2022-05-11
Today, the NYTimes wrote a hit piece on Bolt. The part they missed: everything about our business. Here's why Bolt is going to win:
New York Times
Interviews with 50+ people detail the rapid rise of Bolt, which overstated its tech and numbers, as its valuation soared from $250M in 2018 to $11B in 2021
2022-02-01
YCombinator is not worth it, a thread:
TechCrunch
Ryan Breslow, co-founder of one-click checkout startup Bolt, steps down as CEO and becomes executive chairman, after his tweets bashing YC and Stripe went viral
Ryan Breslow, who founded the “one-click” checkout tech company Bolt as a Stanford student and dropped out of college to build it …
Stripe and YCombinator, the Mob Bosses of Silicon Valley, a thread:
TechCrunch
Ryan Breslow, co-founder of one-click checkout startup Bolt, steps down as CEO and becomes executive chairman, after his tweets bashing YC and Stripe went viral
Ryan Breslow, who founded the “one-click” checkout tech company Bolt as a Stanford student and dropped out of college to build it …
Over the last 72 hrs, countless founders reached out in private to thank me for standing up. My realization: VCs don't just dominate the capital, they also dominate Twitter. We need to balance the scales. For founders, here's how I've grown my Twitter with minimal time 👇👇👇
TechCrunch
Ryan Breslow, co-founder of one-click checkout startup Bolt, steps down as CEO and becomes executive chairman, after his tweets bashing YC and Stripe went viral
Ryan Breslow, who founded the “one-click” checkout tech company Bolt as a Stanford student and dropped out of college to build it …
WHO WANTS PROOF? On April 18, 2018, we posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/ ... How Bolt does fraud detection better (linked to: https://t.co/...) An ~hour later, this showed up: https://news.ycombinator.com/ ... Improved fraud prevention with Radar 2.0 Ours disappeared.
TechCrunch
Ryan Breslow, co-founder of one-click checkout startup Bolt, steps down as CEO and becomes executive chairman, after his tweets bashing YC and Stripe went viral
Ryan Breslow, who founded the “one-click” checkout tech company Bolt as a Stanford student and dropped out of college to build it …