Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
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backing founders building what must exist @join_savant
San Francisco
Joined July 2023
SILICON VALLEY IS IN A CRISIS. Our best minds are being wasted on marginal AI wrappers & safe bets. To combat that, we're announcing Choose Good Quests by @join_savant. a conference to gather 500 exceptional talents to take on hard & important problems. November 6-7 in SF šš
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Power laws exist in every layer of the startup ecosystem: the best venture funds attract 90% of the capital, the best startups have 90% of VCs begging for allocation, and the best engineers get paid in the 99.9th percentile. Itās crazy because the path to insane generational.
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Access to hungry, smart and high trajectory undergrad is a moat.
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Ability to take bets and will things into existence is best most important trait in founders.
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hard agree. Itās time we choose good quests!.
ai, bio, robotics, energy. these revolutions will drown out everything else over the next twenty years.
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GPT-5 again proves pure software is becoming commoditized. Most "software companies" will not be venture-backable, but instead becoming more of a PE rollup. We're seeing an inversion: Outsized returns are in companies building real technologies, solving hard and important.
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I really like the type of founders who are competitive and thrive to win, but doing it in a way thatās also genuine/kind to others, and open to lifting others up without expectations because they just want to see you win. This kind of positive sum mindset is rare, and im.
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Venture-backed startups are one of the hardest form of entrepreneurship. You either become a breakout company or a rounding error. Thereās not really an in-between. Even breakout companies have to fight hard to maintain its position or be disrupted before they see a.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but founders if you're struggling to raise pre-seed, it often has more to do with your narrative than your traction. Workshop it and see investors' reaction change.
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Everything happens slowly. then all at once! Don't give up too early!.
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The sign "Welcome to San Francisco" at SFO still gives me the chills today. 7 years since I moved to the Bay Area!.
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Ability to brute force things into existence is a superpower every founder should have.
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canāt schedule posts with threads - who else has this issue when doing product launches / announcement on X?.
If you had to remove 1 feature or part of the X app, what would it be?.
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Living in the world of startups/ventures means seeing millions and millions of dollars being exchanged right in front of your eyes everyday. Market liquidity is a beautiful thing.
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Figma closed today at around $57B and their PE ratio is -76. Crazy!.
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this is me hopefully in the next 2 monthsš„.
If someone ever writes a biography on me, they will probably include today as a turning point. Got my first institutional LP AND my first anchor LP both officially committed and then made a new Friend (thanks @AviSchiffmann š„°)
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Increasingly bullish on @chesterzelaya donāt sleep on him! . Incredible journey from the early days going through @join_savant.
extremely excited to be announcing @uddupa to the @thedroneforge team! . Ud brings:. > ā 9+ yrs of AI experience .> PhD from International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems, Germany.> 14+ published paper .> ā ā 300+ citations.> Undergrad from IIT-Bombay, India.>
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crazy to still be saying this in 2025. what in the world.
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