Quild Mini🦄 #93: Descript

Audio and video creation as easy as Google docs

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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Descript builds simple and powerful collaborative tools for new media creators: podcasters, YouTubers, journalists, and more. Their software allows you to edit audio or video simply by editing a text transcript — cut, paste, and delete — and Descript edits the audio or video to match.

Founders: Andrew

Signals:

1. Repeat exited founder

   • Andrew founded Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN)

2. Top company alumni

   • Andrew was a part-time partner at YCombinator while building Detour, a mobile app for audio walks

3. Top university alumni

   • Andrew graduated from Northwestern University (BS)

4. Fast team growth

   • Grew 3.5x YoY to 89 employees

   • And hiring a lot more

5. Midas list investors

   • Spark Capital led series B

   • a16z co-led series A and led seed

   • Redpoint co-led series A

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Till tomorrow, Kenn