Hey, I'm Dan! I'm the CEO of Plus and a venture partner at Madrona. I write the DL, a newsletter about tech in the Pacific Northwest

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❄️ “A stock is worth exactly what somebody wants to pay for it”

Would have been hard to miss this one… but Snowflake’s IPO last week was the largest software IPO ever. The IPO priced at $120, and the stock closed on the first day of trading at $250+, for a market cap of ~$70B!

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Seattle's First IPO in 2020 🎉

Accolade went public on July 2, and it was Seattle’s first IPO of the year! Geekwire wrote a great article on the IPO and interviewed Accolade’s CEO, Raj Singh.

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Casper's S-1 and the DTC economy

Casper, the company fka as a mattress startup and now a “Sleep Economy” company, released their S-1 (document you file before an IPO) last week...

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Advice from Jeff Bezos

A couple years ago, we had a 20th anniversary celebration for Madrona, and one of the events was a fireside chat between Jeff Bezos and Tom Alberg, one of Madrona’s founders and the first outside investor in Amazon.

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