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Very cool to see our friends from @usv sharing how @harmonic_ai powers Arthur - their in house deal analyst

@_ZachGriff Wish me luck!

@Carter_DMB Nope, they don’t post any live wait times

UPDATE: JFK, LGA, EWR are experiencing extremely long TSA wait times today. (2+ hours in some cases.) All three airports have suspended live wait time reporting and are showing on my dashboard as paused. tsa.fromthetraytable.com

Hit me too - explaining uber didn’t exist in college

Really hoping this doesn’t end with (derogatory)

@T_Potz @MrRazzi17 @altcap You have do submit a new form for the 3+ kids. Only 2 children per submission!

@MrRazzi17 @altcap did yours let you add more than 2 kiddos?

claimed! Finally, some good in this world. TY @altcap

@jaltma Congrats on the new gig! Lmk if you have any questions on @harmonic_ai - I’ll send over you’re invite now.

I’m really excited to share that I’m joining Benchmark. The past two years as a full time investor have been the most rewarding of my career. I really love venture capital, which is not something I ever imagined I’d say when I was kid, but here we are. I love new ideas and being part of a team with a mission. I love getting to be there for people who are struggling towards goals they really care about. I love learning from people who are better CEOs than I ever was. I love the texture of the work, the competition, and the way the job lets you invest in relationships. I love it so much that I’ve even turned into a little venture nerd with a podcast who goes around harassing great investors and founders, trying to learn as much as I can as fast as possible. I’ve certainly learned what I care most about, and what kind of investor I want to be. What I’ve realized is that I love investing at the Series A, when there’s enough going on that an investor can be useful but not so much that you can’t have an impact. I think there are many amazing ways to practice venture, it’s just the way that most speaks to me. And as I came to realize that, I started to think about how to best set myself up to do that craft as well as possible. It became clear to me there is nowhere better for this than Benchmark; the way they’re structured, their principles, their overall approach to investing, and their track record all create an environment that I believe will let me do my best work as an investor and help founders the most I possibly can. As I’ve gotten to know the team at Benchmark I’ve come to admire so much about each of them. Peter is truly playing his own game. A lot of what he says sounds like poetry at first, but as the ideas roll around in your head for a while you realize how much depth they have. I first heard about Eric many years ago from my friend Saji at Benchling while I was building Lattice, who described him as the most amazing board member and attributed him with a lot of the company’s success. That’s the kind of partner I want to be one day. Chetan is brilliant and truly thinks for himself; I’ve realized over time what a courageous guy he is. And then there’s my friend Ev, whose skills complement mine and who I just love to be around. I can’t wait to have him as a partner in crime. When given the chance to work with this group I just knew I had to go. One of my motivating north stars with Alt Capital was to build a firm and be a partner that I most would have wanted as an entrepreneur. Although I haven’t gotten everywhere I want to be yet, I’m proud of the work so far. And now I’m excited to build on that work at Benchmark, where I hope to increase my rate of learning and get armed with the power of a partnership so I can help founders reach their dreams even more. Thank you to the companies who’ve let me invest with them at Alt Cap. I’m keeping all my board seats and supporting everyone just the same as before. Thank you to the LPs who’ve backed me as well. I am so excited about the portfolio we have and am grateful I can stick with all those companies. And finally thank you to my teammates, Bala, Vivek, and Nate. Bala took a bet on me and started investing with me before it was remotely obvious, and we’ve been able to grow so much figuring it out together as investors. I credit Nate with helping Alt start feeling like a firm. He joined us from First Round over a year ago and made everything run smoothly. And while Vivek joined just a little while ago, even in the short time we’ve worked together he’s had a meaningful impact on how we think and invest. They’re all joining Benchmark with me. So pumped for this chapter.

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.

@caitlinbolnick1 @harmonic_ai can help here. I'll send you an email & Loom with details

What is the best AI people search overlay for Linkedin? Have tried Juicebox and Clay and neither are quite getting the job done for me. I just want to type a query and get the limited group of people that fit that... feels like it should be easy no?

Harmonic just dropped its Q1 2026 Hot 25 list, featuring the early stage companies seeing the most investor interest on the @Harmonic_AI platform. Some of my biggest takeaways for founders and investors: All 25 companies are AI-related. VC's want AI and AI only right now. Even if you're not operating in a traditional software market. Only one of the top 10 hasn't raised in the past year. And two of these top 25 haven't. Capital really intends to continue concentrating this year. 8 of the 25 were also on Harmonic's Q4 list. Peec and Julius specifically are seeing sustained high amounts of investor interest. Philosopher lord's gotta kingmake. Multiple vertical-specific customer service startups. The past two years saw multiple AI-native customer service startups grow insanely fast. Depending on how you classify some of these, there's at 3-4 vertical-specific customer service startups on this list, including for financial services and home services. Very strong technical teams. If you look at the founders backgrounds (link in next post), on average these are very technical teams. Heavy focus on ops and workflows. If there's one big theme across these, investors want startups that actually do real work for customers.

Hey @Marriott I sent the DM as requested. Got asked to reach out to customer service - the same ones I haven’t heard from 7 hours.

@Marriott Canceled our NYC Sonder reservations with less than 24 hours notice. 6 hours later still haven’t been able to contact Marriot or Sonder support to rectify the situation.

Great news - congrats @maxkilberg! No one I’d rather hobble through Central Park with post NYC marathon

Showed this to my wife, she said cool (and meant it). Big milestone for the squad @harmonic_ai

Props to @attio on building a great product people love.

@m2jr @akbbbbar no doubt

Who is the best zero-to-one marketing person you have ever worked with?

@almostcmb @Restructuring__ Applies to startup life too. Working remote + reliable support systems are a must.

@Restructuring__ live walking distance to the office, accept that all of your savings (for both parents) will go to childcare for a few years, stop drinking/socializing for the most part its possible, it just requires fairly significant trade offs that most people don't want to make

HOW IS IT REMOTELY POSSIBLE TO START A FAMILY BEFORE MD? Wanted to share the below post as it is something I have been spending a lot of time thinking about and a topic it should be discussed more. As I look to people in their late thirties working at my firm, I get genuinely sad. They have been grinding for 15 years, and sure they make $1M cash and millions in carry, but they never see their families. Their carry locks them in, and this will continue for decades. They spent (maybe!) 10 hours a week with their kids during their golden years. They never have time to take vacations with them until it is too late. Just sad. Have no value to offer here, just wanted to share as I believe this is a feeling many of us have.

@EverettRandle Happy to help with that. Hit me up - carter@harmonic.ai

There’s $100 million stuck in this Harmonic screen and it’s my job to get it out

Some nice tidbits of Guinness history from @willob thefitzwilliam.com/p/no-great-sta…

@M___Morgenstern @ArfurRock Love that. Always here to help when you neee it!

@ArfurRock Great to see Harmonic love as I’m a daily user!

Harmonic is the best general VC sourcing tool I've used. Many firms use it to track growth signals, rounds, enrich data. I partnered w/ them to create startup.stream — curated list of high potential startups emerging from stealth. Updated weekly, free to subscribe.