Sophie Fuji
@sophfuji
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Stanford students are so bad at dating that there’s now a class where the assignment is to go on a date
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Stanford classes this year are really nurturing the crypto founder pipeline
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CS183B (How to Start a Startup, taught by Sam Altman with a ton of guest speakers) might be Stanford’s all-time best class. All 20 lectures here:
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50+ Stanford MBAs wanting to start companies pitched last night and there were no crypto companies… last year was 25%+ crypto 📉.
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@xanderatallah haha sort of — the class is about the pursuit of happiness and this assignment is on how dating affects that.
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Only the GSB VC Club would write "Tired of Crypto? Ready to jump on the new trend?" unironically in an email about AI
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I think I’m finally SF pilled because the food is 10x better than NYC.
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Adrere Amellal in Siwa. No electricity, no wifi, no windows. Maybe the most incredible hotel I’ve been to.
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A shocking number of crypto VCs and founders I meet hold no personal assets in crypto. Better yet, they’re surprised when others actually have notable amounts of crypto 🥴.
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Stanford classes shifting from crypto to AI as fast as a VC 😂. All of these classes are completely new this quarter and there are already 100+ established classes on AI each year.
Stanford classes this year are really nurturing the crypto founder pipeline
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possibly the most perfect representation of a west village girl
This story about West Village girls mentions the word "spritz" 7 times. Good job @BrockColyar @NYMag .
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Just finished one of the most intense periods of travel in my life (one month, 12 countries, 17 flights) and very much coming to the conclusion that London is the best place in the world.
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Going to be spending some time at @BainCapCrypto for the next few months — excited to be diving back into crypto and working with an amazing team!.
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My British friend studying abroad at MIT: “People are so weird here, they all have hobbies. At Oxford, our only hobby is drinking.”.
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Tier 1 VCs use Le Labo soap in their offices, Tier 2 VCs use Aesop.
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Living in the wrong city is more likely to ruin your life than the wrong job or relationship.
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If you’re coming to Stanford Blockchain Week in late Aug:. @stanfordcrypto is hosting a pre-conference focused on applications and you should sign up: Come see @danrobinson @sreeramkannan @ukolodny @hosseeb @avichal @jaekwon @veradittakit + more!
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I have many female friends at Stanford who have attempted this just to realize that GSB MBAs only have eyes for undergrads as potential engineers for their startups, not tradwives.
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In Saudi, there is a coffee shop called Camel Step which is literally a fake Blue Bottle but their logo is a camel instead of a bottle 🤣
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Went hiking in Patagonia and overheard conversations on the trail about:. 1) Menlo Park.2) pet longevity startups .3) applying to Knight Hennessy. Even when you go to the edge of the world, you can’t escape real life
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Farcaster and Poaster remind me of early days tumblr and reddit where like-minded, thoughtful people are really free to say what they want. All other socials are diluted and about hacking these days. h/t @lastcontrarian @dwr.
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The future of NFTs won’t be on an aggregated marketplace. NFTs are an economic mechanism that change what we can own, not a good we shop for. That’s why discovery of NFTs by non-crypto natives happens during experiences - not through shopping.
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Introducing Profiled, which generates your optimized dating app profile from the best of your Twitter and Instagram profiles. Stop faking having rizz and let the Twitter algorithm tell you when you're actually funny 🤪
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Stanford students are always a lagging indicator — as @kolelee_ very accurately describes
A Stanford student-run fund's Bitcoin ETF investment shows that the next generation of institutional investors may include more true believers in crypto
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It’s sad how socially acceptable it is to be a crypto hater — if you simply said you hate everything about AI or defense, people would think you’re ignorant, but with crypto, they just accept it.
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College-aged women neglect their personal lives in favor of their professional lives, but really they’re too dismissive of the importance of investing in them.
"In college, we don’t differentiate between men and women when advising students about their careers, as if their life arcs will follow the same trajectory." . But they won't. Latest from newly minted Staff Writer @sophfuji .
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Now both Stanford and Harvard are searching for presidents. If Stanford wants to prove its commitment to DEI and create true justice, it should just hire Claudine Gay as the new president.
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My first piece for the Review on the degradation of liberal education at Stanford:.
Stanford Produces Underwater Basket Weavers — @sophfuji writes in her first piece in the Review.
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Thanks @WalletCon_ 🫶.
We sat down with @sophfuji of @tcg_crypto, one of today's speakers at #WalletCon2023. Catch her insights on wallet onboarding 💡
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Do you spend too much money at Coupa? Or do you keep buying new shiny things you really don't need?. @bridge__harris and I built a chrome extension this morning that generates a roast and meme to stop you every time you're about to waste more money.
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Coding used to be a tool that required specialization and so it was high signal. Writing used to be taken for granted as a skill everyone had and was low signal. Now, we’re realizing this isn’t true, and writing is becoming a higher signal than coding as one crowds the other out.
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Tumblr’s social graph tracing is underrated. You could see how every post got to where it did from the 🔁 reblog icon. Imagine if the whole internet was like that with seeing where information came from 👀.
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I think we will get to a point where digital identity = 80%+ of identity. Our physical selves will only be one vector of our identity, alongside our avatars, social media, and all other traces of ourselves online.
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Hyped to be joining this amazing team!! 🔥.
So excited to share that @sophfuji is joining the @tcg_crypto team this summer, starting today! She's incredibly thoughtful across media, identity, credentialing, and more — we're stoked to have her (and we have some fire content in the works, too). Give her a follow & a gm 🌞.
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People who overindex on frameworks are lazy thinkers. If you constantly use frameworks, you lose the ability to be creative moment to moment and become a broken record — but others may not catch on because on the surface, you sound intelligent.
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My British friends who graduated from top universities were all making 20-25k and thought that the one guy they knew making 34k was on top of the world — and he worked at DeepMind! Graduates of top American universities literally make more than 10x this 😳.
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This is the best time it has ever been to be an Asian girl. - the most liked combo of race/gender on dating apps.- you count as diversity in recruiting but still expected to have merit and paid like it.- no more affirmative action.- youthfulness and slimness are prized traits
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Went to dinner with some Stanford friends and made a joke that referenced Sam Altman and they said “who’s that? is he in snu?”.
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Thinking of hosting a digital fashion soirée in NYC next Wednesday with @georgeIiang! Who’s around? 🤠.
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My worst nightmare is when someone says “just choose a restaurant” for dinner in nyc and I end up wasting 30min scrolling through resy to no avail.
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Some thoughts on something I’ve been thinking about for a while…. An open, unfinished exploration into crypto as the world’s payment rails: why it’s compelling, where we are now, and what it might take to get us there.
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Finally tried Alchemist in Copenhagen, it’s just as weird as the pictures — in the best way possible
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Venture interviews are becoming too easy to study for, attracting people who are better equipped for banking/consulting (by this I mean more risk-averse, likes hierarchy, etc). This works for analysts/associates, but not at higher levels. Wonder how this will change VC 🥴.
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The GSB is now teaching students how to apply TAM and PMF to their love life 🥴.
When faced with the challenge of finding a meaningful romantic connection, Sarah Buchner, MBA ’21, wondered: could strategy be the key to starting up one’s love life?
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Over the last 574 days, I’ve stayed in 191 hotels and apartments (132 unique places), across 19 countries on 5 continents, which is an average of 3 nights/place.
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Feels like every fintech company is branching out to become a consumer media company. e.g. @stripepress .@mercury's magazine Meridian.@CashApp's clothing line.
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saying that you studied symsys is the new way of saying you went to school outside of boston.
stanford symbolic systems is the hottest major in tech no room for questions.
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There seem to be no credible threats universities can make against their student protesters anymore. At Oxford in 1968, a college replied to student protesters by showing off their “ex-commandos skilled with dynamite and torturing prisoners”. Imagine doing this in the US today…
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YC’s brand comes from its ability to maintain the (YC W23) in every company’s name. Imagine if companies changed their titles to “DoorDash (Sequoia Series C)” like they do “DoorDash (YC S13)”.
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To what degree are kids getting smarter these days vs learning professionalism earlier? I think we often perceive the latter coupled with public digital presence as the former. Democratization of distribution channels is a huge catalyst for appearances.
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What if web3 social is the curation layer of the internet? . We’ve seen platforms like Polyvore and Pinterest take off, and curation accounts on Instagram and curated playlists on Spotify becoming well-known. Right now, there are no incentives to curate other than vanity metrics.
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Web3 landing page design highlights where web3 really is. Sleek titles and tag lines, soft gradients, and sans serif fonts mask how rough these products are to actually use.
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Steve Blank always says "Stanford is an incubator with dorms". In 2016, he found 145 courses incubating startups or teaching entrepreneurship. In the last 6 years, Stanford has added 101 more entrepreneurial courses, totalling 246. When do we rename a university an incubator?.
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@Brad08414464 not sure but overwhelming recruiting, education, politics and consumer social ideas. Students tend to have a limited domain of knowledge and focus on what problems they know firsthand. Most ideas have been tried and tested.
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KPop is one of the most obvious use cases for crypto in music but KPop fans hate crypto. The whole industry is tightly controlled by 4 major labels and every artist is at their mercy. It is too centralized and inefficient in maximizing engagement and monetization.
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spending time in Boston will make you at least 2 out of 3 of these.
Realizing I love Boston so much because I’m a racist depressed alcoholic.
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How does one pack for Penn Blockchain and New York Fashion Week at the same time? Feel like the intersection of what one can wear to both is nonexistent.
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Any VC fund that includes their EAs on their team page is ashamed of their gender ratio.
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Imagine a compatibility score for friends by browsing history that shows you that you’ve both read 12 of the same articles in the last week, listened to 5 of the same songs, liked 22 of the same tweets, etc.
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Featuring @bryanhpchiang, @isabelle_levent, @siddrrsh, and me about Stanford’s AI landscape by @lsvaranasi .
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Always surprised how much more socially acceptable, even encouraged, fatphobia is outside of America. I took a class at Stanford where we were taught that calling someone obese is a hate crime, even in a medical diagnosis. Instead, we were taught phrases to celebrate fatness.
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So apparently for women, every 1% increase in weight leads to a 0.6% decrease in income. And for men, every inch shorter than 6 feet leads to a 1.6% decrease in income. One could say it’s rational to set high attractiveness standards because it affects economic outcomes too….
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Most people I’ve spoken to in the last few months have heard me touch upon this topic — and while I still haven’t heeded my own advice, I wrote about the self-imposed crisis that people with infinite options face and some constructive frameworks.
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Being a “builder” has more clout than anything else in SV so all VCs have rebranded to talking about how they’re “building” the fund they’re a “co-founder” of but the terminology feels appropriated….
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the best workspace perk in existence is McDonald’s quality Diet Coke in-office
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The worst thing young people can do is waste away in a corporate hierarchy where you are trained to believe that likability matters more than competence, a mindset which corrupts everyone it touches.
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@SophiaKianni But also isn't there a point to learning abstract things to learn how to think? And after, the point of going into work is learning how to do?. I think education has become conflated with vocational training in our society at large which is not what it was set up to do.
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In the South of France this week I’ve overheard more conversations from tech people than I do on an average week in the Bay Area.
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If a child’s father is a sperm donor and went to Harvard, should that child count as a legacy?.
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People don’t talk about the gendered short people discrepancy. Being a short girl is a force multiplier, being a short man is the opposite.
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Tweeting is like printing out a screenshot of your brain from a specific moment, writing is like a screen capture of evolving thoughts over some duration of time.
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I’ve been having more and more frequent conversations about: 1) return to nature/anti-progress movement, 2) IVF and post-humanism, 3) what it means to be “from” somewhere. I wrote about the intersection of these, namely what an anti-natalist world might look like. (link in bio)
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and the president continued to talk about Ancient Rome while it happened. based.
Pro-Palestine graduates walked out during President Richard Saller’s greetings at Stanford’s University-wide commencement. Dozens of students walked while waving Palestinian flags. Many graduates who remained seated continued to wave flags.
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Can you date someone seriously and not believe in their startup/work?.
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Just discovered which is Robinhood’s publication, it’s serious writing, interesting takes. Stripe, Robinhood, Mercury, and other fintech cos seem more culturally tapped in than others. Any theories on why?.
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