Siri Srinivas
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Partner at @GradientVC . Tweets personal. I’m usually joking.
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I want to start a group called Women in Technology, Crypto, Hardware, Engineering and Sciences just so I can get lead an org called WITCHES.
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"How do you speak such good English?" "I dunno 200 years of colonialism and eurocentric education, how do you know so little history?"
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As you read about Figma getting sold for twenty billion US dollars (with potential upside) today, take a moment to remember that you didn’t do this and you are a total and complete failure.
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Saying “who’s your daddy” near a SpaceX/Tesla/Neuralink factory is basically fact-checking.
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2012:
- start company
- CEO eats ramen
- Make $400k in revenue
- raise $2M seed round
2021:
- raise $5M pre-seed
- CEO tweets memes and VC jokes 8 hours a day
- look for head of product to do CEO’s job
- wait for seed term sheet at $100M post
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Tech CEO vibe check:
COOK: “not my first rodeo, congressman”
BEZOS: first meeting w/ gf’s parents — charming and funny (but not enough to be suspicious)
ZUCK: pugnacious mock UN underdog
PICHAI: visa interview at US consulate
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I propose a reverse Emily In Paris. A joyous fashion forward, Sartre-reading, self aware Parisienne lands up in Palo Alto VC firm. Cultural confusion! Sequined patagonias! Schadenfreude!
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Men are judged based on their potential and women on their past success. Venture Capital is primarily evaluating and funding potential. Do the math.
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Me: there is so much I want to learn, build, know, understand, be part of, change. How will I ever get all of this done?
Also me:
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I realize my feed is not diverse enough. Who are some good male VCs I should follow?
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We need a Bechdel test for conferences. The conference passes if 2+ women are asked to be on a panel to talk about *anything* other than being a woman.
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Just in my lifetime I want to see a 27 year old female CEO go after the YC mafia on Twitter and still have a career.
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Urging Indians to not ignore the two major health risks handed down by your parents:
1. genetic predisposition to diabetes and heart disease.
2. family WhatsApp groups that accelerate said cardiovascular threat with unchecked BJP IT cell propaganda
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Presenting a pilot to HBO in which bull market VCs and startup founders hunt each other for game in a dystopian future (2022). Vestworld.
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Immigrants from cultures where it is not kosher to brag: how do you handle US work culture / promote your accomplishments without self-combusting?
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I’m going to try to make this a thing:
If you are a woman and you have a tweet/post/piece of professional news highlighting your work, or your gen awesomeness, DM it to me and I will amplify you, esp if we don’t know each other. Let’s normalize this shit.
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You know your life is sad when your phone autocorrects “bb” to “b2b”.
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higher up the chain you are, fewer words you use in your email replies.
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I wonder what Sundar, Jeff, Tim and Mark’s group chat looks like.
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Casually sitting on a park bench in Palo Alto. I have a term sheet ready if anyone happens to walk by. We’ll see. You never know.
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If you want better journalism, how about you start reading better journalism?
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Proud and humbled to witness the $DASH IPO. All the credit goes to the team of course but I’m happy to have played a small part in their success by contributing a significant portion of my net worth to their revenues.
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I couldn’t sleep after watching the Amy Cooper video last night. I found Christian Cooper's calmness remarkable, and was so glad he had the instinct to record. It brought back memories of one of the craziest things that has ever happened to me. [THREAD]
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To the uncle who landed in Delhi at 12 AM after a 16 hour flight and immediately headed to Duty Free to buy a bottle of Glenlivet for the evening, I want to grow up to be you, sir.
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After a lot of scientific research, I have concluded that Bangalore people are the nicest.
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People are starting terrible businesses all around you. What’s stopping you?
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Some days I think about the emotional toll of this year and wonder how any of us is even functioning.
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Join us on Saturday to protest the Indian govt's CAA bill at the Indian Consulate - 10 AM.
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Each new year in venture, each new analyst you hire is going to send you Naval podcasts and PG essays as if they were freshly unearthed only yesterday. then you die.
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Three years ago today, Gauri Lankesh was gunned down outside her house in Bangalore. This is what a fascist state looks like. Don’t buy into any alternate narrative about India without acknowledging what happens when a democracy doesn’t protect the Fourth Estate.
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Show me a dude talking about tech on Clubhouse and I'll tell you how many of his female colleagues quit because of him.💅
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A little annoyed by a lot of foreign reporting noting that the CAA-NRC protests are led by the political opposition; people on the ground can correct me, but the protests are nearly all independent student-led. The main opposition party has been mostly MIA.
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Because CNN, AP, NYT are too chicken, Times of India has stepped up and called it for Biden. (Credit
@conundraa
’s dad)
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Talked to a friend and concluded that — in these times— it’d be easier to raise $10M for a pre-product SaaS company than an entire $10M early stage fund.
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Have unsuccessfully offered 3 seed term sheets to passersby at JFK. One has already been pre-empted by A16Z, the second said she won’t quit the TSA in this frothy market. The third was a VC.
#HustleNeverSleeps
#venturecapital
#startup
#hopeiseternal
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PSA: the opportunity cost of not believing in yourself can be catastrophically high.
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PSA: You can be a capitalist and admit it is flawed. Both can be true.
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Silicon Valley on shelter in place:
GOVERNMENT OVERREACH!!! THE STATE CAN’T TELL US WHAT TO DO!!!
SV on cops murdering minorities:
“8 thoughts on growing net revenue retention.”
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The most founder-friendly investor is one who will cut you a check.
Rest is noise.
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$150 billion invested in startups in 2020 and we still haven’t eliminated Mondays. Sad.
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The issue with startup culture glorifying "hustle" unquestioningly is we're bound to have characters who spend so much time and energy on the hustle, solving real problems is saved for later.
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Men will literally raise the capital gains tax to 39.6% instead of going to therapy.
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These hot takes are terrible. A majority of startups are small businesses that cumulatively employ tens of thousands of people. These cos banked with SVB. Only a minority of startup employees are wealthy or highly paid. Many are at risk of not getting paychecks next week.
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So jealous of everybody getting to celebrate
@iamsrk
and watch Pathaan in India. (Thanks
@snigdhasur
and
@bethejuggernaut
for NYC watch)
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Today I abandoned everything my ancestors considered sacred and used canned tomatoes in a dal. Never again.
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I'm joining
@GradientVC
!
I'm really thrilled to start this new chapter of my career with a team of incredibly sharp technologists who have spent most of the last decade investing in the future of AI.
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@JuddLegum
Yea but if that takes months, most of these businesses die. Regardless, your original framing of SVB as a bank of VCs is problematic and incorrect.
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If Kevin McCarthy can get rejected by his own party 13 times in two days and try again, you can pitch your startup to a few more VCs in this market.
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Omg one of the nyu girls invited me up to the stage and I threw my phone down and ran out of my own house
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This is wild. Costco is working on a social audio competitor to clubhouse!?
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@JuddLegum
a small biz of 10 people with $1M in the bank and loses 75% of their assets overnight, thats 10 people out of jobs in 3 months. That is an above average startup. How is bailing out a regulated bank socializing risk when student loan forgiveness is not?
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@JuddLegum
what about tens of thousands of startup small businesses that employ hundreds of thousands of people? SVB isn't merely a bank for venture capitalists.
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If we wrote headlines about every high profile man in tech who has lost his shit in meetings, we’d run out of print.
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Some personal news: I’m taking book leave to write my novel — The Great Gatsby reimagined as a present day story of heartbreak; a seed VC longing for the one that got away. Out in 2022 w/ WW Norton.
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People who are relentlessly impressive, how are you not emotionally and physically exhausted all the time?
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The most interesting thing to me is in 2022 we’re seeing so many of the same bad ideas I heard in meetings 4 times a day in 2017, but now with the sheen of “web3” and they raise millions?
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What I did so I can write:
- spent life's savings
- quit comfy job
- gotten into SERIOUS debt
- moved countries
- lived in relative poverty
- braved harassment @ min wage job
- ruined relationships
What I do when I have to write:
- weep
- bitch
- whine
- procrastinate
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@APompliano
@VitalikButerin
You’re comparing a public company to a privately owned company. How does that even make sense, for someone who believes in decentralized ownership? Genuinely asking.
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Self-confidence, fortunately, sadly, is a competitive advantage.
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Did not see this reinvention of JP Nagar into the microbrewery hub of Bangalore coming. It feels unnatural. Like seeing a baby smoke a cigar.
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This is awkward but I think my Doordasher may be overestimating the strength of our friendship.
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6 SaaS VCs
6 SaaS CEOs
on a remote island
They can look, they can meet, but they can't...invest
Will the vests & hoodies learn to build a relationship before trading equity?
Netflix's Too Hot To Handle Season 2
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I overcame my fears and published a thing I wrote some months ago on Imposter Syndrome. I'd love your thoughts.
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@TurnerNovak
four course meal? What are these minimalist indian weddings you're getting invited to? South Indians pride ourselves on serving 21 course meals at funerals.
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I’m so tired of everything, I want to read Russian literature, smoke hand-rolled cigarettes and become an alcoholic. It’s like I’m 19 again.
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Everybody is feeling a sense of loss about their communities. I moved back to NYC ~1 year ago after 5 years on the west coast and have been slooooowly rebuilding my social circle from scratch in my old age (30s). Some suggestions, if helpful [thread]
I’ve found it really challenging to build back up my social circle after the pandemic. Any one else have the same issue? If so, how did you build it back up?
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I am [a Boomer / Gen X / Millennial / Gen Z]. Everybody born before me is out of touch and everybody born after me is an entitled brat.
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Going to start a new publishing platform for rich people to write depressingly mediocre pieces that get widely shared. Calling it Tedium.
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I'm coming up on five years in the tech industry and this is still a struggle. I've learnt to aggressively advocate on others' behalf and shrivel when I've to do it for myself. Someone fix me.
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“Fundraising is like dating”
“Hiring is like dating”
“Sales is like dating”
“Sourcing is like dating”
“Investing is like dating”
“M&A is like dating”
- people who have been married many decades
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San Francisco: where you see your closest friends once in 2 months.
New York: where your former colleague’s girlfriend’s cousin whom you met once for 5 mins 7 years ago wants to hang the moment they land in jfk.
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Hi, I'm Siri.
I have degrees in journalism and engineering.
I code like a journalist and write like an engineer.
Pls let me give you life advice.
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Got off the phone with a founder in the personal finance space. A professional VC told him he couldn't understand the product because s/he's "never had to take a loan". 🤯
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When I feel wronged, I aim to be redeemed like Accel.
2004: Harvard endowment drops out of Accel Fund IX cos they missed Google
2005: Accel invests in Harvard dropout-led Facebook
2020: Facebook controls the free world
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