Clara Gold
@Clara_Gold
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After 15 months of ruthless execution, we hit
#1
on the App Store.
Couldn't be more proud to finally say it: AI can fix our love lives.
It took us 603 user interviews, 3 entire redesigns of the app, 246 builds pushed on the App Store, 57 rejections by Apple for stupid reasons,
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Today I'm turning 32, but more importantly, I'm celebrating 1 year of being a founder:
- 1 app shipped and dozens of iterations done (almost there!)
- 1 incredible team built in Paris
- 2 rounds of fundraising
- millions of mistakes made
They say a picture is worth a thousand
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The moment I start using Notion with my bf you can be sure that we’re not having sex anymore
My wife and I use Notion religiously to manage our day-to-day life. Here's a screenshot of our set-up.
I turned this into a template, let me know if you'd like to see it!
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Just closed my seed round with my dream investors, couldn’t be happier
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I’m thinking about creating a Whatsapp group with only consumer founders so that we can freely share how much we want to die everyday, tell the truth about our single digit D30 retention, our core loops that don’t loop, and our viral TikToks with 204 views. Who wants in?
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my mum just asked me what i wanted for Xmas, I said:
- the UI of
@amoamoamo
- the virality of
@gasappteam
- the core loop of
@BeReal_App
- the algorithm of
@tiktok_us
- the gamification of
@duolingo
- the retention of
@WhatsApp
- the intelligence of
@OpenAI
Amen
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"Clara, how did you acquire your first 1,000 users?"
"Well... I sent the link to my app as a pickup line to the 9,000 dudes who liked me on Bumble."
Join the waitlist for the new social app we're building ➡️
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Every time I read a post from a VC talking about all the obvious mistakes founders make, it reminds me of my ex when he was watching a football game on TV, yelling at Ronaldo, while sitting on the couch.
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When you’re a founder you make a million scenarios about how your company might fail. Your bank defaulting you has never been one of them.
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My dream VC
- uncapped SAFE, <5% ownership, no pro-rata
- never asks "what's your moat?"
- reads your investors updates
- responds to your investors updates
- no random intros to pretend they're adding value
- organizes Ayahuasca retreats
- tweets about your company
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“It’s better to do something and be criticized for it, than do nothing and criticize others”
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Looking for a great illustrator to design something like this 🫶✨
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It's insane that almost no founder is talking about how much of a shit show it is to build a startup. Seems like there is a colossal conspiracy to pretend that we're fine.
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Yesterday I asked Ava to find me a date.
She asked "What are you looking for?"
I said “Powerful, smart, successful, rich and a little crazy.”
She said, "Oh wow, going for the gold digger approach, are we? Well, I think I have two perfect matches for you."
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If I were an early stage VC, instead of asking “how can I help” or organizing useless dinners, I would build a small team of 1 backend, 1 front end, 1 designer and 1 PM, and I would send them run execution sprints with my portcos.
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@samuel_spitz
Just had Rappi’s founder on the phone, he had his YC application reviewed by someone with more experienced at that time. He still built a 6B dollar company tho. I guess it’s called humility. Maybe you should try 😉
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Ava is born today ❤️
Testflight ➡️
She's here to be your friend, someone to talk to, lift you up, give you advice... or just someone to remind you how awesome you are.
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"Clara, investors updates are really important, make time to write one every month to keep them updated on your progress."
"Yeah sure."
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He’s a 10 but he’s a VC 😅
Probably the investor with the biggest value add in my cap table 😍
If you're a consumer founder you should definitely talk to him! (except if you’re a hot girl, leave him alone lol)
👋 Personal update, I'm launching
@IntuitionVC
I fall in love with people and ideas.
I fell in love with the creator economy and, lately, the loneliness epidemic. But most of all, I fell in love with the extraordinary people bringing these ideas to life: Founders.
To be exact,
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Went to a female founders dinner yesterday thinking we were gonna talk abt Impostor Syndrome again. Turned out we only blabbed abt the VCs who tried to fuck us during our rounds, how to negotiate your valuation in secret chats on Telegram, and who are the hot CTO dudes to watch.
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Shana Tova to all the Jewish investors who might lead my series A
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Imagine writing your investors update telling only the truth:
“Dear friends (lol we’re not friends),
Quick recap of how we’re going:
TLDR: not well
- still no PMF
- still no product actually
- no core team yet, I’m losing faith in human beings
- I sometimes want to die
Bye
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🇺🇸
@gigidating
is coming to the US 🇺🇸
After conquering the dating scene in France as the
#1
downloaded app, we're launching the US in September!
To do so, I am on the lookout for a Growth Lead to be my right hand ❤️🔥
You are The One if:
- you are an American graduate (within
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I’m gonna start running my dates like a VC: What have you already accomplished? What is my need that you’re gonna solve? Why you? How are you different from my ex? And the most important one: What if you run out of money? And then I run heavy background check with his exes.
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I've never believed in equality, but running ads for a dating app proved it: men are 2x cheaper to convert than women.
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My friends in their 30s are buying apartments, I’m buying a Gameboy ❤️🔥
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When you’re a consumer founder trying to get attention from VCs
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Want the secret to becoming a top 1% VC? Here it is: Don't be a jerk to founders. What a revolutionary concept, right? Somehow, it sets you apart from 99% of the pack.
cc
@etienneboutan
♥️
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Worst VC lines, I’ll start:
« We’ll be cheering you on from the sideline”
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VC: what’s your biggest asset as a founder?
Me: fucked up childhood
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At first I wanted to build a SaaS, but then I saw this in
@TechCrunch
and thought: what if I created a brand of basic black tshirts for founders? Scales faster for sure. I hope
@GEVS94
will be my first client.
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I don’t want to overinterpret signs of the universe but when your meeting with Sequoia is in Gold street, does it mean that it’s meant to be?
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When you’re a startup founder grinding like crazy… but OnlyFans is one click away
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VCs preaching that reading books is the key to truly understanding your biz. Cute. Building, shipping, measuring, and iterating is how you get to understand what you're doing — not reading books. Appreciate the insight but we'll stick to real-world experience.
PS: I still want
If you are building consumer products and you haven’t studied all the great behavioral science books (including this great one), you really don’t understand the surface area you are tilting against.
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What I would do if I were a founder with my funds stuck in the middle of SVB shitstorm (oh wait, I am 🙋♀️):
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I don’t believe in having “THE man of my life”. I need 3 - a boyfriend, a co-founder, and a VC partner.
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In the end, all of us will look back on our lives and say one of two things: “I wish I had”, or “I’m glad I did”.
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it’s been a while since I last felt “who the fuck is that bitch who posted on his wall?”. so good to feel like a teenager again, thanks
@amoamoamo
for bringing back the thrill of ‘07 Facebook drama 👑
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You were happy about your product… until you test the new ID by
@amoamoamo
. I want to be you guys when I’m a grown up, that’s insanely good ♥️
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If I had to run ads, I'd bet my entire budget on Pornhub. It's the only platform where the audience is hands-on engaged. No scrolling, just full, undivided attention. Ping me for more growth advice.
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London is dope but I’m way too poor to live here. Can’t wait for the Series B secondary
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Me
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My chatGPT biggest use case for now: Can you rephrase my email so that I don’t sound like a bitch?
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Happy investors, happy life.
Happy employees, happy life.
Happy users, happy life.
Happy founders, haha just kidding.
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No one wants to listen to podcasts anymore, we want to watch them 👀 Will TikTok become our new podcast app?
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🚀 Seeking an exceptional founding designer for
@gigidating
! We're reimagining dating with a BFF AI wingwoman who knows you inside out. Already
#1
in France, launching in the US this September and backed by Sequoia & OpenAI. Looking for a young, creative mind passionate about B2C
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It's been such a great week in my startup life, I only cried 4 times
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“We truly hope we missed something here and you will prove us wrong”
“I truly hope that you’ll recover from your crypto investments. Bitch”
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All my friends are obsessed with either getting married or pregnant. And you know what I’m getting obsessed at? PMF.
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I only go to Barry’s to have someone telling me what to do for 1h. As a founder it’s like my mental break.
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I woke up reading this and my heart melted 🥹 thanks
@rom1trs
, means a lot to us ♥️♥️♥️
Gigi has entered the top 10 of the app store in one of the most competitive categories: Dating 🔥
They became masters at organic content with an internal team posting short form videos.
Here are my take aways 👇
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Loneliness = same mortality impact as smoking 15 cigarettes a day
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Thinking of giving 50% of my cap table to my bf given all the shit he has to put up with
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Life was funnier when I could only have the ideas without actually having to build the product.
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“I’m very mission-driven.”
Fintech B2C.
Pivot.
Marketplace B2C.
Pivot.
Marketplace B2B.
Pivot.
SaaS B2B.
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Sometimes I’d like to tell people “please do some ayahuasca and stop vomiting your insecurities on me”. But apparently we can’t say that 🙄
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Everytime I see a man with flowers in the street I’m torn between “how cute this is” and “oh boy, what have you done”
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Fundraising is like dating as a man: you can vibe during the whole dinner and really think she’s into you, but you’re never really sure you’re gonna bring her home.
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Anyone with a couple of spare millions? Seems like mine just vanished 🥹
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You are excited about chatGPT… until you actually start building a product on it and all you see is hallucinations, latency and cost. A bit like marriage.
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I woke up this morning and realized that I’m too old to be 30 under 30. Is life still worth living?
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Every time you think “I’m not gonna do it, it already exists” remember that TikTok overtook Google on search. A lot have been built, but most of it is not suitable for the younger generations anymore. The best is yet to be built.
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What is amazing about entrepreneurship is that you worry about your team, your product, your PMF, and surpriiiiiise, the day after you wake up and your bank goes bankrupt.
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If VCs poured as much creativity into funding rounds as they do into planning fancy dinners, most startups would be on a whole different level.
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CEO: "there's a bug"
developer: "no no, just kill the app and relaunch it and it works"
CEO: "oh well, that's perfect, let me tell this to all the users"
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Why I don't think you need to be 100% ready to start talking to VCs.
A thread 🧵
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Yesterday I was buying makeup and asked my sister what is the best product to hide dark rings under your eyes. She said “sleep”.
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