Stanley Lo
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Stanley Lo
@StanleyLo_4
Believer | New Media @nucleus_talent
Fremont, CA Katılım Mart 2022
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Whenever I get a lot of new followers I feel like I am obliged to say I post a lot about the Penguins of Madagascar. Like, a lot a lot.
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“Never raise from Tier 3 VCs.”
That’s what Thomas Schulz said 15 months ago.
Cool advice. On the same level as “Only date supermodels”.
It sounds sexy on social media, but unrealistic for 99% of founders.
In reality, it looks more like this:
· Tier 1 founders raise from Tier 1 VCs
· Tier 2 founders raise from Tier 2 VCs
· Tier 3 founders raise from Tier 3 VCs
Tier 1 founders have top traction AND track record.
So if you’re unproven without any traction, Tier 3 may be your only option (if you’re lucky)
You have to be honest about where you are.
If you’re Tier 3 today, own it.
Take the check, grow, and level up.
Play your cards right, and in 10 years, you’ll be the Tier 1 founder calling the shots.
PS: ‘VC Tiers’ are a stupid concept anyways. Focus on investors with integrity who respond quickly and provide value beyond the check.
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⛷️ turbopuffer summit #004 🏂
our remote team spent a whole week together in banff national park. we brought a camcorder because life is short and why not:
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Stanley Lo retweetledi
The Nucleus 100 Growth Rankings are live.
6 months of research. 250+ rounds. 94 companies. Every company in the universe raised its first growth round in 2016+ and reached $5bn+
We landed on three flavors: Growth, Early Growth, and MOIC, our best swing at money-on-money. Entry matters. Price matters. Allocation matters.
Lucas Swisher from Coatue took the top spot for Growth, and it tracks. Deel, OpenEvidence, Anthropic, OpenAI, Rippling, Figma, Harvey, and too many more to tag.
Hats off @LucasSwisher1. Monster run.
Yasmin Razavi from Spark landed #1 in Early Growth and MOIC.
Deel at the B and Anthropic at the C are ridiculous standalone calls. Led both, joined the board on both, and that is how you end up at the top of the list.
Bravo @YasminRazavi. Very, very good at investing.
And if you hate the weights, great news.
@reidschryer built the “fine, do it yourself” tool.
Our data, your weighting.
Have fun :)
nucleustalent.io/growth100
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What are your favorite startup/VC-isms?
Ideas or advice you find yourself going back to or repeating often?
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I've joined @a16z to build the Insights function on the New Media team.
Every company at the frontier is sitting on a goldmine of exhaust data. Data that, when interrogated, becomes the most honest record we have of how people actually decide, work, and spend.
Almost none of it makes it into the stories these companies tell about the worlds their customers operate in or the markets they're building in.
Instead, the internet is flooded with takes. Generic content has never been cheaper to crank out, and feeds are full of opinions that could've been written by anyone (or any LLM) about anything at any time. Most tech commentary is opinion in a trenchcoat.
The real signal is in the data. When you turn that data into insight, you get something much harder to fake: a vantage point that actually shows how the world works.
The companies that do this well don't just publish more content. They shape how their category is understood.
Now I get to build that function with the founders, operators, and investors closest to the signal… and make some truly banger charts along the way!
If you're sitting on data that tells a story nobody else can tell, let's build an insights engine around it.
And if you're already doing this (looking at you @PeterJ_Walker), let's trade notes. I’ll be putting together what will become the most "insightful" group chat on the internet.
More to come, straight from the data at the frontier of tech.
P.S. Stoked to join the all-star team that @eriktorenberg has assembled cc @tdoggyholhol, @david__booth, @liangsays, @katiekirsch, @humford, @Alex_Danco, and more!
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@shaunmmaguire The most extreme form of performance based comp: “1M people livin on mars”
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They definitely did not send this to one investor before posting😂 congrats tho
Liquid@liquidtrading
Today, we're announcing an $18 million Series Seed, led by @neo and @leftlanecap, with continued support from Paradigm, General Catalyst, and other top VC firms — bringing our total raised to over $25 million.
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I’m hyped to watch them! Especially @flappyairplanes
Sequoia Capital@sequoia
AI Ascent videos out starting tomorrow 👀
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This is a very special company in the making
Big opportunity for someone hyper motivated
(Also that picture is amazing!)
@neros_tech @soren_ma @OHichwa
Soren Monroe-Anderson@soren_ma
Hiring a Director of Product at Neros. Reports to me, builds the product org from scratch. I need someone who can maintain the same clarity and poise between a critical design review and the eastern front of Ukraine while directing our roadmap for maximum strategic impact. You'll have immense leverage on your vision as Neros scales toward 1 million drones per year — creating credible deterrence for America and our allies. ~8 years (or incredible vision) in hardware product. Defense, aerospace, or robotics strongly preferred. Amazing taste in product design is a must. TS/SCI eligible. Torrance, CA. Apply at the link below — DM me once you've applied.
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Stanley Lo retweetledi
we now live in the advice era mainly due to the fact that advice is the cheapest possible content to produce on social media.. it requires ~zero research, it’s virtually infinite supply, it flatters the speaker, & costs the listener nothing. & the algo loves it because it gets engagement from both the converts & the haters.
it’s the perfect vehicle.
what’s remarkable is that most of this advice isn’t actually advice at all, it’s kind of an autobiography. e.g. “you should wake up at 5am” means “i wake up at 5am & i need you to validate that choice.
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V3 Starship!
Get ready
The future is near
SpaceX@SpaceX
Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket
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Thrive Capital to take a state in the San Francisco Giants, the first investment under its new strategy of focusing on franchises and institutions that can’t be replicated by AI on.wsj.com/4cwxCBg
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