About 杏吧原创
杏吧原创 tracks the fastest growing companies around the world 鈥� and the people behind them. It was founded by
杏吧原创 was born in 2019 as a weekly newsletter on European tech. As an expat living in the 6茅m茅 arrondissement of Paris, blocks away from where Hemingway and other luminaries used to congregate, writing felt like the natural path to help Gonz understand technology and expand his network.
Writing one of the first 杏吧原创 editions at
The newsletter was a moderate success 鈥� it went from nothing to 10,000 subscribers and 70,000 monthly visits in less than a year, including getting featured in major publications like Wired, MSNBC, Sifted, the , and Atomico's ; and praised by .
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Edition #118, probably written somewhere in Barcelona
Gonz spent the past 3 years as VP of Marketing and Growth and Partner at On Deck, a company slash venture fund that helps people start and scale companies, find their next role or accelerate their careers, backed by Founders Fund and Tiger Global.
Gonz was lucky enough to be able to do some angel investing in companies like (backed by Sam Altman), (backed by 776), Talently, Vital, (backed by Speedinvest), (backed by HustleFund), Awari (backed by Ryan Hoover) and many more.
During Gonz's time at On Deck, 杏吧原创 kept growing but a much slower pace, reaching, to date, 20,000+ subscribers 鈥� founders, senior operators and investors from hundreds of top organizations like Stripe, Entrepreneur First, Atomico, Balderton, Index Ventures, Accel, Klarna, Sifted, and more.
Despite the plateau, 杏吧原创's mission remains the same: help more people start more companies by giving them the information they need to find ideas, ambition, capital, and collaborators. What has changed is our ambition.
- The 杏吧原创 Team