Siqi Chen
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🏗️ Love to build stuff (@runwayco, @sandboxvr, @postmates, @zynga) people love. 💸 Investor @amplitude_hq, @mercury, @owner, @elevenlabsio, @meetgamma ++
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Joined April 2007
we spent the last four years reimagining what finance can be, unburdened by what has been. runway makes clear the significance of the passage of time in the context of all in which your business lives and what came before you. this is the result 👇
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it’s actually unbelievable how many billions of enterprise value can be directly attributed to adderall.
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i don't say this enough - i really love a16z and @illscience so much. i feel deeply grateful every day to work with such a great team of investors @runwayco.
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has been inspiring to work with this team as an advisor from day 0 and watch them cook so hard. visual context engineering is an incredibly powerful paradigm for squeezing the most out of an LLM.
$0 raised. $9M ARR. Growth led by a 21-year-old. Kuse = ChatGPT + Whiteboard + Notion . Loved by PMs, marketers, educators, and 200,000+ users. Chaos In, Genius Out. This is our story:
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less than 10 minutes from customer feedback to pull request, initiated by a non technical teammate. we truly live in the future.
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if they had never released 4.5 and just named gpt5 what it actually is - gpt4.5 - everyone would have been so much happier.
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so our head of operations who built and ran everything ops at runway from scratch (from finance to HR to culture) is now looking to do it again at a smaller startup, like runway once was. she's the single best ops person i've ever worked with and i cannot more highly recommend.
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many best practices are considered best practices not because they are effective, but because they feel good, so they are popular. things that are actually effective but don't feel good, aren't popular. so you don't read about them. the below is an example of the latter.
We spend years getting comfortable at companies building consensus. Then, we join the dictator and finally ship something that matters.
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there’s 10x returners, there’s fund returners, and there’s figma:. figma alone returned 10X the ENTIRE FUND for not one, not two, but three VC funds:
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i'm launching a 'very serious newsletter': finance lessons from a product person who once laid himself off. first issue: why your beautiful GAAP-compliant model is useless if nobody can actually use it. like, comment, subscribe:
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a good metric for ai adoption in a company is how many non technical people are pushing code to production.
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one of my portfolio companies exited today and i just got PAID!. water’s on me next time folks!
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new runway website just dropped!. the old website was legendary for its time but a lot of people couldn't figure out what we actually did, so we made it a lot more boring because we're grown up now. proud of the team's work on this!.
runway.com
Runway is an FP&A platform that enables high-growth teams to simulate business decisions, build flexible financial models, and drive data-informed decisions across the organization.
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RT @PardonMyTake: Tuesday night max woke Big Cat up with a flashlight at 2am because he thought we were going to get sued. @forthepeople ht….
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well that escalated quickly . (if you’re in the peninsula we are at the edgewood exit on the 280. come have some very unprofitable vc backed sparkling lemonade until we run out!)
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excited to announce my newest seed investment: lemonaidly. the founder is young but extremely charismatic and relentlessly resourceful. it’s got electrolytes!
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what i realized when i quit twitter for a month is that twitter is basically like the real world except 3-6 months in the future.
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