Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA
@brianlaungaoaeh
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“The NextGen early-stage #IndustrialTransformation & #SupplyChainTech VC Specialist.”#ResearchDriven Founder; @refashiond, @TNYSCM & #TWSCF. Adjunct @NYUTandon.
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Joined June 2010
It’s time to build the world’s best early-stage Industrial Transformation venture capital firm. Thesis: REFASHIOND Ventures invests in Industrial Transformation by backing early-stage startups refashioning industrial value chains through supply chain innovation & technology.
At most venture capital firms, early-stage supply chain technology is a tiny, emerging “area of interest” . . . At REFASHIOND Ventures, it’s our entire world. Join us. #SupplyChain #Innovation #Technology #Startups #VentureCapital
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Reflection: 2023 has been a year of two realities: The best of times and the worst of times; A time of delirious delight and a time of desperate despair. 😂 Reflection: Nothing lasts forever. No condition is permanent. Reflection: If this year doesn’t break me. Nothing will.
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Today, I got a fantastic welcome at my alma mater University of Szeged, Hungary 🎉🎊🎈🍾💫😍
She was welcomed by Dr. László Rovó, Rector, Dr. Judit Fendler, Chancellor of the University of Szeged and Dr. László Botka, Mayor of Szeged 🌹 Hundreds of people, her colleagues and the students of the institution also welcomed her and cheered her upon her arrival 🤗
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Climate change, human activity causing global water cycles to become 'increasingly erratic': World Meteorological Organization - ABC News via @ABC -
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Climate change and human activity are causing the world's hydrological cycle to spin out of balance.
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#ObsessivelyEnthusiasticInvestor @refashiond. We look for the people we believe are doing the best work in Industrial Transformation. Then we go all-in on them. With obsessive enthusiasm. Join us. #IndustrialTransformation #Innovation #Technology #Startups #VentureCapital
Thank you @InsTech_London ! Our Head of Sales, Charlie Schaper wrote this compelling article: Unlocking the Conversation: Cargo Delay Protection - A Smart Move for Logistics Firms. You can read it and comment here . https://t.co/MqsVaKzgKg
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If the happiness and prosperity of other people depend on you, you have nothing to fear anymore.
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Huge thank you to @HarryStebbings @20vcFund and @mikeeisenberg for the opportunity to shed more light on what is happening right now in Israel and what people locally and abroad are doing to help support. Please share on Spotify and YouTube https://t.co/y0F3eUEipV
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#ObsessivelyEnthusiasticInvestor @refashiond. We look for the people we believe are doing the best work in Industrial Transformation. Then we go all-in on them. With obsessive enthusiasm. Join us. #IndustrialTransformation #Innovation #Technology #Startups #VentureCapital
🎉 Exciting news! @Overwatch_data was featured on a tiny website you might know - https://t.co/6MxMVYLMMk
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Climate rules are coming for corporate America
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U.S. regulators are finalizing rules that will make publicly traded companies disclose information about climate change. Other jurisdictions have been announcing similar requirements.
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Amazon is set to do with logistics services what it did with cloud computing—and it may be a $100 billion move
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With Supply Chain by Amazon, “we believe the company is turning a major cost center into a profit center,” said one analyst.
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My partner, @lisahellebo, and I, are proud to sign-on to this Venture Capital Community Statement of Support for Israel on behalf of @refashiond; We unequivocally condemn the wanton brutality and hatred that marked the attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7.
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Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz: “At this moment, there is only one place for Germany — the place at Israel’s side. Our own history, our responsibility arising from the Holocaust, makes it a perpetual task for us to stand up for the security of the State of Israel.”
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May their memories be a blessing.
Personal, heart-shattering update from Israel: A friend who is an avid champion of Palestinian rights and founded the first Israeli tech company to employ over 100 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank is burying his beautiful, beloved daughter tomorrow. She was dancing at the
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Be the biggest fan of the people you care about. Defend them. Keep the hope alive. Make them look good. Catch them when they fall. Be there when they need you. Root for them unconditionally.
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Birkenstock IPO’d today at a ~$8B valuation. Its CEO Oliver Reichert did a massive turnaround in the past decade: sales 5x’d from $125m in 2012 to $1.3B in 2022. The wildest part: he has zero background in footwear or fashion. Prior to taking over the top job in 2013, he
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Yet these are examples of the so-called "best and brightest" against whom people like me who did not attend an Ivy League college were never allowed to compete for jobs. As I often say; Wait, you majored in math at an Ivy League college and you can't do separable variables?
I yield to no one in my revulsion at the statement apparently made on behalf of 30 plus @Harvard student groups. But please everybody take a deep breath. Many in these groups never saw the statement before it went out. In some case those approving did not understand exactly
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The more things change the more things stay the same.
Most of the talk about changing nature of the VC profession over the last 5 years turned out to be dead wrong. The VC industry is looking more and more like it always has.
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Do whatever it takes.
El Al - Israel national airline - announced that for the first time in 41 years, it will fly on a Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, to bring back Israelis called up for emergency military reserve duty.
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Lot of talk RE: how war in Israel/potential escalation could impact various #shipping segments (as usual, war generally positive for rates) at @CapitalLink in NYC on Tues. See story for shipping exec comments: #tankers #LNG #LPG #containers #drybulk $STNG
freightwaves.com
Geopolitics has always been a key driver of global shipping markets. How could the war in Israel affect rates?
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What kills the creative force is not age or lack of talent, but our own spirit, our own attitude.
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself." — Hermann Hesse
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