Congrats Darian Shirazi on a job well done! This is why we venture

last week, I got to meet two founders in real life, after having backed each of their company's in 2021 over Zooms we didn't miss a beat when we met up IRL they were every bit as awesome in real life as they were over Zoom!

“I’m going to be the most protested Mayor of the City of New York” - Mayor Eric Adams at Innovation Summit

“Time is the secret strategy”

This is the best opportunity in VC now and great companies are opting for this strategy!

why is this being called a liquidity crisis if it involves customer funds?

AI as a stand alone platform will be hard to scale my friend Alex Agus coined embedded AI last week Over time, customers will come to expect AI to be within whatever platform they are used to using who is building embedded AI for the enterprise?

Yes! All startups should be paying attention to this

Millions of Israelis and Jews around the world are in pain. Many are in mourning, or wracked with anxiety over loved ones who have gone missing and are presumed dead or kidnapped by Hamas. Now is the time to check in on your Jewish and Israeli friends, neighbors, colleagues.

The one who has not mustered the courage to say a word is Paul Graham

This is Ariel Zohar. Today he stood alone, the only one left, and buried his entire family that was executed by terrorists in Kibbutz Nahal Oz. His mother Yasmin, his father Yaniv, and his sisters Tchelet and Keshet. Ariel, not yet 13, went for a jog that morning and was saved

"10% of the United States Senate is in Israel," says Sen. Lindsey Graham at a press conference in Tel Aviv. "If I had a bigger plane they'd probably all be here." (Amy Spiro)

“Generations dreamed to arrive to Jerusalem and we have the honor to protect her” -Sergeant Rose Lubin, a lone soldier in the IDF’s Magav Border Patrol addressing an Friends of the IDF gala in her hometown of Atlanta in May. Today, she made the ultimate sacrifice when was stabbed to death by

“Is the fund manager nice?” - Michael Kim Michael Kim, Cendana Capital, when asked what he looks for in an early stage fund manager

The process of Ideation is about finding bearish feedback - Isaac Hasson, Vine Ventures

My precious daughters were returned to me yesterday, a moment etched forever in my memory. Thank you for making it happen.

Yarden Roman - a heroic mother - is coming home. On Oct 7, Yarden, her husband, Alon, and their three-year-old daughter Geffen were forced into a car by four Hamas terrorists. As the car raced toward Gaza, they caught sight of an IDF tank. took the chance, jumped out and ran.

remember why there is a war in Gaza

You don’t get to speak for the rest of us, and the squad aren’t the only members of Congress who have experienced sexual violence. Stop playing the victim. Hamas is using rape as a weapon of war and it’s wrong. For God's sake, call it out!

Netanyahu at his best