He sold his first 2 startups. His 3rd grew to $1M ARR in 3 months. | Chaz Englander, Founder of Model ML
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Serial entrepreneur Chaz Englander shares his playbook for building and selling three startups, including achieving $1M ARR in just 3 months with his latest venture Model ML. He discusses unconventional fundraising tactics like cold pitching on LinkedIn, the importance of speed as a competitive moat, and navigating high-burn rate businesses under pressure.
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Why we fired our wealth manager and started investing everything ourselves
We're like, well, we don't wanna just, like, give our money to, like, a wealth manager and just do nothing with our day. What are we gonna do with our day? Why don't we why don't we invest our own money? Which was a great decision in hindsight in the sense that, like, you know, you should learn so much. Right? Like, although there was advisers, investment banks, and even one private equity bed, and, obviously, we had that thing with FatLama where we looked to SPAC business. So we learned a lot about investing in the world of finance, basically. I mean, it helped us study the accounting, but I didn't really know much prior to any of that. So we we did that, and we hired people to run our own money. Right? So that's what we were doing, and we were investing across. I always say when I speak to a variety of strategies, but the after thing is looking back on this, we were just investing in, like, anything. Right?
“You're meeting everyone else that they know.”
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