Michael Karnjanaprakorn
@mikekarnj
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I run Choop (my personal holdco for weird ideas) and @TuringCapital
Joined May 2007
Should Alex build this?. AI powered protein tracking app. Just take a photo. Track your protein intake.
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I want this for TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.
Roger is an AI SDR that automates outbound sales and follows up 24/7. Connect your email and LinkedIn— Roger scans 300M+ profiles, writes & sends personalized cold emails & LinkedIn messages, follows up, and books meetings. You just show up and close.
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RT @aaron_epstein: It's now possible for small, high-agency teams – even solo founders – to build multi-billion dollar companies with as li….
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Cool new app from some folks I used to work with!.
new project: multiplayer AI groupchats. chord is a messaging app that integrates custom AI models into your groupchats. the llms hav full context on your group chat history and participants. it can help you brainstorm, roast your friends, or anything else an LLM can do, but now
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Would love to see the churn rate % for these AI apps racing to $10M. At 10% monthly churn, you're basically at zero in ten months. If you're adding users to just keep up, then you're just dying a slow death.
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If I could give new parents one tip: take more videos in the first 3 years. I took tons of photos, but videos are what make you feel like you’re back in that moment.
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"Hamal shares the sentiment of quite a few AI founders these days: the only metric that matters is bottom-line.".
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Seed-Strapping . Raising one seed round and then sprinting to profitability as fast as you can, never raising again. (h/t @gethalfbaked).
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Someone should just build a chrome extension that allows you to chat with any website.
Hot take:. Chrome literally has zero problems, you don’t need a new browser. Just use Chrome like a normal person.
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Exactly why I deleted my LinkedIn.
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“What’s your criteria for picking what to work on?”. Honestly? I don’t have one. Trying to optimize too early is what kills most good/weird ideas. I’m following anything that gets me excited. But most ideas go nowhere. There’s a huge gap between thinking and doing. If.
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RT @signulll: writing the code is the easy part now. the bottlenecks are:. - defining the right product (insight, taste, timing).- distribu….
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Everyone I'm working with right now is working on multiple projects / companies.
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The weirder, the better.
The cycle of pre-seed investing:. 1) Invest in weird, overlooked (but high impact) stuff.2) Weird, overlooked stuff becomes hot.3) Weird, overlooked stuff now becomes consensus (hence uninvestible for you).4) Find new weird, overlooked stuff.5) Go back to step 1).
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Vibe Shifts. - Stealth Wealth > Flexing. - Bootstrapped Revenue > VC Round. - HoldCo > Boring Biz. - SF > NYC.
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Unless you're solving a hard technical problem, you don't need to raise a VC round anymore. It's no longer a flex to announce big fundraising rounds. Now a red flag.
VC is dying. If I were starting a company today, I wouldn’t raise any. Founders don’t need it anymore. With AI, it’s possible to go far with little outside capital. “$X raised” used to be the flex. Now it’s ARR and MRR. Two years ago, no one put these metrics in their bios —.
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