#34: She Raised $187,000,000 From Sam Altman At Age 26
Michael and Simmy study the success of two startups built by young people.
In #34, Michael Sikand (@michaelsikand) and Simran Sandhu (@_simmy_) discuss Slope Pay and Rogo. Slope has raised a whopping $187M in funding led by Sam Altman to digitize B2B payments with a focus on bringing buy-now-pay-later mechanics to invoicing and was started by late twenties co-founders Alice Deng and Lawrence Lin Murata. Next up is Rogo, a fintech software setting its sights on beating Bloomberg with a platform best described as “ChatGPT for Finance”. Led by 25-year-old CEO Gabriel Stengel, the company has raised $7M from investors like Kevin Ryan’s AlleyCorp and has signed numerous deals with PE firms, hedge funds, and banks.
0:00 Intro
1:17 Story of Slope Pay
14:30 Story of Rogo
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