Managing Partner, @EverywhereVC investing in pre-seed founders building the future of money, health and work 🚀
Joined December 2009
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5 Dec 2024
So, I wrote a book! It's basically a love letter to everyone brave enough to buck convention and start something hard. Pre-sales open today for friends, founders and trolls alike!♥️
ALT Venture Everywhere now available on Amazon!
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I can look at any VCs website and be able to tell how much of a pain in the ass they will be to deal with. It’s a strange superpower, but a useful one.
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Jun 2
Nothing says #NYTechWeek like a founder hitting up all the events with an interactive backpack pitch deck. Nice work grabbing investor attention!🤖
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Jun 1
Tech Week, like it or hate it. The history is that NYC couldn’t get its act together before @a16z stepped in to run it. Many tried over many years and no one could agree. I’m not super pro centralization in general but I give them big props on this one 🙌🏼
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May 29
A founder nails early traction, customers are happy, metrics look solid. Then a new AI capability drops, a competitor reprices to zero or the use case gets absorbed into a platform. Finding durable product / market fit is harder than ever right now.
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May 28
Founders - being cash efficient is good, hoarding cash is not. If you can go faster and you have the cash and clear direction, then go. Hire, spend a little, grow. This sitting on cash thing has gone too far and I’m seeing it more and more.
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May 27
Not sure why the AI narrative has focused on productivity instead of how AI tools give super powers to non technical people so they can build things. Feels like AI needs a major rebrand.
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May 19
There’s a narrative in VC that you need to play the game on the field. In other words…continue to invest in frothy rounds or during uncertain times.
But this is false. As a VC you can decide to a take a break / wait things out. Every cycle we forgot this simple fact.
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May 16
Of the 400 founders who applied to join our NY Tech Week breakfast, 120 reference ‘Agents’ in their profile. I just counted.
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May 13
Founder closed a $15m Series A (top tier VC) and 6 months later, plans to return the cash to investors. Feels like long term, Claude will displace the product / erode the value. This is really happening, most people are not talking about it, it’s kinda wild.
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May 6
If you’ve learned anything this week watching the Elon / OpenAI courtroom drama… don’t write anything down or keep a journal! The psychiatrists learned this a long time ago. Take note.
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May 5
I’ve heard about one notable startup founder breakup and one fund break up just this week. And it’s only Tuesday! The most important business decision you will ever make is who you go into business with. Choose wisely 👀
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May 4
Heard the best founder pitch last week. 10 slides talking about how AI is going to develop over the next 10 years (each slide was a year) and why this team was going to make it thru and thrive. The last slide, #11, talked about the product vision. Brilliant 👏
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Apr 29
Series A stage startup I know has 12 technical roles open right now. Kinda hard to imagine, seems like a lot. At the same time it’s hard for engineers to find roles 🤷♀️
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Apr 25
It’s a funny realization that some of best / most successful founders I work with are difficult and controversial people. The aha is that I don’t need to try to change them, they are just fine.
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Apr 24
Visited a founder hacker house today in SF (Nob Hill!) Impressively clean, 2 people to a room, no shoes inside, kombucha on tap. Clearly this is not your parents hacker house!
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Apr 10
This week I talked to 3 different VCs who are thinking about taking a pause from investing. The AI market is super frothy and the vibes feel off so why not focus on other projects for now? One is looking to found a company, one move to Europe and one start a coaching biz 🤔
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Apr 3
Right now, VCs care about one thing only…defensibility / moats so don’t bother pitching anything else. Like throw away the entire deck and just have one slide on that.
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A founder is moving west and asked me to recommend the West Village of SF. Doesn’t really exist really. Maybe Dolores Park is the best comp?
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Apr 1
We’ve just rolled out our AI portfolio manager to help us manage our large portfolio. And now I get to sleep in! 😴
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Mar 25
Secondary market is hopping again. Just this week we’ve had offers to buy out our full positions in one series A and two series B startups. All too early imho but nice to have off-ramp options to DPI.
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