@cryptovcdylan Didi pushed capital to uber competitors around the world to create pressure in secondary markets. Not talking about china itself
English
Aaron Harris
4.6K posts
Aaron Harris
@harris
Founder Magid | Was Partner at YC (Deel, Scale, Groww++) https://t.co/yEs7fC6Lzh Aaron Harris is a Registered Rep...
New York Katılım Nisan 2010
110 Takip Edilen27.8K Takipçiler
we've seen the the china open weight model strategy before
it was called didi vs. uber
didi used capital to flood markets with cheaper rides, forcing uber to to do the same and sacrifice margin
uber won in the end. good case study for openai and anthropic
English
if you do a fundraising video, can you please not hide the number floating behind your heads in your thumbnail?
English
being a startup CEO is lonely
but bringing someone with you to an investor pitch just to keep you company is a bad idea
English
Access the entire data for free (legit): theventurecodex.com/dashboard/roun…
English
Revamped our entire UI to make it more searchable:
⏫ 116k venture rounds
⏫ 71k startups
⏫ 50k funds
⏫ 134k investors
The Venture Codex (link below) is a free resource of every venture round in the past 15 years. After redesign we increased information density by 2.4x on average while making it easy to browse
(at least according to our test users: ourselves)
English
founder doomscrolling:
1: "thrilled to announce our seed" (for your idea)
2: laser-eyes anon claims AI just made your company a feature
3: random vc explaining the funding market with an unlabeled chart + x article
4: a tweet telling you to stop scrolling and start building (but first like and follow)
English
Term sheets for $300m rounds are usually cleaner than term sheets for $9.382m rounds.
English
I’ve never met an exceptional founder who uses a fundraising tool / CRM. Most just use Google Sheets. Ok some build their own these days.
I’m try to change that. Our founders have become super users of our internal fundraising platform. So we’re launching it publicly (totally free).
—> AI to find investors
—> Discover warm intros across your networks
—> Prepare and execute a tight process
—> MCP with read/write access to everything
And if you get frustrated, export 100% of your data to pre-formatted Google Sheets 😄
English
@habibepta Thanks! If we need to trap people we're doing it wrong.
English
the export to google sheets escape hatch is the most founder-brained feature decision i've seen in a while. building for people who don't want your product until they do is exactly right. congrats on the launch aaron
sent you a dm too, probably in your message requests since we're not connected yet!
English
@ikirigin @a16z Call them training grounds.
OR ship them with @BedrockRobotics enabled model excavators.
English
English
"@a16z funds startup that builds sandboxes" would have been a more entertaining headline.
The Information@theinformation
Exclusive: Andreessen Horowitz backed Runta, a startup building sandboxes and guardrails to keep AI agents under control. Read more: thein.fo/4yuP02c
English
If you’re a startup and you don’t name yourself after a VC fund you’re clearly ngmi
Wasting a massive meme multiplier on your enterprise value
Oh you started a PEO? Call it Andreessen Horowitz
Agent observability? Bain Capital Ventures
Some new laser neolab? Founders Fund
Harvey@harvey
We’ve acquired Benchmark, an AI platform for investment firms. Together, we’ll build products for our asset manager customers to support the full deal process, from first screen to investment committee. Welcome to Harvey, Benchmark.
English
@leonardolvieira We have quite a bit of that inside the codex itself, and use the data behind it to select for the funds that get recommended inside the FRM
English
@harris Would be great to see sector intelligence on top of it - pick your specific sector and get a fund score for it, recent investments in the space, and even partner match, like which partner inside the fund has done the most deals or holds the most board seats in that sector
English
Thankfully the new algo kills most of this stuff. Also add in the - "I'm not VC backed and launched this as an app and am at 80k MRR after 3 hours. Here's my course on TikTok UGC"
Aaron Harris@harris
founder doomscrolling: 1: "thrilled to announce our seed" (for your idea) 2: laser-eyes anon claims AI just made your company a feature 3: random vc explaining the funding market with an unlabeled chart + x article 4: a tweet telling you to stop scrolling and start building (but first like and follow)
English
