David Booth
@david__booth
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EIR & Investor at @Blackbirdvc || Co-founder & Chairman at On Deck (@beondeck) || formerly: early-ish at @AngelList, @Cartainc. Here for the ambitious ones.
NZ // SF
Joined June 2009
TLDR: Windsurf employees may well get their exit, if remaining management just executes the dividend. After looking into this, I think the original intent was for that $100M+ cash balance to indeed be used to give employee distributions via a dividend. It corresponds very.
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Just today i made the connection that when bitcoin = $1M. "100 sats" will be equivalent to "100 cents" i.e. $1.
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“did the founders & board fail to look out for the team they’re leaving behind, or did they just leave the keys to the treasury, and trust new management to open the door?” . Oh so convoluted, but somehow elegant (If true).
The Windsurf Dynamics: On the need for a social contract, an analysis of the potential payouts / cap table math, what a better outcome might have looked like instead, and why –– maybe? –– the Windsurf founders and board might have actually done the right thing, leaving a graceful
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I need @cluely but sitting on a personal CRM where it can suggest people I know- who would be interesting for the person I’m talking to currently to meet.
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F the haters. San Francisco is one of the best places in the world to have/visit with kids.
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SF parents/friends . I’m bringing the family back to the Bay Area in July (for the first time in ~2.5yrs). Feeling out of touch. Would love tips/recs:. — any cool science camps, holiday programs for a 7yo to drop in? Will be hanging down at the Exploratorium for sure. — what.
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RT @aridutilh: Holy shit the latest @joinodf cohort is cracked. - youngest ever eng at Amazon.- founding eng at $40m ARR saas.- exited foun….
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RT @FedericoNoemie: ODF25 applications close at midnight!. 1‑week IRL kickoff in SF, lifetime alumni network, and $850K+ in perks (AWS, Ope….
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RT @n_sri_laasya: At this point, I know more people from the upcoming ODF cohort than I did for my own cohort, before the cohort even start….
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RT @mttgrmm: Vehemently disagree. Having kids is very hard, and starting companies is very hard. Yes it forces tough prioritization and tra….
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unexpected: 6yo watches me voice prompt AI, use transcription (currently heavy @aquavoice_ user on laptop). and has lost all interest in learning to type . "why would i need to do that?". is typing like math — worth learning even though we have calculators?. or like navigating.
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I find it incredible that @tbpn basically replaced my entire podcast feed within the space of a month.
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RT @DavidMoodie_: Foundry Lab is heading Stateside!. The container is packed, next stop Texas. We can't rebuild the US from halfway around….
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RT @mergedotclub: This quarter we gave microgrants to some of the most ambitious builder's we've ever met. - Growing neurons for neuron-….
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Don’t sleep on these guys . right time right tech.
Foundry Lab's technology casts better than aerospace - and it's operated by novices!!
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I sometimes wonder if we’re in the “post drunk party pictures on Facebook while in college” era of conversations with AI… we out here sharing any & everything, unfiltered, without a care for where it might show up again 10-20yrs later.
chatgpt data isn’t some incremental fb clone. it’s a psychographic panopticon all inside of a “productivity” tool. fb scraped your likes & social graph. chatgpt gets your fears, ambitions, trauma, inner monologue, spiritual drift, medical concerns, erotic fantasies, financial
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