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San Francisco
Joined July 2025
BREAKING: @synthesiaIO rejected a $3B offer from Adobe (and a bid from Meta) We sat down with CEO Victor Riparbelli in London to talk about how he built a $2.1B AI video company from scratch. We talk about: - How he started Synthesia before ChatGPT - Fundraising - PMF - Europe
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The VC game is broken (for most VCs). The top 20 firms generate 95% of the industry’s returns while the rest fight for the remaining 5% Every year, about 15 truly great companies are born. They define markets, reshape industries, and create billions in value. And around them,
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Elad Gil just mapped where the real AI opportunities are right now. I distilled his best insights for founders and investors. Top 10 takeaways: 1. The “still-open” markets Finance tools, accounting, security. Winners aren’t locked. Go where the job is painful, frequent, and
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Founders with at least 3 years of experience in the same industry are 85% more likely to build high-growth companies
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Turns out experience compounds faster than hype!
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I'm investing in MCKINSEYs to dropout and build a startup if you're a consultant and are thinking about it, DM me ps: respost to get to every Mckinsey in the world
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It’s all about taking bets that put you out of your comfort zone Those bets must have the potential to change your life if they work out but never kill your company if they don’t Asymmetric risks are the key to great success
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x can you do your magic? Trying to connect to epic founders while in Stockholm
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Wild to get to learn directly from the founders of the companies that are defining the world today 🤯 The internet is amazing
I made an AI playbook to help new founders reach PMF faster, with input from Patrick Collison, Immad Akhund, and Paul Copplestone.
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But, according to X, you must to be in SF to build a generational startup!
Stockholm might be the most underrated tech city in the world 🚀 Global legacy Stockholm-born tech companies › @Klarna – globally iconic fintech founded in Stockholm › @Spotify – Swedish success story › @Skype – one of the earlier tech exports AI unicorns with decacorn
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Every country north of Switzerland claims Skype
Stockholm might be the most underrated tech city in the world 🚀 Global legacy Stockholm-born tech companies › @Klarna – globally iconic fintech founded in Stockholm › @Spotify – Swedish success story › @Skype – one of the earlier tech exports AI unicorns with decacorn
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What’s one thing that changed your life because you went instead of stayed home?
Scott Galloway’s advice to young people is simple “Stay out of the house”
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🚨🆕 Anish Acharya (illscience) from Andreessen Horowitz has started following Compound (@Compoundmdia)
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it took Synthesia 3 yrs to find product market fit 🎯 Three years of things not working Three years of building, testing, pivoting, and surviving They started selling to Hollywood studios and ad agencies Didn’t work — the quality bar was too high and nobody really needed it...
BREAKING: @synthesiaIO rejected a $3B offer from Adobe (and a bid from Meta) We sat down with CEO Victor Riparbelli in London to talk about how he built a $2.1B AI video company from scratch. We talk about: - How he started Synthesia before ChatGPT - Fundraising - PMF - Europe
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The Project Europe Partners 🔥
Synthesia founder: "the amount of talent that is in Europe is just, honestly, just phenomenal. So, I really think what we need is just that flywheel of people getting funded early on to have big, ambitious goals In the US, everybody knows someone who made millions from a
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on EU regulation: @euinc_petition and @ProjectEurope_ are helping with this!
BREAKING: @synthesiaIO rejected a $3B offer from Adobe (and a bid from Meta) We sat down with CEO Victor Riparbelli in London to talk about how he built a $2.1B AI video company from scratch. We talk about: - How he started Synthesia before ChatGPT - Fundraising - PMF - Europe
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