Nikunj Kothari
@nikunj
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partner @fpvventures - investing in seed/A. previous: investing @khoslaventures. early hire @meter, @opendoor, @atlassian & others. love @shimoleejhaveri + 👦👧
San Francisco
Joined April 2009
“Papa, I really love you. Thank you for doing coloring with me” Four minutes later.. “You’re getting old because you have no more hair” Saturday mornings with a loving sassy 4 year old 🥲
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Attention doesn’t compound. Retention does.
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If you’re a parent in 2025, buy a disco ball for your home. Go into debt if you have to..
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Mavericks face Thunder, Timberwolves take on Nuggets and Grizzlies are up against Warriors. Lock in your predictions. 🏀 Giving away Platform Credits to 5 new followers - Follow @ForkastGG and @ForkastSports - Comment your favourite NBA team You think you know the outcomes?
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Whoever thinks VC is an apprenticeship is grossly mistaken.. I have now spent many many hours with some of the best early stage venture investors of our time and they all the same thing: 1) They can’t (realistically) explain what makes a founder special. They can kind of give
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This is aging rather well.. It’s now getting HARDER to land an exclusive on the “in” channels than the “out” channels. Also I think we’ve officially hit peak launch videos (related essay coming tomorrow).
Founder launch strategy June ‘25.. In: - direct (video, memo, sbstack) - tech optimist live-ish TV (@tbpn, @sourceryvc, @PirateWires, others) - independent star journalists (@ashleevance, @EricNewcomer, others) - founder interviews with focused audience (@dwarkesh_sp, others)
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Accidentally said “I don’t have my laptop” at a bar last night and they kicked me out of SF 👨💻
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It me 🙈 Public commitment to closing all my loops this week.
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Most self help books can be summarized as a) you can just do things and b) do them. That's it. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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I know most folks already know this but.. If something is obvious to you, and it’s NOT obvious to everyone else, then do something about it (start a company, invest, join etc). All of my greatest mistakes in my career have come from not acting on that knowledge / instinct.
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Every application company should test if their products can run end to end on ChatGPT Atlas (or Comet or Director) TODAY.. It may not work and you might be inclined on thinking this “agentic” browser is bad. And yes, it’s the worst it’ll ever be and future models will improve.
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Imagine pitching to an investor this 10 year vision.. We’re going to build AGI. And we are doing that by building a brand new ML model on this thing called transformers. Also we’re going to build a lot of the infrastructure to serve it, a couple of consumer apps, and focus on
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Website here: https://t.co/z1CCZkPPlN Pick random was inspired by @blakeir 🙏
nikunjk.com
Partner at FPV Ventures. Writing about venture capital, technology, and investing.
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Quarterly urge to add some new touches to the personal website..
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My grandparents & parents are alive. I have two loving brothers who have an incredible family of their own. I have the world’s best wife and two healthy kids. And we are all free of any debt or lifelong sicknesses. This won’t last but can’t describe how special it is rn 🧿🤞
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Swag experiment is a wrap 👋 Two observations: - This _does_ work. I had many people stop me and ask what the company does. Outfit your employees with swag! - Novel ways to distribute your product will continue to be an important theme. Thank you to all the companies 🙏
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