Fuzzy Sequence 🚀

Our founder 🎯 Serena Lam shares how she approaches selling and early days of building the startup!

Saying "No" would have cost me the experience of a lifetime. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. 🏀 Just over a month ago, I was chatting with my friend Vikram about Fuzzy. Out of nowhere, he pulled out his camera and said, “Tell me about your startup, and I’ll post it to my network.” I was caught off guard, but instead of hesitating, I just went for it. Was I prepared? No. Did I have a pitch ready? No. Was I camera-ready? ABSOLUTELY NOT. But I knew Vikrim was busy, and I didn’t want to waste his time. Despite feeling completely unprepared, I took a deep breath and started sharing Fuzzy Sequence 🚀. That one impromptu video? It was picked up by TikTok x Meet the Drapers, launching me into a whirlwind competition. Suddenly, I found myself posting videos on TikTok and pitching against hundreds of startups at 11:30 PM across multiple nights. The stakes? A chance to pitch to THE Tim Draper for a $1M Investment. This was the visionary who backed Tesla, SpaceX, Coinbase and more. Then came the email: "You've made it to the finals" Next thing I knew, I was in San Francisco, making my TV debut with the opportunity of investment and meeting legendary figures in tech: ✨ Bill Draper - one of the pioneers in VC ✨ Tim Natividad - TikTok's Enterprise Sales leader ✨ Nikki Farb - founder-turned-investor But the real treasure? The incredible friends I made along the way - Aadil, Nicole, Aneirin, Daniyal, Daniel, Joshua, Sunwoo, Kürşat, Fulya. I really appreciated our late-night, vulnerable chats and ideas. If I had said “No” in that moment, I would have missed out on all of this. So, to anyone reading this—say YES to every opportunity that comes your way. The worst they can say is no. But the best? Well, you might just end up pitching to Silicon Valley legends. PS: A big thank you to the Meet the Drapers team: Henrique, Sujata, Sarika, Reisha, Michael, Spencer and Eric. [Stay tuned for the episode next year! 📺]

Being a founder is tough—and I’ve learned some really hard lessons along the way. But I’m all about learning from the best, which is why I’m speaking with some incredible people to share what really makes startups resilient. Raw insights from the startup trenches about what it actually takes to survive when everything's on fire (and trust me, it will be). ✨ I’m excited to be chatting to: - Hsu Ken Ooi from Iterative - Helen Pei-Hua Wong from AC Ventures - Arun Pai from Monk's Hill Ventures 🚀 Ready for the real, unfiltered truth about bouncing back? No sugar-coating, we'll dive deep into: - The founder pitfalls nobody warns you about - Building steel-plated resilience (you'll need it) - Creating teams that thrive under pressure - Making impossible decisions with impossible tradeoffs - Real war stories from the startup battlefield 📅 Date: Thursday 5 December 2024 📍 Location: Google, Singapore 🕕 Time: 6:00-9:00pm SGT Hungry for real talk? We've got food for thought and food for... well, food. 😂 Link in the comments

[🇸🇬 Event] Lessons from the Most Resilient Startups Surprisingly, building a successful startup is less about avoiding mistakes and more about getting the important things right. I’m excited to be talking with.. Helen Pei-Hua Wong from AC Ventures, Arun Pai from Monk's Hill Ventures Serena Lam from Fuzzy Sequence 🚀 We'll share unfiltered insights on common founder pitfalls, lessons from SF’s startup grind, and what it takes to build personal resilience and a team culture that doesn’t break under pressure. 📅 Date: Thursday 5 December 2024 📍 Location: Google, Singapore 🕕 Time: 6:00-9:00pm SGT Come hang out with us, grab some food, and let’s get into real conversations about building startups. Special thanks to Mike Langford, Fannie Soubiele, Sethu Sathyan and Mehr Vaswani for supporting the event and hosting us at Google Cloud in Singapore. See 📌 in the comments for the link to register.

On October 17th and 18th, we had the incredible opportunity to host the final three episodes of Meet The Drapers Season 7, presented by TikTok, right here in our hometown, San Francisco! 🌉 We welcomed 12 innovative startups and over 20 founders to the iconic SHACK15 venue. 🌉 Episode: Silicon Valley (in partnership with @TiE Con) Startups and Founders: FluentPet: Leo Trottier & @Alexis Devine VELMENI: Mini Suri PropTexx: Joshua L. & Stefan Gunnarsson Basepair Inc: Amit U Sinha 🤖 Episode: AI (TikTok) Startups and Founders: Fuzzy Sequence 🚀: 🎯 Serena Lam Lam vResolv.io : Aadil Jaleel Choudhry & Daniyal Yasin KindWorks.AI: Nicole Yelsey & Daniel Lozano orbt: Joshua Kim & @Sunwoo Ju 🌎 Episode: Global (TikTok) Startups and Founders: WeWALK: Kürşat Ceylan Ceylan Zeality Inc.: Dipak Patel Taleemabad: Haroon Yasin CleverFi: Mario Soave Three powerful episodes packed with incredible ideas! Stay tuned for their launch across all our networks—coming soon (January)! Sarika Batra Sujata Garcha Henrique G.Pereira

Finally hitting that Silicon Valley sitcom moment - I’m at Tech Crunch! If you’re in SF or know anyone I should connect with - hit me up ✨

Some behind-the-scenes fun from Street Talk with TikTok x Meet the Drapers ✨ Still feels unreal that I’m here and we got chosen as the final AI Startups! The amazing crew whisked me off to explore the city, and I got to soak up the epic Golden Gate views from the Headlands! Honestly, I'd probably still be lost without them. 😂 Oh, and guess who just made their reality TV debut? 👀 Could this be the birth of my villain era? Fuzzy Sequence 🚀

Soooo we were curious why Fuzzy Sequence 🚀 got selected as the TikTok x Meet the Drapers Top 4 AI Startups - pretty wild, right? 🤯 But here's the thing - we're not just pumped about being on this experience. We're stoked because we learned a ton about *why* we were chosen. And honestly? That knowledge is way more valuable than just getting a win. If you're curious about the behind-the-scenes, we did a video with Henrique G.Pereira :) We're hanging out at Hero City at Draper University the next few days. If you're in SF, hit me up!

Eeek Fuzzy Sequence 🚀 has been selected as TikTok’s final 4 AI startups to pitch to Tim Draper for Meet the Drapers. I've arrived in San Francisco - if you're going to be in town (or anyone I should catch) - I'd love to catch up! DM me 😊 Shoutout to Henrique G.Pereira and Sarika Batra for your hard work behind the scenes! I can't wait to catch up with everyone soon.

What I've recently realised is that you can be left behind if you don't take the time to keep on top of the latest technology and tools in your industry. Learned so much about using AI as a way to help sales professionals last week at the most recent Tech Sales Singapore gathering. I haven't been to one of the events in awhile, and was really grateful to learn how these tools can make it easier. I had never heard of: Clay Fuzzy Sequence 🚀 Make Introdex Ok, I'd heard of Zapier. But, what I realised is that you can be left behind if you don't take the time to keep on top of the latest technology and tools in your industry. In this vase, B2B sales. Learned a lot from Jenny, Prashant, Aditya and Rizuan on how to use the tools, as well as their own ways of engaging and reaching out to prospects, both warm and cold (Rizuan will ping you soon on how to set up the leads list)! There is something to be said about how I do my sales, which is more geared towards building relationships to connect and sell that way. But, there is so much to to that. There is technology and there are tools that can make our lives that much easier. No matter what industry you are in, figuring out how you can use technology and other methods to make your life easier is so important. So humbled by everything that I learned last week! Anyone seen any other cool or useful SDR/sales tools? Grateful to 👋 Gael, Benjamin, Han Yun and Bryan for setting this community up. Much to learn from everyone! And, happy birthday Gael! For anyone in the B2B sales space, would highly encourage you to join Tech Sales Singapore at their next event! —— 👨🏻💻 Follow me, Ee Chien, for more writing and sharing on entrepreneurship, tech, finance, life and current events.