Managing Partner @StudioVCNYC. Experimental thinker. Previously @SamsungNEXT @BainCapVC @HarvardHBS @Wisconsin. Fawning Papa to 3 kiddos under 8.
Joined November 2009
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You know you should be grateful when people ask you what your Father’s Day plans are and you just hope it’s the same as every weekend
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Jun 9
Good business ideas that benefit users ≠ defensible business models for investment. Should it exist? Yes. Will it own a large market defensibly / profitably in the future? Uncertain. This is often a deciding factor for VC.
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Jun 4
Eye-opening stat: out of the world’s 8Bn people, approximately 6.4Bn have never flown on an airplane.
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Apr 20
So proud of my brother @Mate0fish's session -- great Monday motivation (I mean, every day all day). NYC folks, trying to get MFC out here for a show!
soundcloud.com/mateofish/liv
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Mar 30
It’s taco night at our house so of course I’m explaining to the kids why 3 taco shells are healthier than one burrito shell — 5 inch diameter, 2.5in radius x 3 = 18.75(pi) vs 12 inch diameter, 6 inch radius = 36(pi)
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Mar 26
Mental hack for NYC…each 20 blocks is about a mile, so about 20 mins at 3mph. An avenue is about 3x a block. So 1* B 3*A = T in minutes.
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Feb 28
Golf teaches you that weaknesses are actually a blessing -- biggest delta for improvement. You improve from an A to A driver of the ball, you gain .2 strokes, you improve from a D putter to a B putter, you may gain 2 strokes. Order of magnitude improvement opportunity
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Feb 11
It would be super easy to delete the unique
sonic frequency of the drones filming the Olympics. Why not @nbc ? It’s great footage but the sound is annoying AF.
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Feb 9
Some of the most inspiring leaders I've seen in tech are BOTH Soldiers and Generals. They are warriors on the battlefield, not just ivory tower strategists.
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Jan 30
Some days I miss the days when scaling tech companies only required sending millions of CD Roms to people on the mail without their consent #VC
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Joseph Coyne retweeted
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If you're in robotics or AI, check this out. This company @evercoast will be worth $10B.
Absolute stud of a founder Ben Nunez and an unreal team.
Already working with Air Force, Intel and others.
And they've only raised $750k from me and @CoyneVC!
If you're a series A fund hit me up for intro. They have a term sheet :)
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26 Sep 2025
I’m a technologist, of course I supercharge my @SoloStove using an electric leaf blower
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20 Sep 2025
First rule of customer service should be, don’t send your customer in circles (front desk ‘call @MarriottBonvoy’ —-> @MarriottBonvoy ‘speak to the front desk’. Now you’ve not only failed me, you’ve wasted my time.
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26 Aug 2025
Love the people at the airport who got that Global Entry swagger
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31 Jul 2025
When building a fundraising deck: Hand feed the reader small, delicious bites of Filet Mignon (information), don't make them butcher the cow to get them. @StudioVCNYC
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6 Jun 2025
Asked my tech friends if they were going to @Cannes_Lions this year and nobody raised their hand.
My response: "I guess no Cannes do"
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12 May 2025
The best startups don't get excited about 'confirmed calls' they only get excited about 'confirmed kills' = closed deals #VC
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2 Apr 2025
Venture is a relationship business and one of our company leaders just lost his wife of 35 years to a car accident. If you can’t laugh, cry, and experience life together in VC then you’re missing the human element. Not all 1’s and 0’s.
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