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David Gelberg, Fastest Exited Founder Ever at the20hr.co (acquired by Revel), achieved Europe's fastest hackathon exit by selling a company built in 20 hours during Project Lovable, leveraging London's competitive hackathon community where he consistently wins through strategic team formation and hunger-driven talent selection. Building secondary market disruption tools for family offices and VCs, David argues public markets are "finished" due to institutional dominance, positioning Europe to control pre-IPO private company trading through SPV crowdfunding models that bypass traditional VC gatekeepers. His bullish Europe thesis centres on adversity-driven innovation, citing Europe's recent unicorn surge and superior GitHub contributions compared to the US, while co-founding Unicorn Mafia as an "internal Y Combinator" providing compute, office space, and investor connections to accelerate European talent beyond traditional 6pm constraints.
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David Gelberg, Fastest Exited Founder Ever at the20hr.co (acquired by Revel), achieved Europe's fastest hackathon exit by selling a company built in 20 hours during Project Lovable, leveraging London's competitive hackathon community where he consistently wins through strategic team formation and hunger-driven talent selection. Building secondary market disruption tools for family offices and VCs, David argues public markets are "finished" due to institutional dominance, positioning Europe to control pre-IPO private company trading through SPV crowdfunding models that bypass traditional VC gatekeepers. His bullish Europe thesis centres on adversity-driven innovation, citing Europe's recent unicorn surge and superior GitHub contributions compared to the US, while co-founding Unicorn Mafia as an "internal Y Combinator" providing compute, office space, and investor connections to accelerate European talent beyond traditional 6pm constraints.