Monica L

Excited to share that I moved to SF & joined the investment team at @M12vc, Microsoft's VC Fund! Thrilled to continue supporting founders who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI. Grateful to be working with some of the most humble, intellectually curious, and thoughtful investors in the game. M12 has been investing in AI since the inception of the fund in 2016 - we focus on early stage AI infrastructure & application layer companies. A personal goal of mine is to open as many doors as possible for founders to tap into the MSFT ecosystem. Founders & builders - please reach out if I can be a sounding board as you think about your next thing or are looking for a partner to scale your business. Big shout out to the @EniacVC team for taking a bet on me for the last 2.5 years & for helping me build a strong foundation as an investor. Will always hold onto Eniac's founder-first mentality no matter where I go. And most importantly, thank you to all the founders who I've had a chance to support & learn from - looking forward to the next chapter of our story :D

@creatine_cycle good advice

talk to a woman

My husband & I trying to get into Berghain

@francescagnuva 👩🏻‍🍳👌

verjus on an sf summer day is bar pisellino on a nyc summer day

@sawyerhood @jxnlco 🐐🐐

@hahnbeelee this is beautiful!

nick is pushing me to share more of my writing publicly. dipping my toes into it by leaking my own internal memo

@ItzSuds go Jesse!! great partnership

Sometimes you write a check where you’re like “I don’t really get how they pull this off or if it’ll work, but I really like the founder & conceptually it could rip so fuck it” Jesse is such a turboautist (good) you can tell that he’s going to out execute everyone. Great launch!

It’s rare, but the best investors come to the meeting wanting to believe.

@bephrem incredible!

sf film club #2 in 2 hrs b there or b square

friction begets resilience - important to keep doing hard things & having tough conversations with those that lie outside of your ideological bubble

@ad0rnai queen of good vibes

I love throwing parties 🤍

The hottest summer I ever spent was a winter in San Francisco

@aliansarinik incredible!!! 🤖🦾🚀🚀

the micro1 robotics lab: real world data for intelligent models that co-exist in the physical world. we’re in-the-wild across 75 countries in 6,000+ unique environments collecting data. diverse movements, objects, and settings. the future of AI is as human as you can imagine. join us to start training robots today (link in comments).

@adaptiveai adaptive :)

Introducing Adaptive Computer. We put AI inside of an always-on personal computer that it uses to get work done. Schedule agents. Create software. Automate anything. As part of the launch, we’re giving one free month of Adaptive to users. Retweet, like, and comment ‘Adaptive’ to get it.

Great investors be like: I want to invest because I think you're insane

one of the most profound cultural differences between san francisco tech and elsewhere is that tech people see automation as axiomatically a good thing, and this idea predates ai by decades. most of a tech company is automating oneself out of a role by writing software or hiring

just to add: @ericvishria led the inception round of Confluent just a few weeks into his venture career -> $11B co day end, a true defiance of the axiom that becoming a great early-stage VC first requires a few lost years and losing $100M... 🐐

keep struggling when things come too easy, you don’t exercise the brain nor the emotions. ease can feel like progress, but it often skips the reps that actually change you. growth is usually a loop, not a straight line – you take passes. you try, you fail, you reframe. you come back with a slightly better model, a slightly calmer nervous system, a slightly wider range of what you can handle. hardship isn’t the goal. but friction is gold. it shows you where your understanding is thin, where your habits are brittle, where your ego is doing the steering. the struggle is the curriculum. agents are making things easier, and that’s good. but don’t confuse speed with depth. use AI to remove busywork, then spend the saved energy on the parts that still hurt a little: the unclear problem, the uncomfortable conversation, the hard tradeoffs, the things you can’t yet explain in words. instead of putting all your wishes into the black box, actually keep thinking, and seeing things fully. keep the difficulty where it matters. outsource the tedious, keep the meaningful resistance. that’s how we keep learning – and how we stay human while your tools get superhuman.

Introducing Lenny's Roundtable 🔥 @lennysan published all his content (videos + newsletters) as a repo. So, I built a website where you can ask it a question and it pulls in relevant people who debate each other - grounded in that content. Live at lennysroundtable dot com 🎉

@nikunj @lennysan such a helpful resource!