Managing Director and Cofounder, @adverbvc @hashtagangels. First CPO @slackhq; ex @twitter @google. BOD @zillow. Junkie for where culture and tech intersect.

Joined April 2007
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12 Feb 2025
When @Jess & I were launching @Adverbvc, we were eager for a day we could proudly display the humans we’d backed on our website. This month, we’re celebrating our two-year anniversary as a firm. We've backed 22 incredible companies, added 2 new team members (@LizaGurtin & @gary_pesola) & have a new website to boot. Check out the companies we’ve backed, and subscribe to our Substack for updates. adverb.vc/ 🚀
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My video from the Hawthorne office of the final Falcon 1 launch (first ever success with deployment). This is one of those startup moments you never forget, and why you get into tech in the first place. 7/13/09.
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Measuring true engineering impact — a problem as old as time. @kayvz proposes a measure to do so for teams using modern AI development tools: an engineer’s Clickety Clack score. 🤖
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I’m happy for you, New York
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THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE WHO BLESSED MSG TODAY TO GET THE STANK VIBES OUT YOUR SERVICE IS APPRECIATED
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Flowers 💐 for @kirstenagreen and all the founders who presented at Humans in the Loop!
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Next up: @getcasa on the stage at Humans in the Loop! If you’re a homeowner in the Bay Area or west side of LA and not using Casa yet, you’re doing it the hard way. 🔨
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Replying to @clairevo
@clairevo appreciation moment at Humans In The Loop 😍
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“Rizz is the only moat.” - Claire Vo, the DFW metroplex’s famousest technology brother
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Hello, world to Indexed Labs! @LizaGurtin unveiling Otto today 😍 and absolutely crushing her demo at Humans in the Loop!
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Agents, for groups of humans to use. Hello @workclaw! Congrats @willruben and team!
Today, we’re introducing @workclaw: the AI team for your team. Most AI agents work in silos. One person, one assistant. But that’s not how teams collaborate in a real company, so we built something new. Meet your WorkClaws, collaborative, proactive, customizable AI coworkers that work in Slack or Teams just like every other colleague. Hire a new Claw in a few clicks and give them a job title, manager, computer, and apps. Easily access their ClawOS computer in the cloud, and pick from more than 3,000 integrations to install. Then, train them to get work done your way by adding skills and routines. It’s OpenClaw for actual work, with the additional layers of security and admin controls companies expect. 🚀 We’ve just opened up Early Access to a limited number of teams who get started on our website. 🎁 Want $500 in free credits? Just comment with what job title you’d give your first claw, and we’ll hook you up!
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and there it is: OpenAI has confidentially filed its paperwork to go public, per the company no decision on timing. could come this year, could not!
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BTS prep for Humans In The Loop with @LizaGurtin and @getcasa 🎉💚
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Now that I think about it, the Twitter firehose deals with the search companies were the precursor to the ego-centric data market
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The ad with Adam Driver swimming with a horse will never stop being funny to me
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Rick Rubin’s House on the Mountain test: Create according to your own taste, not for applause, critics, algorithms, or market demand. “Imagine going to live on a mountaintop by yourself, forever. You build a home that no one will ever visit. Still, you invest the time and effort to shape the space in which you’ll spend your days. The wood, the plates, the pillows—all magnificent. Curated to your taste.” “This is the essence of great art. We create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves.” “I'm willing to go to extremes to make the thing that I want to inhabit and it's not for anyone else. it's just for me.”
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In this day and age of infosec threats, this subject line from @SlackHQ is a bad call. After the brief cortisol spike that someone using the name Miles Davis had joined our Slack, I scrolled down, and then just wondered why on earth I would want this in my work communication tool.
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I generally don't have any interest in giving others a hard time, especially teams I've worked on, but honestly everyone can learn from this. There's so much the Slack team does well, but this is a miss.
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if you are more junior in your career (or really at any point) there is great alpha in having agency, a sense of urgency, and being proactive vs. just reactive. don’t wait for your manager/someone else to “assign” you work. look at what’s on their plate, what the business needs, and actively work on it. people like people that work hard and make their lives easier. it benefits you in that you’re then seen as helpful, critical to the business, etc. and get promoted/get recognized, and have more opportunities given to you. high agency people are successful people! the people that wait to do something until they are told are C players. be an A player.
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i want to give someone a golden ticket into SF startup life. i don't care how many years of experience you have. i'm looking for an AI-native product engineer who is: - in a committed relationship with claude code - constantly building side projects - insanely curious - moving faster than the people around them - hungry to learn fast and do the best work of their life we'll spend 6 days/week working side-by-side building the future of patient-led healthcare for the 400M people with chronic conditions that modern medicine still fails to solve. i'll cover your relocation to SF and give you unlimited claude credits to automate the software factory of your dreams. DM me your github and some things you've built!
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Vancouver Agent Builders! We're hosting round two of our agentbuilderbreakfast.com series in Vancouver. Come join us this Thursday and meet fellow friends building agents - either as engineers, founders, small businesses, lawyers, or realtors. It's free! Please RT/Share with a friend in Vancouver (also join me in SF too :-D)

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I got the chance to invest in @PassportGlobal1 on the ground floor as an angel in 2018, and today they were acquired for $425M. Investing takes patience, but only a fraction of the persistence required to build a global shipping company that has withstood a pandemic, multiple wars, and lots of tariff activity. Grateful and proud to have backed them and look forward to see what comes next as part of Global-e!
Today marks one of the most meaningful milestones in Passport’s journey: we’ve signed an agreement to be acquired by Global-e Nine years ago, Passport started with a simple but ambitious vision: Help brands reach their global potential. Since then, we’ve built a proprietary global shipping network that now leads the market in transit times and customer experience, along with a full suite of solutions that supports brands at every stage from cross-border enablement to in-country operations and marketplace management. And most importantly, we earned the trust of incredible brands and 3PLs around the world. What makes this moment special is that great companies are bought, not sold. As we continued to build for the future, Global-e approached us because they saw the value in what this team built: our logistics infrastructure, our operational depth, our customer relationships, and our approach for enabling global commerce. This partnership is so exciting because our visions to help brands go global are deeply aligned. Together, we can help more brands expand globally, faster and more confidently, with a more complete solution than either company could offer alone. To our customers: thank you for trusting us with your brands, your growth, and your customers around the world. Many of you took a chance on Passport early, partnered closely with us, pushed us to improve, and helped shape the company we are today. To our partners: thank you for helping us build a truly global ecosystem. Cross-border commerce is impossible without strong operational and strategic partnerships, and we would not be here without you. To our investors: thank you for believing in Passport’s vision from the beginning and for supporting us through every stage of growth. Your partnership, guidance, and conviction helped us build a company capable of redefining what global commerce can look like for modern brands.  And to the Passport team: thank you. This moment belongs to all of you. Thank you for the late nights, the ownership, the resilience, the creativity, and the belief in what we were building especially during the hard moments. What this team accomplished over the last 9 years is extraordinary, and this acquisition is a direct reflection of that work. I couldn’t be more proud of what we’ve built together. And the best part is we’re just getting started. Press Release here: investors.global-e.com/news-…
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