Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
@yanda
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🥰 @merci,🏋️♂️ (olys), 🧘♂️ (inquiry, jhānas), 🐶 & 🐼. 👨💻 GP @BCapitalGroup. Prior: COO & CRO @weights_biases, GP @coatuemgmt, 4x founder, engineer.
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2007
A startup is not a company: it's an experiment to see if a company deserves to exist. Until p/m-fit, speed of hypothesis testing trumps everything. Startups die when they spend faster than they learn.
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Congratulations @krisfredrickson! Excited to help @perplexity_ai together, and delighted that founders have a great partner they can rely on as they grow. 🥰.
Some news - I raised $175M for Verified Capital with a plan to back transformative technology companies at any stage of their journey. Thanks to @_IainMartin for the writeup in Forbes.
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Work in progress: mini retreat with @Plus3Happiness during his visit to the Bay Area. I’m excited. Who’s in? 🥰⛓️💥.
mini retreat is an exploration started from a conv with @yanda (who's joining in case we fill the other 4 slots) about 'what would make a 10x retreat over what's now available'. it's a combo of practicing, discussing dharma stuff w/ folks that are looking for the same wellbeing
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Wowza @PerplexityComet is a fantastic agentic browser experience. 🥰 Well worth the @perplexity_ai Max subscription. Really impressive work @AravSrinivas and team!.
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Emotions appear in awareness only to be felt, even the “negative” ones. Push them away and they get worse. Welcome them, and they thank you & move along. Enjoy the high-resolution experience that is being human 🥰.
The emotions you most resist are the ones that will set you free. Feeling your fear → Dissolves chronic anxiety.Feeling your sadness → Unlocks vitality.Feeling your anger → Transforms depression. Here's a breakdown of what I teach my CEO clients about emotions:
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RT @agarwal: People on Reddit get it. Things are shifting. I’m proud to tell people I’m raising my kids in San Francisco. ❤️🌉 https://t.co….
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Simple test for ideas & their applications: “theoretically …” does not exist. Only “practically …” exists. If it doesn’t work when applied to real life, it doesn’t work. Cf. socialism, as an example.
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RT @FU_joehudson: How I litmus test my decisions:. Am I deciding to be myself and follow what I want, or am I deciding to try to manage the….
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We think of gravity as a force that keeps us grounded on Earth, but it can also create black holes. We think of love as a force that keeps us connected, but it can . 💥.
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Hi @diabrowser feature request - when chatting with a document (eg. Google Docs, etc), it would be awesome if Dia could edit the document inline, not just add to it. Have a specific example if you're curious. 🙏 🥰.
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The contemplative life is spending half your life inventing patterns where there are none, and then those patterns deconstructing themselves. 😚.
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Our great grandparents would find our current jobs (and the things we purchase with the money we make) utterly ridiculous. We will feel the same about jobs of the future, but they will exist because humans love to create purpose (and stress) for themselves.
i know there’ll always be jobs. because most of the jobs we have now are nonsensical.
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You can have a packed room, and there’s still room for music & feelings to fit. The human experience is magical. 🥰🎶.
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The present moment is a prison from which there is no escape. Fortunately, there is no prisoner.
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Simple pleasure: close my eyes and hear sounds at their origin. The human experience is magical. 🥰.
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