dear algo, please show this tweet only to cracked founders below 2k followers.
we (@andrewdsouza, @boardyai) are helping 500 founders raise their seed - series A by the end of the year.
what are you building?
Why does ambition feel so lonely in Canada?
- @harleyf says many ambitious founders feel forced to leave.
-@tobi says Canada must overcome our "go for bronze" culture.
- @andrewdsouza says in Canada, people ignore you until you succeed, then hate you once you do.
The problem
i just watched @boardyai help a founder get a term sheet in 48 hours.
friday: boardy makes the intro.
saturday: first call at 7am, partner meeting at 11 am.
sunday: investment decision made.
boardy just beat his own record (he got $8M in 3 days last year). this time, it took
I’m getting flown out to SF in 4 days.
But there’s a catch. I made a deal with @goswish and @andrewdsouza.
If I can bring in 500 new users for @Boardy_ai during @Techweek_, they’ll cover the trip.
If I can’t, I’ll have to pay.
I don’t have anything planned, and I have no idea
most people think it's cringe to post content. that's exactly why it works.
here's what happened since I started posting on linkedin 2 months ago:
- my first month alone, I hit a million impressions
- grew from 1k to 5k followers
- made hundreds of friends in the
if you're ambitious, you should work at a startup at least once.
at startups, you get to:
-make decisions that actually impact the company
-take ownership of problems no one’s solved before
-learn how to prioritize when everything feels important
-experience what true
The riskiest decision I ever made wasn't risky at all.
When I chose @boardyai over my insurance internship, I asked myself 4 questions:
1. What's the worst that can happen? (and can I handle it?)
Learning more in 4 months than I would in years. That's not a downside.
2.
nobody talks about the sacrifices you make when you work at a startup.
it's not just the long hours. it's everything else:
-having to cancel plans with friends because something came up
-your gym membership becoming a monthly donation
-forgetting what hobbies you used to have
We got @boardyai 3M impressions on LinkedIn and X in the last 2 weeks alone.
Here's how:
1. We threw out our content calendar completely. Things are moving so fast right now that it's impossible to predict what the next day will look like. Now, I draft our content the night
I'm in disbelief right now. @boardyai is absolutely cooking.
Since launching yesterday, over 500 investors managing over $1 trillion in capital have applied to work with us.
We’ve now got some of the top investors in the world all in a Slack channel with us - getting a daily
What’s the most rewarding thing you’ve ever done?
Was it risky?
I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately.
I still remember sitting on my floor, staring at my offer for a safe internship and wondering if I was about to make the wrong choice.
Deep down, I knew it wasn’t what I
