Mercedes Bent
@mercebent
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Building smthng new. Venture Partner @Lightspeedvp💁🏾♀️ @Stori_MX @investwithAtlas @Beek_io @Fidu_La @getHoneylove. Consumer. Fintech. SciFi.
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2011
Best way to fundraise? Tell investors what you’re going to do in 3 months. Do it. Set up another call. And then do it again.
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Fern Mandelbaum killing it discussing joy-span as the answer to longevity aka the women's version of biohacking :)
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Fleet dashcams for commercial vehicles. Full integration with telematics for video exceptions, driver coaching and accident video. Live view. In &/or Out recording.
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i got to try the Meta RayBan Display glasses last week. favorite feature: google maps navigation for walking.
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is openAI going to do email because i already started my daughter's Gmail account and would like to know now if I should switch
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consumer = harder to build, easy invest in. enterprise = easier to build, easier to invest in. there's a reason VCs love b2b
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Your body speaks truth. Your brain tells stories. TWO SYSTEMS running your life — end the war. Watch. Touch a leaf. Heal.
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New Mexico made history over the weekend, becoming the first state in the country to offer free child care for all.
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3/ Doordash's covid vintage so pretty for a while! 60 month dip ... post covid?
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2/ Nubank ARPAC cohorts the steepness, the trend, the S curve of older cohorts!
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Beautiful cohort charts appreciation post.... ....in honor of that insane chatGPT chart 1/ ChatGPT the smile, the trend, the plateau!
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consumer businesses, even OpenAI, need to cross-sell. 1 key to doing so is minimize choices for users. OpenAI is doing this well with Atlas (live for 12 days). There are only 7 buttons you can click instead of clicking Atlas (excluding left navigation). Cross-sell is super
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WHAT!! babygirl just started grabbing our faces and “kissing” our cheeks (basically touches her head) i was not prepared for these surprise explosively cute moments!!
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As we wait for @nasa @RocketLab @blueorigin EsCAPADE / New Glenn-2 Launch, don't forget, our 2025 GSPC Photo Contest is closing 12/31/25..! Will the EsCAPADE launch win? Stay tuned! 5 Categories... In the meantime, one of 2024's best by Max Evans @_mgde_
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Huge congrats to @arifj who is on an absolute tear - 2 IPOs in 2 months with Navan and Netskope. Arif is one of the best early stage investors enterprise investors in all of VC. I have learned a lot from you. Congrats!!
What an incredible day at @Nasdaq celebrating @Navan’s IPO. Congratulations to @arielcoco, @itwig, and the entire team on this milestone. Five years ago, as COVID shut down global travel, Navan’s business was hit hard. But what happened next was a masterclass in resilience.
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voice mode ChatGPT is increasingly replacing my podcast listening hours during long solo drives
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help my inboxes are flooded….please talk to Mercetease my ai agent in case she can answer first
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people who win a hand in poker on the river by getting a triple when others had 2 pair.....are just cut out for success
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We are thrilled to be finalists for Innovation in Crypto & Web3 by Benzinga! Our Bankless Payroll product was created in direct response to the issues caused by Operation Chokepoint 2.0 - when firms and individuals working in crypto were unjustly debanked by the mainstream
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people think systems of record are only for enterprise. But: LinkedIn .....record of professional contacts Notes/Granola .....record of conversations Spotify .....record of my favorite music Flo ......record of cycles
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cohorts are King in consumer land. 3 things that matter about cohorts: Shape Trend & Asymptote This chart is insane on all 3 vectors.
This chart is so insane it looks fake. Huge businesses (plural) will be built on top of this chart.
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Unknowns in consumer ai tech stack: Memory - how it will unfold Rights ownership and management Voice as interface How to not just observe but change GEO
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most durable business models: networks platforms systems of record 2 of the 3 are frequently consumer led models
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ABOUT THE BOOK Transformed by the Light – Now What?!! by Carlton Newman is a moving, true story of divine intervention, personal awakening, and the extraordinary transformation that can occur when faith meets surrender. Set against the backdrop of the early 1970s, the book
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