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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 years
This is the definition of VC that we aspire to.
@patk
Pat Kinsel
3 years
And I have a different definition of “venture capitalist” than the world has recently adopted. To me, it’s someone whose personal involvement and efforts can materially impact your chance of success. The work not the $$. Others are investors. There are few true VCs in the world.
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Eric Vishria
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Has there been a bank run in the US over the last 50 years where depositors actually lost money? Fed can't let it happen. Would trigger more runs. Bank equity to 0? Sure. Funds tied up for a few days? Maybe. Lost money? Can't find an example.
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Eric Vishria
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1/ Company proposes ambitious, seemingly unrealistic, plan. Board member makes “if you do that, I'll eat my hat” type comment which leads to a silly bet. Company obliterates plan. CEO shaves board member's head. I'm the board member. @Confluentinc the company.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
1 year
If SVB depositors aren’t made whole, then corporate boards will have to insist their companies use two or more of the BIG four banks exclusively. Which will crush smaller banks. AND make the too big to fail problem way worse.  (SVB equity holders are wiped. That’s fine.)
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
THIS IS THE BEST FEATURE EXCEL HAS ADDED IN AT LEAST 15 YEARS.
@Microsoft365
Microsoft 365
4 years
Announcing STOCKHISTORY, the newest member of the @msexcel function family. Easily pull historical stock prices into your workbook to analyze your portfolio! Get started:
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
In terms of things VCs directly control - employees & investments - @A16Z has done better on inclusion than any other VC firm. @bhorowitz @NaithanJones @ChrisLyons @JorgeCondeBio @martin_casado I’m sure others. Let’s not measure action by tweets.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
2 years
Vishria at Benchmark sums up the hope: “All the pretenders and the speculators will get wiped out. We’ll have the believers and the builders.”
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
Most of our tech industry doesn’t get it either. Intel’s stumble means we depend 100% on chips from a tiny island not far off the coast of China. Yes, Nvidia’a chips too. Increasingly AMDs. Everybody’s.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
1 year
Today, I find myself simultaneously agreeing with @MittRomney @RoKhanna @LHSummers @DavidSacks and… @profgalloway (?!) which is all extremely unusual and very disorienting :-) Meanwhile ppl on the far right and far left bizarrely want to test containment, which seems… risky.
@DavidSacks
David Sacks
1 year
Kudos to @RoKhanna . Every word of this is true. Decisive action is needed to protect the regional banking system. The run on other banks has already started.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
2 years
While our regulators chase Amazon and meaningless tiny acquisitions by Facebook, the greatest monopolist today - Apple - has taken a Trump-ian tact, pushing a privacy narrative while stifling competition, and favoring their own ads business. As only @benthompson can...
@StratecheryMO
Stratechery Members
2 years
8-15-2022 •Apple and Facebook’s Pre-ATT Negotiations •Timing and Documentation •ATT’s Impact
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
To @chamath ’s point, I’m astonished there isn’t more m&a in SaaS right now. Astonished.
@chamath
Chamath Palihapitiya
4 years
Using your stock to buy strategic products that expand your reach should be on the agenda if you happen to have a stratospheric stock price right now. Use your inflated currency and dollar-cost average R&D by buying stuff. So far, the best example is @twilio and @jeffiel
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
As SaaS multiples fully embrace the “can’t stop, won’t stop” stage, it was fun to look back 20+ years at the evolution of SaaS from Applications Service Providers (ASPs) of the late 90s to API companies of today. Thank you @patrick_oshag for having me on!
@patrick_oshag
Patrick OShaughnessy
4 years
My conversation with @ericvishria on all things software. - why public software valuations are so high - the "competitive frontier" - the three generations of SaaS - APIs as products - zones of opportunity Eric is among the best out there. Enjoy!
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
1 year
As we work through our 2nd 48+ hour power outage of ‘23, I’m reminded of an under discussed reason the gas stove ban is so dumb: having our lighting, heating AND cooking dependent on an already unreliable electric grid. Increasing single points of failure is not a good idea.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
1 year
@loganbartlett No one follows me so its cool.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
For decades Bezos masterfully played "your margin is my opportunity," and now the table is 180 degrees turned - Amazon's margin is GCP/Azure's opportunity. They are happy to buy cloud business, funded by the best business model of all time. Under discussed irony, thx @chetanp
@chetanp
Chetan Puttagunta
4 years
"Your margin is my opportunity": really interesting symmetry in Microsoft and Google leveraging their high margin core businesses to compete against the very high margin Amazon AWS business.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
5 years
Every once in a while, entrepreneurs propose an idea so provocative it completely changes how you think about an entire domain. 3.5 years ago the founders @CerebrasSystems did that to us @benchmark .
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
6 months
Inspired by @andrewdfeldman sharing his Thanksgiving story, here’s mine. As a child of Indian immigrants, our household was vegetarian. I didn’t understand the big deal about Thanksgiving, or turkey but was curious, as every elementary school activity in Nov is centered around…
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
8 months
This kid is going to be a legend. Learners mentality.
@TheTennisLetter
The Tennis Letter
8 months
Carlos Alcaraz says he wasn’t mature enough to handle the match tonight against Daniil Medvedev: “These kind of matches can happen. Even if I feel I’m a more mature, different player. He played really really great. A great game. I couldn’t find solutions. I thought right now I’m…
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 months
While the co-pilot approach is all the rage, I think we’re going to see a bunch of areas where AI just does - like completely does - tedious work humans historically have done. No AI-assist, just AI-and-done. @quilterai is taking this approach for PCB layout, which if you’ve…
@quilterai
Quilter
3 months
Quilter is building generative AI for electronics that fully automates the process of designing circuit boards. Our objective is to build a “compiler” for electronics design that makes it fast and easy to generate high quality, physics-validated, fully optimized PCBs with AI.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
@hunterwalk @bencasnocha @tylermyracle @semil Benchmark has been investing at formation for 25 years. NextDoor, NewRelic, Docker, Discord, Confluent, Cerebras, and tons of others. We aren’t making small check option “bets.” They are full commitment, board seat, and decade+ commitment to help build.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 months
"What would you say is the biggest sacrifice that you’ve had to make in running Nvidia? The same sacrifices other entrepreneurs make. You work really, really hard. And for a long time, nobody thinks you’re going to succeed. You’re alone in believing that you’re going to make it.…
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 years
WOW! @TimescaleDB v Amzn Timestream, @elastic Cloud v Amzn Elastic, @confluentinc Cloud v Mgd Kafka, @MongoDB Atlas v DocumentDB - the AWS rip off is slower, more expensive & less innovative. The originals are just better. AWS services are the Rocket Internet of open source.
@ryanbooz
Ryan Booz
3 years
I just spent one week benchmarking @TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream. My results surprised even me: ✍️ 6,000x higher inserts 📈 5-175x faster queries 💰 150x-220x cheaper ...all in favor of TimescaleDB Full results: TL;DR w/ 💯pretty graphs 👇 1/
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
Just amazing. And true.
@vcstarterkit
let me know how i can be helpful
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Easter Sunday on VC Twitter
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 years
This aged well :-) Congrats $CFLT and happy anniversary @jaykreps & Jamaica!
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Eric Vishria
5 years
1/ Company proposes ambitious, seemingly unrealistic, plan. Board member makes “if you do that, I'll eat my hat” type comment which leads to a silly bet. Company obliterates plan. CEO shaves board member's head. I'm the board member. @Confluentinc the company.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
2 years
Aped into $shop, $zm, $mrna. Great time to pick up great businesses, with strong moats and amazing leaders like @tobi @ericsyuan wagmi
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
2 years
Recently a very successful person pointed out that kids learn competition through sports (& elections). Those are zero sum, where one wins and another loses. But that’s an awful (& wrong) mentality for most of life. What are systemic ways to teach kids a win-win mentality?
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
2 years
Insane. "Brady, 44, is older than the three opposing NFC head coaches remaining in the playoffs."
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
Should have bought on April 12 instead of retweeting this work of truth and genius. 🤦‍♂️
@vcstarterkit
let me know how i can be helpful
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Easter Sunday on VC Twitter
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Eric Vishria
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“Every new CEO is good for at least one big, dumb acquisition.” – probably the best M&A banker of all time Astonishing number of companies for sale right now. Will be interesting which new CEOs will get New Owner's Syndrome!
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
2 years
Woody Allen said “80% of success is showing up.” To which @howes28 added, “and the other 20% is refusing to leave.” I think about that a lot when companies run into tough times. So much of long term company success is built on the team simply persisting.
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Eric Vishria
1 year
Reading the responses, many people don't think about how their paycheck comes to them. Paychecks come through a bank acct - doesn't matter if you work for a hospital, school, or company. & that acct likely has more than $250k in it. Not a risky investment acct, a *bank* acct.
@RoKhanna
Ro Khanna
1 year
The Treasury Department and FDIC must communicate loudly and clearly that depositors will be protected. The investors and executives of SBV should bear risk and lose. But this should not mean that workers go without paychecks on Monday or small businesses collapse.
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Eric Vishria
1 year
@SachivM99 @patrick_oshag No. But it isn't an acid test at all. Equity holders may get wiped out. That is totally separate from depositors.
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Eric Vishria
4 years
@chetanp And when Microsoft made that investment at $15B, they were absolutely ridiculed for it.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
2 years
My 10 yo son wrote a letter to Santa. - the handwriting and spelling are 6 yo quality (and he actually typed it first so no excuses) + really clever and excellent use of QR codes + intuitive management technique + big hearted kid :-)
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 years
5 year old doing well with prioritization.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 months
Yep! As an investor, there is another important lens. With co-pilot approaches, you better have a damn good theory of how your startup is going to overcome the MASSIVE distribution advantage incumbents have. 50% better co-pilots will get smoked by the crappier-but-good-enough…
@trengriffin
Tren Griffin
3 months
@ericvishria My taxonomy is: AI-based Copilots serve as a supportive assistant, enhancing a user's decision-making and efficiency, without autonomously taking control of a task(s).  AI Agent exercises some level of autonomy. They can be special purpose or general, but general = harder.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
2 years
I feel like this Halftime show was made exactly for me.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
I’m watching football players play golf. Such is the depths of my desperation for live sports.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
2 years
I hated this. Not because I didn't like the content, I loved it. Not because I don't like @GuptaRK22 , I love him too. But b/c he articulated concepts - painful focus, inevitability as investment criteria, the grind required of founders - way better than I can. Great listen.
@patrick_oshag
Patrick OShaughnessy
2 years
My conversation with @GuptaRK22 Our whole conversation is about focus and the value of keeping the main thing the main thing This is a business discussion, but also a life discussion, with someone that’s thought a lot about both Enjoy!
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
6 years
Parenting is mostly some exhausting shit but staging Santa’s visit in anticipation of their morning elation is one of the most joyous experiences of my life.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 years
. @adidas , @boltthreads , @benchling , and mushrooms. This morning @adidas announced a super cool new Stan Smith, made with Mylo - a biologically derived material. Mylo was developed in conjunction with innovative materials company @boltthreads .
@adidas
adidas
3 years
Introducing Stan Smith Mylo. The upper is partially created from Mylo material. Crafted from lab-grown mycelium, the root-like structure of mushrooms. Harnessing natural technologies, billions of years in the making. #MadeWithNature #EndPlasticWaste #Mylo ///
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
2 years
@jrichlive @theryanking Loudcloud did this. It did not work for many employees. Also with today’s rules the loans have to be paid back BEFORE the S-1 is effective, which makes it even worse.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
6 years
It is goosebump-inducing to join *1000s* at a company’s user conference, when less than 4 years ago they were little more than ambitious founders pitching @benchmark an exciting vision. @Amplitude_HQ ’s Amplify this week & @confluentinc ’s Kafka Summit next. So cool.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
1 year
@arjunsethi I'm no expert in banking, so YMMV but my pragmatic advice is have 6 months of operating cash in another, non-regional bank, and beyond that, don't contribute to the run.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 years
This paragraph.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
6 years
Wonder if SendGrid is going to crush their quarter based on GDPR privacy policy updates going out.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 years
I love that he published this in the Kansas City Star. Everyone in tech knows stories like this. We need to do a better job telling them where they aren’t as familiar.
@arashf
arash ferdowsi
3 years
Thank you, Kansas!
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
10 years
Humbled, honored and overwhelmingly excited to be joining the incredible @Benchmark team w/ @bgurley @mattcohler @peterfenton @mitchlasky
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
Over the weekend, I used GPT-3 to write an investment memo and literally have never had more enthusiastic support for an investment. WTH.
@Plinz
Joscha Bach
4 years
I am completely floored. Someone run a thought of mine through GPT-3 to expand it into an explanation of what I had in mind, and it's like 95% meaningful and 90% correct. I don't think that I have seen a human explanation of my more complicated tweets approaching this accuracy :)
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Eric Vishria
6 years
Many of the highest quality companies I know use the “homework assignment” in their interview process. My partners at @benchmark had me do one. And the team at @Amplitude_HQ regularly uses it. Shazam and Tatari founder @Inghelbrecht describes it well here.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
5 years
What do @stripe @zoom_us @elastic @servicenow and @confluentinc have in common? The great Jonathan Chadwick is on the board. Really excited we'll be able to benefit from his experience working with extraordinary companies!
@confluentinc
Confluent
5 years
We're excited to welcome Jonathan Chadwick to our board of directors as we scale and build a new category of data infrastructure around event streams. Read more here:
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
5 years
15/ I believe this shift will continue to propel @Confluentinc to new heights. Ultimately, an Event Streaming architecture will just be how you build most applications, just like today a dev assumes virtualized compute. Which is why, in the end, it was worth shaving my head :-)
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
5 years
Fun to be on one of my favorite podcasts with @jwangARK at @ARKInvest . Talked about a wide range of topics from AI asics to the pharma shift from chemistry to biology to SaaS and open source. @confluentinc @benchling @CerebrasSystems
@ARKInvest
ARK Invest
5 years
🔉New Podcast Episode! In FYI | EP44, we talk to @ericvishria , General Partner at @Benchmark , about why he believes #SaaS is larger than ever before. That, and much more in #VC . Tune in! 🎧:
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
5 years
At board meeting this week - co.has 100 engineers, 70 with PhDs, from *29* countries (!) Unfortunately, visas have gotten much harder to come by. When a country of 400M people draws from the WW talent pool 20x the size, the leverage so obviously benefits America AND Americans.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 years
We tend to think of network effects for consumer or social apps like Snap or Slack, or marketplaces, but there are a handful of enterprise infrastructure network effects that are going to result in monster companies.
@jaykreps
Jay Kreps
3 years
5. More importantly though, data streaming is about connectivity, so like the telephone system you want to use the network with the most connectivity. It’s about the ecosystem.
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Eric Vishria
9 years
"Optimism is the engine of capitalism. When u look @ big successes its bc some1 tried something they shouldn’t have"
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Eric Vishria
3 years
Astonishing. And against 0 interest rate backdrop, the net present value of those companies’ future cash flows is worth so much more. Which at least partially justifies the massive valuation disparity btw growth and non-growth.
@plaffont
Philippe Laffont
3 years
Fun fact: Only 10pct of s&p companies grow 20pct or more. They have 100B of cash. Meanwhile the other 90pct have 1.8T in net debt. All the growth companies have the cash, the old companies the debt. Good luck competing against the innovators!
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
6 years
Incredibly smart acquisition by @Cisco . Can’t think of an easier to use, more loved product in security than @duosec . (Nor an enterprise business that scaled more efficiently and effectively). Congrats to @dugsong and the entire team!
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
1 year
I'm 4 years in on @tonal and still a ~3x a week user. It is the best. Variety of exercises/workouts, not having to think about weight settings, different modes... it is excellent.
@bryce
Bryce Roberts
1 year
I really didn’t want to like the tonal as much as I do.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
One of the untold stories of the SaaS explosion is as new areas are "quantified," new "systems of record" are created. And those SoR have created the largest enterprise companies. Am loving working with @Benchling , a new SoR for life sciences R&D. @forbes
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Eric Vishria
2 years
@emilychangtv @benchmark That is a very useful skill for an entrepreneur! Necessary, but definitely not sufficient :-)
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Eric Vishria
1 year
Dad joke calendar is a winner.
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Eric Vishria
2 years
@jrichlive And maybe lower taxes? And squash all the ridiculous tax increases being contemplated?
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Eric Vishria
6 years
Another 10+ year “overnight” success story! Early traction, merging with a competitor, changing the business model - through it all awesome leadership and execution. Congrats to the team!
@skasriel
Stephane Kasriel
6 years
While we pause today to celebrate, tomorrow we’ll be back at work creating a better future of work. Thank you to our hardworking employees, freelancers, clients, and @nasdaq for an incredible day. Onward!
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Eric Vishria
2 years
It seems like ultimately builders don't want low code, they want "easy code" - prototype quickly and easily, but then open it up, fine tune, tweak and tinker to get it exactly right for real-world use. Love the @AirplaneDev approach.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 years
At the @Amplitude_HQ DL I compared a co. going public to an athlete going pro. Very few get the oppty to compete at the highest level for way bigger stakes. Even rarer is when it’s obvious the rookie is going to be a 🌟. Just wow. Congrats again to @spenserskates & the team!
@swyx
swyx in 🇸🇬
3 years
So @spenserskates ' AMA (on the occasion of @Amplitude_HQ 's IPO) is just an all-timer HN fairytale: - disrupting competitor @Mixpanel - Mixpanel founder @suhail congratulating them - @patio11 "Charge more" taken to heart - @bgurley style IPO rant
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Eric Vishria
4 years
@benedictevans $450m on sales and marketing for 125 customers :-) $3.6m per customer per year.
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Eric Vishria
7 years
Couldn't be more excited to welcome @sarahtavel to @benchmark !
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
So true. Two interesting ones: Chemistry-based drugs > biology-based - changes all tooling, development process - once in a century shift People as primary users of sw > Other sw as primary user of sw - drives rise of API-everything, digital automation, importance of real-time
@zachperret
Zachary Perret
4 years
Breakout technology companies are often created by leveraging one (or more) major platform shifts. Personal Computing > Apple, Microsoft Home Broadband > Youtube, Netflix Smartphones > WhatsApp, Instagram What are the most interesting (non-obvious) recent platform shifts?
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Eric Vishria
4 years
Everyday more and more traditional companies realize that getting digital right is existential, not nice-to-have. And their IT stacks will have to turn over for them to be competitive with digital natives. So as much as cloud and SaaS have run, there is probably a ton yet to go.
@trengriffin
Tren Griffin
4 years
"Nike's CEO Donahoe said on Thursday it would now aim for digital to account for 50% of its overall business, up from 30% recorded in the reported quarter." When management knows big change is coming the job is to get ahead of it. Denial is a river in Egypt, not a strategy.
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Eric Vishria
6 years
In all of professional sports, IMO two teams consistently have 3rd qtrs (and 2nd half’s) like what the Warriors just did - the Warriors and NE Pats. Testament to halftime coaching adjustments. Team is amazing but Kerr is a lesson in leading greats.
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Eric Vishria
3 years
@skupor @UiPath OR, maybe competition from DLs (and even SPACs) has forced more integrity in the pricing process which is resulting in more favorable terms for the company, employees, and shareholders. Turns out capitalism and competition work!
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Eric Vishria
2 years
Thinking about the evolution of VC like TV going from 3 networks to cable TV to personalized streaming is very thought provoking. Some great frameworks from @loganbartlett here! Thanks for the shout out! @HarryStebbings
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 years
Incredibly savvy move by @sweetlew . Kubernetes completely upends the decades-old host-centric monitoring world. NewRelic has always built products that delight developers & with @pixie_run they have an Ace with the exploding Kubernetes community.
@newrelic
New Relic
3 years
We believe observability should be available to everyone. So does Pixie Labs. Today we’re thrilled to announce our plans to acquire Pixie. ❤️ Together we’ll make instant no-code Kubernetes observability available to the whole community.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
9 years
The data in this article is stunning. Asian-Americans: The model minority is losing patience http://t.co/KpP4QApTfc via @TheEconomist
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
6 years
Excited to welcome ⁦ @chetanp ⁩ to ⁦ @benchmark ⁩ as our next general partner!
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
5 years
4/ I believe the move in data architectures to Event Streaming is as significant a shift. @Confluentinc is at the heart of enabling this shift. Which is the major tail wind enabling the company to grow so fast.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
3 years
Truth! “To be totally honest with you, for me, ignorance was an advantage,” Vishra said. “I don’t know that, if I’d understood how difficult it was going to be to do what they did, I would have had the guts to invest.” 😂😂
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
2 years
Had fun talking to @emilychangtv about the wild stock market gyrations & how they impact new early stage investments @benchmark . tl;dr, they don't - when your horizon is decade+ all that really matters is investing in great teams & great companies!
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
@chetanp You might say it a “Sales - Force” 😂
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Eric Vishria
4 years
Ppl will often talk about “01” or “09” resets as if they happened quickly. How long did it actually take? S&P peaked in mid 00 and hit bottom Sep 02. 2+ yrs. S&P peaked in mid 07 and hit bottom Feb 09. ~2 yrs. In both cases took ~4 years from bottom to get back to new highs.
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@ericvishria
Eric Vishria
4 years
Unfortunately layoffs are going to be commonplace in the next few months. This post by @davidu is an excellent guide to help leaders handle a very tough situation.
@davidu
David Ulevitch 🇺🇸
4 years
❤️ Few leaders / CEOs know how to do a layoff, and it's important to do everything possible to do it thoughtfully and compassionately for your impacted employees. To help as many people as possible, I have written a long post on how to not screw it up:
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Eric Vishria
5 years
Working with @spenserskates and the @Amplitude_HQ team over the last 4 years has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. Their first principles reasoning and sheer ambition has forced me to get more focused and crisper in my thinking.
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Eric Vishria
3 years
The magnitude of the engineering and manufacturing accomplishment by the ⁦ @CerebrasSystems ⁩ team is staggering. “the number of AI cores that can crunch linear algebra in parallel is now 850,000, up from 400,000.”
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Eric Vishria
5 years
2/ What did I underestimate? Mostly, the pace of a massive paradigm shift in software infrastructure.
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Eric Vishria
3 years
Fascinating thread on SFs incineration of tax dollars! If you are interested in the root of CA’s challenges, I encourage you to check out @Govern4CA .
@DavidGCrane
David Crane
3 years
1/ Before they were elected officials, @KamalaHarris @Scott_Wiener @DavidChiu and @PhilTing were employees of the City and County of San Francisco. Though longer employed by SF, all are entitled to rich subsidies for post-retirement health insurance.
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Eric Vishria
1 year
Was SVB’s collapse inevitable given their book? Imp Q now that impacts how you view ppl who fed the run. I *think* it was. This rate hike or next, pressure was building & failure imminent. And like most failures, it happened slowly at first then all at once.
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Jim Bianco
1 year
Follow up to the retweet below ... My guess, and this is only a guess, is Silicon Valley Bank knew the tech industries in a bad place and they knew the burn rates were going higher and the tech companies can’t raise capital fast enough to replace dwindling deposits. They were…
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Eric Vishria
4 years
This is so under appreciated by modern SaaS companies.
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Chetan Puttagunta
4 years
Workday provides an outstanding case study of leveraging professional services for an enterprise software business: 2009: $25M revenue 54% software/ 46% services 2014: $469M revenue 76% software/ 24% services 2019: $3.6B revenue 85% software/ 15% services
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Eric Vishria
4 years
There is increasing overlap between the SaaS world and marketplace world with many of the best co’s combining elements of both. So if you are a SaaS founder, you’d be insane to miss this master course on marketplaces by @sarahtavel
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modest proposal
4 years
"Building a marketplace is a relentless pursuit of exceeding expectations to create happiness" Great @sarahtavel piece arguing that "happiness — not scale — is your moat" in a marketplace.
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Eric Vishria
5 years
In many areas Deep Learning will enable features on existing solutions - eg, photo search. I believe in the war on malware, DL will completely upend the core of how existing products work with order of mag. better results. Excited to work w @bluehexagonai
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Eric Vishria
9 months
@bgurley That is a misleading chart. It is list price. The realized prices are negotiated, and way less. Idk what the actual prices are across the world, but I bet it isn't 10x across developed countries.
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Eric Vishria
4 years
Since I was a monitoring PM 20 yrs ago the problems haven't changed- 1) monitoring is a PITA to instrument, 2) <1% of the data is valuable. As an EIR @benchmark , @zainasgar developed a clever way to use EBPF to automagically instrument & way to isolate the actually valuable data.
@pixie_run
Pixie
4 years
🚀 Pixie launched today! Pixie Community is Free Forever and now in Public Beta. 🗣️ Our founders @zainasgar @ishanmkh share our plans to grow with the community: "Pixie gives developers instant application observability. No code changes." #pixierun
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Eric Vishria
4 years
I laughed so hard I cried. Partially because the story. And partially because @loganbartlett almost certainly bought a stolen monitor online - and did not consider that possibility.
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logan bartlett
4 years
THREAD: I was delivered a new monitor for WFH. I was very excited to set it up. Unfortunately, it was shipped with a thin wire lock around it, which I think was meant to keep people from stealing it from a store. Since I didn’t buy it in a store, I don’t know what to do 1/
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Eric Vishria
4 years
If you don’t want to listen to an hour podcast, this is a great summary of the core ideas you can read in 35 seconds.
@joaohlisboa
Joao Lisboa
4 years
1/6 Great interview about the evolution of the SaaS industry with @patrick_oshag and @ericvishria . A quick thread with some highlights. #SaaS
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Eric Vishria
4 years
Inspiring! WSJ on how @argonne is using @CerebrasSystems DL system to simulate if/how 4 billion (!) known molecules might be effective against coronavirus. We are on the very front edge of discovering these hugely impactful applications of deep learning.
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Eric Vishria
2 years
Safe to say I jumped in a wee bit early. Just a tad. On the bright side, tax loss harvesting ftw!
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Eric Vishria
2 years
Aped into $shop, $zm, $mrna. Great time to pick up great businesses, with strong moats and amazing leaders like @tobi @ericsyuan wagmi
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