What are the “specs” for a pre-ipo company one should join? Headcount size, location, strike price, industry sector, years in existence, customers, founders, VCs, etc. What should we look at to make a good choice? #apple #google #amazon #snowflake #slack
Follow the PayPal mafia to late stage companies.
When are affirm going public? How's the mood in the camp? I feel like fintech will dominate upcoming decade.
S1 was filed publicly on Nov 18. Sec rules prohibit employees from talking about sentiment and what not right now. I’m bullish on fintech general.
Headcount, revenue growth, HC growth, valuation growth, VC backing, do VCs keep investing in later rounds, is the founder the CEO or a professional c suite
Look for one with alot of big money investors like Stripe. Even Elon musk invested in it and Elon is known not to really invest in companies.
Stripe is probably alot closer to what Elon envisioned Paypal to be. Elon is disappointed in how Ebay turned Paypal into a shithole.