num_pages: 320
description: Super Founders uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar startups from the restrevealing that nearly everything we thought was true about them is false! Ali Tamaseb has spent thousands of hours manually amassing what may be the largest dataset ever collected on startups comparing billion-dollar startups with those that failed to become one30000 data points on nearly every number of competitors market size the founders age his or her universitys ranking quality of investors fundraising time and many many more. And what he found looked far different than expected. Just to mention a You will also hear the stories of the early days of billion-dollar startups first-hand. The book includes exclusive interviews with the founders/investors of Zoom Instacart PayPal Nest Github Flatiron Health Kite Pharma Facebook Stripe Airbnb YouTube LinkedIn Lyft DoorDash Coinbase  and Square  venture capital investors like Elad Gil  Peter Thiel  Alfred Lin from Sequoia Capital and Keith Rabois of Founders Fund  as well as previously untold stories about the early days of ByteDance (TikTok) WhatsApp Dropbox Discord DiDi Flipkart Instagram Careem Peloton and SpaceX. Packed with counterintuitive insights and inside stories from people who have built massively successful companies Super Founders is a paradigm-shifting and actionable guide for entrepreneurs investors and anyone interested in what makes a startup successful. 
language: English
title: Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
publisher: PublicAffairs