zolayola
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Multi-modal blockchain + visualisation tools to amplify human intelligence.
London
Joined January 2023
Some founders are getting REALLY dodgy with their ARR metrics. Almost like: "We booked $1000 in the past hour, and therefore are now on a $9M ARR". I'm spending a lot more time now trying to understand how founders are 'annualizing' their revenue...
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Repeated studies have shown that VCs overindex on shallow founder attributes, leading to predictably bad investments — and missed good investments. The reason this happens is simple: VCs convinced themselves that 'fundraising' is a desirable trait in founders. So, a product
Seed investing has always over-indexed on demographics, but it’s gotten absurd. Meet many founders with shallow AI understanding and low hustle raising massive rounds just because they’re 22/Harvard/SF. While some of most AI-native, fastest-moving founders I work with are 30+/NYC
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We’ll advance more in the next 3 years than we did in the last 125 years.
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Went to a private VC event in Berlin. Themes: don't compete with Silicon Valley, don't go horizontal, focus on small regional niches. Everyone nods along. Then wonders why they can't hire talent. Move to Stockholm, folks.
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huge mood my goal is to settle in a city that makes me feel good as a human being and go to the bay for one action packed week every few months
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Visual forms have far greater explanatory power than greek/latin mathematical notations.
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The trend of Europeans moving to the UAE will only accelerate. It’s very straightforward why: 1/ Northern Europe is not nice in winter. The Gulf is very nice in winter 2/ The Gulf is very warm in summer. Europe is a sublime charm in summer. 3/ Europe doesn’t have global tax,
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Art. (The Sun bit, not the Oracle bit).
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Coding with AI is one thing. Shipping with AI is a totally different one. In most cases, knowledge is still required.
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difficult historical fact that no matter how many people are alive on earth at a given point there’s been the same small number, maybe 1500 or so, that are actually changing the world in any substantial way
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I love SF but hated Stanford. deeply incurious, entitled, conformist place 1) Nobody leaves campus. Caltrained to SF once every 1-2 mos, which was unusual + hard to get ppl to join. Kids are totally disconnected from / uninterested in the real world. 2) Stanford ships
There are just a lot of deep tech companies I know now that refuse to hire kids coming out of Stanford
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There are just a lot of deep tech companies I know now that refuse to hire kids coming out of Stanford
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Knowing a thing involves knowing it's form, it's attributes, it's purpose, it's boundaries, it's place, it's provenance, it's distribution.
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· Unreachable · Endless walk. Eternal approach. So near... So far... 1/1⤵️
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