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I love getting a solid cold email or DM from founders!
No need for an intro to 1517.
Some things will make your message standout and get a response (faster than others)🧵:
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Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕
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Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕
@DStrachman
Bringing freedom & autonomy to young people. Built @thielfellowship and @1517fund. First investor @lambdaAPI @loom @Mach_Industries @RainmakerCorp @positron_ai
Bay Area (Oakland!) Katılım Nisan 2008
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gn (I am up way past my bedtime -- silly jetlag)
Patricia 🇺🇸@1109Patricia
These kids came up with a unique performance for their school Talent Show doing Synchronized “Air Swimming!”
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Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweetledi
The best way to make this happen is to just make it happen.
2030 Alameda World's Fair.
Let us construct edifices to technology, industry, and abundance, and congregate the world's visionaries.
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@Holden0Day so you're saying that I won't be bothered...if I just go!
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@DStrachman I’ve already been admitted before, VA Psyche Ward. That’s probably why it doesn’t bother me. What ever they did must have worked. 🤪
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How I feel after banging out 300 emails (or snoozing a bunch to get to inbox zero)
LindyMan@PaulSkallas
Remember the Roman army rule: action removes fear.
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@Holden0Day I would have to check myself in if this is what I looked at on my home screen.
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Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweetledi
Kitties and bunnies and founders
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
“A man is what he thinks about all day.”—Emerson
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Best away message I've seen after a leader runs a huge event...amazing.
"Hey friendo - I’m off work this week. I won’t be checking emails because I’ll be reading books and planting plants. If you need to reach me urgently, you may text or call."
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@hrlomax @DStrachman Also many apps like Opal, Brick, others for this!
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@DStrachman Cultures whose moral fabric ties wealth to contribution tend to celebrate ambition, not punish it.
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After traveling to a number of different ecosystems over the years, one of the things that makes for an abundant startup hub is the celebrating of ambition.
"Tall poppy syndrome" may be the biggest silent killer of progress. How do we change that?
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@leeknowlton Yeah I think it starts really early and is very engrained in culture.
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The most reliable cases I've seen are where group success becomes a virtue (sports teams, music groups, creative acts like movies, etc).
Tall Poppy seems to come from a status perception, so transferring the status gains from individual success to group success redefines the game. Whereas before you cut the best down, now greatness is an enforced expectation.
With startup hubs, I think the perception of creating value rather than capturing existing value helps a lot. Your ambition makes my life better and vice versa.
(as I'm writing and thinking through this, I notice it feels very Thiel anti-competition aligned)
The final things that comes to mind are the thousands of micro-moments where we are ambitious and are either socially rewarded or punished for it and virtues of the heroes we worship as children.
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@DStrachman Right next to "tall poppy syndrome" is something like "forced equanimity as cope." It's not as socially obvious, but I think it's where a lot of ambition silently dies.
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@v_maini @EnDimensions @phoebeyao @MythosVentures Support is support! Shouldn't be about better. As long as it's not the "heel fellowship" it's all gravy.
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@DStrachman @EnDimensions @phoebeyao @MythosVentures that sounds a lot better than the heal fellowship
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if you get the thiel fellowship, you should probably spend a meaningful chunk of the grant on coaching or therapy
when i got it 6 years ago, first came elation, then fear and pressure, then imposter syndrome. i was somehow both “special” and also way too early to have actually built anything
what i needed most was good people to talk to. i found that late.
if i could redo it, i’d invest much earlier in coaching, or programs like @artofaccomp or @LitFellows
a lot happens to fellows early. you see the worst and best of people fast. ego and greed, but also generosity and wisdom
that’s why it helps to have people around you who remind you to lean into what’s fun and stay curious
it’s not that serious
Thiel Fellowship@thielfellowship
Welcome 2026 Thiel Fellows! WHO ARE THEY? Victor Boyd: Birmingham, AL - @VictorWBoyd Cavalla is on a mission to get anything anywhere in under 5 hours. Starting by building autonomous forklifts, through to developing hypersonic highways. Samuel Carvalho: Recife, Brazil - @samuelclcc Praso is building the new infrastructure for wholesale commerce — powering procurement, credit, and workflow tools for SMBs across underserved areas in Brazil. Nick Dobroshinsky: Sammamish, WA - @NDobroshinsky EveryTicker is democratizing institutional-grade financial research across the entire U.S. stock market, including the thousands of smaller companies Wall Street ignores. Ishan Gupta: Kanpur, India - @ishangpta Juicebox is building an AI recruiter that helps companies make better hiring decisions. Agents that understand real skills and move hiring from guesswork to true meritocracy. Antoni Kiszka: Strzyżowice, Poland - @antoni_kiszka Derpetual is building the infrastructure to create a market for any asset — with leverage. Milan Lustig: Cold Spring Harbor, NY - @HighPriestOfSWO Opt32 is building modern compute infrastructure to put AI onboard objects in the physical world — from robots to cars and drones. Galen Mead: Chapel Hill, NC - @g413n Standard Intelligence is building aligned general learners, pretraining large models to actively explore and learn from the Internet. Aubrey Niederhoffer: New York, NY - @needaubrey Swoop is building the super app for Africa, starting with food delivery in Nigeria and expanding into financial services across the continent. Harry O'Connor: Cork, Ireland - @HarryOC493 Sentient Machines is a research lab building foundational models for robotics that generalize across tasks and environments. Alex Shieh: Salem, NH - @alexkshieh The Antifraud Company is a fraud bounty hunter defending American taxpayers with AI and investigative journalism. Claire Wang: Los Angeles, CA - @clairebookworm Claire is building biologically accurate simulations of entire nervous systems, starting with C. elegans. Developing a simulated brain that researchers can communicate with helps lay the foundation for brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Kyler Wang: Portland, OR - @kylerywang Action is an artificial intelligence company in stealth.
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@DStrachman awesome catching up with you and your partner! (im taser drone/robo hand girl) :)
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I love having ice cream around the world with awesome makers!
Anubhav Ghosh@anubhavg8
@1517fund x @blackbirdvc ice-cream social!
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Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweetledi
I’m at the gym and there’s an older woman in her 70s laid out
She’s taking up the prime space in front of the dumbbells just stretching out
I am mad because I want to lift over there 😡
Now she’s picked up 10 lbs weights. Sigh
She’s barely doing a bench press but maybe she’ll be done soon
Oh she’s up to 20 lbs now
I squeeze through to start my warm up
Honestly she’s actually doing a nice little set. I still wish she would move but I respect the grind
I lug some weights across the gym and set up my own bench press area
I let her have all the space she needs
I glance over between sets and she’s just knocking it out. No headphones no music just in the zone, set after set
She’s lifting heavier now
After 20 more minutes I see that she is wrapping up
“Hey!” I say
She looks over a little surprised because I was quiet the whole time
“That was a great set. You crushed it!”
She’s smiling and I walk over to say Hi
Her name is Lisa and she works out with a trainer on FaceTime once a week
“My trainer mostly helps me with balance stuff,” she tells me. “But you don’t need to worry about any of that!”
I tell her I’m on my computers too much and that I also work out with a trainer once a week
He keeps me honest, I say. Otherwise I would skip the workout or be on my phone the whole time
We laugh and chat some more. She just moved here
I tell her about the subsidized DXA body scans at the University of Texas and she takes a picture of my phone with the information to call them
She thanks me for saying hello on her way out
I recognize in her eyes that happiness when someone friendly strikes up a conversation
I should do that more
She’s leaving now and the gym is wide open
I’m glad I said hello
I walked in here mad about the space she was taking up
But I’m finishing my sets now feeling inspired by Lisa
Gas up your fellow gym rats. We can all use a little encouragement on the road to good health
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@EnDimensions @v_maini @phoebeyao @MythosVentures But it did. When I ran the program (including your batch) any Thiel Fellow could get at least the first few handfuls of one-on-one therapy with a trained therapist (and blindly too without us knowing so you had anonymity) who specialized in emerging adulthood paid for by us.
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@v_maini @phoebeyao @MythosVentures If only the heal fellowship had been there for me during my fellowship
(now that I am a fully-fledged adult all of my personal problems have been solved, so we good now)
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