Josh Constine 📶🔥
@JoshConstine
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Boundless enthusiast investing in pre-seed consumer & AI. Venture Partner @SignalFire, ex-Editor @TechCrunch, pitchcrafter, SF maxi.
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2009
Wow, only took you a week to invest? Meanwhile: Meeting yesterday SAFE issued last night SAFE signed this morning 1-hour raise strategy session today Wrote them 1500-word memo draft tonight. I decide fast, help even faster. $50K checks at pre-seed. DMs open. Let's go.
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We need a domestic humanoid decathalon. Robots compete on doing dishes, laundry, making the bed etc in front of a live audience. Marie Kondo judges. Losers go to the hydraulic press.
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What song are you wildly proud of getting your kid to like? Me: TV On The Radio’s Wolf Like Me “He’s turning into a werewoof!”
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Don’t be this guy on Twitter. Punching down. Gatekeeping “authenticity”. Assuming anyone doing marketing only cares about growth. Especially if you run… a marketing agency.
@JoshConstine @thedowd Because Josh, I think people are beginning to react to a tasteless, empty generation of founders with no mission in their heart other than growth (for this see also Cluely). It feels utterly soulless and void of purpose.
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This is the new “I got a cameo in Silicon Valley”
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Comms is half creative storytelling, half hell. So a16z's comms ace @wennmachers + CEOs of Outcast Agency & NY Post, and I just funded Honeyjar, the AI for PR. Find narratives, source reporters, personalize pitches. Comms friends, comment and I'll send you an early access link
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Superpower’s reactive marketing will be case studied 7 hours after a 1-star review of a competitor goes viral, the CEO posts a deep video breaking down exactly why they’re better Superhuman gets acquired, 24h later Superpower cloned its email client as a marketing micro-site
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"Buy now, pay never?" CNN invited to break down the holiday tech trends: -AI traffic to retail up 500% as shopping drives adoption -Tariffs slash gadget discounts as @Stampli reveals $104B of invoices show biz spend volatility highest in tech -Late BNPL payments up 25% in 2025
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Apple: We have thousands of data points indicating you live in SF Also Apple: No way you meant “sf”. Changing it to “at”.
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We desperately need new protest tactics. Blockade gov buildings, not highways people use to get Start phone banking to convince nuetral voters in swing states, stop preaching to the chorus on social Marches should produce donations that fight for the cause, not cute signs
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I see no problem here. Investors: Get deep, get fast. Wait to see who else invests and you should pay a higher price. Founders: Use low valuations to pull in high help, high signal angels / small funds that derisk you, then force VCs to pay up
Met a founder on Monday, round price was $10m post. By Wednesday it was $20m. How is this sustainable for investors or founders? Healthcare AI deal, not like infra.
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Stop announcing debt like it's equity. Comes off desperate. Easy to spot ("secures" ≠ "raises"). Makes you look overvalued to VCs and recruits. Journalists, stop letting them get away with it. This one just had huge layoffs!
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AI turns the graveyard into a mood board
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Jay isn’t the stepfather of virality, he’s the father that stepped up. Made a 1.5 BILLION view YouTube video, then built his wisdom into a tool so you can do the same. Palo decodes the algorithm so creators can focus on their craft
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Startups are beginning to get chopped by the double-edged sword of "building in public" Fun to share weekly revenue graphs when everything's up and to the right, but VCs, recruits, and journalists get suspicious when you suddenly go dark for months. Wait. Is stealth cool again?
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Gen Z founders after I mention being in college when Facebook launched
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Easy way to pump VC fomo. I’ve helped dozens of startups do this. You get to sound undervalued and ripe for investment by announcing your current metrics with your old funding.
A comment from a founder this week that stuck in my mind: "We're going to wait to announce this round until we're ready to raise the next one."
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