junior VCs will do one internship at a random pre-seed startup and call themselves an ex-operator

PE firms that buy service-heavy businesses and replace these low-margin services with AI will dominate the next decade of asset management

was looking at how much setting up health insurance costs and had to stop myself from becoming a communist

it always amazes me that a single SAP integration for a F500 company can generate more in services revenue than the revenues of most venture backed startups

the more recently popular rhetoric of raising only one VC round and then bootstrapping/building a lifestyle business is ethically questionable unless explicitly stated, you’re punishing the people who believed in you before anyone else did

one thing about founders who love delighting their customers is that their satisfaction speaks to an intrinsic and fundamentally good desire to make other humans happy this goodness is often conveniently excluded in criticisms about founders and the work cultures they create

this. there are large companies out there just now migrating to SAP or Oracle, which are boomer companies to the startup world. there’s a big gap between the perceived state of tech by Silicon Valley and the rate of adoption of that tech by the rest of the world

there's a special place in hell for the restaurants on doordash who advertise buy 1 get 1 free, but when you click it's for a can of soda

junior VCs receive a lot of hate, but in my experience (as a former VC and now as a founder), they can be some of the most helpful & responsive people the good ones are willing to get their hands dirty and do more mundane things for portcos that partners don't have time to

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the AI outbound from VCs these days is horrendous. no clue why anyone thinks word vomiting website buzzwords is the way to get founders on the phone

I’m excited to share that Conversion has raised a $28M Series A led by Abstract to build the modern marketing automation platform. Four years ago, James Jiao and I started Conversion out of our UC Berkeley dorm room. Since then, we’ve launched, pivoted, and rebuilt the

Had an amazing time hosting some of New York’s finest engineers at the Cervo AI office last week. Chips were won (and lost), AI-themed cocktails flowed, and the competition did not disappoint. On a more serious note, we’re hiring our third founding engineer. One won an AI