I’ve worked every role imaginable in venture capital over the past seven years. I’ve worked as an LP, I’ve run a syndicate, I built a private community for VCs, and I cut my teeth as a junior VC working for two different funds. Here are 93 things that nobody told me about VC:.

RT @kombuShane: most people will probably think this is a massive oversimplification but my philosophy on success is: whoever can take the….

RT @EricFlaningam: With Cursor/Lovable/Claude Code, the cost of software creation is approaching zero. I think this will fundamentally chan….

RT @nickbaumann_: techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. i.e. they're losing money on every user. thi….

RT @KTmBoyle: One of my greatest learnings from investing, which is more of a life lesson, is how terrified most people are of risk. This b….

RT @endowment_eddie: “Last year, headlines about venture capitalists exiting the industry abounded. Talk of another bubble has taken the pl….

RT @thedulab: Internet Capital Markets (ICM): Invest in an interesting venture that's being run by a person, where the person could also ha….

RT @lichthauch: if you claim money doesn't matter while secretly counting every dollar you don't have, you've made poverty your god.

"attention is the new oil" has created a generation of the most insufferable people in human history.

RT @rrhoover: Related (h/t @gregisenberg)

RT @iamgingertrash: In Mammals,.The quicker the pace of a beating heart.The quicker the death. Lifespan is directly correlated with heart-r….

what optimizing for efficiency misses

efficiency > growth-at-all costs. the new startup formula:. - Outsource everything non-core.- Operate lean (1-person back-office departments).- Leverage AI-native talent.- Reallocate (aggressively) back into product, GTM, and revenue-generating activities.

RT @MartinGTobias: SaaS 1.0 was all about boosting INDIVIDUAL productivity. This led to the per-seat-per-month pricing model. SaaS 2.0 i….

RT @WillManidis: over the next few years a majority of the population will outsource their taste, their opinions, their thoughts, their wor….

Hard to grasp the effects of venture becoming increasingly influenced by people who have not built things before. It used to be a requirement for VCs to have company building experience, but that has gone away as more funds have popped up. Most of the advice you get from.

RT @hamptonism: One of the most legendary private equity videos you’ll ever watch. Henry Kravis, Founder KKR:

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RT @ArfurRock: We're drunk on our stupidity, again. Bribing founders with homes?. Free secondaries as % of investment?. Celebrating founde….

any good investment theme has a shelf life of 12-36 months.

The future does not repeat the past, but it does rhyme with it. In order to understand the future, you have to study how we got here. Identify what motivates people, and you’ll understand what actually drives companies. This will filter out opportunists from those that have.