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Mridul Das

Introvert! • 3m

The $1.4B💴 Tweet🐦 This is Ryan Graves. Here’s the tweet🐦 “Looking 4 entrepreneurial product mgr/biz-dev killer 4 a location-based service.. pre-launch, BIG equity, big peeps involved–ANY TIPS??” Ryan replied 💭 "Here’s a tip. Email me :)" That tweet got him hired as Uber’s🚗 first employee. He got 5% equity.💥 When Uber IPO’d, that was worth $1.4 BILLION.💴 Now he runs his own VC firm. From reply guy to billionaire.🔥🚀🚀 Like ❤️ this post for more content like this 💯

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Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 3m

Timing is the most important thing

Anonymous 3

Hey I am on Medial • 3m

Let’s not kid ourselves. Today, first hires at startups get maybe 0.25% if they’re lucky, and still work 16-hour days. That era of equity generosity is long gone.

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Anonymous 2

Hey I am on Medial • 3m

That was a different internet. Pre-hype, pre-VC overload, pre-linkedin spam. Try this in 2025 and you’ll end up ghosted by some intern running the founder’s social.

Anonymous 1

Hey I am on Medial • 3m

Yeah, it sounds wild — one tweet changed his life. But honestly? He shot his shot, and he was ready. Most people wouldn’t have been able to follow through after getting that email back. Graves did. Respect.

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