Bilal Zuberi

Great to see Jensen’s views align with us. Four core values of @redglassvc Curiosity Intensity Integrity Humility First two makes you technically smart Next two make you a good human

Jaya Prada was considered by Satyajit Ray amongst the most beautiful looking women.Rishi Kapoor played any musical instrument on-screen so fluently, as if he was born to play it. The pair's performance, LP's music & Rafi - Lata made Dafliwale a superhit.

Genetic engineering to disrupt Lyme disease carriers would be amazing.

Something is happening with startups pitching themselves loaded with AI buzzwords. I went through decks of three companies today: datacenters, robotics, factory automation, and I cannot tell after going through their decks what do they actually do. I mean I get the something something, but cannot answer the question of "this is the problem we are solving and here's how."

@StephenKYoung I feel bad for people who have to give up their normal life once they become a big deal.

@bznotes I once stood next to him in line for 30 mins to get into Ramen Nagi in Palo Alto, and this was just two years ago, well after he was a very big deal - the man does appreciate good food!

Seeing Jensen enjoy street food markets is wonderful. Live life, man!

VCs should get on the phone to help recruit that engineer, close that deal with a customer, get a better deal on a loan agreement, or convince the next round lead investor…hustle! Clout means little to early stage founders if it is reserved for already successful companies and founders.

I’d make a distinction between clout and network. With the exception of pinnacle level VCs @pmarca et al, a vast majority of VCs appear mid in the clout category for purposes of founder needs. On network, it feels like many of them overindex in clocking time in high pedigree circles for the purpose of allocation & LP hunting.

Smart founder to me. VCs can offer three things to an early stage founder: Money Time Clout/network Money is not really theirs. And anyways becoming commodity. Trick for founder is to find VC willing to give you time and network. Esp when company is small and unproven.

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This was funny!

Mahmoud Darwish recites the poem titled "A small evening over a neglected village." This fragment belongs to the documentary series The Arabs: A Living History (1979-1983), specifically to episode 4, called "The Power of the Word," which is dedicated to poetry in the Arab world.

@cameronharrisx Destined to hell.

@bznotes And what of the VCs that ask startups to pay them for their time and network (GTM assistance, before the VCs were to invest a check into the startup) ?

@SherryRSher So racists can go F off in their own backyard 🤣

They keep turning off comments. I cant determine why. 🤔

@villi Racism is pretty rampant in some circles. Replies to below post are also insane.

The responses to this post are insane. Had to change who can reply.

@ehsanik I am so sorry about this.

Today I was supposed to be on my way to Türkiye for my wedding, to meet up with my family and have them finally meet my partner and husband. We had everything planned. We chose Turkiye since it's close to Iran and my partner and I could both go there and have our families meet each other. We were supposed to get married with our close family and a small group of friends on a boat on the Mediterranean Sea at sunset. Because of the war, all flights to and from Iran are cancelled and my family can’t leave Iran, so we had to call off the wedding. Instead, this is how my day looked like. I woke up to a reminder to call my grandma (I used to call her every Friday morning). I snoozed the reminder until next Friday, just like I have done for the past many years. I can’t call her like our tradition these days because there is no way to call home. All international calls to Iran are blocked, and the internet is fully shut down by the regime. I got to work and right as I opened my computer I received an email I had scheduled to send to myself 5 years ago: “Apply for citizenship.” This summer marks 11 years of being in the US and 5 years of being a green card holder. I am now eligible to file for citizenship, but it doesn’t matter because an executive order was signed a few months ago that banned all Iranians from applying for any visa or citizenship. At lunch I opened Twitter just to see what’s up in the world and saw the news that those who don’t have a green card now need to leave the US before they can get one. This means every one of my Iranian friends who are here on a visa now has to go back home (on which flight?) to get a green card??? As if it’s that easy? We all know getting back to the US for Iranians is a huge challenge (months and months of waiting for a visa, with a chance of never being able to come back). And this is just a normal Friday for an Iranian. These days, when people ask how I’m doing and how I’m handling everything, I just say: It’s okay, it’s okay. It will be okay some day. But the reality is: nothing is okay. I’m in constant pain. I haven’t seen my family and loved ones in years, I barely hear about their wellbeing, and I’m constantly worried about them. I’m just burying myself in work because that’s the only distraction that can save me from losing my mind. I’m not okay. None of us are okay. We are just barely holding it together…

@anshublog @kimmaicutler @chamath @DavidSacks The stapler is left behind in countries they came from…one has to quit everything in life to go find that stapler and hope it all works out.

Excited to see that we are getting the stapled Green Cards for all legal immigrants with high paying jobs and graduate degrees like we were promised. Thank you @chamath @DavidSacks & friends for your leadership on this.

@JR1201631053749 Thanks bot.

@bznotes People who think Americans are first. Time to change the view.

Terrible idea. Not thought through at all. Who even comes up with these terrible ideas?

Great to see Applied Intuition expanding this partnership. Demonstrates the trust that Stellantis team places in them!