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Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital - TWiST #291

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Jason Calacanis interviews investor Chris Sacca on This Week in Startups. Sacca discusses what makes a founder, his investments such as Kickstarter, and his personal story of losing money and recovering.

HN recommends it in startup video lists for its stories and Sacca's candid background.

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@jonathanjaeger2012 · in “Ask HN: How did Treehouse get 5M in funding without wanting an "Exit"?”

Chris Sacca talks about his investment in Kickstarter and how the founders don't want to sell the company: [VIDEO] You have to get your investors on board even if it's not the "typical" setup.

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@i4i2014 · in “Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups? ”

My favorite, because it's so full of great stories, is the Chris Sacca interview with Jason Calacanis on This Week In Startups. Pt.1 [VIDEO] Pt.2 [LINK]

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@knappador2015 · in “In Silicon Valley, stories about failure are a form of social currency”

Yeah, I recently heard someone talking about taking huge personal financial risk to keep a startup going and suggested maybe it's time to live and learn and start over with a hell of a lot better product-market fit or spend that money on Treehouse and an apartment for a few months to learn how to build something, which could just be their first successful product. There are too many people willing to seed a decent product to go all-in with anything except time and soul. Chris Sacca has a pretty damned interesting tale: [VIDEO]

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@dmitri19812017 · in “Hanging up my spurs”

Chris Sacca's background story is little known and he talks about it at length with Jason Calacanis. The part about him losing millions while still at university is as shocking as his recovery from the setback is amazing. Check out [VIDEO]

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