Perseverance Pays Off This video highlights the journey of OneChronos founders, Kelly Littlepage and Stephen Johnson, emphasizing their perseverance through early rejections and the importance of emotional stability in building a deep tech company. It also covers how they secured over $80M by aligning with high-conviction investors who understood their long-term vision. What this video coversChildhood friendships rarely turn into billion-dollar ideas. However, for Kelly Littlepage and Stephen Johnson, a shared curiosity in technology formed during their teenage years in suburban Colorado eventually became the foundation for building OneChronos.OneChronos has secured funding from top-tier investors like 9Yards Capital, Addition, BoxGroup, and Green Visor Capital.Kelly Littlepage and Stephen Johnson turned a childhood friendship into OneChronos, a cutting-edge trading platform using combinatorial auctions.Their startup journey began with a bold idea: bring computationally complex auction theory into real-time capital markets.Early rejection from Y Combinator led to a more strategic, staged approach that ultimately won them entry and shaped their go-to-market thinking.Launching OneChronos required not just innovation, but mastering complex financial regulations to build a compliant trading venue from scratch.They raised over $80M by finding long-term, high-conviction investors who understood the depth and time horizon of their vision.OneChronos sees itself as the foundation for future markets in which algorithmic agents, not humans, drive global transactions.Their advice to founders: perseverance and emotional stability are essential in building deep tech companies that take a decade to realize. More from the libraryUS Real Estate Finding YOUR Best Investment StrategyWaste To Value8 Figure Exit Scaling a Business to Enterprise LevelThe Brain Is WondrousMy Entrepreneurial Journey From Zero Business BackgroundPrivate Equity vs Venture Capital #startup #venturecapital #vc #fundraising #business #entrepreneur Watch on Startup Fundraising · Open on YouTube · More shorts
