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Joined April 2014
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Jun 12
"If you're building in insurtech and it's not AI, don't bother raising. Not this year. Probably not next year either." - Christian Lassonde, Founding Managing Partner at Impression Ventures - $150M AUM, early backer of Wealthsimple.
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Jun 10
In 2015 @tksimpson was running Wave from a broom closet, on the phone with Silicon Valley Bank, asking them not to pull the debt keeping the company alive. Wave later sold for $537M. Here's what he told the room at TiEQuest 2026.
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Jun 10
He could have stayed on a beach after the exit. He started Courtyard instead. "Once you kind of have that entrepreneurial itch, it really doesn't go away."
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Jun 9
Two founders who actually built and sold consumer brands got on stage at Tech Week and disagreed about the one thing every founder is told to build right now: community. Here's what they said instead. 🧵
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Jun 9
The lesson under the argument: stop chasing the moat the internet tells you to chase. Find distribution. Let community show up on its own.
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Jun 8
"The problem is the problem. You can't pivot the problem. Focus on solving something different - not building something better." - Will Hsu, General Partner at Mucker Capital, backed Honey ($4B exit), ServiceTitan ($9B IPO), and AuditBoard ($3B) all outside Silicon Valley.
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Jun 4
"If you raise once, you will raise 3 or 4 more times."- Jack Newton, CEO and Co-Founder, Clio @goclio @@jack_newton
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