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news! @poolsideai has acquired @fern_labs, in which @airstreet was the first and sole investor - and a first investor into poolside as well. i met @ashedwardst in late 2024 before fern had a name or team. his technical depth, product taste...
This is how America wins🇺🇸 A public shout @jpmorgan + our partners Doug Petno (co CEO commercial + inv bank) + John China (co head innovation banking) Lux stealth seeded serial founder w/big audacious plan + tech to match in non-obvious market JPM...
.@arthur_leopold and Jonathan are a force. Ambitious, focused, hungry, hard working, insightful, and obsessed with their customers. Classic right founders + right timing, leveraging AI to crack open an offline, friction-ful market that has eluded automation. We've learned many times...
resilience investors won’t be mincing their words either when they start funding a bunch of cloudflare competitors can’t have the internet crash bc of this single point of failure ey
Why the Hell Is It So Hard to Price an IPO in 2025? In 2025, day one IPO performance feels like a total crapshoot. Figma went parabolic (but now sits at the failed Adobe acquisition price), CoreWeave was flat out the gates...
How to know if you are an “AI Native” start-up: 🚀 You are growing much, much faster than last year Otherwise, you just have AI Features
New podcast on recruiting (full episode). Links below. Curate People 0:00 The Best Only Want to Work With the Best 3:49 You'll Never Be Able to Hire Anybody Better Than You 6:45 Break Every Rule to Get the Best People 10:19 It Just Takes a...
Why are AI companies growing SO MUCH FASTER than their SaaS counterparts? On average, AI companies are growing at about 10 times the speed as startups pursuing software-as-a-service business models. Investors now face a choice… "Bet on the past" by backing...
How negative sentiment could be a more pressing concern for AI than any bubble… In this TWiST highlight, I consider the recent backlash against AI apps and related technologies. Pushback and cynical takes around AI are coming from a number of...
What is Project Prometheus and why is Jeff Bezos going to (co-)run it? On TWiST, Alex Wilhelm and I do a little digging on $AMZN founder Jeff Bezos' latest project, the secretive AI startup Project Prometheus. We know they're doing something...

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If you want to potentially get acquired — start now. It often really, quietly takes years. What do I mean? Well for sure, acquisitions themselves technically often happen very quickly. The acquiring CEO reaches out, they meet up...

20VC crushing the 996 London life. Only fund in Europe that works this. 🤷♂️ https://t.co/RkVTlQhcTW
Deedy Das and Jay Eum Join the VC Roundtable! https://t.co/GLAHbFKopV
Long Faire 🚀 Long indie retail, long local communities, long craft, quality products. The $5.2B tender offer led by crossover investor WCW signals Faire has the attributes of a public company and has built a lasting, category-defining business. https://t.co/nYvdMAxuXG
Wanna come work with me? LAUNCH is bringing Founder University to Japan, and we're looking for a sharp, curious researcher to help us discover the most promising startups in the region! It's a huge opportunity to learn, grow, and get deep...
“In my career working in AI, I have yet to meet a single AI person that ever felt like they had enough compute.” “Open-weight models is a tremendous source of geopolitical influence” “When China’s government makes an all-nation commitment, it’s a very...
Is AI Coding Like Food Delivery: VC Subsidised and Unsustainable: " I remember the early days of food delivery, it was VC subsidized. We're seeing that right now with AI coding. This can't go on forever... there will be some very valuable businesses...
5 learnings from launching (and attempting to forecast) Disney+ ... Forecasting a brand-new product, even one with Disney's IP library behind it, is a leap off a cliff. As Vanna Krantz, former CFO of Disney Streaming, told me: "We beat our Year...
Posit: OpenAI’s fundamental problem is that it cannot become a platform company as long as the models it wants to use as a platform have no network effects and remain pure commodities. People had to use Windows, but there is...
It was never “build what’s fundable” and it isn’t now. It’s always been: make something people want. This comes from users and customers and the needs of others.
We're funding space fusion and your take is we're building a consensus machine Maybe you need to look harder
"Our business, which today is an end-user tools business, will become essentially an infrastructure business in support of agents doing work." — Satya Nadella Microsoft talking about their view where the value accrues : agent infrastructure https://t.co/1TaxJpOeCB
Every time I see a CRO that doesn't sell themselves, they fail. Every time I see a CTO that doesn't code themselves, they fail. Every time I see a CMO that doesn't market themselves, they fail. Every time I see a...

This is an incredible business. Live on @acquiredotcom: Top-ranked B2B marketing education SaaS serving global teams and pros. > $3.25M ARR > $1.65M TTM profit > globally recognized SaaS + education + brand trust = serious moat Full listing: https://t.co/qKWsmO2tpo https://t.co/97g300eS6r
I have a seed investment I made years back now at $130m ARR now growing 40% and cash flow positive. And all the VCs have checked out. They haven't been mean about it. Everyone is nice. It's...
Last year, women-led startups received just 2% of total venture capital funding a number that hasn't changed much in more than a decade. That's why stories like this one matter. Two of our USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy student...
The fundamental difference between a minority and majority recap: Control. If you sell a majority of your business, you'll receive a high level of liquidity, but all the key decisions will now be out of your control. With a minority recap, you'll retain...
Big news for 776 co @PalabraAI: they just acquired @Talo_AI Their API already powers enterprise tools and custom apps & now they’re bringing real-time translation to video calls and live events. Oh, and they also snagged #1 Product of the Day on...
This was a fun conversation with Nihal Mehta of Eniac Ventures https://lnkd.in/eKaqvudG
Flexport is at $2B annual revenue and just getting started. AI is so powerful it has turned internal hackathons into roadmaps for entire new product lines https://lnkd.in/g5pueCR7
Everyone, It's that time of year when folks start to think about comp. In conjunction with the All Raise team, please find the link below. Please complete the following survey by Thursday, November 20th. We will share the results with all participants. As...
Thank you for having me at Startupfest! (Btw, I'm raising for 18 months of runway...)
.@Mascobot is always a few steps ahead!! best @a16z scout now infra partner 🚀🚀
It's rare that I see spicy quotes from Limited Partners, but Ben Choi had a great quote at the most recent Kauffman Fellows Summit about why becoming and remaining a venture capitalist can be hard. It sparked a conversation between...
Every founder who got rejected 39 times before their Series A reminds me of Hulk. The angrier they got, the stronger the pitch became.
🪙🧑🏫 Wow. A masterclass on the future of global finance from a crypto savant who bet big on Solana and ironically… has zero interest in bitcoin. New Origins with @KyleSamani, MP at @multicoin👇 https://t.co/v2gSJyqLX8
Wow. 六 A masterclass on the future of global finance from a crypto savant who bet big on Solana and ironically… has zero interest in bitcoin. New Origins with Kyle Samani, Managing Partner of Multicoin Capital Transparency, speed, and global access are reshaping...
Amazing how valuable the game data is for real world data. Only games have action on controller and reaction in the world in a physics accurate way. And if you have data from thousands of games and tens of millions...
It’s near impossible to beat someone who just doesn’t give up. I learned that racing marathons: you hit a wall, you feel awful, you may think you're done—and then somehow you find another gear. The same thing happens as a founder. And...
One of the things I love about these founders is how genuinely committed they are to discovering pesticides that are safer for farmers. Startups often talk about making the world better, but I can tell you this was their concern...
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Hiring used to break because companies moved too slowly. Now it breaks because candidates move too fast. AI gave every applicant the ability to look qualified before they have proved anything. Resumes are AI-polished. Writing samples are AI-written. Coding tests get solved...
YC is a partnership of 15 GPs who have all these qualities It’s honestly a dream