Betaworks
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Betaworks
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Browse Betaworks interviews, podcasts & event videos — 5 indexed from Automattic & Founders in Arms Podcast, updated Nov 2025.
John Borthwick is the founder and CEO of Betaworks. I want to get into some sort of John Borthwick betaworks lore. So you were one of the first investors in Airbnb, Groupon, Twitter. So I, you know, when we, we started Betaworks in about 2007. One of the companies that we built in the early days was Bitly. Look at Betaworks, Matt, I mean, you know this, but we have always been sort of very, you know, we have kind of a, a thesis or a love in the world about something. I mean, you came by yesterday, we just wrapped up one of our accelerator programs. We run these. I got to, they, they're demo day for Beta Works. We used to, I I we, we tried where we built a lot of things internal to betaworks. Hugging Face was in one of our early programs at, at Betaworks. This woman who came by Betaworks and who showed me the poetry cam.
Startup studio and incubator where Venmo was originally prototyped.
A startup studio and venture firm based in New York City founded by John Borthwick.
The earliest investor in Hugging Face based in New York.
The incubator in New York City where Dots was originally developed.
Arcmira tracks 5 indexed media appearances or mentions for Betaworks, tied to source videos, channels, and transcript-derived context.
Arcmira uses indexed YouTube videos and transcripts. Representative source evidence on this page includes "Matt Mullenweg and John Borthwick talk open source AI at dev/ai/nyc" with transcript-derived context and links when available.
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“John Borthwick is the founder and CEO of Betaworks. I want to get into some sort of John Borthwick betaworks lore. So you were one of the first investors in Airbnb, Groupon, Twitter. So I, you know, w...”

“Startup studio and incubator where Venmo was originally prototyped.”

“A startup studio and venture firm based in New York City founded by John Borthwick.”

“The earliest investor in Hugging Face based in New York.”

“The incubator in New York City where Dots was originally developed.”