Lee Edwards
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Partner, social media intern, Webmaster @RootVC . Chill technical investor in devtools & AI. Former CTO & t-shirt model 🏳️🌈 he/him
Oro en paz, fierro en guerra
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My contrarian opinions (among VCs) about the Dev Tools space: (1/many)
In the spirit of strong opinions, weakly held... 👇
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There is so much tribal knowledge in the gay community that straight men will never know. Someone should really tell this guy.
Never. ever. challenge a skinny Jewish man to a dick measuring contest.
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@GoldingBF
In our traditions, the guy with the most votes gets to walk in front.
Biden: 81M
Meghan Markle’s Father in Law: 0
Biden walks in front.
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Explaining how these two are connected should be part of the U.S. citizenship exam.
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@ChuckCallesto
Can you explain to me how you can use something for blackmail that is already public information?
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Only people who have never solved problems with data say things like “believe the data.”
No. Do not “believe” the data. Interrogate the data. Explore it. Ask how it was collected. Dig into methodologies.
The more surprising the data, the greater the need.
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@Howlingmutant0
@davidminpdx
Well, by “the worst thing I ever did,” he might be obliquely referring to killing and skinning a woman, or he might be referring to the other woman he killed.
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If you want to put a stop to the planned MAGA protest at Twitter HQ, just publish what it costs to park for three hours in SOMA before they get here.
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My only question is why the Picard family vineyard switch from VSP trained vines to the Guyot system between TNG episode “Family” and this series. As LaBarre is in Bourgogne, I’d have expected Guyot the whole time, but why switch?
Patrick Stewart returns as Jean-Luc Picard in the first teaser for the upcoming series
#StarTrekPicard
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Seeing lots of Muslim leaders condemning violence. Not seeing any Republican leaders condemning homophobia.
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SF DSA’s anointed candidate for D9 thinks the problem with 9 people being shot 2 blocks from my office is the self-driving car whose logo she apparently can’t read.
It’s always Marxist praxis first, everything else second with these people. Even when “everything else” is lives.
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@TikTokInvestors
Gotta hustle Friday at 7pm, that’s the prime time for cold calling landlines and closing a sale.
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*recruiter slowly leans forward and taps the paper in front of him*
Ok Mr. Altman, can you explain this gap in your resumé?
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You will tell this to some Californians, and they’ll say “yeah, but what they don’t tell you is that Florida worked with private companies and they made a profit,” as though their primary goal is a bloated government jobs program and having a rail system is just a fringe benefit.
Florida Has High Speed Rail and California Never Will
the high speed brightline train now connects miami and orlando, but california still has not laid a single mile of rail. what's the difference between these two projects?
by
@river_is_nice
In 2008, California voters…
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Two year old company with $600k revenue and $120M annual burn blames “fundraising environment” for failure. Incredible stuff.
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Twitter laid me off today. If you know of any open positions for engineering managers or software engineers, let me know. I was the guy who made all the stock ticker symbols like $TWTR and $TSLA into links but then forgot to make the links do anything.
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I actually just read this letter and it fucking sucks.
It’s about how Jews control the money, that humanity is suffering from disobeying Shari’a law, why we have high unemployment (this part didn’t age well) and Citizens United (???)
Anyone who finds meaning in this is a moron.
Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States.
The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and
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I wonder if we could get our hard leftist supervisors interested in prosecuting drug dealers, if we told them there’s a group of entrepreneurs making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year selling dangerous products to consumers bearing NO Prop 65 Warning, and paying NO taxes.
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This “smart, simple, sustainable” water bottle requires:
* a custom water bottle
* an iPhone app
* special canisters
* 3 of them actually
* a monthly payment
* I would assume a lithium ion battery?
* yes, it’s a four day lithium ion battery in my sustainable water bottle
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So after we launched our interactive command line website at , some people (*cough* investors) said it was confusing and they wanted a “simple website with tables of your portfolio companies.”
Um, so. Careful what you ask for.
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@elonmusk
@micsolana
I used to believe this, but the best test case we have for this is San Francisco - where all drugs are functionally legal - literally in the case of usage/possession, and practically in the case of dealing.
Look at where that’s gotten us.
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If someone ever murders me, consider this a formal request not to put “crime is down” in the first sentence of the article about my death.
@sfchronicle
@ChaseDiFelice
@mallorymoench
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Lot of takes about Disney “moving” Disney World. Um.
Do you realize Disney World in Orlando is 42 square miles? Physically, it’s almost exactly the size of San Francisco.
It also employs more people than the entire U.S. coal mining industry. By 4x.
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French Laundry is getting more and more expensive. Tasting menu now up to $310 + your career.
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@ooshdesign
@GoldingBF
Correct; he was visiting one of the small island countries under our protection.
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@growing_daniel
Mr. Daniel, I work at the New York Times on the technology beat and would like to use your tweet for a story. Can we use this quote with attribution?
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@TikTokInvestors
I feel there should be a way to harness the energy of kids like this into actually learning about the markets (and the broader economy and economic systems,) and prepare them for careers in finance, if that’s what they want.
The passion is there, but he’s got bad role models.
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Axios exit for $500M disproves the idea that the only way to make money in news media today is to make sensationalist content or cater to a politically biased market. Serious reporting on every vertical. One of the best media startup outcomes in two decades.
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Can someone explain to me why Salesforce has to talk shit about space exploration in order to sell more customer relationship management software licenses?
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If you’re a programmer exactly 34-38 years old, you went to college during a short-lived, unique period of time where the mainstream view was
1) Internet business is a bubble
2) all programming will be outsourced to India
And like me, you probably forget that all the time.
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At dinner, crazed person enters a restaurant, downs an entire 40 of beer, threatens staff with violence, goes table to table grabs each patron’s drink and *throws them in their face*.
Police called. Never came.
There’s only one city in the country where this story could happen.
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Equifax’s $700M fine feels like pittance compared to what it would have been if they were based in Silicon Valley and labeled as a “tech company.” Their breach had material, devastating financial consequences to people. FB is getting fined over data that has caused feelings.
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The most unrealistic thing about Star Trek is that someone got the construction of both Starfleet Headquarters and Starfleet Academy through San Francisco city planning.
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Why stop with technical debt? You can securitize that shit into a basket of blended technical risk and sell tranches at various seniorities to buyers according to their risk appetite and desired return profile. We need to get more creative with our technical debt instruments.
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There’s an entire genre of San Franciscans going to New York and having their minds blown by what competent governance with a wealthy and willing tax base can get you.
Spending the week in New York City for work, and the subway system is truly a marvel. As a San Franciscan, let alone someone from the wider Bay Area, it’s hard to fathom getting from any corner to another easily, quickly and for $2.75 no matter how far you ride.
#TotalNYC
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How do we report stuff to the Department of Misinformation. Is there a hashtag to use or something?
One of the reasons why prices are up? Corporations have figured out they can use inflation as cover to not only pass along their own increased costs to consumers, but also to price gouge to boost their profit margins. We need tougher rules to prevent price gouging.
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@ehalm_
@AviSchiffmann
You did a morally reprehensible thing for 54 likes. You’re in the arena, but it’s mostly empty.
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Monopoly is when all your friends use the luxury product because everyone you know is rich.
It’s time to break up
@Apple
’s smartphone monopoly.
Also, c’mon, let’s stop leaving green text people out of the group chats. It’s just not right.
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“It’s beautiful out here…”
(camera starts)
“Very pretty haha.”
“We survived a wildfire and a pandemic.”
“Yeah.”
“I think we could probably survive anything, right?”
“Yup.”
“Do you want to try?”
💍
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@Scott_Wiener
❌ Respect the guy who built most of the vehicles that satisfy CA’s EV goals
❌ Respect the guy who reduced the environmental impact of space programs by 10x+
❌ Thank the guy that paid $1B in taxes last year
✅ Dunk on Elon cause you don’t like his twetes
👍 makes sense
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“If you’re making a photo app, you’re not changing the world. You’re just not.” - Kara Swisher
Photo apps that changed the world:
* Apple Photos bundled with mobile
* Instagram
* Google Photos CV/AI
If you’re just a critic, you’re not changing the world either. You’re just not.
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We announced our $150M Fund III 🎉
Upgrade your terminals at to make sure you have the latest version.
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I can't tell if Walgreens does not watch Succession, or definitely does watch Succession.
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“
@GrowSF
is not a serious organization. They try to trick people by putting forward non-controversial ideas that everyone can get behind” -
@JackieFielder_
The horror!
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Look at this hammer-swinging technique.
Guaranteed laptop class leftist and/or trust fund recipient.
Someone seen destroying a RoboTaxi in San Francisco this weekend.
What do you think, hero or villain?
🎥:
@caterywta
on IG
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@McGuinnessEU
@collision
@stripe
@EUintheUS
If the Collisons let you pretend they didn’t flee the EU to build their company in America, will you be less likely to regulate them out of jealousy?
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Congrats to the front-end team who finally hit merge on this 10 year PR while Bezos was on a call with his anti-trust legal team or fighting off the bolsheviks on his lawn or something.
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Wow. Tenderloin merchants write a scathing letter to
@DeanPreston
about his strident statement that he doesn’t talk to business owners.
Tenderloin businesses that are struggling to survive in the middle of open drug markets sent a scathing letter to
@DeanPreston
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"We asked you for alternative strategies and you provided none...You seem only to be interested in action that promotes your own personal ideology."
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I spent enough time taking down t-shirts designed by people who found clever ways to use the numbers 14 and 88 in an obscure sentence… Enough time to know that this guy is fucking scary and fucking nuts.
Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me.
Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several
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Wow, just encountered a driverless car stuck on Haight, right in front of the intersection, blocking traffic.
It was a normal car, but the driver was just, idk, somewhere else, not inside. While he left his car in the road.
Journalists, DM for interview on this important story.
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Before I even go to bed, the spin is starting.
No one involved this article gets it. They still think all these Democrats who voted against them are secret Republicans.
They still have no idea how out of touch they are. November will be worse for them.
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If I worked at Twitter, I’d make clicking on stock ticker symbols do something useful.
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Hot take: the people who “value property over human life” are the people who are willing to fight, stab, and shoot in order to steal it.
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Airbnb seeks valuation of nearly $35B. And an additional $20B in cleaning fees.
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He’s right. This city is making a hard right turn from the politics of Bernie Sanders to the politics of Elizabeth Warren. If we’re not careful, we might end up in Barack Obama, or even Joe Biden territory!
Former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin on the city’s ‘hard turn to the right’
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Over 300 shoplifters arrested in 40 one-day operations??
But I was told Target doesn’t have a shoplifting problem. They’re just exaggerating to embarrass the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco.
Man, I just don’t know who to believe anymore.
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@anothercohen
I bet even if you tweeted: “I hope 1/3 of my company quits,” you wouldn’t get 1/3 of your company quitting.
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Nobody ever recommends this book for new VCs, and it blows my mind. Absolutely comprehensive. Covers the aspects of the VC business you didn’t even know existed (firm dynamics, LP management, LP fundraising, portfolio math, major players.)
Must-read.
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People immune to the Tim Apple gaff:
Michael Bloomberg
Joseph Campbell
John Deere
Michael Dell
William Deloitte
Walt Disney
James Dyson
Antonio Ducati
Henry Ford
Guccio Gucci
Henry Heinz
Conrad Hilton
James Kraft
John McAfee
Arthur Nielsen
Gianni Versace
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@joshsusser
@izs
And single people, especially women, occasionally get grief, and are treated and even told they are less of a woman by people with children, often entitled Karens.
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Horseshoe theory on full display:
The far right hates honors programs, because they think knowledge is woke; and the far left hates honors programs because they think achievement is racist.
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I’ve been told by some VCs not to code at all, because of how it will make me look “Junior.”
I learn so much more by actually writing the code than by reading about the product. This may seem obvious to a programmer. But I promise you it’s not obvious to most VCs.
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Do people realize Edward Norton has started a company where his title is “Chief Strategy Officer,” the product is “PowerPoint but for board decks,” and the market is “people who make and read board decks?”
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Hot take: RFK Jr is polling well right now because everyone knows his name, but few people have heard this crazy idiot speak. Expect him to fall apart quickly and disappear.
2/ Before getting into vaccine stuff, did you know RFK Jr. also believes that cell phones and WiFi give you cancer, damage your mitochondria and give you "leaky brain?" That's the kind of guy we are dealing with.
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Just saw RETURN OF THE JEDI, an in-depth character exploration of the Rebel pilot who destroyed the Death Star, an operation that killed 1.2M Imperial crewmen. Film is 3 hours long and features zero Bothans.
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Imagine sitting down with a mid-sized city mayor and being like - In our city, this guy made one rules change at his co to bring hundreds of tech startups to the city.
“That’s great, so they probably gave that guy the keys to the city, huh?”
No. Uh. Actually…they hate him.
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Looks like
@DeanPreston
is moving forward tomorrow with a resolution by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. (Which is not a place in San Francisco fyi.)
I’m sure the open public comment session is going to be normal.
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Broke: Acquiring for patents
Woke: Acquiring for engineers
Bespoke: Acquiring for grandfathered workplace cafeterias
@terronk
Invest in cafeterias now, positioning self to be acquired by the unicorns of tomorrow at way above cost?
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My mother, who is in an extreme at-risk category, traveling the world with her husband via Oculus. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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America needs to start treating EU regulation with hostility.
As they specifically target American (and Chinese) large cap companies with the express purpose of hurting the businesses that make up the largest and fastest growing parts of our economy…how else could we respond?
With great scale comes great responsibility 🇪🇺
Extra
#DSA
obligations as of 25 August for:
AliExpress
Amazon Store
AppStore
Bing
Booking
Facebook
Google Maps
Google Play
Google Search
Google Shopping
Instagram
LinkedIn
Pinterest
Snapchat
TikTok
Twitter
Wikipedia
YouTube
Zalando
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If I hear “40% of VC dollars go to Facebook and Google ads” one more time, I’m going to buy an ad debunking it.
1) Headcount is
#1
item, not ad spend
2) Many startups don’t rely on ads
3) Do the math to see this stat implies startups are 25% of Google+FB ad revenue. Lol. No.
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This beautiful new HQ in South San Francisco is a policy failure.
A completely avoidable, expensive, nearly infinite series of mistakes by the City, especially the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Stripe will not be the last. And our policies are getting worse, not better.
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I usually refrain from commenting on anything happening in the Bay Area outside of the city where I live, but holy shit this video of public comment in Oakland.
“Israel murdered their own people on October 7.”
This movement lost the plot before they even opened the book.
Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire.
A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas.
This was the reaction…
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Honestly, the odds that you pick any couple in San Francisco and one is a YC alum and the other is a pay-to-print Forbes columnist is quickly approaching 1.
Ilya Lichtenstein, a tech entrepreneur and Y combinator alum.
Heather Morgan, a Forbes columnist.
Today they were arrested for trying to launder billions in stolen crypto. They face up to 20 years in prison.
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@TikTokInvestors
So dumb. She could get to $1B by 30 if she just took that $2,121 and put it in the stock market TODAY, making a modest double digit return daily until she’s 30.
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Stunning coincidence that the former Chair of SF DSA just so happened to “almost” be the first person in SF ever hit by a Waymo, days after our viral pro-AV video called out SF DSA Supervisor
@DeanPreston
. In a video that shows a stopped Waymo doing nothing.
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* Low code is infinitely more interesting than no code. The most popular programming language in the world is Excel. We are massively underestimating the number of people who can low-code in their area of expertise. The barriers to entry for coding are lowering every day.
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A bunch of guys in ski masks just robbed the Bloomingdale’s in front of her. Staff didn’t blink. Common occurrence.
Everything is fine. Normal part of living in a city, why even talk about it? Nothing to do with these closures. Doom loop is rw fake news.
Weather is nice today!
Fiancée shopping for wedding perfume at Nordstroms, and the woman helping her says she grew up here and has been working at Nordstroms since the day it opened.
She helped Princess Diana shop for perfume in the 90’s. Got misty eyed talking about how they’re shutting down soon.
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