Neil Devani
@neildevani
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Investing in what the world needs @NecessaryVC
Los Angeles, CA
Joined April 2009
VC podcasts should be about fundraising, investing, and building. Too many are about politics, the news, or other propaganda. So I made my own. Check out E1 of Money Moves w/ @mhdempsey from @compoundvc about hitting 100x multiples feat. @kesarvarma from @upfrontvc
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Glamdring and Shadowfax go the hardest. Shadowfax (YC S26) - the fastest way to send encrypted messages
Naming tech startups after Lord of the Rings is a thing, there's a still a few good ones up for grabs. Someone should use these... Taken: - Palantir - Anduril - Durin - Mithril Available: - Gandalf - Galadriel - Elrond - Lindir - Aragorn - Rohan - Shire? Just thinking
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From the GC: When you're wearing rose colored glasses, red flags just look like flags š©
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I often think about this @ycombinator Startup School video from 2014 that talked about good GTM and how a "noob" GTM strategy was getting a @TechCrunch article and hoping for users to flow in. Launch videos are just the 2025 version of the same thing, the noob GTM.
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I should really figure out how to monetize this stuff
@gkamstra @buccocapital The same Sundar haters who are now bulled up on Google are currently hating on Andy Jassy... I wonder what happens next š¤
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Sad to see talented friends in our industry laid off by Meta. If youāve been impacted and are exploring whatās next,Ā weād love to hear from you. My beliefs: 1ā£ I still believe we need to see fundamental research breakthroughs to have intelligent machines we can trust to think
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When I first met @elan_was_here, I noticed two things about him: 1/ He had a breadth of knowledge about radiology that exceeded even that of most radiologists. He understood the physics behind imaging. He knew how machines were manufactured, bought/sold, depreciated, etc. He
Weāre proud to share that OneImaging has raised $38 million in Series A funding to expand our mission of making diagnostic imaging more affordable and accessible for everyone. Diagnostic imaging plays a pivotal role in nearly every healthcare journey ā itās the moment when
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Writing the largest check of your career to someone youāve known for a very long time and believe in very deeply is a pretty special experience. Play long-term games with long-term people.
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Seeing GPs shamelessly taking credit for investments that they opposed in committee now that they're working. Low integrity behavior.
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The importance of "great" founders when making early-stage investments is chock full of biases and cope while simultaneously being highly predictive of success and failure. This paradox makes it illegible to most, which makes it more valuable.
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Train that goes 310 mph for $70M Meanwhile upgrading the Acela from 150 mph to 160 mph cost $2.5 billion
Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph
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Once again, recommending this wonderful docuseries on Netflix: https://t.co/LtW8Y6UpVL
netflix.com
Ruling with an iron fist requires an aspiring dictator to know the art of absolute power, as history's despots prove in this sardonic documentary series.
8 months in: Fire central bankers. Demand equity in private businesses. Increase militarization for ānational defenseā. Armed National Guard patrols. Economic central planning. Weaponized legal inquires against political opponents. Replace legitimate press with sycophantic hacks
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The number of pre-IPO rounds that never result in an IPO makes calling it a pre-IPO round a red flag.
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This may be good advice for litigants, but it's terrible advice for founders. If you're a founder, you almost never have enough time or money. Lawyers who are fighters may seem ideal, but they usually slow deals down, sometimes even killing them, and thus your company.
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Just a casual reminder that @NecessaryVC - invests pre-seed - happy to lead but donāt require it - invests in FDA-regulated companies like medical devices - tech-enabled services like care delivery - low margin cos like health insurance Weāre also very good at it :)
Iāve spent my entire career in healthcare investing, and I mean it with every bone in my body when I say healthcare venture capital is a joke. While there are some notable exceptions, this is an industry overrun with tech-centric SaaS investors LARPāing around funding anything
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Jon is basically saying if youāre a lazy Harvard or Stanford grad, you wonāt be a good founder. If you want to prove him wrong and are building something the world needs, we lead pre-seeds @NecessaryVC
A now controversial take: Invest in grinders with a history of excellence. Someone with high SATs, attended MIT/Berkeley/CMU/TsingHua/IIT/etc, is a Putnam fellow, and worked at a frontier lab or hot startup. High beta and if this is you, I'd love to talk and invest
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In hindsight, this was a foreseeable consequence of the whole TACO thing
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Public market investors consistently underestimate the power of retail investors and meme stocks. VCs consistently over index on narrative and FOMO. Hard for either to be contrarian and right without patience and solvency.
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Iām having a hard time figuring out who all invested in Figma. If you could all stop being so humble and stealthy about it, Iād really appreciate it. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Someone should make a show about the pirates of the Great Lakes
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