investor @M12vc - microsoft's venture fund // supporting founders who have found their purpose 🌱
Joined October 2021
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Excited to share that I moved to SF & joined the investment team at @M12vc, Microsoft's VC Fund! Thrilled to continue supporting founders who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI. Grateful to be working with some of the most humble, intellectually curious, and thoughtful investors in the game.
M12 has been investing in AI since the inception of the fund in 2016 - we focus on early stage AI infrastructure & application layer companies. A personal goal of mine is to open as many doors as possible for founders to tap into the MSFT ecosystem. Founders & builders - please reach out if I can be a sounding board as you think about your next thing or are looking for a partner to scale your business.
Big shout out to the @EniacVC team for taking a bet on me for the last 2.5 years & for helping me build a strong foundation as an investor. Will always hold onto Eniac's founder-first mentality no matter where I go. And most importantly, thank you to all the founders who I've had a chance to support & learn from - looking forward to the next chapter of our story :D
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Timothée Chalamet and LeBron James explain why preparation is everything
Timothée Chalamet: “On Marty Supreme but also the last Dune I just filmed this past summer. You overprepare. You're too prepared and then on the day I can let loose like a freestyle for lack of a better expression because I know how prepared I am”
LeBron James: “I will go back to my high school coach. He would always say, ‘Listen, we going to practice hard as hell. We're going to make practice hard as hell every single day because it's going to make the games that much easier’”
“I think that's what it's all about. I think that's what kicked into my head about just the process. If you go out and prepare yourself and you're process-oriented and you're also visualizing what it's going to look like, visualizing being in that moment, visualizing living in your own vessel like right then and there”
“I think once the director says action or once the jump ball happens, it's like I already know what I'm doing. I'm locked in. I've been here already. I’ve already visioned this. This is already written”
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He’ll probably never pay for another meal in NYC. He’ll never need a reservation. He’ll be at every NY team’s games in the best seats. When you take one for the team, you always win.
Jalen Brunson left 110 million on the table and I’m positive he’s made 4x that tonight alone
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22 Dec 2013
I just want to be successful thats all..
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Jun 14
How to Earn a Billion Dollars: paulgraham.com/earn.html
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Books I regularly recommend to parents:
📕Absorbent Mind (Montessori) - she has the deepest reverse for the human condition focused on children.
📗 Positive Discipline series - great for instilling emotional intelligence and agency in young children.
📘 How to Talk so Children Listen and Listen so Children Talk (Faber) - fabulous practical communication tips.
📙 How Children Learn (Holt) - love his observations about helping young children to teach themselves.
📚 Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (Engelmann) - the bible of teaching reading.
📖 Magical Child (Pearce) - raising genius kids through play. He gets woo-woo at the end (but given that people love the telepathy tapes, maybe he's onto something).
Jun 12
Someone asked me to recommend a good book on parenting. I would guess that most books about parenting are tedious. So my recommendation is to read autobiographies, the early parts of which are usually implicitly about parenting.
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Jun 12
Thanks to @MollySOShea for being the first artist to record in my studio!
Jun 11
NEW: Brian Singerman, fmr Founders Fund, now GPx, on why he only invests in *people*
SpaceX is the reason he joined Founders Fund in 2008
"If SpaceX didn't work, Founders Fund would not exist."
From Elon & SpaceX to Karp & Palantir, to Anduril, Airbnb, Stripe, & Stemcentrx, @briansin's whole framework is one question:
Is this the best founder in the world at their particular thing?
We get into:
- What makes Founders Fund unique: a team of strong-willed, genuinely authentic individuals
- Why a 3x fund loses to the S&P
- How a lifetime of strategy gaming shapes how he reads founders & now GPs
- Why he bets against the end of the world every time
- Why he's bullish on N-of-1 human cultural artifacts in an AI world
- Why Cyan Banister & Palmer Luckey are genuinely N-of-1 people
Thank you to @mlevchin, @traestephens & @ScottNolan for great questions
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Brian Singerman, Co-Founder of GPx, Former Partner at Founders Fund
(00:42) Founders Fund
(02:09) Max Levchin's unfiltered questions
(05:25) How gaming shaped his investing
(06:11) Joining Founders Fund in 2008
(07:34) Silicon Valley's most fascinating characters
(09:29) Lessons from Peter Thiel
(11:26) Building a culture of conviction
(11:59) The art of spotting A founders
(13:55) Trae's biggest lesson from Peter Thiel
(14:41) Is socialism a threat to America?
(15:58) Why capital is leaving California
(17:03) The obsession with Hawaii
(20:59) The Founders Fund playbook
(24:51) "If SpaceX didn't work, Founders Fund would not exist"
(26:03) Why Elon is one of one
(27:30) Why everyone knew Starlink would win
(28:42) Inside Founders Fund's biggest bets
(31:06) The Founders Fund founder archetype
(33:25) Backing fund managers instead of startups
(35:22) The new generation of GPs
(36:34) The most authentic people in tech
(41:38) Why other VCs aren't the audience
(44:05) Music, Memorabilia & N-of-1 Artifacts
(46:25) The story behind Brian's music studio
(49:22) What's next for Brian?
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Gwynne Shotwell has got to be the most impressive woman of our generation. Mad respect.
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Jun 12
5 things @alanaagoyal does differently
> solo gp that commits code every single day
> doesn't take pitch meetings
> runs her agents in cmux on top of @mitchellh's ghostty
> built her personal website using a dozen of her own portco's products
> automated her investor updates without AI writing
ep 4 of show me your stack is live!
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Jun 12
Sadly, not part of SpaceX. But winning in my own way today :-)
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Jun 12
“If you would have told us in 2016 that Opus existed, we would have lost our minds.”
BUILT TO SCALE. Episode 1 is live ( …again! )
BtS is a show I'm hosting on behalf of Amazon Devices where I interview founders/ funders/ researchers building in consumer, Al, and hardware. ❤️
I’m headed to Paris (VivaTech) and Shanghai next week for more interviews coming soon! :)
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Jun 11
What you work on has never been more important.
Make sure it’s fun. Make sure it’s insanely ambitious.
That’s the greatest moat.
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Jun 11
I’ve been a Knicks fan for 14 long days, so tonight was very special for me personally
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Jun 11
had fun strolling around with @lmrankhan of @alliance
they are a great partner to idea-stage founders and are doubling down on ny
still can't believe he gets 15k steps a day!! ny may be the only american city built for that
We asked @usv's Nikhil (@uninsightful) one question: why NYC?
0:25 How Nikhil joined USV
1:15 Showcasing the USV office
1:54 Lessons learned from @fredwilson
2:50 SF vs NYC from a builders perspective
3:46 USV's investing approach
4:40 NYC's culture & lifestyle
5:42 NY is the place to get customers
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Jun 11
Resumes are dead. Side projects, relationships, and grit are in.
Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/nikhil…
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Jun 11
I would love for someone to write the long form book / post on corporate dark arts embodied in the world class EAs
calendar snooping, insane politicking, true edge cases of travel and scheduling, soft power logistics, lies and damned lies, etc
Jun 10
EAs are the best people to sit with at office lunch. I will die on this hill.
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