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What Do the Founding Teams of Billion Dollar Companies Look Like? | by Requests for Startups | Medium

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Tod Francis and Nikhil Basu Trivedi of Shasta Ventures recently published a great analysis on what 25 B2C billion-dollar Unicorns and 7 likely soon-to-be Unicorns looked like at the time of their Series A. We were interested in unpacking more of the data around these companies, and specifically learning more about their founding teams — what did the founders look like and what can we learn from their backgrounds? Caveats to note up front: We looked at the same 32 companies that Nikhil and Tod looked at in their research (shown below). Via CrunchBase and LinkedIn, we identified 78 founders across these companies. We were initially curious to see which investors took early bets on these companies. The following 12 investors had invested in 2 or more of these 32 companies in their seed/angel rounds. The following 18 investors had invested in 2 or more of these 32 companies in their Series A rounds. The following 14 people have 2 or more board seats across these 32 companies. We next took

What Do the Founding Teams of Billion Dollar Companies Look Like? Requests for Startups 5 min read · Apr 21, 2015 -- 2 Listen Share Tod Francis and Nikhil Basu Trivedi of Shasta Ventures recently published a great analysis on what 25 B2C billion-dollar Unicorns and 7 likely soon-to-be Unicorns looked like at the time of their Series A. We were interested in unpacking more of the data around these companies, and specifically learning more about their founding teams — what did the founders look like and what can we learn from their backgrounds? Caveats to note up front: Our data are from publicl

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