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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship. The latter was fine by me since there was no money in the company for me to draw a salary any way. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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Is the Unicorn Endangered or Extinct?

Professor VC

In the episode, Kristy Kruger talks about picturing unicorns roaming the planes in Africa as a kid and being at a party many years later when the topic of conversation turned to endangered species: It was about a group of five to seven people, kind of standing around the keg, just talking. or a market cap of $800M. igthwghjg2q2g8hu4).