I was bummed when Hootie Rashidifard called to tell me he was leaving Canaan to start hash3xyz but I couldn’t be more excited for him. A wonderful man with strong insights in web3. Congrats!!

Steak twitter - please explain.

Lending companies are calling interest income ARR again - nature is healing

Congrats to my partner and friend Hrach Simonian who led Canaan's investment in Instacart's seed round as a newly minted principal. Hrach Simonian was steadfast in his conviction from the earliest days.

I assume everyone speaking with full certainty of events yesterday know all the details about what happened with perfect clarity.

Couldn't be more excited to announce that Dana warren has joined @Canaan. She is a rare combination of insight, passion, humanity and energy. Dana led Global Partnerships Stripe and has a wealth of experiences to share with entrepreneurs.

Who do I know in the bay that likes punk rock

It’s a giant F You to parents and the worst part of experience so far.

Amazing to me that @google and Gemini are getting the backlash when it seems the Meta AI generates the same type of images that have outraged others toward Google

Little known fact FedNow also includes ACH with smell-o-vision

Corollary - my worst misses were yeses that I overthought

Which circle of hell is reserved for ppl who take the elevator 1 floor in old NYC buildings.

I’m at EWR and there’s something amazing about gathering around a window sharing eclipse glasses and sharing a moment with random strangers that would never talk to each other normally

A joy of this VC job is watching co's make a difference in lives. FDA today granted $DAWN accelerated approval to treat a type of pediatric brain cancer. Julie Papanek Grant incubated this company. I'm proud to be her partner and friend today (and every day). globenewswire.com/news-release/2…

NYC 2024. Decent metaphor for my day also

the DMV seems to have a very different definition of “reservation” than I do

After going into a prolonged hiatus, 2024 is evidently when VCs casually start throwing out the idea of doing a pay to play as expected terms “to help get your partners on board”.

Laughed out loud at this

Stables as regulatory arbitrage