Josh Constine 📶🔥

Wow, only took you a week to invest? Meanwhile: Meeting yesterday SAFE issued last night SAFE signed this morning 1-hour raise strategy session today Wrote them 1500-word memo draft tonight. I decide fast, help even faster. $50K checks at pre-seed. DMs open. Let's go.

@barakgila Selling our gorgeous 2bd apt in the triangle…

Dolores Triangle is where it's at!

@f_j_j_ Cold email does work, but will do so decreasingly as all contact info becomes public and warm intros become even more essential

@JoshConstine xurl, Apollo MCP, exa/tavily, one of the 3rd party LI MCPs... It's the costliest but tractable to the point I feel bad for the GPs on the end of these slop cannons ;)

Has someone built something like this? I know so many founders who need a fundraising tool with: -A verified database of VC with stage, sector, names, emails -1:1 intro request email generator with read receipts -Email scanning to auto-fill progress tracker Call it “Back2Build”

@f_j_j_ The email database is by far the most annoying thing to compile

@JoshConstine if you need someone to build this instead of using Hermes or OpenClaw you are ngmi

@arian_ghashghai @patinaglobal @EarthlingVC Eternally grateful you put me onto this one

Patina @patinaglobal is one of the coolest and most seminal @EarthlingVC portcos Even as a fund that's very focused on immersive computing (i.e. physical computing) I've seen very, very few things going after the sense of smell (basically the overlooked of the 5 senses, so had to do it) Patina was also (incidentally) my first bio investment, made me bio-curious, and we've done a few more things in bio since

@adisingh Saint Frank for hipster style, fuel stop next door for plenty of space

Headed out to catch some sun in SF Anyone know a good outdoor cafe + coffee shop? Ideally near Polk street would be good. Will write a bit today but was thinking about how I can be more helpful To anyone on X reading this, if I can be helpful in any way - lmk in replies!

@zachtratar Started with 2016 election, Cambridge Analytica, and crypto scams, combined with apps passing 1 billion users. Tech went from underdog to world power, skeptical political and biz investigators reassigned to tech, and bloggers mimed them without the sourcing, so just shit-talked

I don’t recall so many negative rage baiters being popular in tech 10 years ago. Was it the crypto wave that started it? And then they migrated over to regular tech?

@pitdesi Clever to not include the name of whoever is indemnified

A first for me: At a VC dinner last night, they handed out syringes of peptides alongside a “future of food” meal (It was great!)

@DanBilzerian Skill issue.

Who controls the media? Meta owns: Facebook Instagram WhatsApp Messenger Threads Oculus / Meta Quest VR Meta AI Meta is controlled by Mark Zuckerberg who is jewish Alphabet owns: Google YouTube Android Gmail Chrome Pixel phones Nest smart home devices Fitbit (acquired in 2021) DeepMind Gemini AI assistant/model family Waymo — self-driving cars Verily — health technology Calico — longevity research Wing — drone delivery Alphabet is controlled by Larry Page and Sergey Brin who are both jewish Tic Tok U.S. algorithm, cybersecurity and infrastructure is controlled by Oracle Oracle is controlled by Larry Ellison and he’s jewish Hookup Apps Match Group owns: Tinder Hinge OkCupid Match.com Plenty of Fish Meetic The League BLK Archer OurTime Was founded by Barry Diller who is jewish Grindr Was founded by Joel Simkhai who is jewish Bumble Was founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd who is jewish Porn Onlyfans Owned by Leonid Radvinsky who is jewish Vixen Media Group owns: Blacked Blacked Raw Vixen Tushy Deeper Founded by Greg Lansky who is jewish Aylo/MindGeek Owns/owned: Pornhub YouPorn RedTube Brazzers Reality Kings Digital Playground Men.com Sean Cody Tube8 Solomon Friedman is the owner of Aylo and he’s jewish Gamma Entertainment owns/operates: Adult Time Pure Taboo Wicked Girlsway many affiliate studios/platforms Founded by Karl Bernard who is jewish Movies/TV/News Warner Brothers Discovery owns: Warner Bros. Pictures HBO CNN DC Studios Cartoon Network Discovery Channel TNT TBS Max (formerly HBO Max) Adult Swim HGTV Food Network Animal Planet Warner Brothers is run by David Zaslav who is jewish Disney owns: ESPN ABC Marvel Studios Lucasfilm Pixar 20th Century Studios Disney+ Hulu (major controlling stake) National Geographic Disney is run by Bob Iger who is jewish Paramount Global owns: Broadcast & News CBS CBS News CBS Sports Local CBS stations Film Studios Paramount Pictures Paramount Animation Paramount Players Cable Networks MTV Nickelodeon Comedy Central BET VH1 CMT TV Land Smithsonian Channel Logo TV Pop TV Streaming & Premium Paramount+ Showtime Pluto TV Major franchises/IP Top Gun Mission: Impossible Star Trek South Park (licensing/streaming arrangements) SpongeBob SquarePants Transformers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Paramount Global is controlled by Sheri Redstone, who is jewish Comcast owns: * NBCUniversal * NBC * Universal Pictures * Peacock * MSNBC * CNBC * Telemundo * Sky (Europe) * DreamWorks Animation * Xfinity Comcast is controlled by Roberts family who is Jewish AI/Data Centers OpenAI/ChatGPT Run by Sam Altman who is jewish Palentir provides advanced data integration, surveillance, AI, and analytics infrastructure used by military, intelligence, law enforcement, and major corporations. Its platforms help organizations combine massive amounts of fragmented data into real-time operational intelligence for warfare, policing, logistics, cybersecurity, manufacturing, and decision-making, making it one of the most strategically influential data and defense technology companies in the world. Owned and operated by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp both jewish Oracle owns: Oracle Database Java MySQL NetSuite Cerner Sun Microsystems technologies It’s important because it owns core infrastructure software that powers governments, banks, hospitals, corporations, and large parts of the internet. Its control of technologies like Oracle Database, Java, MySQL, and Cerner gives it enormous influence over the backend systems modern society depends on. Owned by Larry Ellison who is jewish

@pitdesi Amazing for parties but totally dysfunctional for families and not enough rooms for a co-op. Really has to be a patron of culture’s pad

They try to sell this unit every few years and I’m always intrigued but then I remember the crazy bad layout They have been trying to sell it off and on since 2019. Maybe the market is crazy enough this time redf.in/l2hVUc

@jjuulliiaallii @Kalshi ironsite’s branded sledgehammers from @MaximilianMona

what is the most underrated tech startup merch item ie leather airtags umbrellas playing cards oyster shucker pepper spray like i want a @Kalshi pepper spray like

@Celesteamadon If only my wife's husband wasn't so millenial

Looking for existing couples to be in a dating app ad next week in SF. Free date night included :)

@pitdesi I make my best financial decisions after my third fifth

I present: Fifth Third Bank, from the merger of Third National Bank and Fifth National Bank Third was the bigger bank so it would normally have been called Third Fifth but they were worried about the liquor connotation of fifth so it became Fifth Third

@itskellysun @andrewztan @ishita_lives @CocoBuildsStuff @skeptrune @brettcalhounn @RyanZambrano8 @barrysuny @miyuselene @anubhabgoel Density of epic people was off the charts

some pics from our michelin cocktail dinner in SF last week. founders in the room totals >$200M raised and investors >$100B in AUM. doing another one of those in june. comment or DM for an invite!

@stannostudio @soarapp @adrielyong can get you clouted up!

@JoshConstine Feed cleanser would love to try this product for @soarapp

You’re supposed to spend 2X as long on distribution as you did on creation. But what could you create if that’s all you had to worry about?

@justinbanusing @CloutedHQ @lessin @Jack_Raines @slow Love this. Don't let anyone tell you the right path to attention. Just make what you love.

Excited to finally reveal @CloutedHQ to the world! Big shoutouts to @lessin @Jack_Raines at @slow for believing in our vision in a world where artists, brands and creators never have to worry about being heard. Back to building.

@TarlonKhoubyari This is why you’re the best in the biz. Please make this a series. Cracked Founders, Cracked Investors, Cracked Finance. Bring some masseuses for the skeptical

cracked founder event except everyone goes to a chiropractor

@gaby_goldberg Epic. Can't wait for you to invent whatever comes after podcasts

I’m excited to share that I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a Partner on the New Media team, focusing on the intersection of comms, networks, and investing. I’ve been working on these three things throughout my career, first in early-stage investing and most recently in comms at Rostra, writing about my perspectives and experiences along the way. For a long time, I thought these were three different paths I’d have to choose between. I’ve done comms, but I’m not just a comms leader. I write and build community, but I’m not just a writer or community builder. And I’ve invested, but I’m not just an investor. When @eriktorenberg approached me about the opportunity, he told me I could come do all of it under one roof, at a scale that wouldn’t be possible anywhere else, and crafted the right role to make it work. @a16z is the perfect place for me to manifest the full range of my interests, skills, and ambitions. Erik has been one of my earliest believers (since college!), so this feels like a long arc finally closing. I look forward to working alongside him and the rest of a16z’s brilliant team, and also hire even more great people into the firm. I’ll be taking some time between roles to touch grass and exist in the context. In the meantime, my DMs are always open.

@meshtimes_ @a16z @signulll @creatine_cycle @paularambles This is how I found out I was old media

at the @a16z new media retreat and im learning how to tweet from @signulll @creatine_cycle also @paularambles spotted