Pictured: a Series B founder with moderate product-market fit opens an unsolicited envelope from Tiger Global

VC in 2021: "The round is going to close this week. There is no deck yet."

Jay Z works at Square, Dr Dre works at Apple, Nas is one of the best VCs in the world

Netflix waiting 10 years to clamp down on password sharing might just be the most epic growth hack of all time

how depressing our society has failed to provide ambitious role models to our founders

Demo days are basically drops. How far off are we from turning pre seed/seed investment into a lottery system? Imagine the reseller market secondaries 🥶🤭 sheeesh

One of my portfolio companies was struggling I knew it The founder knew it The market knew it It was time to dig in. I rolled up my sleeves. I gave him one tip - just one: Growth That was years ago Today? That company is the largest cloud computing provider in the world.

Excited to announce Greenlight's Series D led by a16z, doubling its value to $2.3B, along with a behind the scenes peek of why we backed Tim and Johnson at the seed stage 👏 Congratulations to the entire team! relayventures.medium.com/allowances-roc…

Google Calendar has trained me to think that a Google Meet link on the invite is probably a mistake. That one decision has completely ruined the GMeet brand. Doing bad/dark UI patterns to pump up usage numbers might be good short term but an awful long term decision.

want to build a better product? play more games. game devs are years ahead on product design than your favorite SV unicorn.

This is Calendly's new logo. I am logging off.

Remember when VCs would invest outside Silicon Valley only if startups agreed to move to the Bay Area? Remember when US VCs would invest in European and Israeli startups only if they “flipped” to a Delaware corporation? How times have changed

The main reason late-stage funds like Tiger and Coatue are eating traditional VCs' lunch is that they're faster. Speed is probably the number one difference between what founders think is important in VCs, and what VCs think is important in VCs.

I'm part of my university's startup competition and they asked me for a 5 year financial projection. I think I should just drop out.

Finance math VC math

★ The Remix 💿 team has joined Shopify! Win-win as we put the power of Shopify behind #Remix allowing them to accelerate their roadmap & focus on pushing the web forward & they will help deliver next-generation web experiences for our merchants & devs. shopify.engineering/remix-joins-sh…

I was let go by Sequoia Capital today. Buck had to stop somewhere. I was the 27 year old associate responsible for copying and pasting revenue and profit numbers from a spreadsheet in the FTX data room into a PowerPoint slide in an investment memo as diligence

experience and competence are not the same thing, and it’s wild how much many industries value the first over the second.

dear lord, please give me the confidence of a 25 year old “venture capitalist” with Twitter Blue & zero exits who just released “23 unstoppable trends that will change your world forever, a 🧵”