Katelin Holloway 💙
@katelin_cruse
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Always bet on the best of the human experience - community, belongingness, and connection. Always.
These are the things that make us feel. They allow us to see and feel seen. They breed love and compassion. They make a life worth living. Never bet against the things that make us
Sam Altman says that there's going to be a huge market and premium on "human, in person, fantastic experiences" in the next 5-10 years
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If you quit your job or were fired this week for standing up against racism and bigotry, hit me up. There are plenty of companies out there still hiring. Happy to share my network.
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The
@doodles
team won Basel because their vision is clear, their execution is flawless, their experiences are inclusive, and their people are absolutely best in class. Their quiet brilliance can’t be underestimated.
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2 year old just called syrup “pancake juice” and I’m never looking back.
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✨ Today’s the day — the launch of our debut fund here at
@sevensevensix
. I am so incredibly proud of our team!
Everlasting gratitude for our founders and our investor community for believing in our vision and supporting our values from day 0. 🙏💙
Alexis Ohanian's new VC firm Seven Seven Six has closed its $150 million first fund.
I spoke to the self-described "gregarious" former Reddit co-founder and
@katelin_cruse
about building in public and what they believe is a new look for a venture firm.
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This is your Wednesday morning reminder to shoot your shots, ladies. Your name deserves to sit atop cap tables and your email should live in LP investor update distribution lists! 👏
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A year ago today, I had finally saved up enough money to start angel investing. I had one goal: support badass women doing powerful things.
A year ago today, I wrote my first tiny check. Before the ink was dry, I knew I wanted to do more of this. Like for real. Like a lot.
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It’s pretty clear that most of us take this life for granted. This opportunity to love and be loved is so very precious. Here is your reminder that tomorrow is never a given. Do not squander a single second. 💙
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I am so excited to build with the
@doodles
team, it’s borderline obnoxious. LFG! 🙌🌈💙
Could not be more excited for you all to meet Katelin! She is going to have a pivotal role in the future of Doodles.
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2020 be damned! The future that sits before us is ours to shape. It's time to build.
🏛7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣🏛
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I took a moment yesterday to sit and be un-busy. It was all of 18 minutes. It was the first time I had been alone and un-busy for 18 straight minutes in over a year and a half. It was a profound and unsettlingly emotional experience. Please find a moment to be un-busy today.
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Some personal news: I have a dishwasher and more than one toilet in my house for the first time in 20 years.
Brb - gonna go pee by myself while a robot does my dishes. ✌️
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@baddestmamajama
“Don’t worry,” he whispered in my ear, “they used to call me a chubby chaser in high school. I think you’re hot.”
He was trying to make me feel better.
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Friday night business advice: It is your job as a leader to be wildly optimistic about the future while being fiercely sober about the present.
Good leaders know how to ride this line, while *great* leaders can do so with compassion, clarity, and authenticity.
GN 🌙💙
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I helped my mom make her first angel investment today. As a newly retired public school teacher, she thought investing wasn’t in her reach. It was all along; she just needed someone to demystify the process. Welcome to the
#femalefunderclub
, ma! 💙
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Damn. I wish I had a fraction of the confidence some of the men in my LinkedIn inbox seem to possess. 😂👎
A whole behavioral study or dissertation could be done on what’s occurring in there.
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🎉Big day here the firm!
There is massive responsibility in our work that many take for granted. We are committed to being great stewards of the business and phenomenal partners to each of our communities - our team, our founders, and our LPs.
We’re excited to announce we’ve closed $510M of funding across two vehicles in an oversubscribed round. This brings our total AUM to over $750M, in just over a year. We’re grateful to have some of the best institutional investors in the world supporting us.
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Just you wait until I have safe childcare again, inbox and calendar. Just. You. Wait. 🚀
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Don’t forget to set your leprechaun traps tonight! 🍀🌈
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An apparent 2nd grade debate between classmates: Who is the better soccer player? Messi or Ronaldo? My son with the shutdown: “You’re all wrong. It’s
@ChristenPress
.” That’s my kid! 👏
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The better we get at assessing our relationships, the better investors we become. The better investors we become, the more resources we have to thrive. Let’s focus on outcomes. 💙
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Who are the very best lead seed stage investors who care about women's health? My cup runneth over!
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I’m tired of typing rage tweets. Sending only love today. No toxic positivity. No thoughts and prayers. Just a commitment to sort out how to make it right. We will fix this. We will fix all of this. There is no other path. 💙
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In observance of
#InfertilityAwarenessWeek
, I’ll resurface the importance of implementing pregnancy loss leave. 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in miscarriage, leaving many women grieving in silence at work.
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I got to visit with my 97 year old grandma for the first time in 3 years recently. She does yoga every morning, loves her scotch, and is sharp as ever. I am so lucky to have this woman in my life. Twitter, meet Sally!
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The
@sevensevensix
Operator in Residence Program officially starts tomorrow and I AM SO EXCITED! YAYAYAYAYAYA! 🎉
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About to achieve my definitive childhood success metric: Be the house that gives out FULL SIZED CANDY BARS. 🍫🎃
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Some facts — brought to you by
@WomenWhoTech
:
1/ Fact: Only 2% of funding goes to women-led startups. For women of color, the stats are far more dismal at just 0.64%.
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My mom is coming in for the weekend for the first time in over a year. We get to hug, she gets to play with her grandkids, we get to share a meal. I’m normally better with words, but today is going to be mostly blubbery tears. I’m just so very grateful. 💙
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I have been feeling helplessly, hopelessly behind for nearly 2 years running now. There are never enough minutes in my days and I often feel as if I'm letting everyone around me down. I'm working on a healthier attitude, but today I'm feeling optimistic and very grateful.
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My oldest graduates from Kindergarten in the morning and I am a weepy mess. WTF. Loving another human this much is an undertaking that absolutely no one can prepare you for.
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A thought: We're moving out of "working remotely in a pandemic" to "working remotely in a newly flexible and distributed system". We should pause to stock of our habits and behaviors from the last year.
How are you rebalancing your priorities and efficiencies?
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It’s not often I tweet about the boss’s wife, but my goodness am I proud of
@serenawilliams
. As a mom, as a partner, and and as a professional - she’s everything we need in a role model today and everyday. Glad to see you back in the office, lady! 👏
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Happy Cake Day,
@alexisohanian
. I am so proud of what you have accomplished in this lifetime…and you’re just at the starting line. Thank you for sharing your gifts so generously with the world. Here’s to the next 40 years making the first 40 look like a footnote, Big Dog! 🎉🎂💙
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I've been working in tech with founders for over a decade. I still can't spell "entrepreneur" correctly the first time I type it. smdh.
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Just cancelled my
@Honest
diaper subscription after a solid 6 and a half year run. Please congratulate me; I’ve just unlocked new household capital *and* broken into the middle-aged bracket all in one click. ✨
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Please stop assuming every female looped into an email thread is an EA. kthxbai.
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“...when fathers take paid paternity leave, new mothers are buffered from stress and depression across the transition to parenthood.”
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Reeling from the recent US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, many companies are adopting new policies & benefits to support their employees. Several
@sevensevensix
founders have reached out to us for guidance. 🧵 1/
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Two dudes tried to break into our neighbor’s garage last night. Instead of wilding out,
@benramirez
just opened the window and asked them to please stop breaking into a garages - like generally. They said ok and I’m still shook.
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We'd been stressing out about a strange skin situation on our oldest's face for the last few weeks. Was it jaundice? Something more sinister? Oh... wait... no. The doctor informed us today IT'S A MASK TAN.🤦♀️
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GM and happy birthday to my sweet baby boy who turns 4 today! He’s spent half his life in quarantine, but has been my greatest adventure yet. May your heart always be so loving and the wind always at your back. 💙
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Angel investors who are interested in funding Black and Latinx founders with untraditional backgrounds - hit me up. I have a growing pipeline that I’d love to share!
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Your true company culture reveals itself when things aren’t going according to plan.
They never deviated from their mission. They never stopped building.
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My three year old and I both had a tsunami dream a few nights ago. So we updated our bug out kits (aka emergency kits) and walked through our family evacuation plans. The force is strong with this one. ✨
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We just hit 1,000 applications for our Operator in Residence Program at
@sevensevensix
! 🎉
The quality, authenticity, and humanity poured into these text blocks is absolutely unreal. I wish we could hire more than just three of you!
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We just sent out notices to the 1,100+ applicants that applied for the
@sevensevensix
Operator in Residence Program.
To say that we are humbled is an understatement. There is so much amazing talent ready to break into venture! I wish we could hire each and every one of you. 💙
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One of our operating principles at the firm is giving people space to shine. Alexis models this every day. Shine is infinitely brighter when you learn it’s not fixed. There are no shadows when every person has space to share their light! For that, I am very grateful.
I'm getting a ton of texts, tweets, and emails of congratulations, but
@katelin_cruse
led & won this
@doodles
deal.
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✨ That special feeling you get when a first time founder finally quits their 9to5.✨
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Microsoft is absolutely slaying the
#pandemicsupport
game. 12 weeks of paid "Pandemic School and Childcare Closure Leave" for employees who are parents? This is a yes for me, dawg. 👏
#paidfamilyleave
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I want to invest in the very best early stage breast health company. Who’s out there building for ( . )( . ) ???
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Nothing says Kindergarten Graduation better than a three piece blue velvet suit and dad’s favorite pocket square.
You are my whole heart and then some kid. Congratulations, Luca! 💙
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Just tried to explain NFTs to my 7 year old. After repeating "not FUDGE-ible, FUNG-ible" ten times, I went with the more embarrassing, but honest truth: "They're Pokémon cards for adults". 🥴 GN!
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Today is a big day for a lot of people I care about. With $RDDT hitting the exchange this morning, I know how much this moment means for so many Snoos. This has been decades in the making and, like any good milestone, it's a great opportunity for reflection.
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Checking in on my parent friends. Between the annual no-school-November (parent teacher confs, in-service days, Veterans Day, and Thanksgiving) and the onslaught of RSV, COVID, and a gnarly flu season — how’s everyone hanging in there?
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8 years (and 3 days ago), this bright little soul made me a mother. And while I know I’ve known him a million lifetimes over, that day changed everything. The love I have for this kid is unreal. Keep dancing, sweet boy! Happy (belated) birthday, my love! 💙
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✨ We are on the verge of a massive shift in this world of ours. Can you feel it? Are you ready? Prepare yourself. Don't get distracted by the noise. Seek clarity and move confidently. These moments don't come by often.
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I'm notoriously bad at asking for help, esp in a professional setting. I've worked really hard to get where I am in my career & I've had to overperform to secure my positions. To help break this habit, I decided at the start of lockdown to build my abundance mindset muscle.
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🚨STAYING HOME MEANS SAVING LIVES🚨
@reddit
Cofounder
@alexisohanian
Bought A Billboard In Times Square To Inform People About
#COVID19
via
@forbes
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I feel this in my bones.
I think a lot of people need to hear this:
You just went through 1.5 years of a profound ongoing threat to your health/wellbeing/life, social isolation, aggressive disinformation, political turmoil, and financial uncertainty.
OF COURSE you are not functioning at your peak.
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• ᴗ • • ᴗ • • ᴗ • • ᴗ • • ᴗ • • ᴗ •
a groundbreaking storytelling experience from Doodles x Pharrell Williams
coming summer 2024
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#NewNFTProfilePic
NFT by
@crypto_coven
— but really just an excuse to show off the lovely Hadar yet again.
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Get yourself a boss who not only celebrates and amplifies your work, but gives you the space, resources and support to be creative and successful in the first place. 👏
At
@sevensevensix
, we built an operating partner application process from first principles. Here's what we learned and where we know we can improve.
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Having a little silent mom-cry in the other room while listening to my kindergartener's engagement in a conversation about race & equality on Zoom.
Say what you will, but all teachers are underpaid,
@SFUnified
is first-class, and I have endless optimism for this generation. 💙
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If you’re not obsessed with the photos coming out of the James Webb space telescope this week — who are you and what do you know that we don’t? 🛸
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I’ve been grappling with the VC industry’s unbelievably opaque & warped org design for the last few years, obsessively trying to understand and evolve it. I’ve built no less than 30 differently models unbundling, re-stacking, and contorting the existing frameworks. No more.
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We have so much good work to do! Many thanks to
@garrytan
,
@alexisohanian
, and the entire
@Initialized
team for trusting me to help them build the next generation of thoughtful, inclusive companies. I’m a
#honeybadger
now, y’all! 🦡🚀
Making moves! Welcome aboard,
@katelin_cruse
! If you've heard me talk about
#PaidFamilyLeave
, it's because of her. Read all about our newest partner at
@Initialized
- we and our founders are lucky to have you!
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Screw the model. The model wasn’t made to evolve.
And so we start anew. Built from first principles, with people at the core, and broken free of the rigidity of its past.
Buckle up, Buttercup, we’ve got work to do. 🏴☠️
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I get so excited when I see a VC firm open up a job application to the public. I read through and share as many as I can with my networks. However, so long as firms continue to use this line as a qualification -- even for entry level roles -- we aren't going to make any progress.
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✨There is more than enough shine in this world for everyone. If you’re worried about someone taking some of yours, you’re not ready for the spotlight.✨
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Legit sat next to a group of young women who were having a conversation about a cool skirt thing that had built in shorts. They went on and on about it and it took every fiber of my being not to yell out IT’S CALLED A SKORT, CHILDREN! and I have never felt more old. The end.
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She said what she said. And I'm grateful she did. Rest in peace, Madeleine. 🕊
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Possibly the best decision of quarantine: Watching every single
@Marvel
movie in Universe chronological order.
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The venerable
@MacConwell
hosted an AMA with the
@sevensevensix
Operating Partners today and I honestly didn't know I could like this human more than I already did.
Thank you, Mac, for sharing your wisdom and your time with us. You are, indeed, a rare breed! 💙
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Many of you are processing your own emotions this evening. Please also take a moment to think about how others in your community may be internalizing today's events. Consider what you can do to proactively support your team. Some tactical suggestions below...
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I turned 40 a few months ago and immediately started getting magazines like this is the mail unsolicited. This is how it happens, witches. My transformation has begun.
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I vividly remember the day I learned
@alexisohanian
was expecting to bring a child into this world. It was really early in the pregnancy and they weren't sharing the news with anyone just yet. I sat across from him, seeking advice.…
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Join
@alexisohanian
and me this Tuesday at the Meet Our Fund event! The pitch table is reversed: We'll be pitching YOU our firm
@sevensevensix
with
@inside
and
@Jason
. Signup here:
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Honeybees are tight.
New study shows honeybee venom can kill breast cancer cells within ONE HOUR. Who wants to build a honeybees-for-boobs startup? I will fund.
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I parted my hair in the middle today to test my relevance.
I look like a gd dork.
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Gang - there is something special happening with our
@sevensevensix
Operator in Residence job posting. I've been a people & culture exec for over a decade, so things like reviewing job apps should be routine. We tried something different with our approach and - omg - I'm 😭😭😭!
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Doodles x Flow = ✨
A limitless universe with fully customizable Doodles is exactly where I want to be. A partnership for the ages! 🙌
So why did we choose Flow for Doodles 2?
We’re able to create a frictionless on-chain app that lets mainstream fans customize their Doodle without limits.
a thread 🧵
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Yo.
@MrBeast
’s
@Feastables
released their new flavor and my kids did an official taste test. Y’all aren’t ready for these mini beast boys! 💀
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There are few tasks more important than caring for others.
As founders, it's your job to take care of your team. As investors, it's our job to make sure you're being cared for, as well.
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I am obsessed with investing. Yes, it’s my job, but I’ve realized that this is the lens in which I view all.
What am I investing in? How are my investments doing? How can I improve the outcomes of my investments? What am I not investing in?
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It's not an employer or an employee market right now. It's a recruiter's market.
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