Stephen DeBerry

It ain’t about the summit. It’s about the climb.

Join me, @ronconway @reidhoffman and @vcsforkamala to talk about 2024 Presidential Politics, and the future of Silicon Valley. Today Aug 7, 5:30pm ET. RSVP  lu.ma/9s5vws9h

.#Eastside dilemma everywhere you look. benjerry.com/whats-new/2024…

For those who can't imagine the death of American democracy, we imagined it for you. Watch here.

@phaedrael ???

@Samirkaji What do we know about persistence and performance after Fund IV? Is this a key inflection point that signals stable quality, or does performance remain wobbly across the asset class? What do funds that make it to IV do differently?

Fund 1's, even accounting for survivorship bias, often have produced the highest top-end cash on cash return multiples in history (Initialized and Lowercase are two extreme examples). At this point, managers are most closely aligned with the business model / thesis that inclines most closely to where they truly have assymetric edges. Over time, externalities often push managers out of their respective strike zones (poor advice from other LPs, GPs, legal counsel, etc.) far too early. Similar to a company, drift (fund terms, fund size, product focus) can be deadly to returns and viability (A LP friend of mine mentioned only about 1 in 5 Fund I managers make it to Fund IV).

@BrianBrackeen Wonder what tool(s) they used for this?

It’s over for mumble rappers. The (AI) King is back! 👑 😮

Early-stage companies shouldn’t need to spend big $$ on lawyers for basic documents. Here are the templates every startup can use:

@MoniqueWoodard @cakeventures Go Monique go!!!! 🎉👊🏾🫡

Today, I’m officially announcing Cake Ventures (@cakeventures) Fund I, a $17M seed and pre-seed fund to invest in founders building companies and products whose growth is accelerated by demographic change. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

@phaedrael Yes! Love the people through the product.

@Joshmedia How about keep the toys but keep them out of the toy/kids toothbrush section? The adjacency is a little weird.

So dildos are unsafe for kids but guns at wal-mart well thats just all American

@Joshmedia @jessicascorpio @Getaround Go @jessicascorpio !!!!

Early wake up today as @jessicascorpio preps for a whirlwind day of going public. Last night’s @getaround party was a blast as Jess got to meet so many new employees. Off to the NYSE in an hour!

@latbbolch Was this supposed to produce shock and awe? Now what Ben?

Drumroll, please. UCLA released the number of football season tickets for 2022: 23,077.

Read banned books. 📚

@DrIbram We love you good brother. Here to celebrate rare with you! 🎂✌🏾

This is 40 in South Africa. Feeling deeply grateful to be alive. And healthy. And building. And producing. And unfazed. And focused. Birthdays are a day of gratitude for me. 🙏🏾

@MoniqueWoodard Because it’s ALWAYS a good time to start making crab cakes. Come see me in November when crab season opens here. 🛥 🎣 🦀

I don’t know why I thought 10pm on a Saturday night was the time to START making crabcakes, but here we are.

@msuster Most people won’t get it, but super clever.

❤️ your hat in your profile pic! So clever :)

Here I responded to the argument that teaching young children about the history of racism is going to make White kids feel bad. Thank you @colbertlateshow for having me. #HowToRaiseAnAntiracist

Amazing news: Jen has been found! Thanks to volunteers, everyone sharing, and a caring officer who saw the posts and contacted our tip line, we’ve found her! She’s safe and I’m flying to Miami now. I am overcome with gratitude to everyone for rallying so hard. Thank you 🙏🏽

@chrisfralic Please, please be right.

I see a rival bid for Twitter