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Primary learning from the first decade of my career: in the long run, it is counterintuitively easy to do hard things and hard to do easy things
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Chris Brown
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Chris Brown
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Partner @inspiredcap leading early stage into atoms and bits.
NYC Katılım Ocak 2015
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LIRR@LIRR
LIRR service is suspended until further notice because of a strike. Avoid nonessential travel and work from home if possible. We will have limited shuttle bus service on weekdays for essential workers and those who cannot telecommute Find out more about travel during the strike here: mta.info/lirrstrike
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Perfect his full day AGM is coming up tomorrow. Have his son come in at 4:30am with a Spider-man mask on asking to play
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Most investment firms teach you to become an expert on the past, bet on mean reversion and ignore your imagination to advance your career.
This reliably generates median gross returns and below benchmark net returns.
But hey, you won’t lose clients.
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From a comms lens, there are plenty of ways to position more left/liberal/progressive policies as also 1) patriotic and 2) dynamic but the comms-genius of "American dynamism" being owned by the more right/conservative side is that it gets credit first and thus depositions the left as "anti-American stagnatism"
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there was room for a publicly anti-MAGA / corruption mega VC firm (contrasted with Trump mega donor a16z) but no one stuck their neck out when that was risky… so hard to cry principle and be believed now
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What a week of VC self owns on this app
It’s really mind boggling how differentiating it can be in hype cycles to remain grounded and normal-ish
The airport test is an undefeated heuristic
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First check deep tech/aerospace/defense tech hasn’t been contrarian in a couple years. The government funds these strategies via the SBIC.
Try insurtech or commerce.
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I hate the Apple Watch look and would much prefer to wear something else. But if you really set one up right (set up custom focus mode notifications for just family + work, have internet so you can run without phone, etc) it’s a huge step forward on this front
Diana S. Fleischman@sentientist
In adults, limiting smartphone functionality to texting and calls and blocking all social media and mobile internet for 2 weeks significantly improved attention, self-reported well-being and mental health. 90% of participants experienced a benefit.
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@EricNewcomer Also keep in mind startups can “hedge” here. By the time Series B/C rolls around, room for multiple/opposing partisan identities on the cap table and that’s often very deliberate
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lots of pieces to it including the one you said.
The right coded VCs decided better to be polarizing and loved by some founders while the libs played it safe and offend no one but create no differentiation / show no backbone
dems give them less for their support but that’s because it’s less corrupt
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Completely agree. The market for doing non-hypey Series A and Series B rounds (think $10-25M rounds in companies growing 2-4x) is wide open because everyone has flocked to consensus investments.
villi@villi
I have spoken to 2 large VC firms in the past week, both of which have told me they are skipping the Series A. People say Series As are tough right now, but on the flip side, who is doing the Series As? Perhaps bc only hypey things are working atm. It seems like an opportunity.
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@teddypowday the first time i went to looker's santa cruz office (2017 ish) my jaw was on the floor
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On a call with a portfolio founder who's parked by the beach in santa cruz and he's describing the breaks he can see in front of him and suddenly my soul detaches from my body and begins floating back toward california
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We’ve raised $12M to hire the next generation of filmmakers at TrueShort!
Led by Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures and participation from Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks), Ravi Nandan (A24), Scott Belsky (Behance), General Catalyst, and more
Here’s the story 👇
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Selected photographs from my new book, Wandering America.
Available now for preorder.
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What’s funny is we’re at a point in the simulation where the chances of this happening are not zero
Dip Wheeler@DipWheeler
the boys hit beijing.
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NYC - Go check out my brother’s pizza shop.
He partnered with a famous pizza chef in Japan to deliver something AI will never replace.
New York Post@nypost
Surprise! The best pizza in NYC is at this new Japanese restaurant trib.al/h4SQyip
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@Restructuring__ You could remove the timestamp and this sentiment would fit the entire history of vertical vs horizontal software
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Fantastic expert call with Head of LegalTech a large international law firm
If you are going to read one thing about LLMs vs. Legora and Harvey, read this passage
"Because [the LLMs] are a bit more generic, the integrations, the capabilities to connect directly with our systems, they need much more customization and much more maintenance that we cannot afford, to be fair."
"The generics are not yet there. If they will incorporate the needs that we have, the ability to connect to our systems, the integrations that we need, call it the configuration that we need as a law firm, it's an option, but we don't see that going into that direction."
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Anthropic rolls out new Claude tools aimed at automating legal work for lawyers & law firms.
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Congrats to @vik_rama @BennettSiegel & co
A* has built one of the best brands in seed investing and they’re great for the ecosystem
Vikram Ramakrishnan@vik_rama
Today, we're announcing A* III, a $450 million early-stage fund. We started @A_StarVC with the simple idea to be a founder's first believer. We are generalists by sector, but specialists in the stage and craft of seed investing. We partner with founders before there is consensus, before there is traction, and often before there is even a product. We are not organized around a market thesis. We back exceptional builders and follow them into the most important categories. That matters because seed investing has changed. It is more crowded, more visible, and increasingly transactional. Too often, firms use seed to secure an option and then wait for proof before investing real time and attention. Seed has become a market of access. We believe it should be a market of conviction. We built A* around a different model. We commit early. We show up before external validation, deploying both time and capital from day zero to help founders find their first customer, make an early hire, or work through the decisions that define the company. We are selective at the start and concentrated over time. We partner with a small number of founders and deepen our commitment as their companies take shape. The best outcomes come from knowing where to go deep and having the discipline to do it. This approach has led us to companies like Ramp, Decagon, Whop, Cape, Simile, Paraform, Watney Robotics, and Mercor. We're grateful to the founders who have chosen to build with us and to the limited partners who have backed us. With this fund, A* manages over $1 billion in assets less than five years after launch. Our job remains what it was on day one: back exceptional founders early and be the partner they need when it matters most.
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