Ellen DaSilva
@ellenjdasilva
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You say you want a revolution? Well you know, we all want to change the world. now: Founder @joinsummer, scout @sequoia. Ex-@wearehims @HarvardHBS @twitter
Mentally: NY Physically: NY
Joined July 2009
Always Go To The Funeral “Always go to the funeral” means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don’t feel like it. I have to remind myself of it when I could make some small gesture, but I don’t really have to and I definitely don’t want to. I’m talking about
you have to show up for people if you want them to show up for you
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Still looking for a few more additional great freelance healthcare / healthcare tech writers for Second Opinion - DM me if that’s you!
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In the last two weeks, I've been ruminating on this post from @sama. It's a simple observation, but one that cuts to the heart of entrepreneurship and venture capital. While most of the world minimizes risk, every great enterprise exists because someone once chose to make a
A thing often in common among great startup investors, founders, and researchers: Trading making a lot of small mistakes in exchange for getting a few giant wins. (Surprisingly many people seem to prefer a few big mistakes in exchange for a lot of small wins.)
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Is there a piece of software that turns any other piece of software into multiplayer mode? I think about how great it is to work within Figma or Google Docs vs legacy players. Is there something that turns any software into multiplayer?
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I love everything about this for @AcquiredFM. Can't wait to reach the case!!! I hope you get the experience of being a case protagonist IRL it's amazing to watch 90 students tear down 10 years of work in 80 minutes. Congrats!
I have read countless @HarvardHBS studies for Acquired research. It is insanely cool to have one written on @AcquiredFM *itself*. @djrosent
https://t.co/mNMbp2hydn
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Function is a fascinating product. So clearly built by men for men. A bunch of data thrown at you scattershot without any meaningful insights. Still requires a physician to actually do the reading. I’m curious to see what value unified info actually gets you.
NEW: Function Health raised a $298M Series B at a $2.5B valuation to expand its AI-driven health platform. The company has completed 50M+ lab tests, is lowering membership to $365/year, and is launching a Medical Intelligence Lab to unify labs, imaging, wearables, and records.
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I'm fascinated by the concept of voyeursim in AI healthcare. I had a conversation with someone who said they would love to be a fly on the wall for seeing other people's AI-based therapy conversations (anonymized). Job-to-be-done is answering the question "am I normal"?
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2 of the best investors in the Bay Area retiring in the same week, wild stuff
Breaking News: Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the only female House speaker, said she would retire in 2027, ending a run as one of the most powerful women in U.S. politics. https://t.co/0FuAGwihJ0
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There’s no beating the energy of a first-born girl.
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I am deeply honored, humbled, and will have big shoes to fill. @roelofbotha changed my life. He believed in me, brought me to Sequoia, and taught me how to grow from a builder into an investor. He’s demanding and deeply caring — the rare kind of friend, mentor, partner who
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NEW POST. All my thoughts from the weird and wild world of toddler fatherhood. https://t.co/EzMoYhF910
waitbutwhy.com
A two-year-old is a supremely strange person.
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There’s nothing like quite being forwarded a former employee’s emails after they depart and unwittingly seeing everything they were up to while working at the company…
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Apparently other industries were devastated by a cloud outage today Meanwhile, in healthcare
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Idk this company but they completely copied the @joinsummer logo…
Big milestone: Campfire raised a $65M Series B, bringing total funding to over $100M in 12 weeks. 🔥 Co-led by @Accel and Ribbit, with continued support from @ycombinator and @FoundationCap, plus angels from @tryramp, @Snowflake, @clay, @supabase & more.
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*Takes a long puff on a cigar* "Ok, this is how we make money"
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This episode of @AcquiredFM on @google AI is like a Russian novel where all of the characters know each other and come back into the picture every so often in different combinations and some of them are even related. Small world!
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It’s interesting to me that we don’t think of our own careers as mini versions of the economy. We have growth years, personal recessions, etc.
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