Social•Dec 4, 2025
28 Days Left to Close This Year's Deal
if you told me in January that 'we should look to do a deal this year,' and we haven't, well, you have 28 days left to consummate
By Hunter Walk
Social•Dec 4, 2025
YC Demo Day Feels Like Reunion, Not Transactional Pitchfest
Someone asked me, "Why do you think YC demo day is far better than most tech events?" Me: "It feels more like a reunion, with far fewer aggressive pitches and requests to connect on LinkedIn." FWIW, I respect the hustle, but feel...
By Ryan Hoover
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Incubating GoAutoLane to Manage Mall Self‑Driving Fleets
Excited to have incubated @goautolane… which is going to orchestrate the dozens of self driving cars as they coming in and out of your local mall and box box retailer’s parking lot!
By Jason Calacanis
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Invest in the Next Coinbase at YC Demo Day
Highly recommend investing in the next Coinbase at YC Demo Day A+++++ incredible experience
By Garry Tan
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Deep Dive Into Private‑to‑Private M&A Strategies
Fantastic article on private to private M&A from Bob Moore and First Round Capital with a level of detail and insight that you rarely find. https://lnkd.in/e9icT7sS
By Chris Fralic
Social•Dec 3, 2025
When Demand Outpaces Supply: From PMF to Market Pull
When does Product Market Fit turn into Product Market PULL? We all know how to spot Product Market Fit… there are real customers who are saving time and money by using your product, and they’re even evangelizing to their friends...
By Jason Calacanis
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Drop Delegation Guilt, Unlock Massive Time
How to overcome the “Cardinal Sins of Delegation” and start saving more time for yourself. On TWiST, we’re joined by Jonathan Swanson of Athena, the startup that wants to pair you with remote assistants who can tackle all the tasks,...
By Jason Calacanis
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Trust‑Driven Design Turned Thumbtack Into Services Amazon
How Thumbtack became “The $AMZN for Services” The iconic marketplace for home services started life as a simple idea… What if you could make the equivalent of Amazon for your random household tasks, not just products. Of course, there was...
By Jason Calacanis
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Closing Four Deals This Week, Two More Next Week
Am in the process of closing 4 this week. And probably another 2 next week.
By Elizabeth Yin
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Haley Bryant Named First Non‑Founder Partner at Hustle Fund
Congrats to @haleymbryant for making Partner at Hustle Fund! Haley is one of the best operators and one of the most helpful investors I know. Easy decision to make her the first Partner at Hustle Fund outside of the...
By Elizabeth Yin
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Media Exposure Turns Angel Interest Into Lighthouse Customers
Today I interviewed a $50BN founder for 20VC. In the post interview chat, I mentioned a company we are leading the seed round for. The $50BN founder asked to angel invest and be a lighthouse customer for them. How media...
By Harry Stebbings
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Backing Space Data Centers Aligns with Bezos, Altman's Vision
My partner @katelin_cruse just backed @Starcloud_Inc_ - a team aiming to build data centers in space. When leaders like @JeffBezos & @sama talk about off-planet infrastructure as inevitable, this is the kind of ambition they’re pointing to. https://t.co/7qQqlBcG8X
By Alexis Ohanian
Social•Dec 3, 2025
AI Can Replace Most SDRs and CSMs, Not Engineers
A quick summary of what you can and can’t replace with AI today: - Outbound SDRs: you can replace most SDRs with AI today, possibly 100% … but you still need humans managing it and training it. Every day. IF...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Momentum Is Your Only Edge When Starting Out
In the early days, momentum is your only unfair advantage. You do not have brand, you do not have money, you only have motion.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Founder Advice After Acquisition: Lessons From Acquired.com
Founders to other founders after getting acquired on @acquiredotcom: https://t.co/jNNJMByjik
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Dec 3, 2025
CoreWeave's 134% Growth Redefines AI Infrastructure Scaling
CoreWeave might be the most interesting company in the public markets right now. They’re growing 134% quarter-over-quarter - an absolutely insane rate - and rewriting the playbook for scaling a multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure business. Tomorrow, my interview with their CFO...
By CJ Gustafson
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Polymarket Expands to US Backed by Sequoia
Jason @ Sequoia in SF, Polymarket comes to US https://t.co/G3OCHJBvEI
By Jason Calacanis
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Only Top Firms Thrive Raising Capital Now
I'll take the counter. If you're a strong company, anytime is a great time to raise. I've had companies successfully raise at this time. But, if you're good but not great, deals go to die during this time. I've seen it...
By Elizabeth Yin
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Success Doesn't Require 80-Hour Weeks, Balance Wins
When I was a founder, I got conflicting advice about startup work hours. "You must work 80-hour weeks to succeed!" vs "Work-life balance is possible! But, it's nuanced. After years as a founder and now as an investor, here's what I've...
By Elizabeth Yin
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Investing in Unlimited: Backing a Powerful Team
Stoked to announce our investment in Unlimited. Alex and Tara and team are a force. Watch this space.
By Erik Torenberg
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Annualizing Prediction Market Revenue Misleads: It's Not Recurring
You can just annualize anything these days, you guys… The latest “ARR” crime I’m seeing is in the prediction markets. When talking about the break neck growth of platforms like @Kalshi and @Polymarket , which let you “bet” on anything,...
By CJ Gustafson
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Apply Now: 2026 NextGen AI Fellowship for Student Founders
We are in the midst of one of the most exciting moments in history and the next generation of AI founders are just getting started. Today, we're opening applications for Notable Capital ’s 2026 NextGen AI Fellowship, an 8-week summer...
By Hans Tung
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Cheap Frontier Models Challenge Trillion-Dollar Compute Race
While OpenAI signed $1.15 trillion in compute contracts through 2035, DeepSeek trained a frontier model for $6 million. This was 2025’s central question : are we building on bedrock or quicksand? The top 10 posts of 2025 examined some of these...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Founder Shares Bank Selection Insight for Leap Recap
We're grateful for founders like Patrick Fingles who rival us in the amount of energy they bring to a transaction. Special thanks, Patrick, for sharing your firsthand account of selecting a bank to represent you and the executive team at...
By Michael Lyon
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Choosing Ethical AI Quests with Trae Stephens
This week on Uncapped I had Trae Stephens , partner at Founders Fund and co-founder of Anduril. We talked about choosing good quests in the AI era, ethics in tech, Anduril and the future of warfare, how Founders Fund operates,...
By Jack Altman
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Prioritize Startups Now; Future Cohorts Secure Growth
As long as all newly founded startups prefer your product, don't worry about competitors who can convince larger customers. You'll own all future cohorts of companies, and that's more than enough. Plus in practice you'll eventually convert the old cohorts...
By Paul Graham
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Selling to Startups Beats Investor‑Favored Big‑Company Deals
A startup told me that one of their investors didn't like it that they were selling to newly founded startups, and wanted them to sell to bigger companies, who have more money. If investors tell you this, write them off...
By Paul Graham
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Describe Startups with Verbs, Not Nouns, for Clarity
When describing a startup it's usually better to use verbs rather than nouns. Say what you do rather than what you are. Not because it sounds more dynamic, but simply because it's clearer.
By Paul Graham
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Money only Threatens You when It Buys All Ads
Don't fear competitors who've raised a lot, unless you can say precisely how all that extra money is going to make them beat you. E.g. if ads are the only way to acquire users, and they can buy all the...
By Paul Graham
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Voice Interfaces Replace Keyboards for All Users
A few months ago, I wrote about being voicepilled after experiencing the magic of AI-powered voice-to-text. Today, I sit down with @WisprFlow Founder @tankots to ask the question: “What if we could get rid of keyboards?" Tanay is ushering in...
By Reid Hoffman
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Remember Past Peaks to Fuel Future Leadership
As the CEO, it can be easy to stress about the next mountain to climb. Take a look back every now and then to remind yourself (and your team) about all the mountains you've already climbed.
By Elizabeth Yin
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Startup Rebounds: From Stalled Growth to Resurgence
A year of smoothly exponential growth, and then suddenly it stops working. That has to be demoralizing. But the startup toughs it out, and five months later growth is back. https://t.co/tQM44KNJXY
By Paul Graham
Social•Dec 3, 2025
David Meline Joins Lux Board, Brings Global CFO Expertise
Absolutely stoked to announce that David Meline has joined us on the Board of Lux family co @EikonTX David was: CFO Moderna CFO Amgen (2014-2020) CFO 3M (2011-2014) CFO GM (on 5 continents) and serves on the Board of HP, ABB, Lonza Group + the...
By Josh Wolfe
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Respect Entrepreneurs' Time: Plan, Punctuality Essential
@bhorowitz: ...bldg a co is xtremely hard & culturally, we want to have the ultimate respect...we don't want to waste any entrepreneur's time & so that's your most important thing... every time I have to like go to the meeting,...
By Ben Horowitz
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Build Apps on Your Phone with Simple Prompts
We seeded a company literally called @vibecodeapp - a mobile-first way to build apps with simple text prompts, on iOS or Android. Access to creating software on your phone is about to look nothing like what my generation learned. The shift...
By Alexis Ohanian
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Fast Experimentation Signals High-Performing Teams
How quick a team experiments is a good indicator of team quality.
By Elizabeth Yin
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Founder Credit Card Points: Integrity Test or Fraud?
Is using company credit card points for personal travel a perk of the job? Or is it FRAUD?! A lot of founders see spending the points accrued from a company card on a personal vacay as essentially innocent, a way...
By Jason Calacanis
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Never Ignore Random Big‑co Acquisition Calls—There’s Strategic Value
So one of the weirdest calls you'll get as a founder is when a BigCo out of the blue wants to talk about acquiring you. Literally out of nowhere. Now, sometimes it's for real. Sometimes, it's the start of something. But if...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Record Year: 9 New Investments, LP Liquidity, Two Funds
While we at Version One Ventures have been around for 13+ years, 2025 was definitely one of the most fun: 9 new companies (8 of which have hardware!), liquidity for LPs, and 2 new funds 👀 to back even more...
By Angela Tran Kingyens
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Kid's South Park Arbitrage Exposed Legal Gap, Birthed Billion‑dollar Market
The biggest prediction market in America just raised a billion dollars. The real story didn’t start in a boardroom. It started with a kid in New York arbitraging a 28-second delay in a South Park episode. That moment exposed something...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Growth Depends on Uncontrollable Calendar Time, Not Just Action
There's 2 types of time in startups: 1) time to do something (you control that) and 2) Calendar time - the time required for a customer to buy and be successful. You can't control the latter, and this is a...
By Elizabeth Yin
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Bootstrapped SaaS Sold for $1.25M in 65 Days
We just helped a founder exit for $1,250,000 on @acquiredotcom. Business was a bootstrapped SaaS. Multiple 4.7x profit. Took about 65 days from listing to close. Another life changing outcome. https://t.co/z3cU78jzi5
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Prep, Docs, Communication Accelerate M&A Deals
Another awesome @acquiredotcom webinar tomorrow. We'll be showing buyers and sellers how preparation, documentation, and clear communication make deals move faster. Register here (you'll get the recording): https://t.co/9GxFHTo3dz https://t.co/tAD5US18j5
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Reid Hoffman Confirms He's Ruling
"You're ruling out a bubble bursting?" @reidhoffman: "Yes" https://t.co/LfVBBbZfsf
By Eric Newcomer
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Excited to Lead $300M Round for Standout Infra Company
This is the most interesting infra company I have met in a long time Exciting to be leading their $300M round via Elad Gil & Co https://t.co/MQuO3ksdrk
By Elad Gil
Social•Dec 2, 2025
AirGarage Seeks Head of Finance for Series B Growth
Any Heads of Finance looking for a new role? AirGarage, Series B stage portfolio co building a big business in an overlooked market, is looking. DM the CEO, @jonathonbarkl, if that's you. :)
By Ryan Hoover
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Finite Markets Burn Quickly: Beware Exhausting Your Leads
I was talking with a CFO last week who had what most GTM leaders would kill for: a perfectly defined market. Their company sells software to independent financial advisors. Not the ones at Merrill or Goldman... the 76,000 registered with...
By CJ Gustafson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Ignoring Low Standards Creates a New Normal
"If you see something below the standard, and don't correct it, you've set a new standard." ht: @bhorowitz
By Ben Horowitz
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Vista Point Advisors Launches New NYC Office
I’m excited to share that Vista Point Advisors is opening a new office right in the heart of New York City! This is a big step for us as we keep growing and getting closer to the amazing founders, investors,...
By Michael Lyon
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Prediction Markets Go Mainstream with Kalshi’s New Asset Class
From fringe to mainstream, prediction markets are now part of everyday culture. @Kalshi has created a new asset class and fundamentally changed how people engage with future events. Congrats to @mansourtarek_, @luanalopeslara & team. @Sequoia is proud to be on your...
By Sequoia Capital