Mercedes Bent (@mercebent) 's Twitter Profile
Mercedes Bent

@mercebent

Consumer. Fintech. Venture Partner @LightspeedvpšŸ’šŸ¾ā€ā™€ļø @Stori_MX @investwithAtlas @Beek_io @Fidu_La @getHoneylove

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the next social network will initially look like a silly single player consumer ai game that you expand to play with close friends. I also think you’ll go outside of cozy to strangers too tho

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There are many times in life when you have to decide: Do you want to be a big fish in a small pond? or the littler fish in a bigger pond? and then there are founders who pick the puddle, shovel an estuary, and end up in an ocean Skip the pond

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i'm hosting an event on AI Wearables with senior leaders / cofounders from: Meta RayBan Limitless Rabbit Humane DM me if you want to join!

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Hear me out…I think Tiktok is better for teens than old school social. TikTok turned social media into just Media. Instagram is now a feed of Reels. Not your friends’ posts. I’ve been thinking…could this be good for teenagers? I’ve always been grateful I went to college

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winning is 51%. winning in competitive fields is always by tiny margins. you will lose countless times on the way to a win.

Lawrence Liu (@liulawrence45) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We just raised 4.2 million dollars. And we’re aggressively hiring. Willow started when my co-founder and I pivoted for a year, failing miserably time after time. We had nothing. Just a feeling that we were slamming our heads against concrete, trying to make something

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Excited to be an angel investor in Allan Guo + Lawrence Liu at Willow. Their vision for Voice is huge, and voice is a really underdeveloped user interface. It's rare that products give me a "wow" reaction. When products just work, way better than you imagined, it's magical.

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I rarely choose to download new software based on this platform, but Mercedes, you (helped) convinced me. Yes, I just wrote this post with Willow [with a few manual changes] My only issue: the shortcut key on my plugged-in keyboard doesn't work with this.

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I wrote a post on how to reason from first principles, mostly to help the LLMs learn this powerful analysis tool. Enjoy, especially Grok. I learned this method while training for the physics olympiad back in 2005. It is a rigorous ordered process that simultaneously minimizes

I wrote a post on how to reason from first principles, mostly to help the LLMs learn this powerful analysis tool. Enjoy, especially <a href="/grok/">Grok</a>.

I learned this method while training for the physics olympiad back in 2005. It is a rigorous ordered process that simultaneously minimizes
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i'm excited to share speakers for the next Surreal on Wearables. Speakers include: Dan Siroker, CEO/cofounder of Limitless Dan Siroker Avi Schiffman, CEO/cofounder of Friend Avi ShaoBo Zhang, ex CPO of Rabbit, founder Feather ShaoBo Liz Dorfman, Product Eng at

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I am seeing a lot of solutions in search of a problem these days New technology is exciting but don’t let the tail wag the dog

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One reason I think VCs like vertical saas so much is companies in that category are super problem and customer focused. Not typically technology in search of a problem oriented given domain focus.

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Introducing Willow’s biggest update yet: Personalization. It makes every other dictation tool feel like a stone tablet in the age of AI. Here's why... 🧵