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Alexandra Cowen's avatar

The Founders Corner brilliantly captures the pulse of today’s startup ecosystem, offering both depth and practicality. The focus on accelerating value in the AI age and defining product success metrics shows how innovation and execution go hand in hand for founders navigating uncharted waters.

In your experience, which key factor—equity distribution, speed to value, or metrics—has been most critical to unlocking sustainable growth?

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Chris Tottman's avatar

Thanks for your kind words of encouragement 🌟 we do our best

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Chris Tottman's avatar

Across all our investments based on the 3 options "speed to value" for the customer initially as that can drive huge traction but as one scales then probably deeper set of metrics but STV can take you a long way 🌞

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Luis Llorens's avatar

Do we know why Atlassian’s founders diluted so little? Was it because they bootstrapped in the beginning?

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Chris Tottman's avatar

Suspect that is exactly it. One of my angel co-investors was the founder of indeed - 1 Round of $5m 🤯

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Mauricio Prieto's avatar

I love the AI experts meme 🤣

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Chris Tottman's avatar

Me too 😂

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Hugo Rauch's avatar

The ownership at IPO blew my mind. You’ve got to be careful with how you manage your equity!

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Chris Tottman's avatar

A lot to do with brilliant deployment 💲

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Guillermo Flor's avatar

Great one!

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Chris Tottman's avatar

Thanks - still stoked we managed to see each other at the weekend in Manchester 💙

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