Here's the slide deck the MySQL team used to raise its $16 million Series B round back in 2003

Behold the slide deck that MySQL used to raise its $16 million Series B round back in 2003 - and learn from the company that ended up selling for $1 billion.
Here's the slide deck the MySQL team used to raise its $16 million Series B round back in 2003

A few weeks ago, Mårten Mickos, the serial entrepreneur who is most famous for scaling MySQL into a tech giant when this was an extremely rare thing for a European company to do - and ultimately selling it to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion - published a short post on his Facebook feed about the slide deck MySQL used to raise $16 million in funding back in 2003.

Amusingly, Mickos noted that the deck contained close to 190 (!) slides. I tweeted about Mickos’ post, which also advised young founders to keep fundraising pitch decks way shorter, after which the affable entrepreneur invited me to publish the entire MySQL Series B financing pitch deck exclusively on tech.eu.

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