Armageddon: The world's end
Talks about nuclear war, mutually assured destruction (MAD) and nuclear proliferation
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Julian Shapiro
Investor at Julian.capital
United States
Overview
Julian Shapiro is a Seed Investor at Julian.capital, specializing in investing in Series B stages within sectors like Consumer Internet and Enterprise, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background in founding successful startups like Demand Curve and Bell Curve, Julian has also held notable roles such as VP of Marketing at Webflow, Inc., and has made investments in companies like Pogo, Givebutter, and Kindred.
Work Experience
Seed Investor
2022 - Current
Julian.capital is a deeptech seed fund that writes $750K checks. As engineers, marketers, and designers, we roll up our sleeves to design sites from scratch, build customer acquisition funnels, and find new hires—whatever's highest-leverage for the founder. We also built DeepChecks.vc, giving us the largest network of deeptech co-investors in the world.
Julian Capital operates as an investment firm.
Founder
2024
DeepChecks.vc connects deeptech founders with VCs who invest in their niche.
Founder (Y Combinator S19)
2019 - 2022
The largest educator in growth marketing and customer acquisition. We've trained thousands of startups in growth, including teams from Autodesk, Microsoft, Zendesk, Basecamp, Techstars, and Superhuman. Our sister company, BellCurve.com, was the growth agency for Ancestry, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Outschool, Tovala, and 100s of others.
Demand Curve designs courses for startups.
Columnist: Growth Marketing
2019 - 2021
VP of Marketing
2014 - 2015
The leading visual website builder for professionals. I directed the entirety of Webflow's growth, including business development, paid acquisition, and conversion optimization.
Webflow is a visual web design platform, CMS, and hosting provider for building production websites and prototypes.
Raised $334,900,000.00 from CapitalG, Draper Associates, Accel, Y Combinator Continuity Fund and Silversmith Capital Partners.
Creator / Lead Developer (Stripe Open Source Grant)
2013 - 2014
I developed one of the most popular open source libraries on the web: VelocityJS.org. Used by Samsung, WhatsApp, Uber, and tens of thousands of other companies.
Founder
2011 - 2013
A domain name services company.