Very proud to be an American. As a kid we lived six years in Europe and each summer we would kiss the tarmac after getting off the plane to return home. Hit the birth lottery being born here and appreciated it from a young age.

Had my lack of experience not completely messed up the deal, I would have sold Startup Grind and Bevy to peak WeWork for mostly stock and it would have all been shutdown soon thereafter.

The French police rollerblading on Bastille Day today is about as French as it gets 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

Stop scrolling, get up!! 💪💪💪

I feel so validated.

We The Builders EPISODE 1 is LIVE with Shahin Farshchi at Lux Capital Shahin has invested in companies manufacturing in space (Varda Space Industries), building autonomous transportation systems (Zoox), providing robots as a service (Formic), automating industries (Covariant), using

Figma gets acquired for $20B in 2023. Acquisition falls through. Repriced funding round at $12.5B in 2024. Go public at $42B on the first day in 2025. Startups are the ultimate business rollercoaster ride.

Thank you Jim! Let it rain sales team!!

Whatever professional sadness you have on a missed opportunity, it pales in comparison to this guy.

Hard to beat Utah in the summer.

I have met hundreds of CEOs over the past 20-years many from the top Fortune 500 companies. I can easily say after meeting Traeger Grills CEO Jeremy Andrus yesterday for Divot he is one of the very best I have ever met. I wouldn’t sleep on anything he part of.

I'm part of one of the best communities in the world Startup Grind. This week I received a thoughtful gift from +40 people in the Cyprus Chapter. To me Startup Grind is still a fun side project and all these years later it's still giving me way more than I ever gave it.

Be careful mocking or vilifying people that work really hard - you’ll probably end up working for them.