Founder of XOXO Capital
AKA perhaps why ByteDance is worth $400B. The SSP has also brought together other important teams: user-growth teams, which help identify and acquire desired users; content teams, which establish partnerships to acquire new content; analytics teams, which help to develop deeper user insights; and sales teams, which drive monetization. -
Here is our live tech diligence doc for you to use as you see fit! Tech DiligencePlease cover as many of the following items as possible in video format, showing as much code as possible and where relevant, showing the code, and then the corresponding UI. Don’t worry about
Thanks so much for those of you who helped me workshop this new model over the past few weeks, I really appreciated the honest feedback and the tough questions. Once again, this post is not a solicitation of investment, but a dialog about our fundraising process and experience. For those
We're raising capital for the first time to fund a new acquisition. This post is not a solicitation of investment, but a dialog about our fundraising process and experience. Sorry for the clickbait. The title is aspirational. If you are able to fundraise like a Roman God, please
This post lays out our vision in the hopes that one day you'll invest with us. Whenever I'm about to have this conversation I always say up front that I'm not against venture capital. Like all financial instruments, venture has a time and a
We're going to do a monthly wrap up and write them as if you're invested along with us. Maybe one day soon you will :) Someone proposed an interesting question last week about how many of Screenshot APIs subscribers also subscribe to Sheet.best. sheet.best has
Had an action packed week this week including listing one of our companies for sale, but I'll leave that for another post. Those of you wondering when the heck we're going to syndicate our first deal, please bear with us, we've been super close
Podcast
Danny and Andrew chat about operating our latest acquisitions. Subscribe! Spotify Amazon Apple # Fund Stuff - Episode 8 [00:00:00] **Andrew Pierno:** Sweet. All right. So the podcast, I called it fun stuff. I think it's episode seven or eight. We're not sure, but anyways,
Happy New Year everyone! Hope your 2022 is off to a great start. 2021 was a roller coaster to say the least. Some of the highs included: 1. The birth of my wife and I’s first child. 2. Helping my previous startup get through Y-Combinator, raise a $3million seed
I hate losing. I do. It's a character flaw that sounds cool but mostly manifests in stupid ways like trying to beat your sister at UNO on Christmas. But we are here to win. It's worth it to spend a few moments looking at how deals
Portfolio
XO was started in the summer of 2020. It was in the wake of a failed venture backed company where I was CTO for several years. In addition to the (concurrent) medical shit I was dealing with, it was one of the toughest periods of my life (so far!). Having
Portfolio
We bought another YC company (for clarity, we bought the assets of Workclout Inc. The corporation was acquired by Luxury Presence in a separate transaction.) The last time we bought a YC company('s assets) I spent more time thinking how cool it would be to buy a YC