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Does anyone else get confused when someone says “my partner,” and you’re not sure whether it’s their life partner or their partner in venture capital
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@meliarobin
This is so incredibly stupid.
"OMG there was pressure at a startup?!?!?"
"When a manager found out an employee had Covid they told them to sign off" -> this is a good thing?
The ratio of female/male founded companies is like 1:30 but the ratio of bs hit pieces like this is 1:1
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@fasc1nate
Startup founder.
Outside in, glamorous. At best, you’re constantly flirting with disaster for years. 9 times out of 10, the company you put a lot of your identity behind will fail. Not for the faint of heart!
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@fasc1nate
Leslie Knope is really mean to Jerry/Larry/Gary. So is basically everyone else from Pawnee
Also Jim/Pam from the Office
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Excited to spend the rest of my life with you, Lex.
3 months of lying to you about this has aged me about 30 years. Glad that’s over, and we can celebrate!
Thanks again
@halldeslumieres
for letting me commandeer
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VC Titles are so easy to understand
Partner means Partner unless it means 22-year old associate
It can also mean senior associate, principal, VP, or Managing Partner
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The most important message I’ve ever gotten.
From my Palestinian friend ❤️
They don’t want Hamas either.
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Fundraising can be a crazy & hectic time for founders.
So, retrofitted an Airtable template in order to keep our portfolio companies organized.
Open sourcing it below. Hope people find it helpful as you have conversations with investors!
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Would be curious to understand the round construction, especially from First Round’s perspective and given the presence of two multi-stage funds.
Let’s assume the following:
- $5M entry check (let's say Khosla and Index do $12M and angels do $1M to round out the $30M)
- Assume
Scoop: Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has raised money for—you guessed it—a new AI startup from Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures & First Round Capital. Agrawal was fired by Elon Musk immediately after his takeover of this website in late 2022.
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i’ve cried more in the past couple days than I have since I was a 5th grader finding out about 9/11
my family is safe, but some of their friends are missing or dead. the picture below is my cousin’s missing friend
and yet, Israel and its people will come back from this stronger
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Recently, I met the biggest VC d-bag I’ve met in a long time
Made me appreciate all you lesser VC d-bags a lot more ❤️
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“Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach, teach [VC]”
- Jack Black, School of Rock
Was great to be back at Stanford chatting about how my arms stay warm wearing vests and the best ski chalets in Jackson Hole
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Nobody:
All of VC Twitter:
10 years ago I was walking to Philz before a meeting. There was a starving dog on the road - I stopped to give him my business card. The next day I got a call asking to invest in the dog’s company. The company was Figma, and the dog was Dylan Field.
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@tylerhnorris
I actually think we should resurrect the dinosaurs and then give them back the land since an asteroid colonized the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years ago
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Getting canceled is now a go-to-market motion
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The interesting bit about
@farcaster_xyz
is not Web3, although that ethos is important.
It's Open Source Social.
People are suggesting new features for the product all the time.. and then they just build it, permissionlessly. Changes the way you interact with the product.
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Was feeling a little lost today but decided to internalize the lessons from a fellow alum of my high school.
“Dream, laugh, and reach for the stars.” - Elizabeth
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@kane
This person has dozens of tweets calling out Israel. Conveniently calling out anti-semitism when it suits their purpose and otherwise uses their own veiled version.
As a Jewish person, really appreciate what Garry Tan is doing - and even if I didn’t, it’s not anti-semitism 🤦♂️
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@Noahpinion
I wish this were true, but this has way more to do with the NYU student losing their job than them realizing the atrocities
In the spirit of turning the other cheek, I’m fine with letting it go if they backtrack it and write a 1000-word essay on their mistake (college after all)
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The three constants in life:
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. People posting "this is the best feature Apple has ever made" with that 6 digit code as engagement bait
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not a hero but do solemnly swear to not post a picture of my wedding in 2 months saying that I “signed the best termsheet of my life”
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If you’re selling a B2B product, the Hierarchy of Needs for the customer:
1. We’re screwed if we don’t have this
2. Drives Revenue
3. Reduces Cost
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Launching
@somethingnewp0d
with
@stephmui
today!
Lucky to have
@dunn
as our first guest chatting mental health and entrepreneurship + his book "Burn Rate"
Give it a listen and then subscribe, unsubscribe, and resubscribe - or whatever our AI Algorithm gods deem worthy today
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I didn’t believe in numerology until I realized the number of circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno is equal to the number of boarding groups for American Airlines
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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the most important piece of climate legislation in US history, representing a fundamental inflection point.
@drusenko
and I wrote a climate founders' guide to the IRA. Thanks
@TechCrunch
for publishing!
Summary thoughts ⬇️
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How to show "traction without traction" when fundraising
What you can do when you don't have revenue, yet ⏬
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Walking up a hill in San Francisco on a call should be an Olympic sport
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“Going to name my kid Beth”
“Why?”
“B for Bitcoin and ETH for Ethereum”
We’ve had a good run, Humanity, but the end is probably nigh.
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awwww ur feeling lost?
here’s another AI market map to find your way home 🤗
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Many VCs see the job as “sales” with sourcing the currency. Structurally, some firms build against this strategically.
However, the job should be “customer success” for most folks.
Building real relationships/trust is harder to measure so gets neglected for the next “deal”.
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@pratyushbuddiga
@rabois
@patrickc
@sama
Does seem like the most important companies that is the case - perhaps something to do with startups younger folks are more likely to be successful with (consumer-oriented vs b2b). Dearth of the former for now
Found this chart to be interesting on age distribution in general
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Before Instacart, we had Webvan
Before Chewy, we had Pets [dot] com
Before the buzzy legal AI startups, we had Atrium
And many more..
Sometimes in order to build something new, you need to learn from somethings old
On this week's pod, we chatted with
@fizz_app
's
@TeddySolomon11
founders/vc's too quickly dismiss startup ideas that have been tried and failed because they underestimate timing and execution
for example, Fizz is an anonymous social media platform for college students, and although the description could be applied to YikYak and a dozen other
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Over the past couple years, I’ve interviewed ~250 founders who sold their companies for > $50M.
Can count on one hand the folks who are/were psyched to be at their acquirer one year in.
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Not having “mark unread” on iMessage is one of the tragedies of our time
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Whoever was running Disney Channel Original Movies in the late 90's / early 2000s is a certified genius
Zenon 1 & 2, Brink, Luck of the Irish, Halloweentown, Smart House, Johnny Tsunami.. so many classics
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Palantir’s mafia is so good that even Partiful was started by an alum
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Spent 3.5 years as a crisis/suicide hotline volunteer counselor. 3 tips for friends who are trying to help:
1. Listen
2. Be there
3. Don’t rush to give advice unless they are in harm’s way
Be a mirror, not an air traffic controller.
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Some people pivot... but who pivots back & ends up surviving to tell the tale?!
On this week's pod, we chat with Gaurav Misra and
@dwightchurchill
from
@getcaptionsapp
, who just raised their $25M Series B from Kleiner Perkins
We cover:
- building a premium consumer product with
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That time of year for our Peruvian parrot friends… and they’ve multiplied
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The 6 archetypes of startup investor collaborators - a guide for investors
Hot Deal Peddlers - they tell what everyone else already knows. In other news, the sky is blue, and water is wet
Vibers - you may not even invest in the same spaces, but you like the person / learn from
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Historically, rollups in private equity/large companies have capitalized on supply-side economies of scale.
However, in the past few years whether it's with Amazon FBA, Dev Tools, Gaming, etc., rollups have been reborn digitally focusing on demand-side economies of scale.
1/x
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My personal most predictive founder-based heuristic has been if I think they are a "killer"
The type of person who is relentless and will knock down doors, but do so thoughtfully
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One of the smartest and best people I know started her new gig
@AmplifyPartners
!
So lucky to call you a friend
@barrnanas
and even more excited to have someone to carpool to Menlo with
Day one
@AmplifyPartners
✅!
I've known this team for the past few years, and have always admired them, 1) because of their deep technical expertise, judgment, and approach to early-stage investing, and 2) because they are really good humans. Excited for this new chapter!
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When the fire alarm goes off, but those CROs aren’t going to talk to themselves
@alexa_grabell
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Updating my profile picture, I realized I’m a grown man in my 30s who owns 6 onesies AMA
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Favorite Broad Tech Podcasts / Newsletters:
Podcasts
◽️Invest Like the Best
◽️Starting Greatness
◽️Lex Fridman (not all tech)
◽️Acquired
◽️All-in
Newsletters
◽️Not Boring
◽️The Generalist
◽️Lenny's
◽️Strictly VC & Axios Pro Rata for news
◽️Technically
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How to Build and Activate your Angel Investor Dream Team 👼
Some thoughts on the key components as you think about making sure you have the right angels & non lead investors in your corner⬇️
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For this week, we have The King of SADNESS himself
@TheRealCorpBro
on:
- Building a 750K person following off tech sales humor
- The nitty gritty of A+ content creation
- When to let go of Corporate Bro
As good of a podcast guest as he is bad at fantasy football, listen here:
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With a couple more wins, these two could crack the Top 50!
Really excited for new up-and-comer whippersnappers to the Business Insider top early stage investor list 🙏🚀💪
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@johncoogan
or the Death Star. $852 quadrillion to build it but can you imagine the ballooning compliance SaaS TAM
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When you tell them you’ll definitely take out the trash and do the dishes, but somehow it didn’t get done
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If someone told me the amount of golden doodles has increased by 9,000% since the start of the pandemic I’d be like nah that’s way too low
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planning for our wedding next year and evaluating Rabbis to officiate our ceremony reminds me a lot about startup investing
Here are the 8 crazy lessons you can take away 🧵👇
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Just had a magical user moment with
@getsummari
because I was very behind on
@packyM
articles, and it condensed the ones that I might have otherwise skipped (sorry!) extremely well into a 1 minute read. Very cool.
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My first gut check of investment opportunities is through a quick mental model of Potential / Kinetic Energy
1. How much potential energy does this have?
-> Market, defensibility, etc.
2. Can they turn potential energy into kinetic?
-> Team, execution risk, etc.
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Prompt: Make our logo look enough like OpenAI’s to trick people, but not enough to allow them to file a lawsuit
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Walked by a sales bro in SF who yelled at this phone "fucking Google it. You're an SVP"
Made me sad for the day in 2 months when they'll say "fucking ChatGPT it"
Just doesn't have the same umph
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In investing circles, there's this idea of ZIRPy founders. Think of individuals at large tech companies who saw "starting a company" as just their next cushy job
The founders of
@lula_____
are whatever the opposite of that is
On this week's
@somethingnewp0d
,
@MattVanzz
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What kind of person can turn $35K into $8M trading meme stocks?
A couple years ago,
@imkevinxu
was a PM at YouTube who used to work at Stripe. The type of person who could have been your coworker, friend, or person you'd see in the office halls. What you wouldn't have known
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Maybe they’ll go viral on TikTok or whatever, but kids these days have no idea what the OG social media thrill was and that was getting poked on Facebook
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The combinations of consecutive 3-word phrases I hear most in my home, in order:
1. Product-Led Sales
2. Take out trash
3. I love you
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@mehdirhasan
What a terrible comparison. Like hilariously bad. If some right-winger made an analogy like this, you’d lead the show with it mocking them (and rightfully so)
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Few people understand that the origin of crypto comes from “Cry PTO.” Individuals who hated their day jobs were looking for time off or “PTO.”
The best way to do so? Decentralization
Thus, cry-PTO was born.
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.
@chrisprucha
has spent his whole life accelerating
Growing up in an automotive family in Detroit, Chris left Michigan to join Apple in 2011. After two short years, Chris left to cofound
@NotionHQ
before starting
@Origin_io
in the 3D Printing Space
Chris is now a leading voice
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Trying to sign a virtual form with your mouse is a great way to stay humble
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My new favorite time zone is being on the east coast and working west coast hours
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Three year anniversary of something I still think about a lot
In this world you either crank that soulja boy or it cranks you
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So proud of you and
@getpocus
!
Love you and know this is just another step of your world conquering journey 🙂
1/ Excited that
@getpocus
raised $23M in funding to transform how go-to-market teams use data to drive revenue. This round was led by
@Coatuemgmt
(backers of
@figma
@NotionHQ
@SnowflakeDB
), with participation from
@firstround
,
@BoxGroup
,
@gtmfund
,
@mantisVC
.
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So proud of you
@stephmui
! Had the honor of being your cofounder and feel so lucky that
@2020_fund
had the opportunity to invest. Very meta 😎.
It's incredible that a belief in the power in numbers has now turned into Pin. LFG!
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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was the Day the Earth Stood Still in startup land in March of 2023. It was, after all, the 3rd largest bank failure in the U.S. and the largest since the 2008 Financial Crisis.
Someone in the middle of it providing these innovating
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Happy Valentine’s Day to the girl that will get a margarita with me even though we’re in Napa 😎
@alexa_grabell
📸:
@DispoHQ
, which apparently lets you make art
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allow me to be hyperbolic to say I truly believe this is one of the most iconic moments in US history
Back in November, 1999, John Carpenter took part in the first season of the American version of the long-running game show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Hosted by the late Regis Philbin, the quiz show includes three 'lifeline' options to help contestants answer particularly
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Might be a little bit biased (😬) but one of my all time favorite episodes of 20VC with
@annimaniac
and
@HarryStebbings
!
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The Definitive Running Thread of Templates for Thinkboi Tweets 👇
(Also, I do realize the irony of using the thread/finger down but like... work with me)
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Wear this hat proudly every day and even more so today
Having lived in California and now New York, I used to get questions from others wanting me to explain myself being from Texas as if they had some moral high ground
Many of these people are now realizing they do not
The University of Texas at Austin said it would keep its community safe. And it is.
@UTAustin
called in Texas State Troopers to disperse the pro-terror mob.
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Witnessing athletes at their peak performance just makes you thankful you were there
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No one:
Literally zero people:
Not a single human in the history of the Earth:
@HarvardHBS
Cases: As they stared off into the distance pondering the meaning of life, their enterprise sales strategy became crystal clear
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