@hankgreen
@TaylorLorenz
Got a question about them investing? They‘ve been AWESOME! In a week, they are able to get our product in front of millions.... lots of investors talk about nebulous ways they can help,
@JoshRichards
+
@lmgriffjohnson
within hours of working together got signups for our site 😇
About to co-invest in this amazing consumer startup with
@Michaelgr1011
,
@JoshRichards
, and
@lmgriffjohnson
They are about to change the game of angel investing!
Who else can get you $50k and millions of eyeballs on your product in a day?
My dad, Scott Clayborne, is starting a new co. in the health tech space.
It's only 3 months old, but they are going to do $1mil in revenue in April (w/ a 12% PROFIT MARGIN!)
I'm trying to convince him to raise a Seed... who are the best Health-Tech investors he should talk to?
One of our roommates is moving to NYC on Oct 1st. So a new room just opened up!
You'll be living with 4 Series A founders (fintech, AI, biotech)
Located in Soma, SF.
The house is fully-furnished. DM me for more details <3
Like & rt for visibility 🥰
So excited to announce that I’m now a Thiel Fellow with their 2020 class!
This is a program I’ve been wanting to be apart of since I first got into college. Really grateful to be surrounded by so many amazing founders 🥰
Proud to announce
@lendtable
's $18mil Series A, bringing our total amount raised to $24mil. Led by
@01Advisors
(
@dickc
&
@adambain
's venture fund) with participation from Valor Equity Partners &
@SoftBank
Lots more to come! <3
I’m going be investing 💯% of the money ($100k) I got from the Thiel Fellowship, back into startups.
If you’re working on anything amazing, I’d love to hear about it!
Happy to chat about the Fellowship too 😇😍🙂
So proud of the
@lendtable
team. Just doubled our loan volume from last month, 4x'd user growth, and massively increased how much we've saved our users!
About to double it again this month :)
Let's leave no 401(k) match or ESPP left behind <3
Best kept secret in personal finance. Companies with lookback provisions on their ESPP's.
It is literally a lottery ticket where best case you make $1mil+ and worst case, you make a guaranteed ~15% return in 6 months.
A thread on how it works...
There's no such thing as a "natural-timing for things"
I started my first biz at 13 and went to
@NorthwesternU
at 15
Just do whatever you want, whenever you want!
"I'm not old enough though..."
"So what?" - It's arbitrary rules, set by arbitrary people.
I started angel investing in amazing friends of mine two years ago. I just got a call from one of those friends that he got acquired!
Couple thoughts...
1. Wow you can actually make money at this?!?!
2. I don't even want the money back, just roll it into your next startup! <3
Co-investing with the other
@thielfellowship
who did it first
@jbrowder1
😇😇😇
Anyone else want to team up and help find the next young founders building unicorns? 🦄
Comment below....
So pumped to be part of the first batch for
@MainStreet
at Home.... Thx for including us
@dougludlow
!
How can you say "No" to all of your employees making $5k+ a year more?
Makes me think of other benefits people should be maximizing 😅😜
My boy,
@theryanking
just released his next book! It's another must-read. If you've read "Fundraising" (If you haven't you need too), you'll know how helpful these books are to founders.
Giving out 10 free copies to someone who likes, rt and comments :)
Alright... got to give props,
@FrancisSuarez
(Mayor of Miami) is on top of his game. Lendtable x Miami in the works?
Either way, it's looking like the SF ---> Miami evangelists might be on to something 🥰
Good call
@rabois
,
@lucy_guo
,
@stevegraham
Flying first class hack:
Be the last person to board the flight, see if there are any open seats on 1st class... if there are, just sit down
What if they ask for your ticket? Say “My bad, wrong seat” and walk to your seat.
It’s that easy, I fly first class half the time
Check this out, the average 401(k) match is $3,000.
Given a 7% avg market return....
@Lendtable
will literally make you into a millionaire by the time you retire. No like, seriously, $3,000 a year every year for 50 years.
Without having to spend a dollar, you just made $1mil
If anyone needs a place to stay when they’re visiting SF, my guest room is now officially open!
P.S. this is fully not a joke… this is my real guest room 🥰
Just invested in my buddy
@PrimalNick
’s company
@buildatmos
.... and I’m pretty sure they are the best kept secret in real estate (not for long though)!
@PrimalNick
, do you guys do hot pink houses? 😜💖🔥
My lil bro
@ClayborneLinden
is building a crazy new stealth DAO startup in the DeFi space and is about to close his Seed Round…
Which amazing people in Crypto X Finance should he talk to before he closes? 😇
Like/comment and I’ll connect you two 💕
I grew up in Highland Park, all of my family still lives there. I would go to that parade every single year when I was little. Many of my friends were at the parade….
While much has been said about how this can be avoided, I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate all of the
If you're a founder, you absolutely have to follow
@theryanking
....
He's the best operator and fundraiser I've ever met and just an all-around wonderful person.
Even better, he's constantly dropping nuggets of wisdom on how to build a MASSIVE company on Twitter (for free) 😅
Listening to one of our team members
@isaiahdav1d
pitch the
@lendtable
TSP (401ks for military personnel) product... it’s amazing to see how much passion he has for helping people save money! So lucky to be working with him
Also, think he might be better at pitching it than I am
Today's certainly a great day to be a
@thielfellowship
fellow! Congratulations to
@zoink
and
@figma
<3
@zoink
was one of the people who interviewed me for the Fellowship. I was legitimately shaking with excitement to meet him. He couldn't have been nicer :)
@Lendtable
just had its biggest day ever last week. We gave out more money in a day then we did all of July-Sep last year….
What’s even better? This week we beat last week 🚀 🚀 🚀
Is this what a rocket-ship feels like? 🙈
Looking to talk to some more people who have Employee Stock Purchase Plans at their companies... We are exploring ways at
@Lendtable
, to give you all of that money upfront! No, seriously, we will send you $10k today
If you're interested in chatting, send me a DM or comment below
An absolutely amazing young founder friend of mine (100 employee company) is looking for a Chief of Staff. Couldn't recommend working with him highly enough <3
Anyone in my network knows a great potential COS? :)
If you're a young founder, working on something dope... you need to check out Z Fellows. It's run by
@cory
and supported by a dope team
They will literally just give you $10k (@ a $1billion valuation) just so you can work on your project for a week.
It's such a no brainer!!!!
@PartyRound
I have a bunch of amazing founder-friends, who I want to let invest in
@Lendtable
....
Your startup looks so sick, what do I need to do here to get access? :) <3
Does anyone know the founder of ????? I'm absolutely in love with their product and desperately would like to invest....
@Superhuman
is my favorite thing ever and this is literally
@Superhuman
for all text platforms (
@Twitter
,
@instagram
,
@Facebook
...etc)
My boy
@RyanBreslow
just released his book on “How to Fundraise”! Going to be doing a launch party in….
Miami - Tues
SF - Wed
LA - Thurs
Calling all amazing entrepreneurs, people in tech and just plain-awesome people 😇
DM/Comment 👇 for more info
Looking for a 25-50 person office in SF for
@Lendtable
's newest space!
Anyone have any recommendations? <3
Got an office you aren't using that you want to sublease? :)
Taking time off is magical, just had my first full-week of PTO since I started
@Lendtable
2 years ago...
And now that I'm back, I feel ready to conquer the world. Plus hugely grateful for the incredible team we have here <3
Wanted to shout-out
@jtdaugh
and
@investwithLEX
.... It's a huge milestone for any startup to set up a 401(k) match early-on.
But for the CEO to want to make sure everyone is maximizing it?! That's the kind of leader, who really cares about every employee's well-being 🥰😇😊
So proud of the
@Lendtable
team for reaching this incredible milestone!
That's $1mil more towards everyday American's retirement plans....
What's next? Making a million, millionaires! <3
Big news from
@eco
: a new $60M round. Proud to be an investor and support Eco’s
#smartmoney
promise of an entirely better financial services experience.
Proud to have backed them in their prior rounds and doubled down again!
Shout-out
@andy_bromberg
,
@RyanBreslow
,
@JHCA1
! <3
For all my founder friends looking to move accounts.
I've got close personal relationships with folks over at JP Morgan, Goldman and First Republic. They are set-up to do expedited onboarding.
If you want me to make that connect, just comment your email and I'll get it sorted!
My brother
@ClayborneLinden
is 19 and new to SF. He's working on a dope new ad-tech startup! Are there any cool fellowships, communities, co-living places, ___________ (insert thing here) that he should be checking out? :) <3
P.S. He's awesome 🥰
P.S. Next month, it'll do $1.5mil of revenue & 15% profit margin
P.P.S. It's minority-owned (you know obviously cause it's my dad) :)
P.P.P.S. It's taking advantage of one the greatest arbitrage opportunities I've ever seen <3
Likes and retweets, appreciated for visibility!
Huge shoutout to
@theryanking
&
@bolt
! He’s an absolute force of nature… and while this a huge fundraise, I think it’s still a heavy discount to its true value 😜
Only one month into 2022 and we’re already breaking records 👏🏼🎉
In January, we brought in more new customers and more revenue than ever before—now it’s onwards and upwards! 🚀
.
@shewidan
was 15 when he got into Northwestern University. Now at 23, he’s building
@lendtable
, which helps people fulfill their employer’s 401(k) matches. He shares his entrepreneurial journey in My Life's Work in The Information Weekend:
Nothing like waking up in the morning and having everyone comment on a photo you're in... "How are there zero black people" 😅
As a black co-founder, working with another black co-founder (
@MitchJones_
). The light-skinned slander hits deep 🥲
Absolutely hilarious though :)
Hosted 50 of the smartest pre-seed to Series B founders and investors for dinner last night with
@cory
.
From fintech to crypto, amazing to meet and invest in so many amazing people.
Alright
@rabois
, you've convinced me....
@Lendtable
will be doing a company off-site in Miami in T-minus 6 days for New Years and if it's as good as it sounds. Might just have to set-up a base there <3
Also, good opportunity to show off the new company swag 😇
Just heard back from a customer who we gave $30k for their 401k match and ESPP a couple months ago.... They decided to put all of that in Crypto and just made $30k
😜🥰😇
1. Free distribution: they have massive networks… User acquisition is hard, user acquisition is expensive. They have a rabid fanbase and get millions of people to look at a product FOR FREE!
Just got off a VC call, spent half the time talking about $GME
We decided that we both needed in on the action.... so we split a $10k call together
This rally is just getting started!
My boy
@isaiahdav1d
just closed on $21k worth of employee benefits over a game of ping pong 🏓
$18k for an ESPP
$3k for a 401k match
All we gotten do now is save people $1bil+ by 2022
So I’d flip the question, to all of the angels who are looking to get into investing. How do you plan on competing for allocation with the kids who can provide real value Day One? 🙏😇
2. Access: If your product would benefit from distribution through celebrities, influencers, talk shows…etc. This is a great way to both get connected to them and have them reach out to you.
What a surreal experience getting on the
@NasdaqExchange
billboard for
@Lendtable
with my co-founder
@MitchJones_
!
It was only made cooler, by the fact that we got to spend time with other founders building world-class companies!
Thanks for the event
@SoftBank_Group
& Nasdaq!
6% of Harvard undergrad is Black vs 13% of US pop
43% of white students admitted to Harvard were legacies or donors vs maybe .001% of US pop being in that category
Hmmm… I know which category I would’ve gone after first 🤔🤔🤔
If it wasn't for
@goatapp
, I never would've been able to get my first startup off the ground :)
I went from selling pairs individually in some super sketchy areas, to being able to do it all on my phone
Such an awesome company!!!! Just the beginning <3
Just had a homeless man walk past me, call me a F***ot, then try and karate kick me…
Couple things
1: My GF was right next to me
2: We were walking back from MMA practice and while I might not be good, my GF will Duck 🦆 you up
3: Duck 🦆 that guy
Super excited to say I'm investing in
@eco
. Founded by
@JHCA1
,
@RyanBreslow
and
@andy_bromberg
. Some of the best entrepreneurs I've ever met. Guaranteed this company is going to the moon 🌙
They offer 5% APY on savings & 5% cashback... Literally 10x better than anything else!
Now I may not know all the details about
@bolt
, but as someone who knows
@theryanking
very well. I can say unequivocally, that he is one of the most high-integrity and caring founders I know!
He's done more to help me and other founders like me, than nearly any other person
is looking to hire it’s first designer/front-end developer! Open to part-time and full-time roles… It would start on a contract basis for our landing pages on our site :)
If you’re interested, please email sheridan
@lendtable
.com with a resume/portfolio
New Fitness App Idea: Get paid for working out....
How does it work?
Download
@DoorDash
, get a bike, just do a bunch of bike deliveries :)
Booyah, you just got paid for working out and have built-in resting periods
@PrimalNick
+1,000,000... Dropping out of college was the best/hardest decision I've made. There's something about removing that safety net, putting the pressure on, and having your back against the wall that really brings out the best in you.
And they say SF is dead?!?!
I just hosted a watch party in SF for Chainsaw Man’s premiere
Nearly 200 of some of the smartest young technologists gathered together to watch some Chainsaws
SF isn’t dead, it’s about to kill every other city 🪓🪓🪓
My little sister Berkeley just graduated from high school and is looking for a startup-job in SF over the summer. She has experience in sales, marketing, design, CS and COS-like roles.
If you’re looking for someone willing to grind, shoot me a message! Please retweet <3
Throwing our first office Happy Hour at
@lendtable
's new office today from 5pm 'till late :)
1475 Folsom, San Francisco, 94110
Drinks, food and vibes to be provided.
Feel free to bring friends <3
Open offer, if you are in SF and need someone to take care of your dog for a day..... ME, I'll do it. I'll take your doggos and give them the love and attention they need.
Also, please just send doggo pics in general <3
Huge shoutout to my roommate
@kenbwork
!
Thrilled to be an investor 🥂🥂🥂
One of the strongest founding teams I’ve ever seen, they literally never stop working!!!
Actually though, I’ve seen Kenny once this month 😅
Kenny, please come home once in a while… I miss you 🥲
P.S. that’s definitely not to say I think you should have a Cap Table full of TikTok stars... our VCs and angels, have been incredibly helpful with more than we ever could’ve expected. Definitely think its the move though to have some room in the round for these guys & gals! 🥰
Alright, the hype has finally gotten to me... is anyone out there making bots for
@nba_topshot
? Cause I'd love to hear about it.
Personally, I'd be looking to put up $250k to buy some of these cards 😇
3.5. These kids live & breathe their community, they make a post and millions of people pouring in with adulation. They are on the ground floor and have some really actionable advice for that demo
Just got to see my little brother
@ClayborneLinden
in action talking to VCs and founders in Miami about his new co OpenBank
$1,000 says it’s a unicorn in under a year…
Starting to get me a little worried though, I need to pick up the pace 🙈
Question... What if I told you, we would give you cash today for your unvested RSU's?
Example: You have $25k in Walmart stock, vesting in 12 months! We give you that $25k in cash or put it in a diversified portfolio for you.
Thoughts? :)
#personalfinance
#savings
#stocks
3. Insight: I turned 21 a week ago, the average investor on my cap table is 30+. Which is awesome, lots of unique insight and experience to garner. However, there’s something really valuable about having that unique perspective into what Gen Z wants.
Super excited to say that my first startup (Shoe Snatcher) just crossed $20mil in total sales… I started this business 5 years ago when I was 15. No VC would take my calls, this was just as Goat & StockX were starting. As a result, we never took any VC money
@goatapp
@stockx
5. The biggest thing….They don’t sleep and are non-stop workers. All of those perks I’ve mentioned aren’t theoretical. We finalized a deal two days ago, since then we’ve seen a large number of signups and page views.
Ever wished that you could invest your ESPP and 401k into Crypto?
Now you can, sign up at
@Lendtable
and let us give you the money to get your 401k match and ESPP. No more having all of that money locked in one place
Thoughts
@APompliano
+
@Michaelgr1011
? :) <3
the sway boys live rent-free in an LA mansion to make a bunch of TikToks. but they're also inviting founders there to get in on deals for some of silicon valley's hottest startups -- how successful can they be? latest for
@businessinsider
Under the lense of fairness, it's wild to me that they'd come after Affirmative Action first before legacy/rich/athletes/socio-economic/donor/faculty criteria on applications.
It's not like Harvard is full of Black people, it's only 6% black. What is it full of though?
Rich
God, I love SF!
Security guard stops someone at Target for stealing potato salad, guy says "I paid"
****shocker, he didn't****
Keeps walking, security guard let's him go
I joke to the security guard, "I'm going to steal the salad next"
He says, "Go for it!" 😅😅😅😅