Kelly Kovacs

Pinching ourselves, we get to be a part of this journey. Let's go!! 🚀🚀

@zmwang @AndrewMayne Loving my new look! Thanks @zmwang!

@AndrewMayne @kovacs So great to meet her and yes she looked fab.

Our pop-up barbershop was a dream. 2 hairstylists/barbers and a stylist + with a sidequest mahjong den and dim sum. Over 30 haircuts and "new identities" created. What is the haircut you've always dreamed of getting, but haven't yet? (And what if you got it today?)

@TimDraper 💯

While doing due diligence on potentially investing in the Las Vegas Athletics, I stumbled on Banana Ball. Now I’m looking for the Banana Balls of startups. Let me explain: I love traditional baseball. But it’s the almost identical to the game that was invented in 1839. But Banana Ball... Banana Ball has revolutionized the entire experience by changing all the rules. Game tied in the ninth inning? Forget extra innings. The game becomes a one-on-one showdown between the pitcher and the batter. The batter hits the ball and has to race around ALL the bases while the pitcher scrambles to get the ball back to home plate first. It's akin to a soccer shootout, but on the diamond instead of the pitch. If a fan catches a fly ball, the batter is out. The players do choreographed dances between innings. Instead of accepting that baseball games can drag on for hours with minimal action, they asked: "What if we made every moment exciting and fun?" When it comes to investing, I’m a Banana Ball man. Founders who take what everyone knows and accepts, then completely reimagines it and makes it exciting and fun. As my son, Adam puts it, we're "funding the rebellion." When someone challenges an industry with genuine innovation, everyone gets better. Tesla made all car companies improve. SpaceX revolutionized space exploration. Banks are finally embracing Bitcoin custody because they had to adapt or get left behind. These are my favorite companies to back. You just need someone willing to reinvent the game. 🍌

@jiangelaa @worktrace_ai @deepakv91 Pumped for you!!

👋@worktrace_ai is out of stealth! Which also means I've officially rejoined the workforce...I couldn't help but join @deepakv91 to pursue this vision together. I really think we & our amazing team are on track to make a meaningful difference in bridging the AI divide. Join us!

Excited to back such an incredible founder like Angela. A bullseye 🎯 first investment for @ZeroShotFund

So good.

@DanielLurie @SFPD Love this! Keep up the good work.

SFPD is intensifying operations to shut down drug activity in San Francisco.    Last week, officers ramped up enforcement—more buy-busts, more fugitive operations, and more patrols hitting the streets.   Already, they’ve made over 70 arrests, seized drugs and firearms, and sent a stronger message than ever: if you deal drugs in San Francisco, you will be held accountable.   Since day one, I said we would shut down open air drug markets, and we are doing that more aggressively than ever.

@dickc What a buzz kill

I'm imagining your november 1st phone calls when kids tell their parents "I got some snickers bars, and some M&Ms, and Mr. Johnson gave me a medical exam."

@BaraDefi @realDonaldTrump Agreed.

@realDonaldTrump 🙏🙏

TO MY GREAT FELLOW AMERICANS…

@adambain @davidbfischer 😂

I spent 6 years competing against @davidbfischer & he was so frustratingly good that I called him every name in the book. These days, I call him “My Partner” at 01A! He’s a fantastic operator & yes he wears the tux to the office for “Dressy Tuesdays.” fortune.com/2025/06/16/ter…

@michelletandler @MegynKellyShow she will dig in heavily to the facts regardless of her views. Very helpful.

Request: Are there any other podcasts similar to Ben Shapiro? I appreciate how intellectually honest he is. Also he doesn't ramble. Any and all suggestions welcome!

@realEstateTrent I’m so excited for this. Will speed up our process redesigning and flipping houses significantly and drastically reduce the cost working with an architect on initial plans. Pumped!

Anyone who has designed or redesigned a home knows that the hardest (and most exciting thing) is coming up with how you want your house to look. Now you can just upload a bunch of houses you like, and tell the AI to design a home that incorporates those concepts and shows you how it would look, and how it fits into your neighborhood.

The leap I witnessed in AI this week has me shaken. If you've followed me, you know I don't really make statements like this. I've been hearing how AI will change everything for years, but there's been little beyond promises. Nothing that can be used now. That just changed:

@michelletandler 100%

Okay, I know this is dramatic -- but I'm really upset about all the Teslas being torched and vandalized nationwide. This is the worst look for the left: violent, angry, destructive... All this directed at a clean energy company, nonetheless... I'm so disappointed.

@bskovacs Sounds like fake news funded by USAID 😜

a little help here would be nice Kelly @kovacs 😂

I’m confused. For years people complained about excessively stringent paylines @NIH reduced budgets for labs & general clunkiness of the system but now they don’t want an audit of budget allocation to reduce non-research excesses because the audit is done by guys in their 20s?

Connecting the dots: (1) You work your ass of, with no real wage growth over the past many years. (2) The government takes more and more of your money through taxation, telling you it all goes to a good cause and you will reap the benefits. (3) Nothing actually gets better so you start to question wether this is just a huge grift. (4) DJT promises to take a wrecking ball to all of it. He doesn't hide his intensions and his transparency gets him elected with a landslide and without a shadow of doubt. (5) The wrecking ball arrives via Elon and his Gang of Five and you start to learn that your money was being used to create and sustain a shadow government. Your money was being pilfered by unelected bureaucrats to prop up organizations domestically and abroad to do their bidding - Politico, NYTimes, NGOs. The list goes on and on. The only questions left are how far the rot goes and how complete the removal of this cancer will be. This is not a Republican or Democrat issue anymore, its common sense.

I think we can all agree on a few things: We have $36 trillion of national debt growing at a rapid rate, that must be refinanced and issued at a materially higher interest rate as our bonds come due and as new funds are needed. We had a $1.8 trillion deficit in fiscal 2024. There is an enormous amount of fraud, waste, and inappropriate spending in our government budget. It is illegal and/or otherwise should not be permitted for our government to fund activities that it cannot do directly through NGOs and other non-profits. @elonmusk has a proven ability to takeover dysfunctional organizations and turn them into highly functioning ones while massively reducing wasteful overhead and other spending. See Twitter. @realDonaldTrump won the election with a mandate for eliminating wasteful government spending and ending regulations that interfere with our country’s progress. President Trump announced during his campaign that Elon would be appointed to oversee @DOGE. In other words, the American people voted for and signed up for DOGE and Elon as its leader. We are extremely fortunate to have one of our greatest business leaders and entrepreneurs devote a considerable amount of his limited time for free to help our country. We are extremely fortunate that some of our most talented young people have signed on to help DOGE succeed. DOGE is just getting started and has already identified a massive amount of waste and likely fraud, and has begun cutting a material amount of costs. It is axiomatic that those who are beneficiaries of waste, fraud and unnecessary government spending will be the most threatened by the cuts that DOGE is making in these programs. These beneficiaries of waste and fraud are also extremely worried about the reputational, legal and potential criminal risk they will suffer by being exposed by DOGE. The beneficiaries of government waste, fraud and inappropriate spending will protest loudly and state false reasons for why DOGE must be stopped because their careers and livelihoods are threatened and put at risk by DOGE’s success. I have seen this movie many times before, but in the corporate world. The president has stated clearly that he is overseeing DOGE’s activities and that no important decisions will be made without his consent. Our legal system will ensure that no laws are broken as DOGE executes on its important mission. Other efforts over the last many decades to eliminate government waste and fraud have totally failed. DOGE is our best hope for fixing our fundamentally flawed and highly ineffective bureaucratic system for running our country. Elon and Trump will face enormous pressure and pushback from those who benefit from the current corrupt system. All Americans must therefore make their voices heard loud and clear about how much they support DOGE, Elon and our president’s efforts to help our country. We cannot let DOGE fail as our country is rapidly on the path to insolvency. Let’s not let our country down. Let’s do our part in making sure our Congressmen and Senators know that we are 100% behind the president, Elon and DOGE. It’s the least we can do.

I would happily hire any of these people once they are done with public service Trained in the art of analytically driven GSD in the face of adversity, hatred, while having a huge impact Ultimate training for startups taking on incumbents