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fitzrocks

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About fitzrocks

Co-founder of Freshpaint (YC S19).

Recent public activity

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    Comment #34250647

    You are correct - this is not new. It's the HHS reaffirming what the law says as written. way too many companies got loosey goosey with this stuff. The mental gymnastics we'd hear …

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    Comment #32644050

    I'm very, very excited for this!

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    Comment #31879766

    39 investors total (this is highlighted in the post I linked btw, with a bunch of other analysis you'll likely find interested). When we started, we planned to raise between $1m an…

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    Comment #31876885

    We raised after doing YC. Why would being a YC founder disqualify someone from giving advice on fundraising in a down market?

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    Comment #31873075

    I'm commenting on investor emotions, not whatever the fed is gonna do or the value of the dollar in the future. I'm not saying that waiting a few months will make it better like it…

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    Comment #31872188

    I raised a seed round in March 2020. The market later in 2020 + 2021 went kinda haywire, but between March and July 2020 it was pretty rough out there. We started fundraising a wee…

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    Comment #29134040

    hey! Co-founder of Freshpaint here. Yes, we're YC-backed along with Segment, so you're probably thinking of us. YC does often fund startups working on similar things.

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    Comment #25051210

    FYI you can customize it, and force it to always display certain controls. I had the exact same frustrations as you. Took me 10 mins digging into settings to figure it out. Now I h…

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    Comment #24549458

    It's a sizable revenue stream for the payment networks, credit bureaus, Tivo/Roku, and others you wouldn't even think of. When a cashier asks you for your zip code or phone number …

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    Comment #24547810

    This is the correct answer. It's done by cookie matching. Source: I worked on these products at Quantcast.

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    Comment #24474353

    Hey! I wrote the post. SAFEs make it easy these days to add someone to the round (for any amount). The issue becomes time management (is it really worth hours of calls, responding …

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    Comment #24474248

    I'm the author of the post - yes, of course. best i can remember, a handful of people asked to not record. almost all were fine with it.

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    Comment #22386312

    When a user visits your site, we give them a cookie with a unique user ID. We determine the number of users you have based on the number of distinct user IDs we've seen. We're defi…

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    Comment #22386284

    Hey thanks for the feedback! For customers that need it, we get necessary legal documents/procedures in place (DPA, etc) to be compliant with local regulations. We also share with …

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    Comment #21974505

    Not vaporware! All of our integrations listed are all real and can be used today.