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How the heck did he pull the trick and transfer twice within two years

@noahliu__ Congrats man!!

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Most cold emails get a 1% reply rate and eat 3 hours of your day. 👀 The new 18VC episode is live — with Manuel David (@Manny2techy), founder of Paradigm Outreach (@UseParadigm), an AI that runs your whole outbound cycle. Lead research → email → reply → booked meeting. What stuck with us: → Paradigm rejects ~70% of signups on purpose. If it can't nail your ICP first, it won't let you in. → His take on "my emails sound too AI": that was never the problem. Who you target is. → The moat question every AI founder dreads? "Bring the best model out – all it does is make my product better." → He dropped out of ASU and moved to a San Francisco he'd never once visited to build this. → The line he won't cross: the AI never takes the meeting for you. ▶️ YouTube: youtu.be/sbacIYWPbSM 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2LhUCL… #startups #founders #AI #venturecapital #youngfounders #buildinpublic #startuplife #coldemail #techpodcast #entrepreneurship #18VC #ParadigmOutreach

@noahliu__ @wekruit He’s not just another random dude

random guy slid into my LinkedIn DMs saying @wekruit is cool. anyone know who this is?

@mil000 What’s the innovation here I don’t get it

this seriously raised 40m? For what exactly?

"So You Want to be a VC" Im enjoying this week in Boston visiting students promoting my new book - Runnin Down a Dream. Not surprisingly, many ask me about trying to break into venture capital. I wrote a letter answering this question 15 years ago. I would send it out when people inquired. I'm making it public for the first time - with zero modifications. 1) I think it holds up well 2) make sure and read my new book also 3) I probably can't help with followups (as suggested in the letter) Hope you find it useful. Good luck!

@cashedfun Looks like Robinhood for Polymarket?

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At 15 he ran a 200%-margin snack "dark market" out of his dorm – until the principal shut it down. 🍜 Ep. #11 of 18VC is live with Barry (@BarryLi5936), founder of OMNIAPATH, an AI-native entrepreneurship school for young founders, and Wov3, a sportstech company developing recovery footwear and customized insoles using 3D printing. Barry is also an advisor to Hacker Dojo's first accelerator cohort. What stuck with us: → He killed a profitable $100K business the moment he saw ChatGPT 3.5. → His AI survival rule: be super well-rounded, or go absurdly deep. "Medium deep" gets replaced. → The "one-person company" is coming – solo founders are the default future of work. → 5 ventures. 40 partners come and go. He's the one who stayed. ▶️ YouTube: youtu.be/chrjP3g93I8 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7LEKg9… #startups #venturecapital #youngfounders #AI #entrepreneurship #18VC #OMNIAPATH #WOV3

@imwsl90 真的好奇几千万就可以称之为“财富自由嘛”…

有点不太理解 赚了几千万的字节炒股大佬为什么还要在 X 上“起号” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thank you @Official18VC for hosting this awesome sharing event with @SjiangSijia @huang74540 @Tonyhaoyu & Alex! Wonderful audience full of inspiring interactions!

@st3v3li @Official18VC @SjiangSijia @huang74540 @Tonyhaoyu We are more than thrilled to have you with us tonight Steve! Your words of wisdom and sense of humor definitely lighted up the house!!! You are undoubtedly a guest-material LOL.

@leto_bao 请问三千万就可以财富自由吗….是不是门槛有点低了

大家好，我叫 Leto，也就是你们口中那个「字节炒股三千万财务自由」的主角 大家问得比较多的我可以评论区集中回答下

A founder sends a flawless, AI-polished deck. Clean narrative, perfect grammar, every box ticked. It's the fastest way to get a "no." 🧵👇 New 18VC episode — with Ethan Cho, CIO of TheVentures, one of Korea's earliest accelerators-turned-VCs, now across 14 countries. First, the scale: up to 3,000 pitches a year. They built their own AI agent, "Vicky," just to filter them. So a sharper AI-written pitch should be the edge, right? Opposite. The second the Q&A starts, AI stops mattering. Seasoned investors "disarm you from that clean sentence." He'd rather hear a broken sentence from your own mouth than a perfect one from a model. What he's really testing is three questions: "Why this? Why now? Why you?" And from there: → Attention is becoming the asset — as AI slop floods the world, capital follows familiar, believable faces. → His #1 career regret: not founding a startup in his 20s. Want into VC? Build first – failure is reversible, the lesson isn't. → On co-founders: "You will fight. It's only a matter of when, not whether." → The one thing AI can never mass-produce: your instinct to try something new. The throughline: in a sea of AI polish, the unfakeable human signal is worth more than ever. Special thanks to @duckduckhero for making this episode possible!!! Full episode ▶️YouTube:youtu.be/eGNeq3KZlIA 🎧Spotify:open.spotify.com/episode/4sLY7m… #venturecapital #startups

Post one picture to prove you live in SF

my dad who's in china and doesn't even speak english discovered the podcast epsiode i was on the sf startup reach is wild

@Tonyhaoyu Lost count of how many times I shouted “small world” within my mind!!

@boardyai building 18VC as the earliest signal layer for student founders. Boardy Pro would be huge for this

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Next episode coming up at @Official18VC…

Is this level of fog normal in SF??? @Tonyhaoyu

@JunaidAckroyd Hi Junaid we are building @Official18VC, a venture podcast brand focusing on student founders and investor betting on them. Love to learn more about what you are building!!

Reply and I’ll follow you. I want to connect with ambitious people building something great.