Founding & Scaling Companies
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Built the world's largest consumer VPN used by 650 million users, raised initial $11M friends and family then $52 million from Goldman Sachs, sold the business for over $300M and developed 37 patents licensed to 70 security firms. Emphasizes mission-first product focus, using proprietary tech to stay defensible, and pursues new startup FaceOut that automatically detects friends' photos and delivers them in real time (FaceOut.app real-time photo delivery). Argues AI should target misinformation and loneliness as underfunded, high-impact problems.
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- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:24Starting Anchor Free at 23
- 4:38Finding the right startup idea
- 9:35Silicon Valley’s role in 2023
- 13:09Venture capital necessity
- 15:35Building company culture
- 19:13Advice for great founders
- 22:04Launching Face Out
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