The onramps into Silicon Valley often include access: to a smart mentor, a well-connected venture capitalist, or even a rocket ship of a startup.
But an emerging class of founders is reminding the ecosystem how collapse can be an activator, as well. Laid-off talent is flocking to build startups within all sectors, from climate to crypto to the creator economy. And they’re hoping to course-correct where their alma maters — both Big Tech companies and small upstarts alike — went wrong.
New data from Day One Ventures, a venture firm backing seed-stage founders, shows how the seedlings are starting to bloom. Founder and GP Masha Bucher, who left her former life in Russia as a politician and TV reporter to become a venture capitalist, toptechtrends.com/2022/11/08/laid-off-from-your-tech-job-day-one-wants-to-give-you-100000-to-start-a-company/”>spun up a program to help potential founders in the wake of Stripe and Twitter’s recent layoffs.
She said she’s confident that at least 0.1% to 1% of the thousands of tech employees who were laid off this year could become incredible founders.
toptechtrends.com/2023/02/17/tech-layoffs-new-founders/”>Tech layoffs are creating a new era of scrappy (and humbled) founders by toptechtrends.com/author/natasha-mascarenhas/”>Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on toptechtrends.com/”>TechCrunch
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