Cofounder of 13 Fund, and author of this investment thesis. As entrepreneurs who exited our startups last year, we wanted to give back to the communities that fostered us. So we set up this foundation to invest back in SF and NY with bi-annual grants.
For our first grant, we focused on small business development, specifically restaurant closures. We mined public data, talked to affected restaurants, as well as academics and politicians.
We found some expected causes (falling sales) as well as unexpected (labor flight).
Would be happy to answer questions about our methodology or findings!
Amplitude is a product intelligence platform, helping companies use self-serve analytics to make better product decisions. We're one of YC's Top 50 startups, already surpassing $100M in revenue this year serving customers like Twitter, Paypal, Atlassian, & Instacart.
We're now building a new team in our company to build the next $100M product, and looking for our first product engineer. This is an opportunity to work on a startup within a startup, building the foundation for a new frontend app and design system from scratch.
For our first grant, we focused on small business development, specifically restaurant closures. We mined public data, talked to affected restaurants, as well as academics and politicians.
We found some expected causes (falling sales) as well as unexpected (labor flight).
Would be happy to answer questions about our methodology or findings!