Jon Lai
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GP @a16z @speedrun 🌱 | former PM @RiotGames @TencentGames | dark souls fan & dad to 3 zerglings
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2008
a16z @speedrun request for startups: AI agents for creative storytelling 🎨. we want to see a new agentic UGC platform - like a next-gen Wattpad or Roblox - where agents help users compose their ideas into rich transmedia stories. think vibe coding but focused on creative
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Best meal in Tel Aviv was at Hakosem. Key learning this trip: skip the fancy restaurants and grab the street falafel!
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RT @StarlightRev_EN: ✨ STARLIGHT RE:VOLVER IS AVAILABLE TO PLAY NOW ✨ . Starlight Re:Volver is officially out in Early Access 💫 SEE YOU DIV….
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Wrapped an amazing Israel founders dinner in Tel Aviv with @tkexpress11 @DigitalPAB @NVoitenkov & more. The level of talent here is unreal 🔥
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Just touched down in Israel! . Flew over Jerusalem on the approach - beautiful country
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RT @Cixelyn: the @nijijourney team now has some unprecedented resources to make anime real. hiring researchers & engineers of all kinds, pl….
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“Today, AI is the new computer. A probabilistic rather than deterministic computer… and when you have a new type of computer you can solve problems you couldn’t solve before”. @bhorowitz and @andrewchen comparing the current AI super cycle to the Internet cycle @speedrun
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Excited for the future of AI-native accounting! automated data ingestion, reconciliation, posting led by agentic systems. Massive opportunity, amazing team - and best of all they’re hiring!.
We’re excited to announce our $4mn Seed round led by @speedrun with participation by Motive Partners, Angel Invest, and executives from @OpenAI , @AnthropicAI , @elevenlabsio , @MistralAI , @gopigment , @zapier , Pennylane ,@dLocalPayments , Sequoia Scout and many more. For
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2/ here's the original brilliant blog post from our founder @bhorowitz that breaks this down in a lot more detail.
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It’s like the fight club of management: the first rule of the CEO psychological meltdown is don’t talk about the psychological meltdown.
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managing your psychology as a founder is incredibly challenging, yet is rarely ever talked about in public. in private, i've talked to many founders who feel overwhelmed or depressed even if things are actually going really well. a few reasons i've seen up close:. 1) you care a.
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most founders underestimate the number of investors they need to pitch in order to successfully fundraise, as well as how to manage their time while fundraising 📆. let's say you're raising a seed round - an (anecdotal) rule of thumb is that seed firms promote the top 10% of.
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i've seen a few start-up founders panic at the sight of a well-funded competitor launching into their space. but the counter-intuitive thing is - more competition is good for you! here's why. 1) competition validates the market - many other (presumably) smart hard working people.
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We’re excited to visit Israel soon to talk a16z @speedrun and meet early-stage startups & investors in one of the great tech ecosystems! Let us know if you’ll be in town 🙌.
a16z speedrun is coming to Israel 🇮🇱 (take two :). I'm heading to Tel Aviv week of August 24th w/ @Tocelot.& others to meet early founders at the 0-> 1 stage starting the next generational company. We're hosting 2 events: .1. a16z speedrun in Israel - August 27.2. Israel’s Next
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“The best startup ideas are based on earned secrets” - a founder’s unique insight into a market or problem space that few other folks understand (yet). Airtable founder @howietl and @andrewchen at @speedrun on advice for new founders searching for PMF today
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Shortcut is the product i wish i had when i was in banking - a superhuman excel agent that helps you be 10x more productive, all within the spreadsheet via natural language. If your job revolves around spreadsheets, data, or strategic analysis this is a game changer.
Shortcut – the first superhuman excel agent – is live. While not perfect, Shortcut beats first year analysts from McKinsey/Goldman head-to-head 89.1% (220:27) when blindly judged by their managers. We even gave humans 10x more time. Try Shortcut now (before your boss does).
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RT @jai_mansukhanii: We just got backed by a16z @speedrun. We believe the next interface is natural language. We call it the Language Use….
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come work with me @a16z! we're hiring a partner on our Speedrun investment team - this is a small, fast-growing team inside a16z focused on first-money-in investing in brand new, innovative start-ups building on the frontier. if you love working hands-on with very early-stage.
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a common trap I see start-ups fall into is getting stuck making small tweaks / optimizations to a product without core PMF, when what they really need is a big bold swing in a new direction. if your W1 retention is 10%, i'm sorry but you likely need to rethink the core product -.
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I always find it unbelievable when i hear of VCs taking vacation for most of the summer. Like is this just a myth?. Totally cool to take 1-2 weeks off, but to be on a yacht for > a month when founders are grinding and a new sota model releases every other week is just crazy.
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