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Tim Suzman retweeted
Jun 12
Honored to have @tryreplicas be featured on this list and be a part of such a strong group of companies
Jun 11
Congratulations to the top Devtech startups in YC P26!
Remember when "dev tools" was a "small market" that investors didn't want to touch?
Well now DevTech is one of the largest industries in the world.
svpost.com/articles/top-devt…
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Jun 11
I love when @pioneer_fund companies work together.
Two strong ones right here: @AgentPhoneHQ and @orthogonal_sh.
Jun 11
Get your AI Agent a phone number and bunch more @orthogonal_sh!
Excited to be partnering with them :)
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Jun 11
Some of the startups on this YC P26 list will seem very strange if you're not agent-pilled yet.
But these could be some of the strongest companies.
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Jun 11
This is huge news, @sdianahu is fantastic!
svpost.com/articles/diana-hu…
Jun 11
We're excited to announce Diana Hu (@sdianahu) as YC's newest Managing Partner.
Diana co-founded Escher Reality (YC S17), which was acquired by Niantic, where she shipped AR to the 100M people playing Pokémon GO. Since returning to YC as a partner, she has worked with nearly 230 companies that are now worth a combined $7 billion.
Few people have built a startup from zero and also shipped at global scale. Diana has done both.
ycombinator.com/blog/diana-h…
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Jun 11
Congratulations to the top Devtech startups in YC P26!
Remember when "dev tools" was a "small market" that investors didn't want to touch?
Well now DevTech is one of the largest industries in the world.
svpost.com/articles/top-devt…
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Jun 10
The better the models, the more engineering-constrained I feel.
So much I could do. Overwhelming.
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Jun 8
Except for @pioneer_fund. We don't care how hot a deal is and we don't even know how hot a deal is.
We could. We're the most connected investors in the YC network.
But we have a policy: Zero signal from other investors. We make our own decisions 100% of the time.
If someone in the Pioneer network finds out a Tier 1 VC is investing in a company, they're not even allowed to tell us until after we invest. But we're usually before the Tier 1's anyway.
Jun 8
The same investor will react differently to the same idea based on how hot a deal you are and how much they like your personality. If you're not a hot deal and they don't like you, they'll look for reasons to hate the idea.
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Jun 8
We're also very open-minded about different personality types. There are a lot of ways to be a great founder.
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Tim Suzman retweeted
Jun 8
To the outside world, we might only have 30 min with a founder, but there are hours of work behind the scenes for each call.
Working alongside the other @pioneer_fund venture partners taught me early what excellence looks like: researching, preparing, maximizing the founder’s time, and being transparent with them.
Jun 5
I don't think anyone, including our own LPs, have any idea how hard we actually work at @pioneer_fund to invest in the top YC startups.
We've tried to explain but it doesn't even sound real.
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Jun 8
Thomas founder Thomas built an AI Thomas to make money for Thomas.
@pioneer_fund invested in Thomas but I'm not sure which one.
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Jun 7
I think we're going to see more solo founders.
One person has so much more leverage than before.
Still great having a cofounder -- two people also have much more leverage than before.
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Tim Suzman retweeted
Jun 7
Top 80% if you do this. Maybe top 90%
Bonus reward if you invest into YC: future YC founders will know that is your standard process and prioritize you earlier in their fundraising period.
If you’re consistent even just 10-20 times, you can move up to the coveted first day.
If you’re consistent over 500 times in a row, you can go right after Pioneer!
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Jun 7
Thank you for this!
Pioneer is a founder-to-founder fund.
seeing all the VC's getting outted
Me after having interacted with @pioneer_fund
Absolute legends!
Decision in 24h
Always helping
Everyone's an operator
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Jun 7
How to be a good investor:
Don't play games.
Be transparent.
Prepare before the meeting.
Make your decision quickly.
Give a clear yes/no.
Don't be an asshole.
Realize that there is a good chance you are wrong.
Understand that the founders are dedicating years of their life to this.
Huge bonus points if you are a fellow founder who understands what it's like to build a startup.
Jun 2
I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.
12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30 minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.
I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital.
You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious.
It's a dance.
And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious.
If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird.
No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there.
It is weird.
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The Adialante founders are formidable. @ET_adialante and @ManW_dePlan. Will not be stopped.
@pioneer_fund is proud to back them.
They invented and built a new portable MRI and are building a network/marketplace around it.
svpost.com/articles/adialant…
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Jun 6
How many total lives will be saved by companies in the @ycombinator P26 batch?
It will be over 1,000,000. How many? Which company will save the most?
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