head barista @rootvc (seed deep-tech/AI/Devtools) hobbies -- ☕️🍕🤖🚜🛠🔪🍸🔥
Joined April 2010
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We have a new coffee grinder (and $190M fund). I rebuilt the electronics to add grind-by-weight and Wifi/BLE.
The firmware is also running a server to announce our new fund: rootventures.coffee/
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My LP version —
“mind if we take this as a walking meeting?”
<< pulls out his phone and collects Pokémon the entire time >>
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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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I don't think anyone should attend Web Summit
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Announcing: Pedal4BrainRot. 🚲
You get to watch YouTube on your Peloton, but only if you keep pedaling. If your RPM drops? BOOM. Firewall block.
It’s like the movie "Speed," but the bomb is a firewall.
github.com/avidan/Pedal-4-Br…
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The requirements.
RaspberryPi
Magene S3 Cadence sensor
Ubiquiti Network (install server on the RPi)
A kid who loves YouTube
Peloton (hey @onepeloton -- this would have been easier with a documented API!)
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Avidan retweeted
Feb 18
Oh good, I can run Doom in a terminal in @zeddotdev.
The question "can it run doom?" is answered for OpenTUI.
@muhammed_aksam did it.
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Claude can now help you get a job @ root.vc
github.com/rootvc/claude-app…
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Woot is back -- for the wacky stuff we make here at Root. woot.vc
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This would significantly increase my Friday challah production.
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