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**Key Takeaways:** **Exceptional Founder ROI:** Skio, founded by Kennan Frost, was acquired by competitor Recharge for $105 million cash, a remarkable return on only $8 million raised by investors. **Resilience and Pivot Power:** Frost’s journey exemplifies entrepreneurial grit, from solo-founding after a panic attack and “failing” YC to successfully pivoting the concept and achieving $10M…

For many years, Silicon Valley has valorized the faculty dropout. Founders like Invoice Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg left faculty early to construct corporations and have become billionaires.  That ethos was later institutionalized by way of initiatives just like the Thiel Fellowship, which famously pays promising college students $100,000 to depart faculty and begin corporations. For a…

Y Combinator has filed an amicus temporary within the ongoing authorized battle between Apple and Epic Video games, arguing that the App Retailer has stifled startup innovation. We’ve reached out to authorized reps for YC and Apple for remark. The temporary comes in the course of the years-long authorized dispute. Epic Video games first filed an antitrust lawsuit in opposition to the iPhone maker…

“It wasn’t one large lightbulb; it was dying by a thousand cuts,” Edward Aryee stated when requested what led him and his co-founder, Raj Kadiyala, to launch SRE.ai.  The corporate is providing pure language AI brokers that may carry out complicated enterprise DevOps workflows like steady integration and testing.  “As an alternative of sewing collectively totally different low-code instruments…

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based meals supply startup that has stayed worthwhile in a notoriously robust and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Collection A funding to launch a fast commerce technique and develop into extra cities in Nigeria and Ghana. The fairness spherical was led by Novastar Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, AAIC Funding, Insurgent Fund, GFR Fund, Kaleo, HoaQ,…

On August 9, the individuals who beforehand ran startup incubator Y Combinator’s occasions and PR, together with a former Andreessen Horowitz social media supervisor, are holding a small, invitation-only occasion, TechCrunch has discovered. The To Do Record Summit will cap off at 80 early-stage founders and can train them how you can work with the press and run their very own social media, the…