Renato Villanueva
@_renatov
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Founder at Parallel // Ex-Finance @ Divvy // Building @ https://t.co/CQyAafCCzG Making finance easy for founders
Joined November 2022
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Common mistake I see is founders having no idea what story they are going to tell when it comes to their numbers. And they are leaving money on the table. And I’m talking MILLIONS in valuation. We had a customer that had no idea their burn multiple AND magic number were super
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Longer post. It’s really tempting to say in the PMF maze intentionally. Almost because committing to any one segment dramatically increases the risk of it being “more your fault” It’s one thing to be like “we couldn’t find who to build for” Vs “We decided to build for X
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The weirdest things are celebrated. - solo founding - raising - bootstrapping - 9pm engineers It makes me want to celebrate other weird things like.. Tonight I made dinner and only used paper plates, paper cups and plastic utensils. Dinner cleanup took 6 mins.
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There is learning to tell the right stories with your numbers… And then there is lying. Don’t lie. You lose trust once, and you lose all credibility. Your investors would rather see the churn, the slower growth, or whatever. Then be mislead.
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Sometimes I forget how great America is and then I think about how Arnold Schwarzenegger literally went from lifting weight to the governor of California. You can literally do ANYTHING you set your mind to in this amazing place.
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In other news, water is wet.
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Founders keep building wedges. @_renatov built the whole system instead. He threw out the narrow playbook and built Parallel as the full FP&A loop he wished he had at Divvy. It was great having him on the pod to talk about: - Raising $2.4M from Night Capital and Tokyo Black
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One undeniable truth is that anyone that adds MBA or JD, or whatever. After their name. (e.g. Renato Villanueva, MBA) Is usually not very good. Huge red flag.
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https://t.co/hkq9bZWlfN talking about all things financial models! :)
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One thing that drives me crazy when it comes to DEI, is how often someone will say "I was the only _______ at this event" My immediate question after is: "Who did you bring?" I've been a part of many event planning meetings. I can tell you that something that has never been
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Some founders work towards the next round. Some VCs work to get enough mark up to raise the next fund. Both suck.
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Hey founders "Send me your data room" Does not mean you are in diligence. Without a next meeting on the books. Like actually scheduled. Not a "i'll take this to a partner meeting" but like a real scheduled meeting. It's a... "hey i can't tell you "no", but need a cop-out"
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I'm the blood hound of bugs in my product. No matter the tests we write, how much QA we do. NOTHING gets past me.
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