Toby Hardy

🎯 “The Wall” Vietnam War Memorial Washington D.C Such a emotional moment.. will suck the oxygen out of your lungs.. For those of us who served.. we honor all our warriors who made the ultimate sacrifice.. May they RIP.. 🙏🙏🙏 #BrothersSistersInArmsForever #FreedomIsNotFree #NeverForget 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Something very interesting is happening already. Properties .com and Banker .com are two of the Beanstalk sites coming online this week that could absolutely hit the moon. These are not quick landing pages or simple experiments. These are serious builds with original ideas behind them. The kind of sites that could actually grow into public companies. I am not putting my finger on the scale and I am not picking favorites. But when you see what is starting to emerge it raises the bar for everyone climbing the Beanstalk. Both of these have been in development for weeks. Both are coming online with unique concepts and serious execution. And that is exactly the point of the Beanstalk. To show what happens when premium digital real estate meets real vision. And I have to say, the builders climbing this Beanstalk so far have been exceptional. The creativity, effort, and ambition I’m seeing is exactly why this experiment is going to be so much fun to watch. Everyone is gung ho. And honestly, it feels a little magical. The climb has only just begun. #BeanStalkChallenge #Domains #DomainNames #DigitalAssets

@CherokeeOwl Need a second mortgage for these steaks.

@adonispara 🎯 OFS! Always love a fellow aviation war fighter! 💥 Kicking ass & taking names. Down range hot🔥#BrothersInArmsForever Assault 21 - 🐍 Cobra driver 1969 Camp Eagle 🦅 • A Shau Valley to DMZ

> shot 4 times > 21y military career > served 5+ years in war zones > no public info on personal life > captured Maduro on one good leg > first CW5 to ever awarded Medal of Honor > chinook pilot January 2026 raid: Caracas, Venezuela Pure aura warfare gigachad

@Tazerface16 @stuart_loveless Well, at least the dotcom bubble left behind a solid infrastructural backbone. That was later utilized & essentially made end user high speed internet access possible. Which I doubt could happen with these highly specialized bruteforce farms in case of LLM bubble bust

Ukraine says it will not surrender territory to Russia, refusing to bow to Putin or Trump. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

JPMorgan's, $JPM, Jamie Dimon has said that the bank will have fewer jobs in five years than it does now due to AI

@KarhunoAI @marcrandolph Thx for the tip! I'm a FNG to all this, so grateful for the suggestions. Maybe Marc will help? 😁🙏 We are in your corner with all the utter nonsense in Davos. 👍😎

You could try a more targeted approach: build a shortlist of people who match your exact criteria and reach out to them directly. We made a small tool that helps with that “narrow down” step by scanning public LinkedIn profiles and generating an outreach-ready shortlist with links: copilotry.app/x Anyway, good luck with the search, hope you find the right person soon!

Drop a like if you’re a solo founder. Just want to see something..

"Only a $5B exit"

@brettcalhounn @redbudvc @EquipmentShare 🎯 Sweet!

Big congrats to my partners at @redbudvc on their successful IPO with @EquipmentShare 👷

11 venture capital firms HIRING right now👇 ♻️ Repost to help make venture more accessible!

@antonosika 🎯 Sweet! 👏🔥🚀💪 Looking for a team to build BankStatements*COM + *CA + Hispanic markets. It's not sexy, but can be a huge splash..

Today we are officially opening Lovable's new Stockholm HQ. A year ago, the Lovable team fit in an 8-person office. Our new space has room for 300 people across 3 floors! I have a feeling a lot of defining things will happen here.

@HarryStebbings 🎯 Nothing like the thrill of the hunt! Thats why we are being patient in finding an exceptional co-founder to develop our flagship BankStatements*COM & CA + the Hispanic market solutions. Multilingual brand power is crucial for the mission ahead.

The most important skill you can learn in VC: You have to be comfortable doing nothing. We have made significantly less Series A investments for several reasons. We were ok to wait. This week there are 3 truly special ones. The willingness to wait for great is 💯

@natiakourdadze 🎯 Sweet! 👏💪

Here’s how to create an endless lead-generation loop for your startup 🍿 1. Download the free 350+ business growth database from natiakurdadze.com/database 2. Upload it as a PDF to the Gamma.app AI agent 3. Generate a high-quality outline and design the deck 4. Start publishing articles on X or Notes on Substack 5. Set up Kit automation to automatically send this digital product / deck to new subscribers 6. Nurture those leads and introduce tier-2 offers in each newsletter and collect payments using Creem io 7. Best-performing newsletter days: Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday 8. Rinse and repeat

@NWischoff 🎯 Sweet! 👏🔥🚀

In late 2020 I stared angel investing. In late 2021 I went out to raise my first fund while still operating. Had 4 angel investments, all pre-seed/seed with no movement yet. One of the first LPs to commit to the $5M fund also runs their own seed fund. He said he was convinced you're either a great picker of companies from the start or you're not at the earliest stages. Job is more of an art and hard to "teach". I remember thinking oh boy, no idea if thats me yet but lm going for it. Those four angel investments currently sitting at 13.75x, 12x, 5.3x, 4.2x. Marked up by Sequoia, Spark, a16z, Craft and Greylock. Was able to invest into all of them from Fund I as follow on. The journey from pre-seed to exit is very long, but I think we are tracking well. Early innings still!

@amitisinvesting @a16z Sweet! 👏

small life update! i’ve joined Andreessen Horowitz’s @a16z venture scout program! they are essentially letting me manage a little bit of money to write checks into startups. super grateful for the opportunity and excited to begin my angel investing career with the institutional backing of a firm as storied as Andreessen Horowitz (early into facebook, twitter, airbnb, lyft, slack, coinbase and many more) big thank you to @dhaber for the connection and opportunity i’ve had a little success with investing in public equities, I have no idea if any of those skills could translate to the private markets. investing at pre-seed/seed requires a different paradigm as there are no numbers, financials, track-record, and quite frankly there may not even be a product – it really is a bet on the founder and their vision. having said that, if you are building something really cool and raising money, I’d love to hear about it. please email amit@akcomms.com. you can include anything you have whether that is a deck, one pager, etc. i’ve also built out a website that anyone can read to get a sense of how i think of investing in general and the 5 startups I’ve invested in over the past year (one has 20x’ed, one has 10x’ed, the other 3 just finished their seed round last month) no clue if I will be good at this but I appreciate a16z for the opportunity and hopefully we can try to find the next uber or robinhood being built in the early days – excited to see any pitches and please don’t hesitate to reach out! angel investing philosophy below!

@Castello_Bros 🎯 Sweet! 🔥🚀🔥

This is the most important move Apple has made for domain names since they sold Safari to Google. #DomainNames #DigitalAssets #Branding castellobrothers.com/apples-safari-…

So many parents push their kids like crazy. They push them to be great students, great athletes, great musicians… to get into the best schools, land the best jobs, and become “the most successful.” Growing up in Silicon Valley, I saw this constantly. And I’ve always wondered: what’s the actual point of all that pressure? Let’s say everything goes exactly the way that parent dreamed: Their kid gets straight A’s, gets into Stanford, gets hired at Goldman, makes partner, gets rich. Then what? Is that really the end game? Is that why you push them with three tutors, piano lessons, chess club, AP classes, all of it? When my kid is in his 40s, I hope he’s a good citizen, doing something he likes. I hope he’s a good friend, a good husband and father. I hope he’s healthy and happy. That’s it. That’s the end game. That’s the best-case scenario. You can’t want more than that - and I’m not sure “more” is even good. You don’t need 23 tutors and endless pressure to get there.

Random Sunday Thoughts #192 1. "You don’t know what you have until it’s gone" is an often used cliche, and can relate to many aspects of life. As an investor in and advisor on many of the most valuable, exact match brand domain names on the Internet, this is a recurring theme that I discuss with management of with whom we are discussing a domain we represent. While the strategic importance of owning the exact match dotcom has been validated and proven by so many of the world's most successful companies, conversations i have with potential buyers range from 1) understanding the importance across all aspects of the business, but not yet being in a financial position to complete a deal, to 2) those that still believe they can "get away" without it.  by adapting some version of words added to the domain (as HelloPublic was before they became Public*com) or 3) by sticking to a secondary TLD. There are almost no leading brands using anything but .com. Trying to reinvent the wheel and fight the fact that .com is all the consumer sees is a dangerous game. One point that I stress to those I am advising is that they sometimes cannot see the forest through the trees until it's too late. I recently oversaw the sale of a superb exact match domain, and as a courtesy, emailed a CEO who I had been building a relationship with, whose company went by this brand, to let him know that we had sold the asset. His response was he was devastated and I am now hearing they are needing to rebrand because the company that did buy it has gotten so big, so fast, that they capture emails, traffic, and even customer service inquiries related to the company that missed out. Whether it is trust, credibility, recall or recognition when advertised, the so important email address for your company, or things that arise later, on funding or exit, you want to be the company that gets ahead of the "You don’t know what you have until it’s gone" problem. 2. While on the topic, I was excited for AI software company Anything, that was going by createanything*com, on their acquisition of its exact match domain this week. Marcus Lowe gets it, domaininvesting.com/anything-com-s… . Anything*com was the parent name for one of the most iconic domain portfolios in the world. I have done some epic deals with Anything and my good pal larry fischer over the years, including the massive Home*com one. Congrats to all! 3. We are in 10+ serious conversations on some high profile domain transactions, one closing tomorrow, others I expect real soon and even before the holidays. As I said last week, when deals like "Anything" happen, other management teams take notice. 4. Today is the biggest game for the Patriot's since Tom Brady left town. It will be bitter cold, snowy, and exciting. On the same topic, since my kids are Tulane, I am super excited that the Green Wave are playoff bound. I am predicting an upset win over Ole Miss. Until next Week #domains