30 of the 70 companies in our last @speedrun batch had founders born outside the US and if we keep doing our job – and we will – that number is only going up: * founders building products teams internationally * builders stuck in an H-1B job ready to accelerate their slope * students here on F-1 who are ready to take a shot at their startup idea Speedrun Global Founders is our answer >> our end-to-end approach to guiding founders through visas, customs, housing, banking, and building local SF community, while enabling founders from all over the globe to participate in Speedrun we also have the coolest hat in venture - maybe thats a lame flex, but i honestly challenge you to show me better vc drip you might catch a few of our founders wearing them today. come through Global Founders and I’ll bring you one 🫡 -apply below my friends-

wondering why I feel exhausted. maybe: the agents do all the easy stuff, and I have to work through the leftover hard bits, which means I'm perpetually locked in. and as the models get better, "my" work just gets harder and harder, until I'm basically underqualified to do the work (which... is better than the alternative, there's nothing left for me to do, and I'm paperclipped).

bored on my flight back to SF with crappy wifi. built an offline flight tracker using an open endpoint i found on the plane's network. works on all united flights with panasonic internet.

i hosted two private panels with founders in the last two weeks, and each had founders call specific VCs out by name for bad behavior and terrible advice.. to an audience of other investors.. to audible gasps and chuckles. sucks that founders feel they have to keep mum.

Washington skyscrapers > New York skyscrapers ;) til next time @Techweek_

VCs and angel investors, brunch, and three founders who've built teams worth studying. Our @a16z @speedrun Startup Culture Brunch is on with @shreyamurthy of @partiful, Eleanor Morgan of Liftoff, and @jmoynick of @USV. #NYTechWeek @tmhammer

Excited to be part of the team tackling our global efforts and to help spearhead our international investing alongside my partner @astrange! We believe AI is the great equalizer. For the first time, billions of people can access PhD-level intelligence from a phone. Talent is more distributed than ever, and Silicon Valley is ultimately a state of mind. We’re already seeing this shift play out. Great global companies are being born outside the U.S. and scaling faster than ever: ElevenLabs, Black Forest Labs, Mistral, Lovable, Decart, Manus, Sakana, Wonderful, and many others are just the beginning. Our goal is simple: build a bridge between the United States and the world’s best founders, operators, and technologists — and partner with them to win globally. We’ll also continue doubling down on immigrant founders in the U.S. through our Borderless network. Immigrants have founded or co-founded 59% of America’s privately held billion-dollar startups, including companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, Databricks, Stripe, Ramp, Safe Superintelligence, Anysphere, Vercel, and RunwayML. The next generation of category-defining companies will be born anywhere and scale everywhere, and we want to be the partner of choice for the founders building them. Read More on Ben Horowitz Blog Post: a16z.com/a16zs-global-missio…

a hotel earns my love when I open up the bathrobe and the little rope thing doesn’t fall on the bathroom floor cuz it’s actually in the loops 🙏

Caught up with Emily Capodilupo of @WHOOP at our Startup Culture Brunch with @speedrun @tmhammer @UnderscoreVC. Her excitement says it all: you don't have to be in San Francisco anymore. Boston is a real, growing tech scene, and it doesn't feel obvious or accidental anymore.

clair health's entire company fit within a single suitcase. since speedrun, they've grown to 10 employees and just got the keys to their very first office space. this is Jenny's (@jennysduan) story. Applications to SR007 close tonight @ 11:59pm PST

apps close sunday @speedrun

Got questions about speedrun? Come ask our investors and operating partners LIVE tomorrow @ 1:30pm PT in a team AMA sesson. Sign up while slots remain: speedrun007.a16z.com/ama

our not so secret secret weapon

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

Speedrun Founder Profile: Austin, Vatsal, & Ankit Two brothers and their childhood friend Cold applied to speedrun (SR006) Left frontier labs and big tech to start Modern Industrials Three months later they closed their round and are heading back home to build. Their story: