Francois Mazoudier
@franco1s
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Tech. Entrepreneur. BS free Advisor. Investor. As it's often all about luck in the end, be thankful, stay humble, work hard and drop the platitudes.
Location: Earth
Joined May 2009
NOW. DM me now, or you'll miss our Nordic programme - last one of the year. If you're planning to fundraise in '25, seriously, do it NOW. ping me to discuss your plans, or click this.> #VC #fundraising #successful
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The Fundraising Bootcamp starts THIS monday, folks. 48 hours left, closing applications then. 235+ UK/European alumni, €264m raised successfully (yes, > a quarter Billion, during the worst VC downturn and the rest). Not just Dutch, all countries welcome
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Shameful that one individual could smoke $12BN of other people's money, get out with $700m (!) for himself and leave a pile of wortheless junk to all investors. Fleeced.
WeWork’s stock was down 33% after hours today to 13 cents, after closing at 21 cents with a mere $166 million valuation.
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Fascinated by the utter lack of understanding of sarcasm. A thing of beauty. Those replies are gold ! 🤣.
I made $100m in 10 days as a VC. How?. - Woke up at 3am.- Drank 1 gallon of Athletic Greens.- 30-minute cold plunge .- Cold called 5,000 founders before 7am.- Term sheet signed by 8am.- ARR grew 4x by day 2.- S-1 filed on day 6.- Three acquisition offers on day 7.- Rang Nasdaq.
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Brilliant. Coz you heard all of them if you've lived in blighty long enough.
Various ways a British person responds to being deeply insulted: . “Bit harsh”.“There’s no need for that”.“Unnecessary”.“Mate…”.“That’s your opinion”.“Oh cheers!”.“Thanks a bunch”.“I beg your pardon”.“Steady on”.“Well…”.“Have you quite finished?”.“Fair enough”.“That’s uncalled.
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Love it when "X is history". advertising ("Google won, it's over" > advertising pie blew up since), Banking ("crypto, banks are finished" > now everybody's moved into. AI woo!), now designers. It's a great tool and it's enough. (my kid'd make a better logo too btw).IMHO ;).
Graphic designers are history. AI creates beautiful logos in seconds. Here's how to create any logo using AI (for free):
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Hoping to fundraise this year? NOBODY was born a fundraiser, so don't think "you'll be OK" reading the web. You won't. Come get funded. 210+ companies did, ask them. Simple. Next programme starts Monday in 2 weeks. Now you know. #startup #fundraising
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WHO built an 'AI' tool to automatically remove all AI-BS posts on twitter? it's exhausting, such rubbish. would gladly pay to remove them all.
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CEE founder? Come join me. Maribor, Slovenia, next week. PODIM You know the drill: come learn about fundraising now that it's become VC hell, what to do / not, book a 1-1 session with me, prepare your pitch etc. Investor but no deal in CEE yet? ping me
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Another piece of solid commonsense from @gdibner .In short, pause for a sec and stop acting like you know what's coming. Learn, don't state.
One of the smartest people I know said three interesting things today about GenAI and LLMs:.
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To put this into context, during the CRAZY year of 2021, the whole of the Tech industry, globally, attracted $660bn. Oil bigger than tech. Who's solving what, again?.
desmog.com
While the window for avoiding the most catastrophic consequences of climate change narrows, the global banking sector continues to funnel huge sums each year into fossil fuels, finds a new report....
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To put this into context, in 2021 -the CRAZIEST year of Tech in history- the whole of the Tech industry, globally, attracted $660bn. Oil bigger than tech. Who's solving what, again?.
desmog.com
While the window for avoiding the most catastrophic consequences of climate change narrows, the global banking sector continues to funnel huge sums each year into fossil fuels, finds a new report....
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FANTASTIC article. Read it. So you think you're special, huh? awwww, sweet. Probably you're reading this from the same iPhone with the same Apps, in the same clothes, same pad same car as. everybody else. Think. Different is the real cool. IMHO.
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Last reminder - it's tomorrow. Founder raising soon? Come join our session. Hard data, not opinions. No fluff, noise and media madness. Learn what investors don't tell you, what's changed / not and what you must do now
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Last reminder: it's tomorrow! Your investor landscape is changing at break-neck speed, but you have a business to grow, not 20 reports to read or 100+ navel-gazing podcasts to listen to. So what do...
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RT @0xDesigner: Probably the best thing you'll see today. In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst v….
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When Woz, Elon and the longest list of the smartest speak out, you / we pause and listen. actively listen. I'm no Luddite but an Information Society actively building misinformation at scale and for profit isn't one worth building. #HumanFirst please.
futureoflife.org
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
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> I'm planning to fundraise -how to optimise my time and process, what to do now then that's different?.if some of those ^ topics are in your mind, join us. Usually reserved for our Fundraising Bootcamp alumni, but we're in times of serious cash crisis, so we welcome everybone.
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What we cover:.> what you need to know - with hard data.> what investors don't tell you.> what has changed, what hasn't.> are we really in a funding crisis or are you being played? why, who, how?.
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We do this for you because the VC and investment world is changing at incredible speed, but you have a business to grow, not 20 reports to read or time to listen to those 100+ navel-gazing 'casts.
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