Hadley
@Hadley
Followers
40K
Following
31K
Media
826
Statuses
14K
Cofounder @EniacVC | Seed investor | PMF whisperer | Built & sold AI startups before it was cool
New York City
Joined September 2007
As a startup investor you work for the company’s CEO. Your job is to do what you can to make her or him successful. Too often VC’s get confused and think it’s the other way around.
119
270
2K
0
1
0
I think I just got the worst cold pitch of all time. No deck, no context, just a DocuSign NDA. It’s so bad it almost qualifies as performance art.
31
3
104
Headed to Italy tomorrow with the family. Apparently if I skip Italy this summer they’ll strip my VC title and rebrand me as a “high risk capital allocator.”.
11
0
32
GPT-5 isn’t the leap many expected and that’s good for startups. When every release feels like a step change, model providers tend to absorb more of the value chain. Slower jumps mean more room for startups to build durable products, own distribution, and differentiate through.
6
1
24
Excited to share the latest investment I’m leading for us at @EniacVC, a $6.5M seed round in Refold AI. If you’ve been inside a large enterprise tech stack, you know the “integration tax.” Every time you add a workflow, upgrade a system, or hit an edge case, a small army of.
5
5
63
RT @nihalmehta: The $200B annual search engine marketing industry is being rewritten in real time. Proud to share that @EniacVC–seeded @ev….
0
6
0
RT @anisbennaceur1: Introducing The Helper by @tryattention: Your command center for revenue orchestration, right inside Slack. It accesse….
0
7
0
My son saw a picture of the Man burning at Burning Man and asked what it was. I told him it’s a superhero called Burning Man. Later, he and his brother ran through the house playing superheroes, one Batman and the other Burning Man.
15
0
31
Watching the GPT-5 demos, this one really caught my eye. Most experts thought we were years away from LLMs being able to fully rewrite a codebase in Rust. It’s a highly deterministic task that stochastic models like LLMs weren’t expected to handle accurately. Could be a sign of a
16
0
21
This is the internal war I fight every time I promise myself to stay positive on here… then hear about a VC doing something wildly stupid.
12
2
61
Funny how being a founder is one of the most exhausting jobs, yet when things are going well, founders never seem tired.
10
2
35
Six years ago today, I pulled off the greatest accomplishment of my life
16
1
96
People talk about the power law within a VC firm’s portfolio, but it interestingly also holds true across everyone’s aggregated portfolios.
Power law in venture is immense. At $100 per share, Figma's VC returns:. Index: $7B.Greylock: $6.5B.KP: $5.7B.Sequoia: $3.5B. 10x+ funds from one investment.
6
1
33
Meditation and scrolling your timeline have the exact opposite effects on your mind.
2
0
14
RT @chuksy0x01: So I saw this cringy LinkedIn video by @Hadley about how to make a cringy LinkedIn video, so I thought, I need to take thi….
0
1
0