Johnny Ni
@JohnnyNi13
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Vanguard Defense @Harvard - Prev. @northropgrumman @meta
Joined January 2021
Friend got his company acquired by a Fortune 500 company today, funny enough, 3 years ago he tried applying for an internship at the same company and they rejected him since his GPA was too low. Funny how the world works.
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In terms of lifestyle, SF is sort of a shithole not going to lie.
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Pre-seed: Bet on the team.Seed: Bet on the product.Series A: Bet on the traction.Series B: Bet on the revenue.Series C: Bet on unit economics.
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Palmer Luckey owning his own warship is America Core.
.@PalmerLuckey's personal arsenal includes helicopters, nuclear missile silos, a submarine AND a warship. @emilychangtv takes a ride and tries her hand at the helm. Watch The Circuit for more:
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@kylejeong21 They hate to see an effective tool that beats their old-school email newsletters lol.
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Had a VC call and in my dorm background my roommate broke up with his gf so they were screaming at each other. Not sure if that helped my pitch.
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So I randomly saw Jensen Huang walking on Stanford campus today lol.
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There's no community that's more supportive and hype than the #NFT community, I'm talking @GutterCatGang 💪.
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Place your startup office in tenderloin SF because you never know when it might be your last day to live so it motivates you.
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My friend is about to call Peter Thiel and he’s doing jumping jacks wtf.
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OK IM GONNA BUY ANOTHER GUTTER GANG @GutterCatGang I've always tried stopping myself but I gotta do what i gotta do.
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Startup idea: Tinder for @AzukiOfficial + @psychedelic_nft holders. I know some of y'all are lonely af 😂💀.
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After some consideration, also from a lot of hype coming from #catgang, I'll jump into @GutterCatGang ! Going to do some research beforehand though, expect some cool stuff soon!.
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A good majority of ppl at Harvard unfortunately have low to no agency.
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I’ll never choose a career path for my kids, it’s their responsibility to choose what quant firm they want to work at.
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@hovmoses 100%, it shows I acknowledge there are problems with this city rather than saying it’s fine.
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Funded hacker house in NY: hit me up if you’re a founder or builder this summer.
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YC backing Kendrick is crazy.
@tanlere If my tiktok fyp is to believed, it's looking bad for drake.
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If I get to 1K followers tonight, I will. Probably talk about @AzukiZen and @psychedelic_nft as well as how unhealthy coffee is. 😬.
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Toronto is the most underrated place in possibly the world right now:. - Free healthcare.- Startup ecosystem (only rivaled by SF and NY).- Kickass uni's near (similar to Cambridge).- A lot of my builder friends are there.
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I know many friends who have a mid GPA and are just considered "bad" in the academic world, but are amazing founding engineers. Do not use collegiate metrics to determine self-worth.
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This dinner would’ve killed half of my runway if it wasn’t covered by a VC lol
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That first check has to come from a VC/investor that’s deep in your work, knows the risk they’re taking, and is just a GOAT. Thank you first check investors 🙏.
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I still love SF more than majority of people that commented lol, I intentionally go to SF multiple times every week from the bay lol. But this is factual, by stating this, we can actively start seeing problems. Stop saying “there’s no problems!”🤡. Goofballs.
In terms of lifestyle, SF is sort of a shithole not going to lie.
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I am open to cold DM’ing don’t be afraid to say hi to me in dm’s.
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I love down to earth VC's that aren't hard to reach out to, they're humble, amazing operators that want to allocate capital to the next future of builders.
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Another day of sneaking into Stanford’s gym using my twin brother’s ID.
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This is a huge thing for me but good bye @UCBerkeley . My next adventure will take place at @Harvard : ).
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Incredibly lucky to be where I am now, sometimes I feel like life is a simulation, how did things align so well to where I am today. I'm prob tripping but it's crazy. Lucky enough to discover @AzukiZen + @psychedelic_nft 🙏🙏.
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Not surprised if Cardinal Robert Prevost is onboarded as a GP at a16z in a year or two.
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Waterloo is literally the Canadian equivalent of UC Berkeley. The hustle culture is wild.
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Harvard kids when one of their friends leaves consulting to work on startups. “He is the Messiah”
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Ok the reason why I'm doing defense tech is because the startup merch goes insanely hard.
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Wild idea. What if I bring on investors into discord calls, and multiple @_buildspace projects get to pitch themselves, and the investor picks one to back. Might actually play with that idea haha here's our discord.
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Out of stealth 🙏.
We are coming out of stealth today and announcing our $25m Seed Round led by @foundersfund and @8vc with participation from @SimoneSyed, @Quantonation, @hankejh, @JTLonsdale, @C_Angermayer, @mattturck . We are creating the future of Material Science. Here's the deck 🧵:
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@thomasg_eth As a tech person, this has been so insightful, for me when I've worked with people in the past, I've never really chatted with them irl, mainly just through text, having discord calls or more behavioral observations really show whether they're chill or not.
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The more niche I become in a field, the more I realize there aren’t that many experts, seriously it becomes exponentially harder to carry a quality conversation about a technical niche.
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NY Hacker House (summer 2024) official sign up open!. My twitter inbox is flooded and I can't easily respond to everyone so ^.
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@ChristineCarril Some investors only focus on the product/startup instead of the people behind the scenes. This is incredibly shocking but important for the investor community to realize that they should be aware that they're dealing with humans, not perfect machines.
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I need to master the skill of hiring insanely good (and almost autistic) talent.
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Yay won a hack Harvard prize but at what cost. All nighter has drained my soul.
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So honored to be teaching a class at @HarvardHBS next semester!. Dm me if you’re interested in enrolling 👍
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Found out that Dubai uses cloud seeding to intentionally create flooding patterns to find where to place drainage infrastructure, that's sick.
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LMAO I just saw someone’s hinge looked like this . SF is so back
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Remember Dubai already has artificial cloud seeding. We need to accelerate.
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Going to pin this to my Twitter for easy contact access:. 1 6265542719. johnnyni@college.harvard.edu. Currently SF but soon Boston.
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One investor said this is genius, another said wtf is this. Hell yea.
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Finding out there's microplastics in In-and-Out is my personal 9/11.
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