Follow AI Builders — Not Influencers
I'll never raise VC funds again for my startups ever ❌ not because I hate VCs - some of them are great people but the math just doesn't work for what I'm building here's why the math never works for builders like me: - say a VC raises a $100M fund - they'd need to return 3x to their investors - that's min $300m from one fund with maybe 20 bets - so every single company they back needs to have a shot at a billion-dollar outcome. that's not a preference, that's a structural requirement - now if Revid does $1M MRR, that's life-changing money for me but for a VC fund, it's a rounding error - the only way they make money is through a big fat exit. acquisition, IPO, or another round at a higher valuation so someone else can take the risk off their hands 🤯 our incentives are completely misaligned from day one, and when incentives are misaligned, pressure follows raising forces you to grow at a pace that you and the market aren't ready for you hire fast, burn fast, pivot fast, and die fast trying to hit a number someone else wrote on a whiteboard meanwhile I wake up every morning and decide what to build, who to hire, what to charge no board meeting, no quarterly targets I didn't set, and no one asking why I didn't grow 3x this year Revid, Outrank, SuperX, PostSyncer, Feather - all profitable, all mine 🚀 the portfolio just crossed $1m mrr and the best part isn't the numbers it's that I feel completely free ☺️ free to move fast, change direction, double down, or slow down - whatever feels right no one wrote that on a whiteboard for me staying small and profitable keeps you alive long enough to actually figure things out that's not a consolation prize - that's the whole game, at least for me 😇
