Funny, loving, charismatic, empathic ... Ted made us all better. We need more Teds. Miss you.

Ok, not about Venture Capital, but Bay Area people, my son Julian is playing Bing Studio at Stanford on November 4th: live.stanford.edu/calendar/novem…

If you question whether Double Bottom Line investing is just mythology, check out this amazing company I funded called EarlyBird (@EarlyBirdLearn): vimeo.com/736892424

So great to hang with the NYC entrepreneurial community. #ShakeShackParty

Congrats Villi and team!

Emailing a VC and saying “I saw your Portfolio and it looks like we are focused on the same market” is not the same thing as doing the work to actually see where there are synergies in my portfolio. Raising money is hard. And it starts with that first email.

How am I just learning about this? Hello? Sara Mauskopf and Sippey, you might have mentioned. So excited for this podcast!

Can’t wait!

I would love to see that data. What is a “lucky VC” if not someone who has the fortune of finding amazing companies? So how would luck correlate with bad performance? I guess it depends upon your definition of “lucky.”

What he said … exploding term sheets work with folks who don’t have the self confidence to call bullshit.

There is nothing more powerful than great storytelling. Here's a chance to demonstrate your epic storytelling skills.

Got my new iPhone but forgot that all iPhones are carefully designed to never fit in old cases. I am surprised by how nervous having a caseless iPhone is making me. You’d think I hadn’t bought the bionic Apple Care for the price of the phone.

This is why I love teaching Startup Garage at Stanford Graduate School of Business — awesome teams like the amazing founders of Maker Wine: youtu.be/D-VgZwW8rSg

So fun speaking at the Masters of Scale Summit (Masters of Scale). Apparently I make faces when I'm excited.

Inbox Zero. I truly don't think I've ever gotten to Inbox Zero before. I've always had some stupid email lingering. But tonight at 1:32am I have gotten to inbox zero. I will now go to sleep and awaken to 30 new emails. But for this brief moment, I am the master of my inbox!

There is no such thing as quiet quitting in VC — you are either 110% in on the startup ecosystem or you will fail.

Also known as failing.

I had very low expectations of Elon Musk here, but he has immediately exceeded my low expectations. Thanks to all of you who have engaged with me on Twitter over the years. I will miss you.

If you haven’t tried out the The Easy Company wallet, it is pretty fantastic. Easy is on Product Hunt today. Go check it out and give it a vote! producthunt.com/posts/easy-soc…

Looking forward to “tweeting” again. threads.net/@davidhornik