Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak Twitter profile | Pikagi

Pikagi

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

@TurnerNovak

167,329

Followers

2,707

Following

2,981

Media

38,949

Statuses

investing in Pre-Seed + Seed rounds at @BananaCap_ podcasting @ThePeelPod writing @TheSplit_ (sign up below)

Ann Arbor, MI DM’s open

https://t.co/m1hCW0Uo5w

Joined April 2009

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

Pinned Tweet

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 hours

🎧🍌 New @ThePeelPod with @celinehalioua Celine is the Founder and CEO of @loyalfordogs , developing drugs to help dogs live longer, healthier lives. We talk all things longevity, getting FDA approval, building a biotech startup and how it’s different than software, creating a…

5

6

44

Last Seen Profiles

@goticaemandrake

@BroOralWorship

@nana_partizan

@gazzawilk

@DianaMonsters

@DrHarkrider

@DevilsDigest

@Dr_GeniusPHD

@Camgirl_Toolbox

@Eintracht_eV

@AytoBarbastro

@ZaaynabaK

@A3DGhost

@Dutch_Apex

@Descubre_China

@BasicAshHoe

@FHurst02

@CowokSukaJilmek

@BoomerMays

@DamienRactliffe

@gmraynor

@Daniela_Ferolla

@ibnsaj

@Daily_SWGames

@ATXsandman

@DrSquatchSoapCo

@RRKubaRR

@prakashBishnoee

@ChrisStirewalt

@OnsFeijenoord

@Varun_VBSurg

@SukumarSiva1

@hatoriisbaka

@_L171

@AFTERLIGHT_idol

@ChowdhuryTumul

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

this is the most insane account on TikTok

2K

26K

222K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

Smoothest shot I’ve ever seen

1K

24K

182K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

10 months

This may go down as one of the most significant moments in the history of Twitter

Tweet media one

249

938

25K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

VCs adding value to portfolio companies

240

2K

22K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

woah @georainbolt is so good he can do it blindfolded

110

2K

20K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

10 months

Always crazy to me that Japan's GDP has basically not grown for 30 years

Tweet media one

786

2K

20K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

11 months

Tim Apple after convincing 82% of Americans to spend five paychecks on a pair of ski goggles

325

2K

17K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

if your banker looks like this, your deposits are safe

Tweet media one

154

1K

15K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

this has got to be the best feature apple has ever made

Tweet media one

202

429

14K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

if Warren Buffett had invested his entire net worth in bitcoin in 2009, he‘d be worth $719 trillion today

889

1K

14K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

the only thing that can save Meta now is an Indian CEO

403

861

13K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

This is the baddest video on the internet

167

2K

13K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

why did today feel so familiar?

160

1K

8K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

if I ever get cancelled I just hope it’s on Business Insider so no one can read it

86

303

8K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

11 months

Battle Bots is the best sport, change my mind

354

720

8K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

6 months

64

806

7K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

At 35: - I was not a VC - Eating Chipotle once a month At 45: - I'm a VC - Eating Chipotle three times a day Lesson: - Never stop working towards your dreams.

219

215

7K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

This is the only job that’s safe from AI

193

801

7K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

my job is now 100% automated

Tweet media one

130

504

6K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

Apple: “we’re starting a bank” Microsoft: “we’re building our own chips” Google: “we’re re-architecting our entire business around AI” Facebook:

@Techmeme

Techmeme

1 year

Mark Zuckerberg announces Instagram will now allow up to five links in account bios, challenging Linktree, Beacons, and numerous other "link in bio" services ( @sarahintampa / TechCrunch)

15

27

284

93

536

6K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

if you had $86,400 in your bank account and someone stole $10 😤 would you be upset and throw the remaining $86,390 away? 🤔 No we have 86,400 seconds each day ⏳ don’t let 10 seconds of negativity ruin your day 🙌 🙌

144

685

6K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

web3 VCs showing LPs all the use cases for their new Q2 investments

167

641

6K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or a web3 founder how many users their product has

105

386

6K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

4 years

Zoom generated $252 million in free cash flow on revenue of $328 million in Q1, or a 77% free cash flow margin. Not a typo. Insane.

85

761

6K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

this escalated quickly

Tweet media one

51

201

6K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

11 months

someone with 32 followers and an AOL email address just convinced two billionaires to fight in a cage match

Tweet media one

119

371

6K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

@TrungTPhan Me watching where they go next

9

28

6K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

When Ronald McDonald lost his circus job in 1929, all the top VC’s (Sequoia, Benchmark, WeWork Ventures, Chamath) passed on his new “fast food” restaurant By 2020, his company was worth $169 billion and Ronald was the 6th richest person in the world Never give up on your dreams

Tweet media one

157

547

5K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

This guy is the next Warren Buffett

404

521

5K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

My lawyer just googled “what is the difference between pre and post money” right in front of me. I’m going to prison.

182

234

5K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

launching a new vc firm called 007 ventures: 0 due diligence 0 value add 7 deals per week

176

199

5K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

In Google’s early days, founders Sergei and Brian manually provided the links for each search query. They wrote down the most popular links on paper and alternated shifts so the other could sleep. Today, Google‘s the most valuable company in the world Do things that don’t scale

Tweet media one

101

397

4K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

Incredible pace of innovation coming from the banana space

62

422

4K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

the two biggest financial mistakes of my life: not buying Bitcoin in 2010 buying Bitcoin in 2021

122

185

4K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

Crazy that Yahoo could have bought Google for $1m (now worth $1.7t), FB for $1b ($941b), and used to own almost half of Alibaba ($574b).

181

390

4K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

Twitter has 400 million users. But 99% are not worth following. Here are 4 millions accounts you should follow (and why): 1/4,000,001 🧵 👇

140

146

4K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

I’ve eaten Chinese takeout every day for the past two weeks. Here are 14 lessons I’ve learned: 1/15 👇 🪡 🧵

106

237

4K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

men will pay $32 for a burrito on uber eats instead of learning how to cook

200

184

4K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

4 years

We just hired a Gen-Z VC candidate with zero experience. Here’s why: They showed up 10 minutes early to the 1st interview. By the 2nd, they sourced their 1st investment. On their 1st day, they secured us an allocation. In their 1st week, the company exited for $1 billion.

150

226

4K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

6 months

I can’t believe this plan didn’t work

Tweet media one

67

196

4K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

Meta just announced its doing a $40 billion stock buyback. With that $40 billion, it could have acquired Twitter, Snapchat, and Pinterest, and given $1 million to every American and still have money left over. Really makes you think.

236

150

4K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

When the Stripe brothers founded their company in 1985, they focused on men’s fashion. Realizing the TAM was small and they owned no striped clothes themselves, they got into payments in 2003 after Elon Musk tweeted asking how to accept Tesla orders online. Never stop iterating

Tweet media one

71

194

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

chipotle with this guy

Tweet media one

177

46

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

4 years

announcing TikTok startup pitch: duet this video pitching your startup 👉

141

249

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

Announcing @BananaCap_ Fund 1! 🍌🧢 is an internet-first, sector and geography agnostic tech investment firm investing from pre-seed to pre-IPO. Fund 1 initial check sizes are $25k-$300k. Thank you to all the founders and LP's that made this possible!

Tweet card media

Launching Banana Capital

Announcing Fund 1

482

144

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

9 months

getting an email from a European in August

Tweet media one

42

97

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

this JPEG of a tulip is selling for $3.2 million

Tweet media one

379

256

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

4 years

meanwhile on linkedin stories

53

457

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

@mrexits

Tweet media one

14

31

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

Elon is Twitter’s top creator and owns 9.2% of the company Living the web3 dream in web2

35

135

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

4 months

The last four years, explained

Tweet media one

26

528

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

“Google is so done” - Brian, 2nd year at GSB, prev stealth web3 founder and first 30,000 at Uber

30

86

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

The year is 2062: - Level 5 autonomy is “just a few years away” - Realtors are still taking 6% - Half the population is on a Forbes 30 Under 30 list - Web3 still has no users - Nikita has sold an anonymous teen polling app to every company in the S&P 500

75

100

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

This was one of the greatest ads of all-time

39

212

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

Galloway goes bearish on Robinhood and they immediately raise another $3.4 billion in capital... the man does not miss

64

87

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

One of my portfolio companies was struggling I knew it The founder knew it The market knew it It was time to dig in. I rolled up my sleeves. I gave him one tip - just one: Growth That was years ago Today? That company is the largest cloud computing provider in the world.

159

57

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

Satya Nadella’s M&A since taking over as CEO of Microsoft has been next-level: - GitHub for $7.5B - LinkedIn for $26B - SeaWorld for $5.4B - Papa John’s for $2.3B - The Spy Kids franchise for $1.8B What will he buy next?

125

120

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

VCs updating their bios like “early investor @GameStop ”

18

115

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

4 years

Stitch Fix is likely a $100b company within 10 years. Quick thread:

160

266

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

4 years

Total capital invested Quibi: $1.8 billion Female founders in 2020: $1.9 billion

83

611

3K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

email was savage in 1995

52

259

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

Founders after raising a $15m pre-seed

Tweet media one

39

109

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

how VCs think startups work

73

269

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

just saw a startups deck where the TAM was $100 trillion. I’m sorry but from here on out if it’s not a $100T TAM I am simply not interested

144

96

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

10 months

me when I find out everyone else is getting paid for their tweets

Tweet media one

42

117

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

After a 1977 trip where he discovered the moon, Neil Armstrong vowed to one day return But then: he settled down, married, and had a kid That kid? Brian Armstrong, founder of Coinbase, who has since taken millions of young visionaries to the moon The power of decentralization

Tweet media one

84

158

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

10 months

@MrAllenMiller GDP is basically an output of labor that can work and the efficiency of the labor Population has been flat (birth rates declining, low immigration, etc) and Japan's economy is essentially controlled by multi-generational family-run conglomerates so less efficiency gains via tech

31

52

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

Alibaba down 37% in four months since this prediction

@PivotPod

Pivot Podcast

3 years

. @profgalloway predicts that Alibaba’s stock is going to have a great year: “I think it’s at $300 by the end of the year.” Listen to Pivot:

Tweet media one

25

21

216

113

111

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 months

“Google is so done” - Brian, 2nd year at GSB + AI/LLM expert, prev stealth web3 founder and first 30,000 at Uber

66

113

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

everyone gave me shit for being in 80% cash for almost a year... jokes on you now.

164

35

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

10 months

Zuck launched the fastest growing product of all time last night and his stock was down today

Tweet media one

290

86

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

After arriving late to his MBA class in 1972, Elon Musk copied from the blackboard three problems thinking they were homework, and then solved them They were actually the three most difficult to execute business models of all time, which became PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX Legend

Tweet media one

179

131

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

Tweet media one

39

23

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

With the new views feature, I've noticed that although I have 143k followers, most of you forget to click "like". I'm not sure if this is intentional or you're forgetting to "like". Either way, I've compiled a spreadsheet of you that have "forgotten" to like my recent tweets.

Tweet media one

65

71

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

lord give me the confidence of a VC on Twitter making 11 threads per day about how to be a VC.

23

83

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

8 years ago, a founder accidentally emailed me (typo) and we played along. We met up and I agreed to lead the Seed round. 2 years later, I led the Series A and joined the board. 5 years later, Amazon copied their product and I lost my entire investment in a week. This isn't us.

Tweet media one

39

80

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

5 months

When you use McKinsey to add AI to your product

Tweet media one

20

85

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

the entire a16z partnership anytime a new social app drops

44

82

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

there's only one rule in venture capital...

Tweet media one

45

178

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

A friend was struggling to raise money for his startup. I gave two small pieces of advice: 1) Switch to a .ai domain 2) Mention AI on each slide of the deck Less than a week later, he had 13 term sheets. AI is changing the world.

87

171

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

so many celebs getting into VC right now

75

97

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

a lot of people wondering why VCs have picked up investment activity in LatAm - this is why

Tweet media one

95

97

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

Indian weddings: two days of travel to a remote village, five days of events and ceremonies at intimate cultural venues featuring handmade colorful outfits, extravagant gifts, horse rides, and four course meals featuring local cuisine American weddings:

Tweet media one

78

92

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

Elon has officially acquired Twitter. 1) He now owns what is arguably the most influential media company in the world 2) It benefits all his other businesses 3) He'll use it to take on ByteDance 4) This would be impossible as a public company He wins no matter what. Here's why:

98

234

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

8 months

VCs in the trenches with founders

Tweet media one

48

107

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

looking forward to doing a deal together

111

85

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

building web3 solutions for problems that don’t exist

56

238

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

jeff bezos taking remote work a little too seriously

30

188

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

My uber driver just spent five minutes telling me about his love of poker, said he’s “a degenerate gambler”. I asked him if he’s ever tried crypto currencies, he said he’s never heard of them. We’re still early.

52

45

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

my accountant just sent me the P&L for my retirement account

Tweet media one

106

132

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

a lot of people ask how I raised my first $10m VC fund. Its been a long road, but in summary: 1) built an audience and public track record online 2) met and helped founders for free 3) sent deal flow to VCs 4) got $10m from my dad Follow for more tips on breaking in to VC

93

105

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

1 year

Pre-seed investors watching the founder find product market fit

105

157

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

Founders, looking to improve your startup? Here's one simple tip: Add rocket emojis to your investor updates "We grew 31% last month" "We grew 31% last month 🚀🚀" First one: boring, uninspiring Second: exciting, inspiring, motivates team, saves VC's from having to type them

96

128

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

2 years

VCs explaining new web3 investments in their Q4 LP update

86

269

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

founders, choose your investors wisely

Tweet media one

55

46

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

VC’s when you ask them to be helpful

34

99

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

broke: tomato hustle woke: coconut hustle

42

84

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

4 years

my top 5 chamath IPO SPAC’s

100

111

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

This wallet bought roughly $8,000 of $SHIB last August. It's now worth $5.7 billion. From $8,000 to $5.7 billion in roughly 400 days. This investor figured out a way to do less diligence than a VC and still outperformed them all.

Tweet media one

99

180

2K

@TurnerNovak

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

3 years

if you keep refreshing the a16z team page, eventually your name will show up

30

44

2K