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@meetfibe
Meet tech’s most extraordinary. We host events for our community of 50K+ founders and CEOs, investors, and professionals in tech.
Katılım Ağustos 2024
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Last week, I hosted a fireside chat with @ankurnagpal to debut his new public venture fund, USVC, with @AngelList and @naval
Ankur previously founded Teachable and Carry, selling to private equity for >$250m.
Grateful to have 150+ people in the room. For those who couldn’t attend, here are the takeaways:
1. Companies are staying private longer (and that’s the problem)
B/w 1980 and 2024, the avg age of companies going public has more than doubled. The median US company went public at six years old in 1980; today it is 13.
All the fastest-growing AI companies today are private: OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, SpaceX.
This is one of the first times ever that a regular person can own a piece of companies like SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Vercel while they’re still private. Not after the IPO when most of the upside is gone.
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2. The opportunity cost of working on the wrong thing right now is higher than ever
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Make sure you’re making the right bet. The velocity of change in AI means that a year spent on the wrong problem is years of compounding lost.
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3. Financial and time freedom is the goal.
“The point of making money is not to buy fancy things. The point of making money is to buy your freedom.”
Optimize for optionality, not status.
Ankur built Teachable to $60M ARR on just $12.5M in funding and sold it for $250M+. Then he did it again with Carry, selling to AngelList.
His lesson: build something that buys you the freedom to do whatever you want next.
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Thank you to our friends at @AntlerGlobal (@kailajlim) and @zoesnownyc for supporting our event.
P.S. Ankur and I are hosting our flagship event on Sep 18. This is the moment we bring our collective networks together to gather the most ambitious, curious builders and tinkerers over multiple days.
If you want early access to our event, see below



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I'm looking for TWO Canadian founders to present at our Shortlist Founder Showcase in Toronto on May 29th.
300 founders, operators, and investors will be in the room for this one night.
By taking the stage, you'll be in front of top talent, customers, investors. Great if you're hiring, selling or fundraising (in that order)
The rest of the lineup is locked in. Founders are building the fastest-growing tech companies in Canada. Many of them are billion-dollar companies; a few of them will be much bigger (to be revealed next week)
We're looking for the last TWO.
If you're a Canadian founder building something awesome, I'd love to meet you.
To apply, DM @boardyai at the link below. He'll take it from there.
Apply: whatsapp.boardy.ai/boardyhiring
(Just mention @TheShortlistNYC during your conversation with Boardy)
And apply here if you just want to attend: luma.com/shortlisttoron…
See you soon, Toronto.


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This is our limited print edition of @TheShortlistNYC magazine
When we started The Shortlist NY, it was essential for us to have a distinct analog component to the format.
Our mission was to host an event where top founders could meet top talent. But we didn't want to just host another event.
We believed that to be remarkable, we needed to deliver more than that. An experience where guests could leave with something they couldn't get anywhere else.
So we created a limited print edition of The Shortlist, inspired by Broadway's Playbill, designed by Maks, our Head of Design.
Every month, we feature six founders, their stories, and their founding journeys. These print magazines were only available to attendees at the event. But I thought the work was too special to be limited to a hundred guests.
So today I'm sharing an online version of our last print edition for everyone here.
I'm really proud of this work. If you enjoy it, I'd love to invite you to the next showcase.
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Planning an epic event with @ankurnagpal in the summer.
Bringing together the best founders, creators & operators we know. To be announced soon.
Looking for a venue in Manhattan that fits 1000 people. Any suggestions?

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I'm excited to announce that we're bringing @TheShortlistNYC to Toronto.
On May 29, we're debuting in Toronto as part of @TOtechweek with our friends at @boardyai.
We're bringing our showcase format north to feature Canada's hottest and fastest-growing startups who are hiring.
I'll be announcing the lineup shortly. This is the one I'm most excited for.
If you're around, I'd love to see you there.

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I'm hosting our next junto founder dinner on May 12.
If you're a founder, builder or creative, we'd love to have you join us – we have a few spots left.
Only requirement: you must have *some* traction ($ raised, revenue, customers) – we want do'ers, not talkers.
At our last dinner, we had an Israeli Karate Champion, an Olympic Pole Vaulter, the youngest ever founder to raise $30m in venture capital, and the guy who founded the largest music festival in Asia.
DM me or comment below!


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the april lineup is here.
and it might be our best one yet.
Sarah Ganzenmuller + @reganjayne_ / @rediemco
@bdistel / Windmill
@ndrewpignanelli / The General Intelligence Company of New York
@0thernet / @zocomputer
Daniel Kahn / Sparrow
@akashmagoon / Adonis
seven founders. one stage. april 27 at @betaworks .
if you've been waiting to get in the room, this is the one.
applications are open. spots are limited. apply now.

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6 years ago I stood in Times Square looking up at the billboards.
I was living in Canada at the time. I always wondered what it would be like to move to the greatest city in the world.
‘What if?’
But a few months later, my dream came true. I had the opportunity to move here, but during an extraordinarily eerie time (the peak of COVID)
Everyone had left. The city was empty. Mass exodus.
So I started building community and bringing people together.
Six years later we are now @meetfibe. And we were just featured on a Times Square billboard – a serendipitous, full circle moment.
If you’re on the edge of making a move, building something, or starting over:
Come to New York.
It will change you.
Thanks to @rhobusiness for the op!

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This is going to be legendary
The Shortlist NYC@TheShortlistNYC
the april lineup is here. and it might be our best one yet. Sarah Ganzenmuller + @reganjayne_ / @rediemco @bdistel / Windmill @ndrewpignanelli / The General Intelligence Company of New York @0thernet / @zocomputer Daniel Kahn / Sparrow @akashmagoon / Adonis seven founders. one stage. april 27 at @betaworks . if you've been waiting to get in the room, this is the one. applications are open. spots are limited. apply now.
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Nightlife in nyc is shifting from alcohol-induced socializing to activities that combine connection with intellectual interest.
Out: clubbing, drinking games, bars without themes.
In: lectures at bars, philosophy clubs, board game nights, reading meetups.
Gen Z'ers are paying $40 a ticket to attend these things.
Someone is going to build a massive platform aggregating these activities for the next generation.


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