Taylor Offer

Bought my first Bitcoins today. This will turn out really good, or really bad....

@joshsuggss Cant wait!!!

Had this ABSOLUTE LEGEND @TaylorOffer on StreetTalk today Killer founder story 🥁 Can't wait for this edit

@zachmstuck LFGGGG

I started a little marketing agency 7 years ago called Homestead, named after the street I grew up on. I had the vision to build something special and looking back now, I think we did exactly that. Today I’m excited to announce that Homestead has been acquired by Verndale (also recently acquired VAAN Group) in an effort to create a DTC growth platform built to support brands across the entire commerce lifecycle. I’m extremely grateful to my business partner @_RileyTrotter for all of the time he’s given this company and all the incredible work that he’s done. Riley took over as CEO a few years ago and Homestead wouldn’t be where we are today without his leadership and pursuit of greatness. I can’t say enough about my other partners @kellybird__ and @jsappington. These two have shown a level of commitment to building this company that is unmatched. Watching them both grow as leaders over the last few years has been nothing short of inspiring. To all our current and past team members, thank you for always giving Homestead and our clients 100% effort. Will forever be grateful to you all for helping us get to where we are today. To all of our clients, thank you for trusting in us to help grow your businesses. This is not an easy task and we have never taken it lightly. As for me, I’m officially stepping out of the agency business, but as most of you know I haven’t been involved in the company for some time as Riley/Kelly/Jacob have been and will continue to lead Homestead for years to come. Expect to see more updates on the brands I’ve been building in weeks to come.

@oliverbrocato Such a good idea. I wish I had this when running my ecom company, this is huge!!!

We raised $64M for this moment: Introducing Bustem. Bustem scans the internet to find and eliminate 100% of counterfeits RT + comment “SCAN” and I’ll send you a list of every scammer targeting your brand 🫵

@eleelenawa @MaCVentureCap @fcubedvc @speedrun Huge!!! Love the single player mode

Taya is jewelry first. Surveillance never. We just raised $5M led by @MaCVentureCap, @fcubedvc, a16z @speedrun. Directional mics and voice isolation capture just you. Single-player mode. Privacy isn't a feature, it's an architectural decision. TechCrunch exclusive in the comments! 👇

@smayan98 HUGE!!!! LFGGGG

AI is eating the food supply chain. We've raised $5.8M to modernize one of the most important industries in America. Every piece of food that has ever touched your plate has made it through a supply chain that runs on emails, spreadsheets, pieces of paper, and decade old ERPs. anchr is here to change that. Our agents plug directly into a distributor’s workflows, automating away the administrative burden and giving our customers significant operating leverage. They can now grow without growing headcount - and in an industry operating on 3% margins, the math just makes sense. More from Forbes (Ilona Limonta-Volkova) and Axios (Natalie Breymeyer) in the comments below. Couldn't be more grateful to have an incredible group in our corner. Our investors: @andrewchen @Tocelot @tkexpress11 , Mike Geraty, Maarten Goossens, Adam Anders, Yuri Namikawa, @davemorin , @zebird0, @ndrewlee, @far33d , @_CallMeMacy , @justmazer , Jordan Carver, @nazzari , Emlyn Thompson, @RKRigney , @SamiraBehrouzan , @tmhammer @Chen , @JoshLu , Kenan Saleh, Alec Daughtry, Colin M Evans, Larry James Erwin and Cyan Banister a killer team: Erik Hansen, Nasser Al-Rayes, Aryan Nair, Harsh PV, Desmond Chang, Beatriz de Lucio And my brother and co-founder, Tzar Taraporvala.

@jai_mansukhanii Bro pull up we got me @smayan98, Evan and Pierre playing padel every weekend

need to move to nyc man.

@andrewchen Huge!!!

Final reminder - last week to apply: A16Z SPEEDRUN ALPHA is for recent grads and college students who want to start a company but are pre-idea / pre-product details: - $20K equity-free upfront to start building - up to $250K investment when you finalize - automatic final interview for a16z speedrun, with up to $1M investment - 8-week, in-person experience with a kickoff retreat, founder AMAs, and small-group dinners alongside the a16z speedrun community - targeted to early-career highly technical founders We stayed Alpha bc its a time of great change in the startup community and in the job market. And we know that most of the best founders don’t start with a perfect idea. They start with curiosity, talent, and the willingness to build things until something clicks. Some of the most important companies of the last decade started this way: - tinkering with side projects - hacking on open source - building weird prototypes with friends - exploring a space before the opportunity was obvious The goal of Speedrun Alpha is simple: find exceptional builders before the idea is fully formed. Instead of asking you to show up with a polished pitch deck, we give you: - time - community - mentorship - and just enough capital to start experimenting. Just show up with technical ambition and curiosity. You spend the summer with us on the a16z Speedrun team exploring ideas, building prototypes, and talking to users. By the end, if something interesting emerges, we help you turn it into a real company. The kinds of founders we’re looking for tend to look like this: - engineers who can ship fast - builders who have shipped side projects before - hackers who like learning new systems quickly - people who would probably start companies eventually anyway We’re intentionally targeting recent grads and college students as a bet on the future. If that sounds like you — or someone you know — this is the last call.

@almostcmb @InspiredCap 🔥🔥🔥

We're hiring an office manager @InspiredCap to help us run a tight ship in our NYC office (12th street in Greenwich Village) DMs are open Cons = you have to put up with us Pros = you get to spend your days in the below space

@Alfred_Lin Founders🤝 Bryan Johnson Don't Die

As a founder, you can get a lot of things wrong. But if you're unwiling to die, it will eventually work out. Be optimistic, and try to be right. But even if you're not right, don't die.

@jai_mansukhanii @generalmagic_ai LFGGGG

We just raised $7.2M USD to make insurance feel magical. Nobody has ever said "my insurer was so easy to deal with." We're changing that. @generalmagic_ai builds AI agents that text your customers and complete insurance workflows end to end. 30 minute quotes now take 3.

@jai_mansukhanii @generalmagic_ai Lets goooooo

@anthonyazrak @radicalvcfund @speedrun @OpenAI @figma LFGGGGG

We raised $7.2M USD led by @radicalvcfund with participation from @speedrun and angels from @OpenAI and @figma Now back to work

@andrewchen Amazing opportunity!!!

a16z Speedrun Alpha, for pre-idea/pre-team/pre-everything founders it's time to bet on yourself, and figure out your startup idea. 2026 is well underway, crazy stuff happening in AI, and you're building agents/apps/whatever every night+weekend. You want to start a startup but you're working or still going to school. what if you're pre-idea, pre-product, pre-launch, and even a solo founder? You need time to cook The Alpha Fellowship is for you. alpha.a16zspeedrun.com details: - $20K equity-free upfront to start building - up to $250K investment when you finalize - automatic final interview for a16z speedrun, with up to $1M investment - 8-week, in-person experience with a kickoff retreat, founder AMAs, and small-group dinners alongside the a16z speedrun community - targeted to early-career highly technical founders - deadline to apply is March 6 We ALSO have a "startup track" for the Alpha Fellowship where you can get more founder experience by working for a portfolio company if you're not quite ready to found something. The Alpha Fellowship places top early-career engineers into full-time roles at fast-growing a16z speedrun and Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies. For future founders, we provide capital before a team or idea even exists. We're looking for highly technical students and recent grads who don't want to wait to start building. Fellows take full-time roles at fast-growing portfolio companies - or, if you're ready to build now, receive capital to start your own company - kicking off with a two-month in-person fellowship. Fellows also have access to the a16z speedrun and EO Ventures communities and events. ... If this is you, want to meet you. If you have people to introduce us to, that would be amazing too. will have more to say, and lots of ideas coming up here. But excited to get this out! Excited to host y'all soon.

@Angela_Busheska @velocityeleven @RRE @namivworld Great event. Thanks for hosting!

last week's @velocityeleven x @rre consumer dinner went far longer than planned @namivworld and I hosted builders spanning the full spectrum of consumer. I took part in two debates that took over the table: → the gap between a good product and a winning product? the winning one goes and finds its user. not the other way around. the founders in this room get that. → health tech keeps building better dashboards for the body. but we don't even understand consciousness yet. we're measuring what we can, not what matters. Thank you @ahkshay @TaylorOffer @sansan_fibri @sammy__annie @pranaireddy_ @joelimmmmm @lekondonyc @mattvine013 + others more of these soon.

@far33d Epic!! Well done

"Personal website" has been on my backlog for the last 10 years. Tried about.me, squarespace, webflow, and so many others but all of them were just meh. Spent a few hours with claude code and finally have a starting point I like (link in bio, process below)

@Nexxa_AI @constructcap @a16z HUGEEE. LFGGGGG

We’ve raised a $9M Seed round to accelerate specialized AI for heavy industries. This round was led by @constructcap with significant participation from @a16z speedrun, alongside our incredible existing investors. →Total funding now stands at $14M! Huge thanks to our customers, partners, investors, and especially our team. The work to modernize heavy industry is just getting started. Read more: lnkd.in/gzYcxTsV @PlugandPlayTC @PropellerOcean @untappedvcLA @beat_ventures

Excited to share I am a Scout for a16z speedrun! I'm looking for companies to invest in, actively writing checks! Trust me, you want to be part of the a16z fam, one of the best decisions I've made. DM's are open holla @ me!

@usmangul @MetalRaise Lets go!!! Love this

Most founders end up talking to the wrong investors. As a result, they end up getting the wrong feedback from the market. We built @MetalRaise to help founders identify investors that are actually likely to invest, using real historical data. In this video, we explain with examples how it works:

@hdubugras LETS GOOO!!!! Pumped for you and this new journey!

After Brex I had decided I didn’t want to start another company. But I found my calling. I’m starting another fintech company that can change the world. I wasn’t looking to startup another startup but this one was impossible not to. The opportunity is too big. But the problem is very technically, operationally, regulatory and financially complex. So I’m looking for a founding CTO that is interested in coming in this adventure with me. It’ll be hard, it’ll take long, but it’ll be worth it. Signs you’re a good fit: - You're a technical dictator, not a facilitator. Consensus is cosplay for avoiding accountability. - You've built systems where bugs mean lawsuits, not rollbacks - You believe big engineering teams are a symptom of bad architecture and weak leadership - You're obsessed with ontologies and data models. You know most systems are rotten at the core because engineers treat modeling as boring. - You optimize your own taxes, loans, and entities like it's a competitive sport. You think most people leave money on the table because they're lazy. - You've optimized your LLM setup obsessively. Engineers who use ChatGPT with default settings are bringing a mass knife to a gunfight. - You think "speed vs. quality" is a cope for teams that are bad at both. - Makes fun of 9-to-5 engineers that rest-and-vest - You have an extremely high bar for talent and still aim to be the best engineer on your team. Not secretly. Openly. - You believe the PM role exists because most engineers are lazy about understanding the problem. The best engineers make PMs redundant. The role is in person. In the Bay Area. All-day every day. If you’re interested, send me an email at: henrique@brex.com (we don’t have a name yet!)

@rdominguezibar is an amazing investor, writer and now friend :) Honored for his write up on what we are building! the-ai-corner.com/p/atrios-a16z-…