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Tomas Gorny Lost His First Fortune. The Rules He Wrote Next Built Nextiva.
A one-way ticket, a $3 daily budget, a million made and lost: the Nextiva co-founder turned a spectacular reset into a durable operating system for business.
He Put the Apartment Tour Inside the Browser
Wojciech Kalembasa turned a mortgage broker's frustration with flat property listings into a visual-media company, a proptech platform, and a 2025 acquisition by Yardi. The useful part of his story is the sequence: listen closely, build the service, then turn the repeated work into software.
Tomasz Tunguz
Tomasz Tunguz is the Founder and General Partner of Theory Ventures, a $680M early-stage fund focused on AI, data infrastructure, and Web3. A former Redpoint Ventures partner with 14+ years backing unicorns including Looker ($2.6B to Google) and Kustomer ($1B to Meta), Tunguz is one of Silicon Valley's most widely-read VC voices - his daily blog tomtunguz.com reaches 150,000+ founders and operators with data-driven analysis of SaaS metrics, AI trends, and startup strategy.