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Phil Quist
@philquist
AI + Music + Emerging Tech / Investor / Forbes 30 Under 30 / Forbes U30 Board Member / 🇬🇭 Ghana National Lacrosse Team / @therealdaojones
AI // Emerging Tech // Music Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Looking forward to judging @chromaawards
Chroma Awards@chromaawards
We are proud to announce our finalist jury for the Hip-Hop & Rap Music Videos Category of the @ChromaAwards! We are joined by @@jboogx_creative , Byron Miller , Seb Webber and @philquist , who’ll be bringing their industry and creative experience to select our winners. Submit before Nov 17 at ChromaAwards.com
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I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup.
After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach.
Were we solving the right problem?
What were we doing wrong?
Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing?
Were we the right team to build this?
We tried everything: different pitch angles, new deck structures, and reframing the problem.
Then came the 145th meeting, where we closed our first growth round.
That yes made everything worth it. But getting there took years of mistakes and hard work.
We went through a lot of trial and error just to figure out what resonates with investors.
We tried dozens of approaches to figure out what made investors engage.
Some landed, most didn't. But each iteration taught us something about what builds conviction versus what just sounds good on paper.
And once we cracked that code, our Series C closed faster than expected.
And today, I see so many founders in the exact same position I was in 10 years ago: grinding through rejections, questioning everything, and trying to figure out what works.
So today I want to give you the resource I wish I had back then:
Something that shows you exactly how to structure these conversations and navigate the entire process
(because the fundraising cycle can be a big distraction and take a toll on you as a founder).
So I've partnered with Notion's Startups Team to create the essential fundraising resource that helps you avoid the mistakes that cost me years.
Here's what you are getting:
• The actual decks I used to raise $150M for Super[.]com (Series B, C)
• 50 real examples from funded startups like Eleven Labs and Artisan AI
• A searchable database of 10,000+ investors - angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately (this alone would take months to build manually)
• An AI-powered fundraising agent built into Notion with step-by-step prompts (no separate ChatGPT needed)
Want access?
• Like and share this post
• Comment "FUNDRAISE"
• Follow me so I can DM you the link
I'll send it over ASAP.
P.S.: If you are serious about fundraising (now or in the future), you should grab it right away.
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Ghana men’s lacrosse team records epic victory over China in 2025 Heritage Cup
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We're excited to finally share what we've been up to :)
Announcing Endex: An AI Financial Analyst
Today we're coming out of stealth and announcing our partnership with @OpenAI 🧵

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Live events are becoming more immersive, more personalized, and more unforgettable than ever before.
As tech breaks barriers, the magic of live performance is evolving — blending cutting-edge innovation with the raw energy of human connection.
pqnotes.substack.com/p/how-tech-and…

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@matiii Congrats!! Looking forward to seeing what’s in store next!
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1 0 0 0 0 ⭐
Browser Use just exited tres zeros club on Github. The absolutely rocket growth came mostly from Twitter. A bunch of crazy people with insane reach posted about us and people are HYPED.
We are also getting integrated into a lot of interesting projects (e.g. Gradio, Anchorbrowser).
Next step: make web agents solve real tasks and go for the 🦄.

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My personal ranking of video models now:
1. Google Veo 2
2. Minimax
3. Kling
4. Runway
5. Sora
6. Luma
Max Hates Paying Tax@taxhatesmax
@levelsio Is the minimax model the best one currently available?
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@EHuanglu @DirtbagFunction It's gotten so much better. The progress is amazing!
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@DirtbagFunction It was a beginner app a few months ago, but it’s really handy to use now, especially for social media content, all kind of trending effects really saved me a lot of time
And now they have integrated many AI tools, make it even more powerful
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