Juan Acosta

From Venezuela to Silicon Valley and a lot in between. This is my story. I hope it inspires at least one person to pursue their dreams. A Young Immigrant’s Journey to Venture Capital, Startups, and Living The American Dream. link.medium.com/4z33HLdabU

@PaulYacoubian Just download @tabella_app and get to your nearest Catholic Church :) ⛪️

Request for startups: churches

@BuySellSMB DM sent

Who has bought or runs a small business and lives in Austin? Doing something cool next week that you may want to be a part of!

@jackmallers and @Strike I received a pretty sophisticated call and emails from people pretending to be your team. I have part of the call recorded. Would love to help you guys catch whoever is doing this.

@jon_stokes @zooko Yeah I got calls, notifications, and texts from Buda and Hays County

There is a major, full-spectrum alert system test going on in Williamson County, TX, the likes of which I've never seen. It started with iPhone alerts, then multiple text alerts, and then a recorded phone call.

@credistick AND 1517 is the very best at caring about a founder’s wellbeing /personal life beyond their startup. I’ve had major life events and @DStrachman and team are always so attentive. @zslayback has been the very best to work with.

Top 5 VC firms right now (from a lens of their ability to find great companies + give them $) 1517 Fund Also Capital Boost VC Compound Long Journey Ventures

@staystaystace @fridababy This is demonic. Never buying their products again.

sexual jokes to market baby products is actually sick and twisted @fridababy this is absolutely appalling and disgusting

.@nikitabier are you guys thinking of implementing some sort of bundling of posts that relate to the same news? A few times every week my feed gets completely covered by one trending thing. In this case the viral article (which I liked)… but it’s drowning everything else out.

@Austen Extremely grateful. Not sure what unfolds from here but today is a moment that transforms the lives of millions of families

Venezuelans: How do you feel right now?

So did anyone wake up with $50M in their bank account? 🇻🇪🇺🇸

@kanavtwt Actually this might help with a project where I find the bpms of songs accurately. Spotify limited their own API and doesn’t let you do it… they used to

@TheGeorgePu That weight in your heart as you fill out your username and password and waiting for the double auth with all sorts of things going through your mind

August 2023. Payroll: $84K Revenue: $62K 2am. Checking bank account. Again. Not thinking about strategy. Not thinking about growth. Just: 'Can I pay people next month?' That thought breaks founders. Not competition. Not market shifts. The people who trust you.

@dragodimitrov Brother thanks for all the resources you sent us leading to our baby being born. We had a great birth too, Praise God

I almost feel guilty admitting this, but we had a really smooth and gentle birth (praise God). Not all births need to be chaotic and full of panic like they portray in the movies. While some factors are out of your control— nature is nature, of course—there is A LOT you can do to maximize your probability for having a great experience.

@ElizabethHolmes He is so loyal. I worked with him for 5 years and it was the most transformative years for me. He taught me optimism

Tim has supported and believed in me in my darkest moments. I will never forget this. Just like with BTC, when others were scared and threw away their beliefs in fear, he has stayed loyal. I will honor you Tim with my life ahead. I will never give up.

Diamond Hands Draper >July 2014 @TimDraper buys 29,655 BTC for ~$19M when everyone else was scared at $630/coin >BTC now worth $101,000 /coin >$3 Billion in gains a 158X return if liquidated >Still holding Tim has more backbone than any investor I have met. It pays.

“so you work 70-80 hours a week on your startup?” “yes, dave” “just to avoid working 40 hrs at a normal job?” “that’s correct, dave”

@catholicpat Great thread brother!

Mary was assumed Body and Soul into Heaven Until about 500 years ago, every Christian believed this These 5 things prove it actually happened (thread)

@greg16676935420 Send this as a follow up: “Oh I almost forgot. I just got 3 Coldplay tickets and would love for you to come”

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take

@KeithNester1 @ojosmiel333 I started this catholic app and we have some great music on it if you want to give it a try. No paywalls it’s all free and without subscriptions. (Also I use our app to listen to Unpacking the Mass every weekend!) Here’s an album I really like: web.tabella.app/podcast/2780ea…

@ojosmiel333 @thejcad I think it would be awesome.

I know as Catholics we’re supposed to hate contemporary worship music (I don’t if it’s good), but I wish there more overtly “Catholic” contemporary worship artists. Not for mass, just for private enjoyment.

This is one of the most important truths almost no one talks about. There is a threshold of wealth beyond which you stop interacting with reality as it exists and begin interacting with a version of it that bends to your whims. Codie’s friend didn’t pick $299 million arbitrarily. That’s around the point where wealth begins to replicate itself without labor, resistance, or external accountability. The world becomes a simulation - crafted by assistants, lawyers, media buffers, private access, and power brokers who insulate you from friction, consequence, or contradiction. Under $100 million, you still feel gravity. Above $300 million, you start controlling gravity. That’s the danger. At that level: •People stop saying no to you. •You stop encountering randomness. •Everything is for sale, including trust, intimacy, and morality. This is where reality fracturing begins. Not because money corrupts, but because perception loses resistance. Resistance is what keeps you real. So the deeper truth is this: Once your environment is made entirely of yes-men, predictive service, and curated insulation, your mind begins to exit the shared human operating system. You aren’t evil. You’re decontextualized. You’re drifting in an abstraction loop of your own design. That’s when you start thinking ideas like “let’s block out the sun” or “let’s colonize Mars while Earth burns” are rational. Codie’s billionaire friend wasn’t just being poetic. He was confessing a structural truth: There’s a point at which money doesn’t just distort reality, it erases it.