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Inbal Shenfeld

@IShenfeld

💘 tech, mom*2 hubby*1 Jolly inquisitive person with optimistic approach to life Serial 👼 =🦄 + some exits including my own co

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Inbal Shenfeld
Inbal Shenfeld@IShenfeld·
Note to self......If I would have invested in Canva when I first started using it I would have been with a much stronger protfolio right now. If you see a product you love....try to invest a small amount of money.
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Amit Mandelbaum@Amit_Mandelbaum·
בכנות המכתב של רעיית ראש השב"כ מטריד אותי הרבה הרבה פחות מהעלייה המטורפת בטרור היהודי בשטחים מאז שהוא נכנס לתפקיד.
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עידן אלתרמן - Edan Alterman
שמעתי שהאמריקאים והאיראנים שוקלים הפסקת אש לשבועיים וזה משום-מה הזכיר לי את המערכון הזה. ידעתי שאנחנו חיים פה בשכונה בעייתית, אבל לא ידעתי שזו נווה חמציצים. תודה ל Avi Nussbaum שעלה על הרפרנס❤️
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Inbal Shenfeld@IShenfeld·
@pmarca With good orchestration (in a wally it's the equivalent of what websites were for the we) we can get the B results for the 20 usd.
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
The pricing tiers for AGI are something like (1) $20/month, (2) $200/day = ~$75,000/year, (3) $1,000/day = ~$350,000/year, and (4) ~$10 billion. For now.
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andrew chen
andrew chen@andrewchen·
hosting zoom office hours this week for a16z speedrun you'll be able to apply to a16z speedrun in just a few weeks, so so come AMA. first come, first served drop a comment + like and I'll DM you a calendly link
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Inbal Shenfeld
Inbal Shenfeld@IShenfeld·
@eladgil @sundarpichai @collision I profoundly hated the way he communicated with Google employees, couldn't listen to him, but I love listening to him as a stocks owner, the way he talks to you and to shareholders It's amazing Like a completely different person with completely different communication skills.
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Shahar Tzafrir
Shahar Tzafrir@ShaharTzafrir·
כאילו, הכל כבר היה ידוע על סאם אלטמן. ועדיין הפרטים אוי הפרטים. תחקיר מרתק של רונן פארו (הבן של מיה פארו / וודי אלן, עמד מאחורי התחקירים על הארווי ווינשטיין, על פגסוס של nso ועוד הרבה תחקירים דרמטים). די סביר שצריך רמה מסוימת של פסיכופטיות בשביל לייצר מאפס חברות ומוצרים שמשנים מציאות בכזה סדר גודל. ועדיין האיש המסוים הזה נראה באקסטרים השלילי המסוכן. ומחזיק במושכות של כוחות שמגמדים נשק גרעיני. וללא קשר, התמונה / סרטון של הראשים המתחלפים של סאם אלטמן בראשית הכתבה היא שיחוק. +תלונות הזוועה של אחותו על הפגיעה המינית ממנו בילדותם. אין מילים.
Ronan Farrow@RonanFarrow

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings:

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Inbal Shenfeld@IShenfeld·
@DannyLeshem אמרתי לך את זה כבר פעם אתה הצלחת פטרי של תחושת חוסר המסוגלות שלי
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Eran Ben Horin
Eran Ben Horin@EranBenHorin·
מצטער מאמי אי אפשר לצפות בשרינקינג היום. דני שוב צייץ משהו שיושב אצלי rent-free כבר שעתיים🤦‍♂️ אז כמה מחשבות: - סאס כרגע נופל תחת אי-סדר, אבל מי שמשוכנעת שחברות תוכנה ייראו כמו פלנטיר (וFDE יתבאסו שהם צריכים לתמוך בהטמעה של בנק בלוד. סתם מחשבה, לא יודע למה דווקא זה קפץ לי), אז פתאום החיים פחות מסובכים (לא באמת. וגם קשה להשתכנע בזה כי זה עדיין לא קונצנזוס). - כמה חברות דיפ טק ישראליות גייסו C ומעלה בעשור באחרון? - האם וונצ'ר בישראל יחזור ל2000-2010? יותר רד תוכנה ופחות סימילארווב? אחלה פריימוורק. אני עדיין צריך לעכל אותו טיפה
Danny Leshem ⚡@DannyLeshem

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Inbal Shenfeld@IShenfeld·
@cyantist Most of the "hot superstar" lists can't find you either, so perhaps you're just very evasive.
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Cyan Banister
Cyan Banister@cyantist·
Exactly. As a past founder myself, I don't think any algorithm would have found me. They can't find me now.
Austin Hill@austinhill

@cyantist @AmirF15336 I can imagine the prompt attempting to find companies for you now. “Please read Diamond age and the rest of @nealstephenson’s novels and find me entrepreneurs building the products and worlds technologies the novels are set in”

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Carl Rivera
Carl Rivera@carlrivera·
I turn 40 today. Life is great
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Tal Morgenstern
Tal Morgenstern@TalMorgenstern·
@NoaBarbiro אם יש קירקלנד באושר עד - באמת שהשמיים הם הגבול!
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Inbal Shenfeld@IShenfeld·
@BillAckman @X I wish lots of health to your daughter After reading with 20+ years of experience in corporate HR Fight!!! Regardless i cant wait to buy some of your stock at IPO. This is (as many other things you have done in the past) a class act of a top tier CEO, I would love to invest in
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Bill Ackman
Bill Ackman@BillAckman·
I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest. By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person. The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster. While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family. Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on. Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job. When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLE’s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned. My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful. Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership. Now here is where I need your advice. All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion). The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (let’s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two years’ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years. When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm. In the letter, Ronda’s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of ‘harassment and gender discrimination’ – an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance – and that her termination was due to: “unlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Ronda’s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Ronda’s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.” The letter goes on to explain the basis for the “unsafe work environment” claim at TABLE: “In early 2026, Pershing Square’s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackman’s family office. [His nephew]—whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackman—began appearing at TABLE’s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employees’ ages (“Tell me you are nowhere near 40”), physical appearance (“Your body does not look like you have kids”), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (“Who carried your son? Who will carry your next child?”). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]’s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.” The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE’s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so. When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda’s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended. Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didn’t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful. Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue – one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery – and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughter’s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office. Now, let’s get back to the subject at hand. Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop. The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims. The consequences of this sleazy system (let’s call it ‘the System’) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males. The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes. So what happened here? Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer. Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss. When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked – in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sister’s birthday party, he said ‘she must be your older sister’ – Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case. The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim. Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO. Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a “hostile and unsafe work environment” are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months. She also likely considered that I wouldn’t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly. So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew. Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move. All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior. Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community. I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this ‘claim.’ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it. Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?
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Shahar Tzafrir
Shahar Tzafrir@ShaharTzafrir·
תודה! חשבתי על זה לא פעם, איך ה LPs שלנו מתמודדים עם זה שהם מקבלים דוחות מכמה קרנות הון סיכון שונות בהן הם משקיעים, שמחזיקות כל אחת את אותו סטארטאפ בשווי לפעמים שונה. אז הנקודה שלך על הזמן שלך בקרנות שניוניות נותן על זה יותר אור. אני מבין שיש שם עצימת עיניים באישור :) אני מעדיף להיות הכי שמרן ופסימי בשווי שאני מחזיק חברות, ולהפתיע רק לטובה. ככה גם מאמינים לך יותר בפעמים הנדירות שאתה בוחר להעלות שווי לא במסגרת סיבוב גיוס חיצוני.
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Sam Kampner
Sam Kampner@KampnerSam·
פוסט מעניין ומעשיר של שחר הזכיר לי קצת את התקופה שלי בהשקעות שניוניות. במהלך השנתיים בלקסינגטון נחשפתי למאות קרנות, כל אחת עם שיטת השמאות שלה על תמחור החברות. הנה כמה תובנות: בגדול, בחצי שנה הראשונה, הסטנדרט די פשוט. מתאימים את הערכת השווי לסבב האחרון. יש כאלה שמושכות את זה גם שנה. משם והלאה כל קרן עושה מה שבא לה, לפחות כל עוד זה עובר audit. בעולם הVC לרוב משתמשים במכפיל הכנסות או ARR שנגזר מחברות פומביות. לפעמים המעבר למכפיל הוא 100% מיידי, ולפעמים זה איזה בלנד של הסבב האחרון והשוק הציבורי (וככל שעובר הזמן המשקל נוטה יותר לכיוון הציבורי). פה זה נהיה מעניין. בתור קרן סקנדרי אתה יכול למצוא את עצמך מחזיק את אותה חברה בדיוק דרך שתי קרנות שונות, וכל אחת נותנת לה שווי אחר לגמרי באותו רגע נתון! למרות חוסר ההגיון, יש רגולציה שמרשה לקרן הסקנדרי פשוט לקבל בעיניים עצומות את הערכת השווי של הVC כשהיא משחררת את הNAV שלה עצמה למשקיעים, כי שמאות עצמאית של כל החברות בקרן פשוט לא ראלית. אגב, מניסיון, הקרנות הטובות באמת קשוחות יותר בתמחור. בדרך יש להן ביצועים חזקים, והן לא צריכות לנפח מספרים באקסל כדי להיראות טוב. הקרנות החלשות יותר מפרגנות לעצמן בהערכות השווי כדי להראות תשואה על הנייר, למרות בפועל מדובר באותם נכסים בדיוק… בתהליך רכישת הסקנדרח עצמו זה הופך לאתגר. בגלל חוסר התמחור האחיד, היינו מעבירים תהליך קבוע של נרמול להערכות השווי הפנימיות שלנו בצורה רוחבית, לפעמים על פני אלפי חברות בפורטפוליו. מה שאני מספר לכם כאן זה קצה המזלג, אבל מקווה שזה עוזר להבין איך הקרנות האלו מתנהלות בפועל ולמה צריך לקחת את הערכות השווי האלה בערבון מוגבל. אגב, אם תהיתם, לשחר עצמו אין מה לדאוג. יש לו טרק רקורד מרשים מאוד שGPs רבים בוואלי היו מקנאים בו 😉
Shahar Tzafrir@ShaharTzafrir

1/ למי שלא בעולמות ההון סיכון, זאת שאלה שמרימה מסך על איך קרן VC עוקבת אחרי שווי הפורטפוליו שלה. מתי VC "מעלה" שווי בספרים לסטארטאפ? ואולי עוד יותר מעניין, מתי הוא "מוריד" שווי? ומה השיקולים לעשות את זה? ספוילר: לרוב שיווק. לעיתים נדירות גם כסף.

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Dave McClure
Dave McClure@davemcclure·
this week on Ep 29 #TradingPlaces: - #SpaceX IPO @ $2T (um, wow) - #Anthropic rising vs. #OpenAI falling - 2026 #IPO market vs. #Iran war / interest rates - #Bezos raising $100B #AI #Infrastructure fund - #ShieldAI @ $13B vs. #Anduril @ $60B - @SydecarIO COO @ShriBhashyam on #SPVs cc @TradingVCs @PracticalVC @AmanVerjee
trading places@TradingVCs

🚀 SpaceX just filed its confidential IPO prospectus — and prediction markets say it will be June 3rd, @elonmusk's birthday, during a rare 6-planet alignment. @AnthropicAI is on a generational heater — Opus 4.6, Cowork, enterprise momentum — while @OpenAI cuts Sora and kills the Disney deal trying to find focus. Prediction markets now say Anthropic IPOs first, 60/40 chance. In Episode 29 of Trading Places, @davemcclure and @AmanVerjee reshuffle the Private Mag7 – Anthropic jumps, OpenAI slides. @ShieldAITech breaks into the conversation after closing at a $12.7B valuation @JeffBezos announces a $100B AI manufacturing fund — and Dave says it's 100% getting raised, probably oversubscribed. A breakdown of the Meta/YouTube social media addiction verdict that spooked the entire tech sector. Plus a deep dive with @ShriBhashyam, COO of @SydecarIO, on how SPVs are becoming a permanent part of every investor's toolkit — and why layered SPVs aren't always the villain people think they are. Timestamps: 00:00 — cold open 00:49 — [ tech and vc news ] 00:49 — #7 of private Mag7 02:21 — Iran war end when 03:35 — Why June for @SpaceX IPO 05:34 — First to go public: Anthropic or OpenAI 10:23 — Bezos seeks $100B 14:02 — @Meta & @YouTube found liable 19:12 — Ex-@Kalshi launch 5cc 21:27 — [ intvw: Shri Bhashyam @ Sydecar] 21:52 — @Forge_Global ➡️ @EquityZen 24:22 — SPV secondaries vs primaries 29:04 — Trajectory to $4B AUA 41:40 — SPV fee structure warning 51:05 — DEAL act to set privates free 54:50 — [ valuation corner: Shield AI @ $12.7B ] 55:59 — @ShieldAITech marvel story 56:40 — What Shield AI does 57:41 — @AndurilTech playbook 1:01:04 — Future of defense tech 1:02:02 — second takes

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Inbal Shenfeld
Inbal Shenfeld@IShenfeld·
@ShaharTzafrir אתם לא רואים את אותו הפאנל אבי יששכרוף היה המדריך שלי בצופים. לזה הוא היה קורא כל קוץ בעיר הוא פרח במדבר....
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Shahar Tzafrir
Shahar Tzafrir@ShaharTzafrir·
קטונתי מול אחד הגדולים, מארק אנדריסן. שגם תכנת את אחד מדפדפני האינטרנט הראשונים, מוזילה / מוזאיק בשנת 1993 (השתמשתי!) הרבה לפני שגוגל בכלל קמה. אבל... לא זורם עם הטענה שלו. רק בישראל אני מכיר מקרוב מספר שאפשר לספור על קצת יותר מיד אחת של סטארטאפים שעברו את המליארד דולר שווי, וגם בסבב סיד וגם בסבב A מעל שלושים קרנות אמרו pass לכל אחד מהם. ועוד ירדו על אלו שכן השקיעו שהם הזויים. הטענה של אנדריסן שיש כ"כ הרבה קרנות / משקיעים חכמים שלא סביר שאתה תזהה משהו טוב וכל השאר פספסו, מניסיוני כמשקיע סיד, לא פעם לא נכונה. ודווקא חברות מטורפות מתקשות יותר מחברות" סתם" שיש להן סיפור פשוט שנמצא בקונצנזוס לגייס הון מ vcs.
a16z@a16z

Marc Andreessen says don’t ever do diamonds in the rough. Only do diamonds. "This is actually an investor ego thing, I think, which is you basically say, 'Wow, I'm the investor that's gonna go find the thing that nobody else knows about... I'm going to go do the thing nobody else can think of.'" "The general pattern is... if it's got merit to be investable for venture, there are a lot of really smart and hungry VCs out there, and they are working extremely hard to sniff these things out, and it's their full-time job, and it's all they do." "I think it's really unusual to have the diamond in the rough, and usually if it's the diamond in the rough, it usually means two things... a company that's offside in some fundamental reason, it's in the wrong place, or it's structured wrong." "There's a reason why it's a diamond in the rough that actually ends up becoming a big problem." @pmarca with @HarryStebbings

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maor damari
maor damari@maor_damari·
@IShenfeld ברור שזה קשה, תחושת האכזבה בשביל הסבים והסבתות שלנו עצומה, אבל האכזבה ממה שנהיה מהמדינה ומאין סוף אנשים שמדברים על מנהיג מחורבן כאילו הוא אלוהים גם נותנת את הטון.
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maor damari
maor damari@maor_damari·
רוב מי שעוקב אחרי עדה זאת כי שיתפתי על המעבר שלנו לספרד, וקצת על סיפורי האפיליאט מרקטינג. לכן, הנה הטייק שלי ל״סופש הגירה מישראל״ טייק 10000- עזבנו בספטמבר 2023, הבנו שטוב לא יצא מהממשלה הזו ושאנחנו בדרך לקטסטרופה. לא היה לי מוטיבציה לתת לילדים שלי לחוות את מה שהולך להיות. הגעתי למסקנה שהולכת להיות קטסטרופה אחרי 4 מעגלי שיח עם חברה מהציונות הדתית, חרדים, חילונים. הבנתי שאנחנו בבעיה רצינית, ואין לי את היכולת, משאבים לעזור פה. הגירה זה דבר מסוכן, הרבה יכול להשתבש, הגירה בתור ישראלי חודש לפני שפורצת מלחמה משוגעת זה אף הרבה יותר קשה. בשמיני לאוקטובר, כבר צצו ברחבי ברצלונה גרפיטי מאוד אלים נגדנו, דם הנרצחים עוד היה חם, וכבר פה האשיימו אותנו ברצח עם. זה ההיה ברור שמתקפת השביעי באוקטובר כללה את הסיפור הזה, ולא לקחתי את זה ברצינות. כישראלי שחיי בספרד התחושה שלי מתחלקת לשניים- גאווה, ובושה. גאווה- אני גאה להיות ישראלי, יהודי, אני חוגג את זה עם הילדים שלי (אין תשובה יותר טובה לאנטישמיות מאשר לחגוג יהדות), אנחנו מזמינים חברים קטלונים/ספרדים לקידוש, אנחנו שרים בעברית ביום הולדת של הילדים בנוסף לקטלונית, ספרדית ואנגלית. אנחנו משתפים את התרבות שלנו עם כולם, ונהנים ללמוד מהם על התרבות שלהם. מצד שני- בושה, בושה שהעם שלנו יצר אנשים כמו נתניהו, בן גביר, סמוטריץ, ישראל כץ. בושה במה שהולך בשטחים, בלראות חברה יהודים שנראים הרבה יותר יהודים ממני עושים את מה שהם עושים. היכולת שלי לדבר עם אנשים בספרד ולהסביר להם על המנהרות בעזה, ואיזה שהוא הגיון במלחמה הזו מאוד מאוד פוחת כששר בממשלה מפזר הצהרות של ״נוריד אטום על עזה״ (למרות שאני וכל ישראלי יודע שעמיחי אליהו ברמה של פקק, פה הוא ״שר בממשלת ישראל). המנעד הזה בין גאווה לבושה לא פשוט, הדרך שלנו להתמודד עם הבושה זה להיות טובים, להראות ישראליות טובה. כשהמוסכניק, בעלת המאפיה, הברבר, המנקה, רואת חשבון, עורכת הדין, השותפים למשחק פאדל, כדורגל, מקבלים חוויה טובה ממני, יש להם חוויה טובה מישראלי וזה משנה להם את הפרספקטיבה לגבי ישראל, כי בחדשות הם רואים את ביבי, עמיחי אליהו, בן גביר, סמוטריץ ואת החברים שלהם מהשטחים . אני לא יכול להמליץ להגר, זה מאוד קשה, אני כן יכול לשתף את סיפורי, כמו שאני עושה, ולמי שזה עוזר, זה מאוד משמח אותי. שבוע טוב לכולם.
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Inbal Shenfeld
Inbal Shenfeld@IShenfeld·
@MS_BASE44 איזה כף לך שאתה יכול למנף את מה שעשית לעשות כל כך הרבה טוב. זה אדיר.
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Maor Shlomo
Maor Shlomo@MS_BASE44·
Didn’t expect this level of reach Thank you everyone, I’ll be going over to the comments and my DMs in the next few days to respond, Thank you
Maor Shlomo@MS_BASE44

I'm looking to invest in cancer research and breakthrough treatment companies Cancer is humanity's worst enemy, and unfortunately, it's one of the few frontier problems i don't see getting solved in the next 2-3 years.  I'll be able to write checks up to a few million (usually up to a million).  I will work extremely hard to help the founders. I'll leverage my network as much as possible to overcome bureaucracies and help hunt down talent for every company I'm investing in. Things I'm particularly interested in:  1. Accelerating clinical trials: As AI gets smarter and allows novel hypotheses on new drug targets, clinical trials and bureaucracy will remain the biggest bottleneck to fight cacner. 2. Repurposed drugs: the current cost of Phase 3 clinical trials only allows patentable solutions to be economically viable. It resonates that are probably many other treatments and potentially impactful drugs that won't be included in the Standard of Care as they haven't gone through phase 3 clinical trials.  3. Personalized medicine: organoids, digital twin, faster cycle from biopsy -> identifying targets -> creating customised solutions, such as mRNA vaccines, custom Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs), and novel ways of triggering one's immune system.  4. Improving measurement: Currently, the standard PET-CT method does not allow weekly measurement of disease progression. Identifying a superior method to allow weekly measurement of progression could be instrumental in cutting down the time it takes to find a drug the body respond to. Anyone who can connect me to relevant companies will be widely appreciated

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