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So, I wrote a book! It's basically a love letter to everyone brave enough to buck convention and start something hard. Pre-sales open today for friends, founders and trolls alike!♥️
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Jenny Fielding
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Jenny Fielding
@jefielding
Managing Partner, @EverywhereVC investing in pre-seed founders building the future of money, health and work 🚀
Here, There, Everywhere Katılım Aralık 2009
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🎧Venture Everywhere Podcast EPS118: @jefielding of @EverywhereVC chats w/ Mickael Roger of prophero.com, the data-driven real estate platform helping investors find high-return properties
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There’s a narrative in VC that you need to play the game on the field. In other words…continue to invest in frothy rounds or during uncertain times.
But this is false. As a VC you can decide to a take a break / wait things out. Every cycle we forgot this simple fact.
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Of the 400+ founders who applied to join our NY Tech Week breakfast, 120+ reference ‘Agents’ in their profile. I just counted.
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I’m gonna do this but with all the public companies in my portfolio
Marc Andrusko@mandrusko1
I have many friends who do this, and I mean no shade to anyone personally. But listing every company you’ve ever invested in as a separate position on your LinkedIn is completely unhinged.
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@thehenryinsf Not sure it’s MORE interesting but also interesting.
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@jefielding the agent density stat is interesting but the more interesting question is how many of those 120 are actually shipping agentic products vs just riding the wave. the label is cheap, the execution isn't.
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@dtboyd Well I am surprised in a way. Sure everyone is using AI and automation but agents are actually different and I’m surprised that many companies have figured out how to deploy agents to customers.
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Nobody tells you which funds are actually worth chasing at NY Tech Week. So here's who to put on your calendar before someone else does:
- @LererHippeau (NY) founder-obsessed early checks
- @notationcapital (NY) "first-check" pre-seed
- @amino_capital (CA) Series A-B rounds
- @generalcatalyst (MA + NYC) pre-seed to growth
- @EverywhereVC hosting pre-seed founders breakfast
- @collabfund (NYC) backs for-profit & for-good
- @PrecursorVC hosting early-stage investor dinner
- @8vc (TX) seed to growth
- @PrimaryVC NYC-native, operator-heavy
- @fcollective (MA + NYC) founding team of founders
- @VamosVentures (CA) catch their AI playbook session
- @pillar_vc (MA) bets on Boston's underdog founders
Who are you targeting, and why? Tag them.
P.S. Fundraising starts before the meeting. Have your data room ready with @ThePageform.
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This Week in Startups@twistartups
Anthropic and OpenAI slammed the this week on secondary transactions of their shares as both AI labs race to list. To help @jason and @alex unpack the market-moving news, investors @jefielding @davemcclure and @lessin joined our venture capital panel to make plain which Anthropic investing vehicles are legit, and which may be fake. The group also dug into software moats, large venture funds pressuring smaller firms, the future of LP capital, and the IPO market! 0:00 Guest introductions 1:30 Guest introductions 2:36 Anthropic voids unauthorized SPV trades 9:23 Accredited investor reform & the SEC sophisticated investor test 9:40 Quo (formerly OpenPhone) - Quo gives you a clean, modern way to handle every customer call, text, and thread all in one place. Try it free at quo.com/TWiST 12:25 Naval's USVC closed-end fund as a workaround 17:23 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at Plaud.ai/twist and use code TWIST for 10% off! 18:30 Pro-rata rights battles: when Series A investors push seed investors out 20:18 Grasshopper Bank: Time is money. Don't waste either. Go to grasshopper.bank/twist and get an exclusive $500 cash bonus just for opening an account. 29:55 Pilot: Focus on your product, let Pilot handle your bookkeeping. Pilot provides the most reliable accounting, CFO, and tax services for startups and small businesses. Head to pilot.com/twist and get $1,200 off your first year. 31:05 Storing wealth in stories vs. cash flows 35:01 Cerebras and Fervo Energy IPOs — meaningful liquidity? 38:36 Will SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI IPOs redistribute capital or compound it? 46:40 The $15M Series A founder who returned the money because of Claude 50:43 Should founders pivot or return capital when the world changes? 57:25 OpenAI's $6.6B tender and Shruti Gandhi's viral SF cost-of-living tweet 1:01:07 Intercom rebrands to Fin: the AI-first late-stage pivot 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇
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Founder closed a $15m Series A (top tier VC) and 6 months later, plans to return the cash to investors. Feels like long term, Claude will displace the product / erode the value. This is really happening, most people are not talking about it, it’s kinda wild.
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@textqldylan Enterprise and only design partners right now. So I hear you but early days.
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Notes from the comments: it’s a growing business, real tech, problems solved. And they’re still shutting down and returning the money.
I could never do that to our customers. Basically saying you never believed in what you sold them and then leaving them high and dry.
Jenny Fielding@jefielding
Founder closed a $15m Series A (top tier VC) and 6 months later, plans to return the cash to investors. Feels like long term, Claude will displace the product / erode the value. This is really happening, most people are not talking about it, it’s kinda wild.
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@mil000 Nope. Really solid founders. Maybe didn’t have the grit to pivot, but boring shady. I’ve known them for a long time.
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There is something much deeper here. This story makes 0 sense and they’re just trying to avoid insane amounts of controversy or something like that
Jenny Fielding@jefielding
Founder closed a $15m Series A (top tier VC) and 6 months later, plans to return the cash to investors. Feels like long term, Claude will displace the product / erode the value. This is really happening, most people are not talking about it, it’s kinda wild.
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@suffiyanmalikk They were ambitious at the time and in fact the company is doing well. They are looking into their crystal ball and seeing the future tho.
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@jefielding What was the thesis or thought process when they started? Probably couldn’t been more ambitious, gone after esoteric problems
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@jefielding I feel like if you have the money in the bank and (presumably) some traction giving the money back seems silly.
Just try and pivot and go after a pace where you see some room to play.
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@Martinoleary @twistartups You’ll have to watch the show this week and see what you think 😘
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@jefielding this reminds of this hilarious but kinda poignant tool i saw on @twistartups
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Martin 🏹@Martinoleary
if you're planning to vibe code a saas run your idea through this scanner first. it might save you from ai psychosis. deathbyclawd.com
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I feel Some categories Claude makes stronger, not weaker.
Faith is one of them. A billion people are not going to outsource prayer to an LLM. They will, however, expect the priest on the other end of the phone to show up faster, in their language, with their name pronounced right. That's the work. :)
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@jefielding @gabednconfused not everyone’s capable of pivoting. Some people just had a great idea once
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@jefielding What was the product/niche?
I feel like that’s why you need to have a vision that goes beyond what’s possible today and inherently tries to stay ahead.
But I’m just starting out, which makes talking easier.
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@jefielding return the cash and shut down the company? or switch over to a non-VC scale model?
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@jefielding Why not pivot? Don’t know the details but if the original problem still exists, there should be a pass to pivot, specially if you won’t run out of cash.
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