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Vishal Persaud

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Tech PR media strategist @OffleashPR | Former Bloomberg, Business Insider | @dartmouth @newmarkjschool alum | Bronx, NY-born 🇬🇾, @yankees @nyknicks fan

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Vishal Persaud
15 days
🚨 Breaking news! I've joined @offleashpr as its newest media strategist. I couldn't be more thrilled to join the team and embark on this next phase of my career.
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Offleash
15 days
📣 "How could I not go Offleash?" — We’re thrilled to welcome @vishalpersaud, Offleash’s newest Media Strategist! With 15+ years in the news business, including roles at Business Insider, Bloomberg, Pitchbook & Dataminr, Vishal is bringing bold insight & big energy to the team.
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Vishal Persaud
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RT @jefffluhr: Honored to be on the @BusinessInsider list of top seed investors. And congrats to some old friends who also made the list: @….
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Vishal Persaud
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RT @JordanNof: Honored to be included on the @BusinessInsider list of top seed investors for 2025. Grateful to work with the founders who m….
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Business Insider's annual Seed 100 list recognizes the early-stage investors who provide crucial support to budding startups.
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Vishal Persaud
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RT @alexiskold: Thank you @BusinessInsider for highlighting my work as a seed investor @2048vc and placing me on Top Seed Investors 2025 li….
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Vishal Persaud
7 months
The Elon Musk-OpenAI context.
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Dan Primack
7 months
My understanding is that @elonmusk is not trying to buy the OpenAI nonprofit, per se, but rather the underlying for-profit assets that @sama must buy in order to reorg the company. So it's partially a troll, and partially setting a price that may cause Sam to pay more than he.
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Vishal Persaud
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RT @PranavDixit: If you were laid off from Meta today and were on a visa, I'd like to talk to you. Reach me securely on Signal at +1408-905….
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Vishal Persaud
11 months
RT @meliarobin: Cathie Wood's Ark is doubling down on OpenAI with at least $250 million in its new funding round. Scoop w/ @thebenbergman:….
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Wood's Ark Venture Fund invested $250 million in OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding round, joining Thrive Capital and others.
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Vishal Persaud
1 year
Why do I think of “dance mode” from Bluey when I see “founder mode” #dadlife #toddlerlife.
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Vishal Persaud
1 year
RT @meliarobin: 📢 Excited to announce a fireside chat with @epaley at #SBW2024!. 🌟 Emerging founders, this one's for you! Join us to explor….
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Vishal Persaud
1 year
RT @teddyschleifer: Doug Leone of Sequoia, a major GOP donor who famously renounced Trump after January 6, says in a rare public utterance….
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Vishal Persaud
1 year
RT @JimmyRandazzo: If the Knicks win tonight someone who retweets and is following is winning a shirt. Comment your size. Go New York Go Ne….
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Vishal Persaud
1 year
Thank you @alistairmbarr. Very excited to have led this project this year and proud of @BusinessInsider's VC and startups team for their hard work. Also, many thanks to our data partners @terminaai and @tribecap.
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Alistair Barr
1 year
Congratulations to @vishalpersaud on running BI's Seed 100 project. A great accomplishment! via @businessinsider.
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Vishal Persaud
1 year
RT @JimmyRandazzo: If Juan Soto hits a home run today someone who retweets and is following is winning a shirt. Comment your size. Let’s go….
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Vishal Persaud
1 year
We put together the top defense tech VCs to know now that interest in the industry is starting to boom.
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A new wave of techno-optimist patriotism and rising geopolitical tensions are driving more venture capital investing to defense tech startups.
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Vishal Persaud
1 year
NEW: Meet David Lieb, Y Combinator's newest group partner. @BusinessInsider's @meliarobin has an in-depth and compelling profile of Lieb's journey from startup founder to @ycombinator partner.
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David Lieb is stepping up as a group partner at Y Combinator. He joins a cadre of alumni coming back to shepherd in the next generation of founders.
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Vishal Persaud
1 year
Knicks clinch #2 in the East!!! 🤪🎉
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Vishal Persaud
1 year
PR folks: My name is not "Vishad".
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