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▶ 130:20 · $MINTED · Marcus Million: Bootstrapped Minted to 3-person team, Saucony collabs, anti-bot decoy listings, organic brand building
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TBPN

Google I/O Reactions, Large IPOs Incoming, Vox Sold, Tokenmaxxing Stats

2026-05-20 · 13 company · 10 thematic
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speakers
dylan field

Co-founder and CEO of Figma. Led company through failed Adobe acquisition, now launching AI design agents. Advocates design as differentiator as code commoditizes. Focus on human-AI collaboration canvas.

feras

Founder and CEO of Socket (software supply chain security). Raised Series C at $1B valuation led by Thrive Capital. 500%+ ARR growth. 15+ years open source maintainer. Built certified patches to automate vulnerability remediation.

amad

Founder and CEO of Mercury (startup banking). Raised $200M at $550M valuation from TCB. 7-year grind, 2.5x Q1 growth. Leverages LLM recommendations and agentic CLI/MCP for distribution. Expanding into payroll, invoicing, command interface.

brian chesky

Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. Rebuilt platform foundation to enable rapid service expansion (groceries, cars, hotels, experiences). 16 years to first expansion, now 2 months per service. Targeting dozens of launches/year. Concierge for the world vision.

marcus million

Founder of Minted (running apparel brand). Bootstrapped 5 years, 3-person team. 99.5% organic via founder-led content (3 videos/day for year). Innovative bot mitigation. Saucony collaborations. Focus on performance running + off-court lifestyle.

john coogan

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show focused on startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

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“we're bootstrapped now in year five... we do very very very little advertising at all. I mean we're really just I would say 99.5% organic... I had those two decoy listings on there because I guess, you know, the bots don't look at the scre…”
—marcus million
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$FIG···bullish· medium· posdylan field
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$SOCKETbullish· high· posferas
Feras: Socket Series C at $1B led by Thrive, 500%+ ARR growth from AI-driven software supply chain crisis
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$SKHY···bullish· high· postay kim
Tay Kim: Memory stocks (SK Hynix, Micron, Samsung) single-digit P/E with triple-digit growth for years
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Tay Kim: Micron beneficiary of HBM structural shortage with only three global suppliers
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$NVDA···bullish· high· postay kim
Tay Kim: Nvidia vastly undervalued at 19x forward with 80% growth and coming buybacks
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Tay Kim: TSMC raising capex dramatically over next 3 years, removing Nvidia supply ceiling
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Tay Kim: Google losing AI agent war to Anthropic/OpenAI, strategic risk in funding competitors
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Tay Kim: SpaceX IPO valuation extremely high at $1.5-1.75T, even insiders surprised by multiple
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$META···bullish· mediumtay kim
Tay Kim: Meta core ad business more durable than Google search, digital assistant potential via WhatsApp
Meta growing at 33% with unbelievable profits. Core advertising more durable than Google search (which is ad-loaded and losing traffic to AI chatbots). WhatsApp digital assistant…
$MERCURYbullish· high· posamad
Amad: Mercury raises $200M at $550M valuation from TCB, 2.5x Q1 growth driven by AI-era business formation and LLM recommendations
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$ABNB···bullish· medium· posbrian chesky
Brian Chesky: Airbnb expands to services (groceries, car rentals, hotels), price match guarantee, platform velocity accelerating
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$MINTEDbullish· medium· posmarcus million
Marcus Million: Bootstrapped Minted to 3-person team, Saucony collabs, anti-bot decoy listings, organic brand building
Bootstrapped for 5 years, 3 full-time team. 99.5% organic growth via founder-led content (3 videos/day for year). Innovative bot mitigation: decoy listings at £10,000 with broken…