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proud to support @orita as an early believer! they’re now serving 100+ brands and launching their second product, orita grow. excited to see what’s next! 🚀 orita.ai #proudinvestor #marketingtech #customerengagement

@Mastering_life_ try @ombrelab

If you want to fix your gut health, here's every tip I could come up with: 1. Stop drinking alcohol.

@m2jr ordered!! yay and congrats!

PATTERN BREAKERS BOOK - Available now for pre-order Beginning today, my forthcoming book Pattern Breakers, written with Peter Ziebelman, is available for pre-order. I’ve been working on this for quite awhile, and I’m so excited that it’s finally ready for prime time. About 10 years ago, I started to notice that a substantial portion of our exit profits at Floodgate were coming from companies that pivoted significantly from the original idea I had funded. Even more confusing to me was that a lot of the companies that succeeded were chaotic and disorganized, while many of those that failed would have been a case study in how to build a startup the right way… except that they failed. I felt uneasy and wondered if there was something deeper going on or if I was just a lucky fool and should retire before I got exposed. This began a 4+ year rabbit hole of exploration, followed by another many years collaborating with my co-author, Peter Ziebelman from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Patter Breakers is the result of this combined decade of effort. It contains our perspective on why some startups radically change the future—and what founders today can do to increase their odds of achieving outlier success. You can pre-order now wherever you get books online. You can also get a 30% discount and signed copy if you order on Porchlight before May 31. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has engaged with this project in various ways over the years. There is so much more to understand about what it takes to start something extraordinary. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts.

@HilzFuld @IlanBlock ❤️🇮🇱

Holy cow! When I went to see Tzvi off to his IDF draft, I gave him a blessing that God should watch over him. @IlanBlock made a painting of the photo and someone reached out and ordered it for me. Tzvi just sent me this and said it was sitting by our front door. So beautiful!

@petergyang @NatureDRtips health is the new wealth!

@NatureDRtips Best advice!

I'm in my late 30s, what's life like after 40 and what are some things you should do to avoid regrets later?

@HilzFuld 🇮🇱

The more antisemitic attacks there are, the prouder I am to be a Jew. The more anti Israel marches there are, the prouder I am to be a Zionist. So I’m a pretty proud Zionist Jew right about now… If you’re a proud Zionist (Jewish or not), do me a favor, make yourself known. Reply to this tweet with a 🇮🇱, ✡️, or a simple “Me”. Am Yisrael Chai!!

@bhalligan amen

I don’t like when the press refers to HubSpot’s CEO as a “female CEO” and compares her to other “female CEO’s.” She’s a CEO without a qualifier. She should be compared to other CEO’s without qualifiers.

@BillAckman @Harvard @arielcarmeli

I have had many people reach out to me for advice on whom to vote for in the @Harvard Board of Overseers election. Votes are due on or before May 14th. I don’t know any of the candidates so I am going to host a Zoom forum on May 1st at 11am so that all @Harvard alumni can meet the candidates. I expect that the forum will be helpful in understanding the candidates’ perspectives on various @Harvard issues. I am hereby inviting all eight candidates to participate. I expect most if not all will do so. If a candidate chooses not to participate, we will also learn from their decision not to participate. The candidates should feel free to reach out to me in advance of May 1st at my office through my Harvard contact details. We will be sending info on how to participate shortly. Please repost and/or forward this save the date to other alums.

@pmarca lift with legs

duck ceilings low

@andrewchen @basejumpxyz @MattMason

dear followers, who do I need to meet who's just starting out / working on something cool in: - AI/agents - gamified consumer apps - 3D tools - B2B/infra - AR/VR/spatial - avatars - game studios Please @ mention them in the replies! a16z is investing in dozens of startups in the next 45 days -- $30M with $750k checks -- via our SPEEDRUN program I think of the list above as sitting in the intersection of TECH x GAMING which is where we focus Here's a thread with more about the program we're running later this year: x.com/andrewchen/sta…

@DivineManhood @ombrelab

If you want to fix your gut health, here's every tip I could come up with: 1. Stop drinking alcohol.

@msuster amen

Typical uninformed response. At least done politely 🙏🏼 a history primer for you. Gassan - Jews were expelled from Judea and Samaria (Israel) several times starting almost 3,000 year ago. Many Jews stayed. It is our ancestral land. 900k Jews were there when the UN created a state in 1948. Every Arab country attacked Israel the day it became an official country in 1948. 750,000 Arabs left. Some at the behest of the Arab countries, some fleeing war. The Jews allowed Muslims to become citizens from day one. ~150k did so. Today they are 1.5m citizens of Israel afforded rights Jews don’t have in Arab lands. Afforded rights THEY THEMSELVES DON’T HAVE in Arab lands. (Gay rights just one example). Palestinians deserve a state. But to be clear there wasn’t historically a “Palestinian country” and many of the inhabitants came from other places (Egypt, Syria, etc). Disputing land is messy and no side is perfect. There are disputed lands globally including some who think the US shouldn’t control Hawaii, Puerto Rico, etc. Land disputes form the basis of most wars and settlements after form the basis of peace. One side has accepted the “land for peace” trade. Hamas has never accepted this, neither did the PLO. Which is one the Palestinians lack a state that they should have. I’m sure to be attacked for basic, accepted history. Many don’t like the actual facts. But they mostly don’t like Jews.

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"The lady doth protest too much, methinks".

Trying to keep up with 2024 and so far I think we have: In: - Defending your wife - Stanley cup resales - Bass Pro Shop Out: - Boeing 737 Maxs - Plagiarism - Carta

hmmmm @elonmusk

Today I was among the journalists who have attended a private screening of the raw footage of October 7th and I want to express to you what I saw since it’s not been made public. It’s been a very heavy day. A decision was made that Jews are less than human, and treated that way in words and deeds..I now know that’s exactly the message Hamas sent on purpose — at scale. I wasn’t aware of that before. I saw bodies were burned but I did not understand or appreciate how intentional the effort was - they did it methodically, you hear it in the voices, the commands the ease, the excitement of finding and mutilating victims.

@mikeeisenberg ben’s sacrifice will never be forgotten. what a beautiful share and family. i have never been more proud to be jewish and israeli. ❤️🇮🇱🙏💪

Day 60 - The last two days have been really hard. We lost another cousin. Ben Zussman was killed in battle. His funeral was yesterday. From the depth of the loss of her son, our cousin Sarit managed to lift us up. Actually, she lifted up the entire country. Late Sunday night, my mother called to say that our cousin Ben Zussman had been killed in the fighting in Gaza. I slumped in my chair in the kitchen of our home. I was overwhelmed by emotion. I walked over to our cousins Zvi and Sarit’s home in the neighborhood. I bumped into Zvi’s brothers and sister on my way inside. They had just arrived as well. We shared some hugs and tears. Walking inside, I saw Zvi, my cousin who is about 5 years younger than me, and we embraced, tightly. Another very difficult embrace. Another tragedy. Our Oma Els, my grandmother and Ben’s great grandmother, died exactly 11 months ago. In fact, this past shabbat my aunts and uncles said the last kaddish (Jewish mourning prayer) for our grandmother. Our Oma and Opa (our grandparents) built a tribe. Since the war began, we have now lost two incredible members of our tribe. Joey Guedalia was killed on the first day of the war saving civilians in Kfar Azza and Ben was killed in a gunfight with terrorists in Gaza this week. When I arrived at the funeral on Monday, I was surrounded by family. We were back again at Har Herzl, Jerusalem's military cemetery. The tent covering the graveside funeral. The overflowing crowd. The tears. The soldiers who came to say goodbye to their brother in arms and brother in heart. I saw one of my aunts as we walked up the path. We embraced. We talked about Oma Els. What was she doing? We stood packed tightly together. Siblings and cousins in front of me and in back of me. Cousins to the right and the left. We were there as a family. Ben Zussman was a brave young man. I remember his bris (circumcision) at my aunt’s home next door to where we live. He was named for his paternal grandfather Ben Zussman of Denver. Ben was physically short but stood tall. He had determined blue eyes. He worked hard to get to the place he wanted in the army, working out constantly to get in shape. He took tradition seriously. He was released from mandatory military service some months ago but he turned up on October 7th. He packed a bag, like so many other Israelis and went to war. A war against evil. A war against rape. A war against barbarism. He knew. Some of you may have seen the video of Ben’s mother Sarit (It is linked to in next tweet and we are working on English subtitles). Sarit began speaking about Ben and his qualities and how he lived a “full life”. Then Sarit, a storyteller by training, stood tall and stared at the crowd and especially the soldiers, imploring everyone to be strong and stand tall. “This is a war against despicable and detestable evil people” she said. “This is a war for our survival. This is a war of our people who have a desire to live, build and thrive and we are up against a death cult.” She told everyone “straighten your backs and pick your heads up. We need to win this war and WE WILL WIN THIS WAR. We are an eternal people,” she roared. I was floored. I was inspired. I stood up straight. It turns out I was not alone. Within a couple of hours, many people pinged me on WhatsApp saying they had seen Sarit’s eulogy and charge and they were inspired. It went viral. The Israeli news interviewed her on the same day she buried her son. The news was also interested in something else that Sarit said that was very important. She picked her head up and spoke to Israeli leadership. “We have an amazing and inspired people, the civilians, our incredible soldiers have put the ’self’ in them aside and locked arms to do battle for our people. The leadership needs to put their selves, their egos, aside and become the leadership that our people deserve.” Everyone took notice of this. Of course, the press tried to drag her to point fingers at specific leaders but Sarit would not. She expressed what everyone feels. This is a time to come together. This is a time to put political interests to the side, to put ego to the side and stand with our soldiers, our kids and our inspired civilians. This is a moment to stand with the “defining generation” as I called it in a previous post. If the leadership can’t, well then they should move aside. I walked out of the funeral. On my way out, I ran into my cousin David, whose son Joey was killed on October 7th. We embraced, a long embrace. My son and daughter in law were nearby as were tens of other cousins. “We are a big family”, I said, “And it turns out we all like each other a lot. We all turn up. We need to be here. We need to be here for each other but we also need to ask that this stops. No more. We need to meet at simchas (Happy occasions).” David responded, “We are not just a large family, but an active and activist one. We have a lot of kids and cousins on the front lines, called up to the army. Doing real things.” There were a bunch of cousins who were at the graveside in uniform and David was right. The night before, when I walked to Zvi and Sarit’s home, I called my kids to tell them the horrible news. It was very late at night. One of them was about to enter Gaza with his platoon. “I have bad news,” I told him. “Ben Zussman was killed.” It was quiet on the line. I told him that he needs to keep his head about him if he is about to enter Gaza. “Are you ok?” I asked. He said, “I know how to separate in my head but that is just awful. Ben was an amazing kid. I can’t believe it.” I couldn’t either. Ben was an amazing kid. He was also a great ping pong player. Why do I tell you that? My Oma Els was an amazing ping pong player. Legendary. She loved to play and Ben played with her including at the ping pong tournament for her 90th birthday, which she played in. Over the last couple of days, I said to a couple of family members that Oma now has a ping pong partner. She picked up an ultimate frisbee player when Joey was killed, a game she liked to watch at our annual family gathering. No more. No more partners for Oma. Enough. Please God make it stop. Sarit and Zvi’s inspiration and resilience is what animates this country. Ben’s selflessness is defining. When I was at the shiva yesterday, many of the soldiers that Ben served with during various phases of the army were sitting in a circle talking. When you looked down, you saw dirty army boots and guns (picture below). Zvi and Sarit joined them. The soldiers laughed and cried. They told stories about Ben, about a period that his parents knew less about. There is this period in an Israeli kid’s life that we parents just know less about. That period, roughly between ages 18-22, happens in tents, in intense training, in interactions with commanders and fellow soldiers, in battle. They bond through sweat and persistence. Ben was the glue of the group. Ben’s mother said about him that if he stood next to an electric pole for 5 minutes, the pole would be his friend too. I stood next to Zvi’s sister listening to the soldiers banter about Ben. We both knew what an incredible young man Ben was. We have lost too many of these incredible young people, who sacrifice on our behalf. These young people know this is a fight against a death cult, just like Sarit said. That this is a fight to live and prosper. I stand up tall because Sarit told me to and I know it is the right thing. It won’t bring Ben back but at least we will know that we were worthy of his sacrifice. We will miss him. May his memory be a blessing for us all and may God say “enough” to these tragedies.