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Skeptical optimist @felicis
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2011
Today, @Felicis announced that we're committing 1% in non-dilutive capital on top of every 1st check we write to be used towards personalized founder development (exec coaching, therapy, leadership development, peer groups etc). Story from @alexrkonrad:
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Lots of change in venture right now. Talent (eg @eriktorenberg, @jaltma) Capital (see patient cap from @willmanidis) Strategies (eg holdcos, fellowships) Then there’s the part no one’s really talking about yet. AI collapsing workflows means reimagining what a firm needs to be.
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Our formula is pretty simple: believe early and with conviction, be there through highs and lows, and let founders build on their own terms.
Here’s to the founders. We see what you see. We just raised $900M - our largest fund yet - to back those who are brave and daring enough to imagine the radically new.
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SF summers 🥰☁️
*Today's weather* NYC: 94 Philly: 97 DC: 97 Nashville: 95 Dallas: 93 Phoenix: 115 Las Vegas: 109 San Francisco:
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I joined @aydin from @fellowapp on the Supermanagers pod and it is out today! We talked about responding to problems as a leader, navigating organizational growth and why we do work trials at @linear! 🎧 Listen 👇 https://t.co/VKaxfUuqO8
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Get AI workflows from leaders using AI to rethink how work gets done. Presented by Fellow.ai, your secure AI meeting assistant.
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Building a startup is a superhuman feat in *any* economic environment. I'm proud that @felicis pioneered the 1% pledge to put real $$ towards supporting founder mental health & development. And, stories like Melia's remind us that there's so much more to do.
The startup founders are not all right — I spoke to 16 founders and investors about the weight of building a company in an economic downturn, and how they're coping. https://t.co/Z2oUvyl2jc via @BITech
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Wisdom from @vivfaga. I'm especially aligned with "only the paranoid survive" 🙃
Position or be positioned… on competitors: a 🧵 for founders
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Today @airtable takes a massive leap forward towards our mission of allowing anyone to build software, meet: Interface Designer! Congrats to our talented teams for bringing this powerful new product to life.
📢 Today we're thrilled to announce Interface Designer: Our new offering to create complete and customized applications with Airtable. Get the details here 👉 https://t.co/s47g0t5IcX and watch this space for more info and resources to come!
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1/ I’m launching my second cohort of Startup Hiring! 🙌 Applications are now open: https://t.co/L4yM2Pl57g It’ll be a smaller class designed primarily for founders/CEOs, the group that stays up at night thinking about this problem. Here are observations from the first cohort:
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An intimate live course for founders, CEOs, and company builders to become amazing at hiring. Live instruction from one of the most respected recruiting leaders in tech
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Why Founders Should Prioritize Personal Development with Shopify's President and Felicis
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"We have this wildly optimistic belief that there is enough money, goodwill, and good intentions in the world to solve most of the world’s problems, and we want to spend our lifetime working towards that." ❤️
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An exciting update on Canva’s two-step plan
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Big day: new @felicis $900M Fund 8, betting on super trust in the era of super capital + excited to welcome @vivfaga as our newest GP cc @weschan @speechu @victoriatr @nikipez via @Cookie
techcrunch.com
Fifteen years ago, Aydin Senkut, a former Google exec, was an outsider in venture circles that didn't take seriously his ambitions to become a top VC.
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Exciting news from all of us at @GuildEducation today -- we've raised our Series E financing with $150M in new capital to invest into our mission of upskilling America's workforce. https://t.co/5c4DAgVanv
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Guild, which works with corporations including Lowe's and Walmart to educate employees, raises $150 million amid the tightest labor market in a decade.
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Founders and athletes have a lot in common, and I hope this inspires even more conversation around mental health in startups & tech. Leaders like @tobi, @justinkan, @harleyf & many others have already started it. https://t.co/scVELaaJzO
nytimes.com
In making herself vulnerable, Naomi Osaka joined other noteworthy athletes in pushing a once-taboo subject into the open.
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Annual @speechu appreciation tweet - I missed out on the first three years, but grateful for the eight (!) we have spent building, learning, laughing and experimenting together 🥳
11 yrs completed at Felicis, starting year 12. That’s more than a quarter of my life. Extremely fortunate on all levels.
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As good as last year’s HBR article on grief
The absence of mental illness doesn't mean the presence of mental health. Even if you're not depressed or burned out, you might be languishing—feeling a sense of emptiness and stagnation. Meh. Naming it is a step toward lighting a path out of the void. https://t.co/Xiytq8cHup
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👀 Looking for the Shopify mafia? Well here they are https://t.co/hO804dcsE0 Top operators that have been heads down growing the damn thing. They don't come better than @aratisharma @atleeclark @lynseythornton @solmaz_sh @BritForsyth @konval
This is why we started Backbone. We are coming together to invest in women and non-binary founders with a focus on investments in Black, Indigenous, and Women of Colour-led companies.
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Nothing signals that you support women more than actually doing the work to support them. That’s why I’m excited to announce @backboneangels . It’s time to level-up women-led businesses 💪 #IWD2021
Hello, is this thing on? 🎤
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