Viraj Sadarangani @VKSadarangani

The truth is you will only make it as a founder if you learn to love conflict, the fight and being hit down. You have to get punched in the face and come back time & time again. To go to bed after a shit shit day and say tomorrow will be different. Armour on, embrace it.

One of my favorite quotes from a 20VC this year was @infoarbitrage: “Every morning I put my two feet on the ground when I wake up and say let’s fucking go”. Life waits for nobody, get up everyday and keep pushing through no matter what. 🚀

@VKSadarangani Yes. Both reports to IRO at $NU. It wasn’t that way when I ran the show. And your observation is correct. Function is merging more and more. Which I think is a great thing. The whole integration with competitive intelligence gives IR more muscle and strategic tools for…

I said it before. $NU is the standard for IR material. Top notch. The F-1 is a work of art. Literally. Van Gogh stuff. We had meetings on Saturdays with the design team at $NU just for the art piece of the filing. It went as granular as the color palette of the cohort curves and…

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4 weeks ago

Agreed, $NU has one of the best set of disclosures and presentations I’ve come across. I think this has to do with the fact that most $NU insiders are owners themselves. So the presentations are created by owners, for owners.

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You have to be an optimist about your own product, your own startup, and yourself. That's why when you pitch -- whether to investors, to prospective employees, or partners, it's important to talk about what might happen, not what you are doing today. There's a whole style to…

quick crazy personal health story: Four years ago this week I went to an ENT doctor for a partially deviated septum. I'd broken my nose twice playing sports and always had trouble breathing through it. Plus i'd get frequent sinus infections. The doc said it needed a surgical…

I bootstrapped Myprotein to a ≈ $500M exit (inc. secondary) That wouldn't be possible without: • Delegation • Strategic hires • Resource management I created a 14-page in-depth guide on the above. Like + Comment "Send" & I'll DM it to you for free (Must be following)

Zuck has so far open sourced and given the world: ◆ React ◆ React Native ◆ PyTorch ◆ Llama ◆ GraphQL ◆ Flow ◆ Jest ◆ Relay ◆ HHVM / Hack ◆ Yoga ◆ Hermes ◆ RocksDB ◆ Zstandard Goated.

I bought this book at Kinokuniya bookstore in Shinjuku, Tokyo. It is as thick as a Harry Potter book, probably thicker, but the pages are as thin as onion skin. It’s a serious tome. I never expected to finish it, and I tore through it in less than two weeks. If you’re like me…

I got into self storage by advising some of the most sophisticated investors in the world to short it. 7 years and 3 businesses later, my life is still consumed by it. Here's the story of how I fell into being an entrepreneur.

I’m at the airport reading, and a man in his ~60s walks by me and says: “Great book. Wish I had it earlier.” So I ask, “Really? Why?” That sparked a convo about how he went from Harvard MBA to investment banking in NYC… to an existential crisis at 35 where he lost himself,…

🏃‍♀️ You may have read that humans are the best endurance athletes. It's not true. We're only good in the heat, thanks to how we cool ourselves. 🐺 Sled dogs are—by far—the greatest endurance athletes in the mammal kingdom. And their stats are insane ...

Been debating sharing this but here we go. Yesterday I invited 5 strangers to my house. (A THREAD)

@VKSadarangani I meditate now v regularly, i didnt early days startup, wish I had. Try to find a few things to appreciate/have gratitude on daily. Breathe for 30 secs before every meeting. Write a regular email update to the company. With successes and failures.

We keep seeing more and more founders building big businesses without full-time hires. For example, Ania Wysocka bootstrapped her app to 2m+ users and 7-figures in revenue. Several key contractors. But zero FTE's. Here's how...

Bootstrapped Giants is going to be a huge media company that will help millions of aspiring entrepreneurs. It will start with my brand but then eclipse it. The popular narrative is wrong. Right now, an aspiring entrepreneur is told: either 1) raise venture $ or 2) that’s a…

This is my fourth annual repost of this article that (I think) helped a lot of kids, and a lot of parents. And today I am pleased to report that my main man Max and his wife are having my first grandchild in less than two months. #stayinthegame albertbridgecapital.com/post/stay-in-t…

Reminder: Be confident and ship. The hiring manager for a FAANG company reached out to me a few weeks back. L7, total comp ~$300k, a marginal bump. I met with them last year already so he had my mobile. He called me directly. “We’d really like to have you onboard here. We…

@VKSadarangani We announced our fundraise the same day we launched out of beta. This made the story more interesting and receive broader coverage. We used a spreadsheet to track every investor, advisor, employee, friend of the firm and whether or not they had posted on social. The PR firm we…

Find b2b emails inside google sheets for free 🤯 no need to spend $$ on expensive email finders It’s basically a custom function I wrote so that you can use it directly inside google sheets ❤️ Like + comment 'send' and I’ll dm you the doc containing: - script - instructions