Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures

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Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures

Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures

@jonchu

Partner @ KV, 2x founder, OG @ PLTR, OPEN, Docker, ML @ Meta // Investor in Sakana, Databricks, Anthropic, Figma, Bun, Runlayer, Coframe++

San Francisco, CA Katılım Haziran 2009
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Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures
Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures@jonchu·
Americans: Investors suck. They don't do work and just extract gains. Also Americans: You mean he paid for that equity in blood, sweat, and tears instead of dollars? That sounds totally unfair.
NIK@ns123abc

🚨 GREG BROCKMAN JUST CONFESSED UNDER OATH Q: You have an ownership interest in this cap profit company. Brockman: That is accurate. Q: And you invested $0 in order to acquire that interest. Correct? Brockman: That is also accurate. Q: Your ownership interest in this for-profit is valued today at more than $20 BILLION Correct? Brockman: Yes. Q: In fact, it may be closer to $30 BILLION. Correct? Brockman: I think that may be true. Yes. Brockman invested $0. Walked away with $20–30 billion. Musk donated $38 million plus the office rent. Got $0 personally. This is unjust enrichment, captured in his own testimony.

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roon@tszzl·
you need to be modifying your speech to piss off the nonbelievers: - DON’T say “unrelated”, DO say “orthogonal” - “random” -> “stochastic” - “this is fine ig” -> “local minima” - “sorta like” -> “isomorphic”
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Jaya Gupta@JayaGup10·
WHAT IS WRONG WITH RENT IN SF
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Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures@jonchu·
Sadly, this is almost always the result of any accelerator OSS tool. I wish GH had a solution
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Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures@jonchu·
@varunram It's a very useful way to look at whether soe niche actually finds it useful or interesting. Lack of stars in a later stage project is almost always indicative of lack of interest. These days growth in stars doesn't mean much
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Varunram Ganesh
Varunram Ganesh@varunram·
@jonchu The bigger solution would be for professional investors to stop making investment decisions around gh stars or product of the day, that’s the underlying motivation for a lot of folks
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Yash Patil@ypatil125·
Culture is a moat
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Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures@jonchu·
@AnjneyMidha Yea that I can see. Expats I think I'd 100% agree with you. The locals very much still have that southeast asian culture in them, but it's drifting
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Anjney Midha@AnjneyMidha·
@jonchu Maybe it’s the expats but sf seems fairly proximal to sf and hk culturally based on my current data
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Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures@jonchu·
No, I mean they aren't going to pilates or pure weight training. Culturally it's not the type of thing that "takes" for the age group. Or at least not yet and fitness is a relatively new thing. Singapore or Hong Kong is a good prediction path of where things will actually land longer term which is traditional lower weight / body weight gym training, cardio, and sports vs heavy weightlifting or pilates/class craze in the us.
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Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures@jonchu·
I like to use @jarredsumner as an example of one of the most earnest founders I've seen. He clearly cares about Bun users and how their life improves. In many respects, his childlike determination to make the JS ecosystem a better place is the reason there's such user delight.
Y Combinator@ycombinator

“When founders are both formidable and earnest, they're as close to unstoppable as you get.” Paul Graham on earnestness: paulgraham.com/earnest.html

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Blake Scholl 🛫@bscholl·
I had three kids under 24 months when I founded @boomsupersonic. And I didn’t have a supportive partner. Kids are a joy not a burden—even under difficult circumstances. You can have a family and an ambitious career—particularly if you choose your partner wisely.
Arthur MacWaters@ArthurMacwaters

kids are not a burden. this incessant narrative against kids and families is actually a civilizational threat when civilizations (even rome) reach a certain level of prosperity birth rates tend to collapse we cannot let that happen those who are pushing an anti-children narrative are deeply wrong and malformed kids are a blessing and utmost priority.

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Andrew Yeung
Andrew Yeung@andruyeung·
It seems like being a venture-backed founder is the new default if you can't find a job. Seeing a lot more new grads and MBAs starting companies because of the impossible job market. None of them are bootstrapping; they're all trying to raise VC. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? My default assumption is that it is a GOOD thing because more entrepreneurs = more innovation. Startups are essentially business/tech/distribution experiments. The more we have, the more shots on goal. But I also can't help but think that there is adverse selection playing out here. These entrepreneurs are starting companies because they can't get jobs, not because they have a unique insight. So what you get is lower quality operators, less original ideas. Some call these 'tourist' founders (they quit after 12m) We'll see how this plays out in the next five to ten years.
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Caleb Shack
Caleb Shack@firstc0in·
Tokenized seed-stage startups are trading at crazy premiums to what VCs would pay. The market understands that venture bets are call options on crazy outcomes. When access is democratized and you’re liquid on day 1, investors are a lot less price sensitive.
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Anjney Midha@AnjneyMidha·
when implemented correctly, venture capital can generate positive externalities at an unmatched speed and scale for society sadly, most VCs are clueless and so we are now stuck with the negative externalities of suboptimal allocations over the last decade time for cleanup mode
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Harry Stebbings
Harry Stebbings@HarryStebbings·
Ironically, if you get a ClickHouse and Anthropic are good businesses, just buy Zoom and Nebius.
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gorb 🍾@brazilian_bbg·
Every week there’s a new “striver benchmark” that is supposedly THE signal. This week it’s the IMO. In the past its been quant, FAANG, etc. Truth is, none of these stand to scrutiny and are peddled by lazy VCs. The best way to get someones intelligence is by talking to them
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Varunram Ganesh
Varunram Ganesh@varunram·
@jonchu Exa is clearly 1 (started when parag was still CEO of this platform) but I guess as of today, 2 caught up to them (maybe that's the bet with legora too?) and is now a round ahead I guess? Both Series B but vals are clearly different
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Varunram Ganesh@varunram·
Harvey vs Legora is the first time we're seeing VC firms go head-head every round and in every other respect (brand marketing, PR, and other things) Usually the second player in a space is a round or two behind (P0 vs Exa for example) and there's some nuance with positioning but with Harvey and Legora firms are pumping in so much money at a level round basis, which is very interesting to see play out in real time
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