11/out…

firebase authentication is down, along with AWS, Google Cloud, & more. and this is what our support inbox is looking like 😭 and there's nothing i can do about it... at least this is how you know your users care about you!

For those who are Christians, it’s not enough to just love Jesus. Perhaps, try his teachings. If he’s about love, which is how I characterize his mythology, then are you loving? Are you kind? Do you seek to understand The Other? If not, then you are using the “word” incorrectly. You are just being a dick. Glass houses, stones and all… Remember: it was a sex worker who washed his feet.

for most of the 1.5 billion students in the world, studying sucks and is boring 🥱 but today, learning on Jungle just became infinitely more fun 🙈 we released 5 new trees 🌴, 3 new characters 🐒🦥, and a whole new game design system 🕹️

@jefielding You're kidding!

My accountant forgot to file my taxes (true story) but watch out for those hallucinating LLMs…

@NWischoff Yikes! I knew it was bad but this…

Some data on S25 YC Batch vs non-YC early stage companies also raising money right now. These are from companies our firm has met over the past two weeks. Quite the premium.

@shirish_arya16 Would love this, so many mysterious startup deaths

What if there was a “Product Hunt” for failed startups? Not everything makes it. Some projects die. Why not give them a proper send-off? With a page for: – what it was – why it failed – lessons learned – maybe a few laughs Call it: 404 Tombstone ☠️

@Official_ly_Dev Learn how to listen more than you speak