Quild Mini🦄 #100: Circle

Helping creators build a community

This is the Quild Minicorn, highlighting one future of work minicorn daily - early-stage startups with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

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Circle is a community platform that brings together the creators' discussions, memberships, and content.

Founders: Sid (CEO), Andrew, Rudy

Signals:

1. Repeat founders

   • As a student, Sid started Rev2.org to compete with publications like Techcrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc.

   • Andrew founded Exploreous to help entertainment venues generate more revenue

2. Venture-backed experience

   • Sid worked as an engineer at Teachable (backed by Learn Capital, Accomplice, Naval, Winklevoss) for over 4 years

   • Andrew helped grow and manage special projects at Teachable for 5 years

3. Top university alumni

   • Sid graduated from University of Auckland (BS)

4. Fast team growth

   • Grew 2.5x YoY to 50+ employees

   • And hiring more

5. Midas list investor

   • Tiger Global led series A

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Till tomorrow, Kenn