Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Ana Pricop: Dropping Out Of Her Masters, Raising $2.5 Million In 3 days, Meeting Richard Branson | E08
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Ana Pricop: Dropping Out Of Her Masters, Raising $2.5 Million In 3 days, Meeting Richard Branson | E08
Ana Pricop is the co-founder @ Outdid.io, the B2B start-up building a world where people trust each other and are safe online. Before starting Outdid,
Ana was studying at Sciences Po France's leading university in the social sciences.
🛠️ Building something cutting edge with ZK Proofs
🚀 Raised $2.5 Million dollars in 3 days
đź‘Ą Incredible co-founder relationship
In Today’s Episode with Ana Pricop, We Discuss:
Background
- Growing up, did Ana have any entrepreneurial traits?
- Growing up in Romania, what was family life like for Ana?
- Does Ana think that being the oldest child in the family has played a role in creating the person she is today?
- How would Ana’s teachers describe her when she was young?
- Jumping forward to Ana’s master’s degree—why did she feel she had to pursue one?
- What does Ana know now that she wishes she had known when she started in startups?
- How did Ana convince the dean of her master’s university to let her take a gap year to try and build a startup?
- What or who gave her the conviction to try?
Building Outdid /Fundraising
- How Ana figured out that what she was building was a viable idea?
- Ana mentioned Outdid initially struggled with raising funds. Why did she find that was the case, and what did she learn from it?
- What advice would Ana give to first-time founders from her experience in Denver?
- How did she feel about raising $2.5 million in 3 days?
- Given her role as Cofounder at Outdid, how does Ana find her own space while building such a technical product?
- What does Ana know to be true about building a startup that others might consider false?
Co-Founder / Relationship
• What makes a great co-founder in Ana’s view?
• Ana’s partner shared some insights. How did she meet him?
• What is it like for Ana to work with her partner to build a product?
• Is there a fine line Ana must draw to balance personal life with work, or is it a mix of both?
• What is it that Ana’s partner is great at that allows her to be awesome?
• How does Ana think her partner would describe what it’s like to work with her?
• If Ana were to start a new startup, would she co-found it again with her partner?
The Founder Experience
- Ana recently spent time with Richard Branson. How has that experience changed the way she looks at the world and what she is building?
- Why does Ana find the pain of building Outdid beautiful?
- What is the best piece of startup advice Ana has received?
- Where does Ana want to be in 10 years? Is Outdid “it” for her, or are there other areas she wants to explore?
And of course the Quick Fire
View all episodes
By Viraj Acharya
5
11 ratings
Ana Pricop is the co-founder @ Outdid.io, the B2B start-up building a world where people trust each other and are safe online. Before starting Outdid,
Ana was studying at Sciences Po France's leading university in the social sciences.
🛠️ Building something cutting edge with ZK Proofs
🚀 Raised $2.5 Million dollars in 3 days
đź‘Ą Incredible co-founder relationship
In Today’s Episode with Ana Pricop, We Discuss:
Background
- Growing up, did Ana have any entrepreneurial traits?
- Growing up in Romania, what was family life like for Ana?
- Does Ana think that being the oldest child in the family has played a role in creating the person she is today?
- How would Ana’s teachers describe her when she was young?
- Jumping forward to Ana’s master’s degree—why did she feel she had to pursue one?
- What does Ana know now that she wishes she had known when she started in startups?
- How did Ana convince the dean of her master’s university to let her take a gap year to try and build a startup?
- What or who gave her the conviction to try?
Building Outdid /Fundraising
- How Ana figured out that what she was building was a viable idea?
- Ana mentioned Outdid initially struggled with raising funds. Why did she find that was the case, and what did she learn from it?
- What advice would Ana give to first-time founders from her experience in Denver?
- How did she feel about raising $2.5 million in 3 days?
- Given her role as Cofounder at Outdid, how does Ana find her own space while building such a technical product?
- What does Ana know to be true about building a startup that others might consider false?
Co-Founder / Relationship
• What makes a great co-founder in Ana’s view?
• Ana’s partner shared some insights. How did she meet him?
• What is it like for Ana to work with her partner to build a product?
• Is there a fine line Ana must draw to balance personal life with work, or is it a mix of both?
• What is it that Ana’s partner is great at that allows her to be awesome?
• How does Ana think her partner would describe what it’s like to work with her?
• If Ana were to start a new startup, would she co-found it again with her partner?
The Founder Experience
- Ana recently spent time with Richard Branson. How has that experience changed the way she looks at the world and what she is building?
- Why does Ana find the pain of building Outdid beautiful?
- What is the best piece of startup advice Ana has received?
- Where does Ana want to be in 10 years? Is Outdid “it” for her, or are there other areas she wants to explore?
And of course the Quick Fire