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YC-backed co-founder and CEO of GOAT Group, unicorn sneaker marketplace turned angel
Credibility
GTM / Distribution · 78th percentile
- dot.LA, an investment Eddy Lu made, is ranked #85,993 in the Majestic Million.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current co-founder and CEO of GOAT Group, active since August 2010.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GOAT Group is a Y Combinator Winter 2011 alum.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)GOAT Group has raised $492.6M in total venture funding across 12 funding rounds.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)GOAT Group was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)GOAT Group acquired Flight Club, representing a distinct exit event for the combined entity.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)dot.LA, an investment Eddy Lu made, is ranked #85,993 in the Majestic Million.
Investor score
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Eddy Lu has made at least 3 documented investments including Stacked, Outer, dot.LA, and Handle.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with multiple documented angel investments.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Eddy Lu has been investing since at least 2020, representing approximately 5 years of investing experience (capped at 15).
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that connect you with other unicorn-founder-turned-angels to formalize your investing practice, and with operators who've navigated global marketplace expansion and pre-IPO org-building. Peer CEO dinners and positioning-focused roundtables would also help you sustain long-term leadership while sharpening the GOAT narrative ahead of any liquidity event.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA YC W11 founder dinner for alumni who are formalizing angel syndicates or micro-funds, to pressure-test fund structure and share deal flow in commerce and marketplace verticals
- tacticalA roundtable with founders who've scaled consumer marketplaces into Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America to trade playbooks on localization, payments, and supply-side acquisition for GOAT Group's next international push
- introsA YC alumni commerce and marketplace founder dinner to source high-quality early-stage deal flow for your angel portfolio, connecting with W11-era and adjacent batch founders building in resale, authentication, and recommerce
- hiringA closed-door hiring roundtable with unicorn and pre-IPO CEOs who've recently recruited world-class CFOs and CROs, to benchmark candidate profiles and share warm referrals ahead of GOAT Group's potential public market debut
- positioningA First Round Capital-hosted founder dinner for marketplace CEOs to workshop public content strategy, helping you build on your existing First Round feature and cement your voice as the definitive authority on resale commerce and authentication models
- positioningA pre-IPO founder roundtable with CEOs who've successfully communicated path-to-profitability and unit economics milestones to late-stage investors and public market analysts, to sharpen GOAT Group's liquidity event narrative
- wellbeingA curated peer CEO dinner for 10+ year unicorn founders — including YC alumni who've scaled past 500 employees — focused on executive coaching frameworks and sustaining leadership effectiveness through high-growth pressure