Sara Mauskopf
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CEO & co-founder of @Winnie . Queen of hot takes. Mom of 3. Philly sports fan. Hardcore.
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The perfect new job announcement photo doesn't exis-
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My kids setup a FREE lemonade stand and everyone is coming by trying to give them a $5-$20 bill. I think they’re learning an important lesson - the key to fundraising is to say you’re not raising right now.
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In an interview this week I was asked if I ever get imposter syndrome. Um hell no. There are men out there trying to build a company with 10x the funding I have and 1/10 the ability. I’m not the imposter.
What’s the opposite of imposter syndrome? I have that.
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🙈 omfg our country. I want to work at Coinbase just for today so I don't have to deal with what's going on.
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Everyone dunking on a16z but I thought WeCrashed was really good and it seems reasonable that it would cost $350M to produce the sequel
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3.5 years now of WFH and here's what I now have come to realize
You get *more stuff done* when you work from home
You make *more progress* when you meet in person
It's important not to confuse doing stuff for progress! Sometimes the same, sometimes not.
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If you are a subscription product I can buy fully online but I cannot cancel without calling a phone number during business hours then I hope your company fails and you go out of business. Happy New Year!
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ceos will literally blog about their bad management practices instead of going to therapy
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Gosh I feel for Coinbase. This all must be really distracting for such a mission focused company.
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There’s a room on clubhouse right now that is literally just a bunch of people talking about why it’s ok to hate jews so I’m done with that app for awhile
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Ryan William Mauskopf just joined the shelter in place party at 8 lbs 4 oz and 19.5 inches.
@mauskopf
did great. I’m starving.
#RyanBirthday0
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Female founders be like "WOW SARA you raised so much money how did you do it? That's amazing!"
Male founders be like "Oh you raised a $9M series A? I just put some water in a can and raised a $9M series A too"
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I always had the perspective that one of the more feminist things I could do was raise fierce, badass daughters. But as I sit here nursing my baby boy and reading some ridiculous stuff from men on Twitter I’m like hmmm maybe the real feminist opportunity is raising a good son
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So stop calling it lowering the bar. Your bar was wrong, not high.
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It went from like “this is some technical financial instrument” to “this is the new foundation for the internet” Best rebrand ever.
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“an investor told me that posting photos of my children on the weekend made it look like I wasn’t working hard enough.”
Fair warning — if any investor says this to me I will find a way to buy you off the cap table.
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5/ Coincidentally, this week
@elonmusk
made news talking about population collapse. I believe that if we want to encourage big families, we have to make child care more accessible. Elon, I’d love to talk more about how we make this a reality.
I hope you have big families and congrats to those who already do!
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Soooo my daughter (7) needs to get some bloodwork done and she is not happy about it at all. She was just complaining to me about her upcoming blood draw and suggested that maybe instead they could just prick her with a needle and take only a drop of blood...
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but “competitors” in your space raising a lot of money is almost always a net positive thing for your startup
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One trait shared by many founders - we are not afraid of failure but we are deathly afraid of mediocrity.
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Why do we congratulate people when they make an under 30 list? Like congrats you did something impressive when you were young and had a lot of energy and few responsibilities. Now try doing it old and tired with 3 kids and aging parents.
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I wish Trump were a female founder so he couldn’t get away with this shit
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In the venture funding system, passing on a company that later IPOs is considered especially cool. In Silicon Valley, the dedicated VCs who tweet about these huge misses are members of an elite squad known as the Special VCs Unit. These are their stories. *dun dun*
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Our company is fully remote and Slack is down. Going welI, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!!
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We have 4 different ways to prepare hot water at our startup in case this gives you any indication of what our codebase looks like
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Thrilled so share that we raised a $9M in Series A funding for
@Winnie
to bring high-quality child care and early education to EVERY family
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VCs are the middle managers of the startup ecosystem. They’re just managing up to their bosses (LPs) & are dependent on their individual contributors’ output (founders) to be successful.
Once I realized this I had a lot more empathy for them. Being a middle manager kinda sucks.
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"My dad is 42, turning 43, I don't know what my mom is but I'm guessing it's 18" -my favorite daughter to my other daughter
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My only super power as a CEO is my ability to hire people who are smarter, more skilled, more efficient and just generally better than me in every possible way.
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Left: First child @ 5 weeks old
Right: Third child @ 5 weeks old
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As the CEO of a successful company, let me share my 10 step routine for how I prepared for my board meeting this morning:
1) Put my kids to bed early so I'd have time to review the board slides and respond to any last minute questions that came in.
2) Got downstairs only hear…
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Some days I’m like: Have I made a huge mistake having so many kids?
But that’s just some days. It’s not like that all the time.
The other days I’m like: I have made a huge mistake having so many kids.
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I didn’t actually read any negative press about Carta recently and when I google it, it’s all behind a paywall so I can’t
I think people overestimate how much people notice or are talking about them 🤷🏼♀️
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A horse. It's like a unicorn but it's real.
Who's going to coin the word for a scaled company that reaches break-even, and what should it be called?
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I guess we just aren’t willing to give up 7% of our companies for $120k 🤷🏻♀️
Spent the night making rounds meeting incredible
#founder
folk in our
@ycombinator
batch group. I didn't speak to a woman. Not one. Not a handshake, not eye contact. Where are ya ladies? How do we fix this?
#startups
#fintech
#womenintech
#crickets
🦗🦗🦗
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I breastfed my second daughter for 22 months up until her brother was born and then spent 19 months breastfeeding him. So I’ve been breastfeeding someone for the last 41 months. Anyway, today I decided I’m done. 🎤✌️
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The only cool thing about having no life and no friends is so far this social distancing doesn’t feel any different from a normal weekend
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omg all the VCs think he's serious and are replying with their memos
Why hasn’t anyone weighed in on how startups should navigate a downturn?
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Running a profitable company is stressful but so far it's actually a hell of a lot less stressful than running a "hit unknown milestones and metrics to attempt to raise next round of venture capital" company
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Someone asked about finding product market fit on a panel I was just on. What I wanted to respond with was —
Product market fit is like an orgasm. If you’re not sure if you have it, you don’t. When you have it, you’ll know.
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🎉 Some news
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Quick IVF story.
I got pregnant at 29 years old because I wanted to ensure I was both financially stable and still at peak fertility to have kids.
Shortly after that my husband got cancer and needed a really aggressive chemo treatment that meant we could not have anymore kids…
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Them: Hi Sara! Before we start I just have to say I’m a huge fan of your—
My brain: please say product please say product please say product
Them: tweets
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Elizabeth Holmes gets to chill in prison (where she’ll be fed, get time to exercise, read, sleep, etc) then emerge when her kids are like 10 & 12. Absolutely devastating for those kids. Arguably not a bad deal for her…
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I met with someone recently who told me I would not succeed in the child care industry because I don't have a strong enough child care background and then in the same conversation unknowingly referenced the exact Forbes piece that I authored on the child care paradox 🤪
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Coming up with a boy's name that doesn't remind me of some shitty dude is the hardest problem in computer science
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I wish I were a VC in this market. I would insist all founders meet me for walking/hiking/running meetings and I'd be so fit.
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We spent all of our family dinner discussing this because WE HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS
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Most people/companies shut down at night. Because I have pregnancy insomnia, that means I get 8 more hours to outwork my competition. That's 66.7% more time. For perspective: I just at an entire loaf of cornbread. These 8 hours a gift. Get to work pregnant ladies.
Whatever you’re hustling for, take note: most people/companies are shut down until ‘18. That means you get 2 extra weeks to outwork your competition. That’s 3.8% more time. For perspective: Usain Bolt won his gold medals running 1.2% faster. These 2 weeks are a gift. Get to work.
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Stripe is a great product but also employs a massive dark pattern.
It's almost impossible to know how much you pay monthly to use Stripe. There are bunch of reports you can try to download to analyze fees, but as you turn on their additional services (Revenue Recognition, Sigma,…
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Remember when the Coinbase CEO said that if employees brought their whole selves to work and discussed issues like racism at work, the company was doomed? Good thing they stayed so “mission focused”
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If you made up a bar where half the population isn't represented, your criteria is whack.
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My daughter is reporting some bizarre symptoms. Any medical experts?
-she is not tired at all
-she cannot fall asleep
-she doesn’t feel like she can even lie in bed because it’s too boring
-she cannot even close her eyes because she isn’t tired so her eyes just won’t shut??
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No one sells YC harder than founders who went through YC…
Either it’s a really great program or it’s a MLM. We’ll never know!
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She’s born! Aubrey Willa Mauskopf. All 7 lbs 2 oz and 19 inches of her. Took just 2 pushes 😂 Everyone is doing well. cc
@Aubrey_Willa
@mauskopf
@BrynAvery
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The best part of moving to Miami is you can take quick day trips to Hawaii. All the high growth executives love that.
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6 months after diagnosis, Eric is cancer free. Cried happy tears all morning. Looked like this: 😂😂😂
#KillEricsCancer
#KilledEricsCancer
Attempted to read PET/CT scan y'day w
@sm
. Now UCSF confirms I'm cancer free! Happy days ahead 🎉
Also my hair growing back
#KillEricsCancer
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If Sam Altman were a woman, the New York Times would already have 10 articles filled with anonymous employee grievances. No claim would be too baseless to be fit for print (remember when Audrey Gelman got destroyed due to no fish in her fishbowl?)
Instead, Sam Altman is a…
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Just met with someone who recognized me from MIT and said I looked exactly the same which is good because it means I didn’t age but also bad because it means my nose job didn’t work
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I tweeted my abs behind a docsend link which must be why none of the VCs are excited about them
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I’ve run marathons, I’ve done triathlons, even a couple half ironmen. None of that compares to the training, preparation, endurance and mental toughness it takes to fly across the country with my kids.
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I never introduced my kids to Caesar Salad because it's kind of a trash food, but my kids had it at school and it turns out it is a gateway drug to OTHER SALADS and now they are into like Greek Salad and other healthy salad varieties. So anyway I'm Pro Caesar Salad now.
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My investor update in late March 2020
Going welI, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!!
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It's time for some game theory.
I bet Sequoia released a chill memo to their portfolio and then released their doomsday black swam memo publicly so all competitive VC-backed companies would get DDoS'd by 5000 panicked messages from their investors/board.
Well played Sequoia.
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Hey VCs who didn’t invest in my company but got my email from back when we were fundraising —
Don’t automatically sign me up for self-congratulatory emails about your portfolio companies getting acquired. Not only do I not care if you got rich, it’s also not that aspirational.
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(If it wasn’t abundantly clear, this is a joke. I do not feel anything for coinbase.)
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Wait a fucking minute
Did I have Coronavirus back in Dec/Jan??? My test results back then came back negative for flu and all other viruses on the panel. I ended up developing into pneumonia, took zpac and got better eventually.
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Just had an investor who passed on me awhile back reach out out of the blue and say they wish they had invested when we were early and by the way do I know anyone building a company like Winnie at an earlier stage and who has the same "combo of personal passion and product chops"
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The one thing I love is that no matter how wealthy someone is, if they have 3+ kids, they have to drive a Sienna, Odyssey or Pacifica minivan. Everyone just has basically the same car and you never feel FOMO that there’s something better out there.
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SF in a nutshell: someone walking their dog and another person walking their robot
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This is a time when a lot of VCs are doing fewer deals and really leaning into supporting their portfolio companies. I came up with some REAL LEGIT ways investors could be helpful to my biz and for many of these, I was actually able to get what I asked for. [Thread]
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0/ Welcome to your child care weekly update. The current economic conditions continue to stress our already very strained child care system. Child care providers are raising their prices to keep up - putting more pressure on families
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I have never sent a holiday card but I love receiving them. It fills me with joy to see everyone’s family pics, get their life updates, and have an address to look up their home value on Zillow.
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Sure the cost of living is insane and my kids have to breathe toxic air, but a place that makes sushi in the format of a burrito just opened near my house so I think I’m gonna stay
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