I can’t think of a single good piece of product advice ever given to us by a VC (on or off our cap table) And a big reason is that most VC insight is a lagging indicator on the market trends combined with a lack of operating experience

This is the science giving me solace today: While women’s brains may be fully developed by ages 21–22, men’s brains often do not finish developing until closer to age 30. Only 7 years of the madness and fudtommery left.

“The rejected will be respected.”- Ossacin

Listen. Flashback. Thank me later. Loved this summer.

a good explanation of why teams that ship fast is an indicator of future success -- they trust their intution more and aren't frozen by committees or analysis paralysis

One time I hired someone who had sued their previous two employers. They nailed the interview and had a perfectly reasonable explanation for the legal conflict. I’ll give you one guess at how things ended. Where there’s smoke there’s always fire. Always, always, always.

Talking to a very good seed investor today, he admitted that most of their deals have over $1M ARR at the time of their investment. It’s hard to get seed investors to actually admit to this but it’s true. Founders, please get the memo 👀

VCs should pay their own legal fees.

Keyia Rejai' Boog CU Aunties CU auntie from Atlanta here for Shedeur…treat him right and we have no issues…💛🖤 to 🧡🤎 if he goes…I’m gone!

everyone told them no. so they built it themselves. now everyone's asking for a meeting.

So important to not be self-deprecating when you’re seeking investment $$ If you criticize & belittle yourself, then others will believe it to be true

y’all just be chattin’ not even his car 😂

folks - just b/c another company raises money in your market from VCs does not mean your market is a VC-scale market. the only thing this should tell you is that there are lots of stupid VCs out there.

There are lots of VCs that would benefit from following the advice they give to founders.

The minimum wage should be a number that, if you work at that wage for 40 hours per week, you’re able to afford housing, healthcare, and groceries. That’s not a radical belief.

How easy is it to Angel Invest w Play Money! 💎? I thought the two 80-year-old women investing their NVIDIA earnings were peak. But no. I woke up today to a new investor born in 1938!!

“I’ll invest if you find a lead” is the single lamest thing an investor can say.

On this day in 1921, The Tulsa Race Massacre happened in the affluent black community of Greenwood in Tulsa (Black Wall Street) White supremacists killed more than 300 African Americans and looted & burned to ground homes & businesses. History of Tulsa before the riot A THREAD

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Trayvon should still be alive🥺😩😔