Maya Bakhai (is hiring robinhood & snapchat devs)
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there are a few things that stereotypical Silicon Valley VC's are missing and will probably continue to miss:
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had fun doing my first keynote speech at my alma mater
@NYUStern
. Everything in my life is coming full circle!
shoutout to
@loriberenberg
for her 18-year old wisdom,
@paulcanetti
and
@simonbaumer
for exposing me to the startup world &
@Crocs
for helping me get my first bag 🫶
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which females are angel investing right now? have two deals I want to bring more women into
please DM xoxo
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Amazing trip to Boston!
Got to speak about opportunities in consumer and culture :)
Main takeaway:
@Harvard
business school loves
@dirtyverse
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1. creator economy is actually SMB tech.
There's a new class of digital small business owners making 4, 5, 6 figures online (over $30 Billion spent on influencer marketing + OnlyFans doing > $4B per/year in payouts) that are willing to pay for tooling to help professionalize.
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2. Applied AI startups that don’t require training their own models aka “chatgpt wrappers” have all the benefits of a SaaS business model with free R&D (as models improve) + none of the computing-cost scaling headaches. These teams are ridiculed by VCs but are raking in cash 😂
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@naomiosaka
just flipped the script... and asked her fan for advice! Talk about humility. The most successful people are always trying to learn and know the importance of listening 💪
#youngceo
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was chatting with a VC the other day telling him what I was excited about. he kept interjecting every second to offer an intro to someone. It was in the spirit of "being helpful" but really annoying and he wasn't really listening. started checking myself with founders.
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overcommunicate they said
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Thank you
@chanel
and
@AmberAtherton
for inviting me to speak on executive presence and building your personal brand 🫶
Shoutout to my mom who always told me “impress people with your mind and not your looks”
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moo
a16z: gives you “200 million dollars”
cowfund: gives you high cowuture
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i kindof love being the underdog vc fund
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“Meet the women who_____”
we insisted on taking a photo in the style of art gallerists that exclusively cater to war criminals
@spice_cap
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Have 0 chill today. So proud of
@ravibakhai
and
@narbhar2
who are presenting
@the402HQ
at
@ycombinator
demo day. You guys deserve everything 🥺💗
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Hope vc twitter doesn’t taint this project 🤲
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5. Some of the best deep tech investments I’ve found have been grant funded to date. Let the Department of Defense and Space Force do the diligence first. They have a higher bar than VCs. You want to back the folks that already have customers and don’t need your money :)
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Thank you
@rrhoover
@vedikaja_in
for putting this together!
aaaand
@realshelbyt
for quote + all the legends from
@WOMBO
@symphonyos_
@OnBunches
teams <3
xoxoxo
Spice Capital
GP:
@MayaBakhai
Spice Capital is investing in founders building for the future of internet native consumers. Spice invests early stage across crypto, capital, and community.
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4. 55% of Gen-Z investors own crypto. Most of SV hates crypto, but if an 18 y/o starts their investing journey with that level of volatility + risk tolerance, imagine their retirement portfolio. Consumerizing access to liquid, alternative assets is an opportunity.
source: FINRA
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If I look at the most successful startups in my portfolio objectively (by revenue/# ofusers/market share) it doesn’t correlate at all to the brand of VCs who backed them (“tier 1s” /usual suspects)
Lesson: Investors don’t make your business !!
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lesson for the world: don't sleep on
@_nityas
!!!
I'm so honored to be on this cap table -learning from the smartest people in the space. Nobody has cracked the crypto onboarding dilemma until now. I can't wait for
@usecapsule
to be out in the wild 🥹
We are proud to back
@usecapsule
- a toolkit for transaction signing that will (finally) enable seamless onboarding to crypto. They handle the hard stuff so you can focus on serving your customers!
Congratulations
@_nityas
,
@adeets_22
+ the rest of this absolutely stacked team🌶️
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VCs love to say community round is “low signal” bc it puts their jobs at risk. Beautifully executed oversubscribed community round
@beehiiv
🤌
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crypto is already social investing. VC is late to the party.
@PartyRound
is bringing social investing to venture capital. raise money from your fren$$ and community + share the upside and collect NFTs along the way? i'm IN. Congrats
@sarahchase
@JacobyBrandon
:)
Party Round lets startups raise funding rounds from their communities, then reward investors with exclusive NFTs
Social investing is going crypto
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the joys of running your own vc fund <3
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3. The rise of short-form video makes consumer really interesting again. Algorithmic feeds literally bring your content to your target audience for FREE. Mad Men era. EX: duolingo, liquid death
Also this tweet is good:
Some thoughts (from a biased VC consumer internet investor, prev PE SaaS investor) on why the IPO market been willing to take consumer companies public, but not SaaS:
The vast majority of recent/rumoured IPOs of VC/PE cos have been consumer (internet):
• Cava
• Skims
• SHEIN…
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thot leadership:
bullish on media
taste & curation becoming important again when we are all drowning in content
hospitality/luxury CEO bc they understand how to make something "cool"
that' the thesis for why i invested in
@dirtyverse
All-In is officially becoming a media company. I think this is the best media brand Jason has created in his life and he has created many, and this will go far.
Interesting that he wants hospitality/luxury background for CEO…
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Congrats to
@Glowbar_Inc
on closing their $10M Series A!!!! 🚨Hear from Glowbar's co-founder
@nehagov
on how learnings from operating Glowbar led her to launch
@BonsideInc
- the FIRST financial product designed for brick & mortar <3
lesson here is don't sleep on Neha!!!! 😘
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hi!
co-hosting a cute panel with
@Dani_Vans
for
#NYTechWeek
featuring:
🌶️
@daisandconfused
(
@dirtyverse
)
🌶️
@jamiew
(
@heyglif
)
🌶️
@MeghHV
(
@symphonyos_
)
🌶️
@GoPreezy
(
@beehiiv
)
🌶️
@benzion_b
(
@WOMBO
)
RSVP below:
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Love my weekend chats with
@denk_tweets
….all I can say is
@beehiiv
has an insane roadmap. Don’t sleep!!
our very first investment out of
@spice_cap
has a special place in my heart 🫶
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So funny how fast narratives change in web3
1 year ago I pitched an investor who said investing in consumer layer was low-iq 😂
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Group chat w. shared bank account —> social network w. shared bank account 💕💕💕 proud of all my friends working on this
Today, FWB introduces a new kind of social network
Owned by the creatives and builders who believe in the promise of a better internet
𝓦𝓮𝓵𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓗𝓸𝓶𝓮
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if your only value-add is intros….focus on yourself bro
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In the last 2 weeks I’ve had at least 1 new person per day hit me about starting/moving newsletter to
@beehiiv
sooooo sick.
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🚨Live now!
@richkleiman
interviews
@naomiosaka
on what it takes to be a
#youngceo
on and off the court😍
@boardroom
@overtime
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“We’re going to see more people [like Kloss] positioning themselves as patrons of media, because media takes curation, it’s about tastemaking more, maybe, than traffic scale, proprietary data,” said Alioto.
Read
@daisandconfused
break down the i-D deal!
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has anyone built an easy to use tool to track "proof of fandom" on chain - linking web2 media activity w. wallet?
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Kindof loving this new vibe of founders being like f it I’m going to become a content creator and do my own company marketing
Good examples:
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THIS WEDNESDAY!!
Get ready for hot takes from the spice gang!
Cc
@Dani_Vans
@benzion_b
@daisandconfused
@MeghHV
@GoPreezy
RSVP below:
#nytechweek
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praying for AWS credits 🙏🏼
Special thanks to our first panel in our Female Founders Forum in partnership with
@nyuniversity
. Nicole Ripka, Maya Bakhai, Susan J. Schofer, Lily Bernicker and Tracey Amara all rocked the discussion on "Women in VC Panel: Building the Road to Equity."
#WomensHistoryMonth
#NYU
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Dirt was brought up at a friend’s birthday who doesn’t work in tech. First time I’ve heard a portco mentioned at a non-crypto event since starting
@spice_cap
. The brand is strong!
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A lot of homies out there who don’t know you can make friends on the internet and are lonely
“Interest-based” is pretty wide open
aaaand that’s my thot leadership for today happy july
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bakhai family group chat cuts deep
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@sammskiii
@rrhoover
and
@vedikaja_in
aggregated a bunch for signature block that i used for my fund deck - . highly recommend!!!
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SXSW, a continuous Uber trip between proper and soho house until you run out of money
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crypto twitter has no retention 💫
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Congrats
@AnonPlatform
! We’ve all gotten used to chatting with an AI for help but what if you could take the task to the finish line? That’s where comes in -creating secure authentication so your agent can work for you. Proud of this team 🌶️
1/ 📣 Big news from Anon! We've raised $6.5M from
@usv
and
@AbstractVC
to be the Integration Platform for the AI internet.
Also announcing:
🌐 Initial customer launches
🌐 Expanded list of 10+ integrations
🌐 Public developer docs
🌐 Our "Messenger API" product
Read more 👇
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true empathy is making sure to send an extra 'lol' text right after you message your best friend in case someone (their boss/BF) sees the most recent imessage convo on their computer
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“Dirt Media is open for business. Want to sell us your newsletter? Bang my line” -
@daisandconfused
Congratulations to
@dirtyverse
on their first acquisition!!!
We are very excited to announce that Dirt Media has acquired
@tylerwatamanuk
’s design newsletter, Sitting Pretty.
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rom-coms as an investment:
@anyonebutyou
w/
@sydney_sweeney
on track to do $100M in sales this year. cost $25M to produce. solid 4x.
written by
@ilanawolpert
. if you want to fund her next movie HMU!
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nasdaq up almost 40% this year..
my gut feeling based on investor convos is that most people missed the bottom and are apeing in now. If you get paid to manage money and you aren't up 40% what are u doing?
risk assets are ripe for takeoff IMO as people try to catch up on the Ls
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Looks like hockey stick 🏒 to me
@symphonyos_
shipping and crushing !! this is what happens when you know your customer inside & out 🫶
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cringe photo = amazing IRL experience always <3 shoutout to
@alexxzzhang
and
@fkpxls
for making this happen.
not pictured
@mal_levy
@divine_economy
@lovegreg
Incredible jam session w/ our
#DAOTherapy
crew- such brilliant minds
@fkpxls
@MayaBakhai
@scottfits
@AustinGreen
@rarityjan
@alexxzzhang
@nicknaraghi
@spenciefy
@fkpxls
DAO leadership ✅
Crowd development✅
Emergent product roadmaps✅
Contributor Satisfaction ✅
And more.
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have had folks express interest in joining our
@dosa_dao
nft wallet on
@loredotxyz
. any homies/whales in my network who want to contribute funds and help us collect digital art from south asian creators?
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hey everyone -
@jacksondahl
office hours Monday 4pm in Breckinridge. dm him directly for details. Come ready to pitch.
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loved seeing
@dirtyverse
as a source next to New York Times and Washington Post on
@DayOneAgency
's Gen Z Study
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I keep reading clad as chad lmao
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it’s not you it’s m..acroeconomic conditions
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web 3 4 and 5 changing the m0d3L!!!!
What if instead of founders pitching investors, investors pitched to communities?
Proud to welcome
@a16z
@PaceCap
@KindredVentures
@sparkcapital
and
@ljin18
to the FWB family through a $10M governance proposal.
Here’s how we did it, why did it, and how your community can too.
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ball on a budget trader joe's cheese board construction:
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I learned from high school to never underestimate
@nehagov
. Don't sleep on
@BonsideInc
or you will regret it. check out asap.
CONGRATS Neha!!!! so proud 😳😊🤍
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My very expensive children 💕
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cooking 👩🍳
@wowbestie
Lauren is quitting her job at the company formerly known as Facebook to build Lumos.
Lumos is a crypto-focused media company empowering women and people of color towards financial freedom
We’re super excited to be supporting her on this journey.
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brown parents know the real value of this company
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who are the best first-check vcs for food&bev?
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Today on the show
@riabhutoria
sits down with
@_kinjalbshah
and
@manasilvora
to chat about their new DAO,
@KomorebiFund
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missing the fun days of participating in DAOs -
@jokerace_xyz
v3 is our only hope to bring back that magic.
"*literally any company or community* can use us to acquire and retain users by incentivizing these users to use their product ...and campaign publicly for their brand"
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The first ba to trade memecoins
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read it and weep
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I never wrote this
But
TLDR, check out
1)
@symphonyos_
2) IG: drinkhurray
3)
@dirtyverse
And
@spice_cap
thesis is:
𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑡-𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒔 🥲
Venture capitalists have given up on the idea that they’ll make their career finding the next hit consumer marketplace, retail brand or media company.
Dealmaker by
@KateClarkTweets
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this headline was misleading
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Just found out onlyfans ceo is brown. Our freaking queen
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this is the best writing of the week please stop what you are doing and read it.
@daisandconfused
with another banger
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