Investment Firm
PIRQUE is research driven company investing in US startups. We relentlessly study business drivers, mapping their velocity of propagation into markets. The in-house research that guides our buy side investment conviction is published via Heartbeat. Publishing helps us think things through out loud and make our proof of work auditable/transparent. As time passes, we "declassify" more items on Heartbeat currently in private mode.
Hungarian minds that boosted the US to the state of the art in their fields https://x.com/socraticexp/status/2033937677846815156?s=46
Botha's candid assessment reveals an industry at an inflection point where structural oversupply meets concentrated value creation.
Corporations are the best capital allocators.
Only Americans individuals. "๐๐ต ๐ฎ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ค๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ." โ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฐ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฐ
This list includes several pre-IPO (2002-feb-14) original gangsters. An extended version of the "PayPal Mafia" as published on Fortune Magazine's 2007-nov-26 issue https://fortune.com/article/paypal-mafia/ Date added = approx date joined as full-time employee. 2021-sep: 500 emp ; 10m accts 2000-apr: 100 emp ; 1m accts (merged company) 2000-feb: 50 emp ; 100k accts 1999-dec: 40 emp ; 10k accts 1999-nov: 30 emp ; 1k accts 1999-oct: 20 emp ; 100 accts "๐ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ง๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ." โ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ
Tips for founders posted by Gokul Rajaram on LinkedIn.
This is basically the syllabus to our โThe Rules of the Gameโ class. A list of recommendations on startups and venture capital: its history, must read literature, must watch films, plus other interesting resources we have collected along the way. โ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ: ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด.โ โ๐๐ข๐ท๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต
