Layla Alexander
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seed investor @fcubedvc | prev. @goldmansachs @harlemcapital @google | @columbia alum
NYC
Joined January 2021
Chatgpt memes like “roast me” “Create a CIA report” Ghibli filter, etc. feel very familiar… a throwback to Buzzfeed quizzes, Facebook personality tests. Super intelligence or not, we just want to have fun and see ourselves in new ways .
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Love this. Oddly enough, I think studying human information coordination from an organizational design perspective will lead to huge insights on agentic management. Things like "span of control" is a likely indicator that ~8 IC agents can roll up context to 1 manager agent, etc.
Great question, my 2c: This is a naive approach that helps bridge the gap between current functionality and where we're taking cline in the future. Effective context management is a challenge, and there are a number of approaches, not limited to - Summarizing the whole
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Getting to an A is harder now than it has been in 5+ years. At the peak, Series A graduation rate was 37%. Now it's 12%. Keep pushing. The best still make it through 🙌
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🚨 Reddit IPO is here! S-1 just dropped. 🚨 $800m in rev last year with a net loss of $90.8m. 500m site visitors in Dec with 73m DAUs. Also pulling a Robinhood by inviting power users (mods, those with high karma) to invest in the IPO... https://t.co/Tt6zcFBZIe
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It’s really happening.
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The Huberman-ization of America: In 2020, Andrew Huberman was a little-known Stanford neuroscience professor. Fast forward a few years, and Huberman is a bona fide celebrity and one of the biggest podcasters in the world. Huberman launched his Huberman Lab podcast in 2021. In
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The news is out! 🗞️Our Africa Report 2023 is live, and it is nothing short of insightful, informative and extremely interesting! 🤩 The African Tech ecosystem raised a total of $3.5B, in line with the global VC downturn. 💸 Read the full report here: https://t.co/QJfEa0BylG
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Excited to finally unveil the updated Unicorn 🦄analysis from team @CowboyVC. Decade later SO much has changed - love the explosion of growth in fintech, ent Saas and VSaaS. Excited to back the next wave of generational founders across these sectors! https://t.co/6Tid46vX0G
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If you’re an investor or founder who 1. likes basketball 2. likes concerts interact with this tweet or dm me! took 26 amazing builders & investors to two brooklyn nets games and a doja cat / ice spice concert across 3 nights this week ✨🧿 we love curated small events 🫶🏽
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spent an incredible two days surrounded by powerhouse female founders & executives last week at the 3rd annual @fcubedvc #CampFFF. constantly blown away by what my team can accomplish + feeling so lucky to work with such phenomenal women! 🫶🏾
The transformative two-day event celebrated the empowerment of women in business and beyond, with inspiring talks by iconic figures like @BrookeShields and @TaranaBurke, alongside a stellar lineup of successful female founders. @fcubedvc
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Cyberpunk (2023)
I'm ready to upgrade my legs... What's the first body part you're upgrading when the tech is good/affordable enough?
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summoning circle, hope this works 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 nyc 🕯 🕯 marathon 🕯 🕯 lottery 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯
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Ticketmaster fits in somewhere here too - would be curious to see what buying beyoncé tickets in 2007-2010 was like v. now
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can’t QT but between competitive food culture + @everydayppl tickets selling out in minutes this past summer it really feels like we’re in a spontaneity crisis !
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Extremely interesting stat shared by @amasad on Moment of Zen Didn't believe it, had to go look myself Yup - Stack overflow's traffic down 11% since ChatGPT launch (from SimilarWeb)
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As much as I like the FYP feed on TikTok for discovery, I think I would value a "Following" feed for text / webpage content more - I want to see what my friends + people of interest are reading online https://t.co/v9MCi6DA9E
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The duo is back just over four years after leaving Instagram.
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Excited to partner with @CAVUconsumer to build a category-defining brand!
Topicals Founder Olamide Olowe Is Youngest Black Woman Ever To Raise $10 Million In Funding https://t.co/AVTvYujme5
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Please help us welcome founder @thekkchristine & @begabbi, a revolutionary risk assessment & care navigation company on a mission to ensure breast cancer is detected at the earliest possible stages, to the FFF fam w/ a $4.4M Seed round!🎉 More from @WSJ👇 https://t.co/edYfYTS5WG
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Thank you @AnneSraders for sharing more on key areas like preventive medicine, menopause & breast cancer that we @fcubedvc are are actively looking to invest behind. @FortuneMagazine
Funding for women's health startups is on the upswing in recent years, though it's still leaps and bounds behind other categories. But where is the puck heading? I asked Female Founders Fund founder @anuduggalnyc where she's betting @FortuneMagazine
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