Andre Retterath
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General Partner at @EarlybirdVC | Data Driven VC✍️ about AI, data, dev, productivity, startups and all things tech
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🚨Exciting news: The "Data-Driven VC Landscape 2025" is now live on Product Hunt🚨. AI? Agents? Automations? We got you covered!. After months of hard work, sharing the third episode of this report is a HUGE milestone for us. Absolutely thrilled to hear your feedback and continue
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For how much can you sell your startup?. Here‘s the state of the market Aug 2025:. In today‘s episode of Data Driven VC I cover:. - Top 10 private market companies + spotlight OpenAI. - State of IPOs: Top 50 candidates + the Figma evolution. - State of M&A: Number of
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Have you heard about GPT-5 already?. Every new model release triples the number of AI experts in my feed 🤡. Can’t wait for GPT-6
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RT @omooretweets: As an AI partner @a16z, I test dozens of new products a week. But what do I actually use weekly (or even daily!) to make….
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If everyone can build software, how can you win in a crowded market?🥇. Lovable, Bolt, Cursor and alikes have drastically reduced the entry barriers to build simple software. The result?. A growing flood of hyper-niche weekend projects (think one product for one problem, such.
entering the fast fashion era of SaaS very soon.
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RT @mbrandolph: Prioritization is a superpower. Most startups fail from doing too much, not too little.
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“The fastest growing company in history” is what I’ve read 5x this week, about 6 different companies 🤡.
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Concentration in private markets keeps increasing🔥. Here’s what that means:. To measure concentration, we need to look at distributions. Everyone knows normal or bell curve distributions. Few know Power Law distributions. The Power Law distribution describes how a small
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If it’s true that employees in the remainCo get 100% of zero (a depreciating, non sellable asset), it’s a scandal. Will be interesting to see the details on whether and how much employees got screwed here. Important reminded: No matter what, never f*ck the team.
Here is most of what I’ve gathered on the Windsurf / Google Deal. The founders and dozens of engineers are going to Google. This group, along with the preferred shareholders will be sharing the $2.4B headline number. The exact split is unknown but investors are making some money.
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RT @AkashBajwa96: This morning we hosted a discussion on the MCP ecosystem with operators/founders from @StackOneHQ, @pydantic , @elevenlab….
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RT @robrombach: Content is becoming more interactive today. Today, we release FLUX.1 Kontext, a state-of-the-art image generation model tha….
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RT @MattNiessner: 📢📢𝐁𝐈𝐆 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒: 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐀𝐈𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐈 📢📢. We’re building Spatial Foundation Models — a new paradigm of genera….
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Who’s your productivity hero? Who’s always ahead with new tools and workflows?🏃♀️. I‘m working on a new project to spotlight thought leaders, their tool stacks & productivity / workflow hacks. No constraints across job title, department, company, task to be done, tools etc - All
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Congrats to our portfolio company @isaraerospace on their first launch attempt. Liftoff successfully completed and launch pad unimpaired. Now full focus on data analysis. Launch. Learn. Repeat. Go Europe 🚀🚀
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User generated content #UGC is dead ☠️ . Let any person advertise any product. (Almost) impossible to distinguish real vs AI. We reached a point where cost of generation for software prototypes + ad copy approaches zero. As supply explodes and grows over-proportionally to demand,
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RT @AndreRetterath: Win free tickets for the Data-Driven VC Summit 2025 with 30+ speakers from Accel, Bain Capital, BlackRock, & many more👇….
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