Chase
@itsmechase
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interviewing the best founders & VCs • posting about startups • thinking about the future
Chicago, IL
Joined April 2010
I interviewed @CalvinnChenn (co-founder of Fetchr). Calvin sold his first company for $9 million, in high school. and later left college to do YC. This was a really fun conversation and Calvin shared it all, the highs & lows of founder life. Here's what we covered: . 00:45 -
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There really should be a social network for interns, or at least a way to easily find other interns in your city.
Hey SF,.I'm looking for cool people to meet + events!. I'm.- 18 y/o from NY.- inc. freshman studying CS @ Berkeley.- interning @ Notion AI this summer. It's crazy how much the startup community has changed my life since January. And it would be even more awesome to finally meet.
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Great advice from @CalvinnChenn (co-founder of Fetchr) for anyone interested in applying to YC. "You can index on doing things to get into YC, OR you can index on just being a better founder.". (hint, the latter is better)
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Scrolling 20 minutes on X is like going to page 15 on Google. Why would you do that?.
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Fun exercise to fight brain rot. Who are 3 people that provide *outsized* value for you on this app? . Here’s mine (in no order) 🫡. - @pitdesi .- @credistick .- @ArfurRock .- @PeterJ_Walker . Yes that was four. Would love to see others!.
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RT @CalvinnChenn: I sat down with Chase to talk about my life and some learnings building startups. some points we talked about:. 1/ buildi….
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Looks like Brian will be focusing investments on emerging, solo GPs. So awesome.
I’ve learned more about venture from Brian than any other single person. I can’t think of a better fit for him than mentoring solo GPs and taking large high conviction bets alongside them - which is the way he worked with me every single day, pushing me to go "all in" when I
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And shoutout to @gustaf who has been a consistent believer through the pivoting days of Kopia to Fetchr. Big testament to how YC backs their founders.
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Cursor is entering the podcast game!. If you are a company and you aren’t creating content, you are falling behind. You have two choices:. a. Create,.b. Let someone else create and hope they talk about you. The choice is yours!.
A conversation with @patrickc on old programming languages, software at industrial scale, and AI's effect on economics/biology/Patrick's daily life. 00:15 - Why Patrick wrote his first startup in Smalltalk.03:35 - LISP chatbots.06:09 - Good ideas from esoteric programming
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Brian Singerman is raising a $500M fund. & it’s geared toward emerging managers!. Details:. > Called GPx.> Partially a fund of funds.> Approx $100M will go to emerging funds.> Remaining capital will be for co-investing with emerging managers in later rounds (to help exercise
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