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I spent 5 years getting an engineering degree at UC San Diego and at the end of my senior year, after that very last final, on my very last day, I went....well.....cray-cray. Afterall, being on the Atkins Diet (freshman 15 is a bitch) while trying to prove the laws inside geophysics did not exactly spell H-A-P-P-Y.
After doing a bit of backtracking, I find a similar correlation with the “Bros of Virool”. Albeit, this one has a lot more weighted on egos. Let’s start off by keeping a few things in mind: this CEO is still a kid (early 20s) with dashing good looks and a killer resume. Alex Debelov may not get a gold star for the go-go dancers or jello shots or fountain of chocolate ecstasy but you can’t deny the guy probably earned that party.
While in college he co-founded The Kairos Society, the world’s largest student entrepreneurship organization with 1500 members from 25 universities including Harvard, Stanford, and UPENN. This type of organization has the capacity to book high-profile speakers like Bill Gates and Bill Clinton at their annual summit.
Not impressive enough? Debelov was also touted along side Zuckerberg as one of 10 College Whiz Kids.
Let’s get down to brass tax here. Virool boasted a seed stage of funding at $6M+ (a round that many would consider a Series A), with a dream team of backers including heavy hitters DFJ and Menlo Ventures. If that’s not enough, the company also has a former Yahoo CTO, a Zappos backer, and the notoriety of the Y Combinator program behind it. Anyone who can carry all that on their back and ask for more should be able to throw an outlandish party in celebration of what only 10% of startups can achieve: success.
Then again Virool is all about making things go viral and I’m pretty sure this party did just that. Perhaps we’re all giving them exactly what they were hoping for.
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