Jason Yeh

1) Great founders with great fundraising skills 2) Bad founders with great fundraising skills 3) Great founders with bad fundraising skills 1's and 2's get funded. 3's do not, and it hurts to see. That's the problem i'm trying to solve.

@MatthewChang heck yeah. stoked you kept up the streak. i was going to do it thru injury and 3 days before had to call it. going to do a make up in a month

Another MURPH in the books for the Chang Fam. HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@lahjar_ @Ableton @suno i mostly agree 👍

Hate is not a word that I used But yes, irrespective of the tool being used as a commonplace item, the effort put into the world is generally visible to other human beings And people who labor in the service of those things, are usually perceived better Also, I never said that you cannot use tools (like AI) while still pouring effort into what you're crafting. And the difference between the two, is usually apparent, disliked, and less respected

hmm... i totally agree with PG here...there is auto disgust when you see evidence of AI BUT.. ...but then there was also auto-disgust when notetakers first started joining meetings my prediction is a lot of the disgust goes away. it just becomes the norm. we'll see how long it takes...

@lahjar_ do you get hate for using a word processor vs. handwriting things? do music producers get hate for using @Ableton now? what about @suno ? i'm just not sure the sanctity of pure email writing is going to be something that humanity is willing to defend to the death

@jayyeh If you cannot put effort into the things you do, then you do not receive respect from the people you interact with Whether people still continue to tolerate and engage with behaviors they don't respect is true, but that's a function of binding circumstances

there are rare exceptions to this... but for the most part, double opt-in. And even with the rare exception, if it's so good that the person would be happy that you skipped the DOI, the check with them ahead of time will just increase the anticipation and satisfaction when the intro hits

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if you're a founder, you probably would like to email a VC seems simple enough no not so easy. there are a few challenges you'll have to overcome. going to talk about this tomorrow in my mini lecture on the ART of Fundraising emails before leading into open office hours where you can ask any questions

@JakeBlockchain love this. happy bday my guy

Today I turn 37. Spending the day working on Bitcoin things, dinner with my beautiful wife, and having our first kid in 6 days. Life is good. 🙏

@TalokCapital you risk it when you believe there's a chance for them to look good my guess is you're not an auto introducer to anyone that asks i love that you'll risk the reputation and perhaps more than others, but you still have your filter, no?

@jayyeh I will risk my reputation outside of this context. I cannot speak for other people, but I do agree there are some weak a** souls in this ecosystem.

that intro you're counting is not coming. people only risk their reputation when you make THEM look good. your deal has to be so obviously hot they get credit for finding it. or you have to be such a proven winner they look smart for connecting you. or you actually invested in the relationship first. everything else is just cold emailing with extra steps.

@debgotwired product + revenue from a real customer (not just a favor customr)

@jayyeh B2B AI, for instance?

there are only two modes in fundraising: fully in. or not fundraising at all. no in between. if you're in the process: meetings lined up. back to back. calendar density. all of it. if you're not ready: stop saying you're fundraising. be interesting. build the relationship. activate it later. founders who blur these two modes come across as desperate without urgency. raising without a process. asking without leverage. worst of both worlds. pick a mode. execute it completely.

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most founders think about what they want to say in a pitch. the best founders think about what the VC has to prove. VCs don't just decide. they convince their partners. their LPs. if your story can't survive that gauntlet, it won't. find the weak spots before they do.

when asking for intros most founders send too much full deck. five paragraph explanation. wall of information. nobody asked for that. and it doesn't build confidence. it signals you don't trust the intro to do its job. my philosophy: get the introduction with as little information as possible small blurb. few bullet points. enough to pique interest. start lean. test it. let the market tell you what's missing.

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i'm excited about my mini lecture on The Art of Fundraising Emails that i'm giving before office hours on Wed join, learn, then ask questions during Office Hours btw here's one of my slides which was inspired by @dsettle's inbox

@Bfaviero @dhaber exactly my thought.

@jayyeh @dhaber The harness is the product!

Have to say, Claude Design is very underrated. Would love access to it via CLI (so I can give my agents access via tool use).

@debgotwired traction can't be averaged out across all types of companies unfortunately. for the most part, product built and with customers are broad definitions of traction... but deeptech is different, biotech is different... consumer vs. b2b different

@jayyeh in all the pre-seed deals you see, what's their average traction?

@dhaber i'd love to know the underlying system prompt that gets it there!

@jayyeh For whatever reason - it seems to generate better quality design via Claude Design vs in Claude Code itself.