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Jeremy Liew

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4 years

I came to the US on an h1b visa. I’d like to think I’ve been a net positive for the country. RT if you or a family member are also an immigrant who has been net positive for the US

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This thread is an amazing demonstration of @elonmusk brilliant mind but could the conversation have happened better over I dunno a phone?

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@drewsanocki better clenched than loose

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When a consumer market is new, distribution wins. As consumer become educated, product wins. When products reach parity, brand wins.

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6 years

Podcasting in China is a $4-7B industry, mostly subscriptions. Podcasting in the US is a $300M industry, mostly advertising

FOMO in China is a $7 billion industry - Marketplace

A government-backed study says the country's internet users are worried about missing out on online knowledge and are willing to pay for educational podcasts.

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"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, sacrifice & most of all, love of what you are doing." - Pele

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5 years

1/32 Mary Meeker’s 2019 internet trends report deck is always a must read on consumer internet, SaaS, and the general economy. I made some notes on it as I always do. It’s the 31 pages of the 300+ page report that are most relevant to me. Here they come…

Internet Trends 2019

Mary Meeker, June 11 @ Code 2019

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At a startup, title is the cheapest form of compensation.

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@AmyChanta Same. It's why we send our kids to a chinese immersion school; we can't teach them and we want them to know how to speak since we never got the opportunity to (and opted out for the same reasons you did truth be told)

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Don't raise seed to hire a CTO. Your ability to recruit a tech cofounder is a test of your entrepreneurialism & the quality of your idea.

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4 years

In checkout line at Safeway: Me (to person standing right behind me): Excuse me, would you mind moving further away Her: Why? I'm not sick! Me: Maybe I am. That's the point Her: <Moves to another line>

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. @Blockchain added 120k+ new users yesterday (that’s more than the population of Berkeley!) and sent 6X Venmo's transaction volume. This #bitcoin thing. I thinks it’s going to be big...

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Thank you to my friends on twitter who have spoken up against the violence against Asians. I am paying attention to who cares and who does not.

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4 years

A decade ago I was doing the same job at the same firm, living in the same house and married to the same woman as today. I do have a new car though. So that’s progress!

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I have no respect for men who bully women, whether those women are journalists for the NY Times or heads of state of allied countries. None.

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7 years

Consumer tech is now popular culture. And popular culture in the US is largely created in NY and LA, not Silicon Valley.

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9 years

A 17 year old was impersonating @Beme customer service in Twitter. So they hired him. http://t.co/yJz2j8oiYN

Beme Hires Teen Behind Unsanctioned Customer Service Twitter Account

Video startup Beme was surprised to find an unknown person running an unsanctioned customer service Twitter account on its behalf. Four weeks later, the rogue tweeter is now in the company’s employ.

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6 years

At least four women promoted or starting in VC announced today; @natluu at @lightspeedvp , @saranormous at @GreylockVC , @LolitaTaub at @Backstage_Cap and @strandby at @LererHippeau #thefutureisfemale

Welcoming Natalie Luu as an Investing Partner at Lightspeed.

We are thrilled today to welcome Natalie Luu to the investing team at Lightspeed as a Partner. I first met Natalie at an annual dinner…

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5 years

Was telling an entrepreneur today that VCs aren't stupid, but we are ignorant. We don't understand the nuances of your business as well as you do, but we can grasp the key things we need to believe to invest. So if we ask the wrong question to that end, help us ask the right ones

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Great news for the startup ecosystem. The Biden administration has effectively created a Startup Entrepreneur Visa. Thanks to the @nvca for advocating for this program under the leadership of @BarryEggers

DHS Moves to Preserve Obama Program for Foreign Entrepreneurs

The Department of Homeland Security is withdrawing a 2018 proposed rule that would have ended a program allowing international entrepreneurs into the country to start businesses and create jobs.

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4 years

My 80 yo father in law who has been a US citizen for decades was walking near our house yesterday when a middle aged white man pulled over to tell him “Go back to your place. You don’t belong here. You’re not wanted here”. So that’s making America great again.

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6% to 16% ecomm market share took 10 years 16% to 27% took 2 months It won't all be going back post quarantine. New habits are getting established

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10 years vs. 8 weeks

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I learned something new over quarantine. First ring muscle up ever today! Today is a good day!

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1/ Why do people look at LTV/CAC? It informs eventual steady state profitability. LTV = cumulative contribution margin (often over 3 years) CAC = fully loaded customer acquisition cost (media + other marketing costs) If LTV<CAC you're losing money on each customer. (thread)

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Good advice for how to deal with a setback: "I decided I can’t pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it." - Serena Williams

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In most meetings, no one wants to take notes/minutes. They don't realize that the person who controls the pen dictates what happened.

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1/10 Today @Affirm is going public. It’s the next step in the company’s journey and the culmination of years of hard work from @mlevchin and team. I’ve been lucky to get a front row seat on that journey.

Affirm’s Journey from Startup to IPO

Today Affirm is going public. It’s the next step in the company’s journey, and the culmination of many years of hard work.

link.medium.com

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If you want to know what it's like to raise VC, watch @PlanetoftheApps to find out. We made real investments.

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Today is 15 years at @lightspeedvp ! Am grateful to @ravi_lsvp @BarryEggers @peterlsvp & Chris for giving me the opportunity, and to my teammates @Nik_Quinn @ataussig @janamal @AshleyBrasier & @mercebent for building a consumer franchise. We're just getting started!

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This should be fine.

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6 years

The conclusion of a study trying to correlate IQ with success: “High but not the highest intelligence, combined with the greatest degree of persistence, will achieve greater eminence than the highest degree of intelligence with somewhat less persistence.”

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10 years ago kids saw their 1st car as the vehicle for freedom and independence. Today it is their 1st smartphone. Independence at 10 not 16

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"If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children." - Confucius

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Incredibly responsible to acknowledge when they couldn’t see a path and return capital to investors and time to the team. Would be much worse for all concerned to push a rock uphill without hope of reaching the top until it rolled back down and crushed the company.

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Asian hotels do breakfast buffet way better than American hotels

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Consumer apps are now more part of pop culture than technology, and LA has always been one of the centers of pop culture in the US. Silicon Valley has never been a center of pop culture for anything.

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underrated fact ---> the two most important + high-growth social media companies are Snap and Tik Tok, both of which have their US headquarters in LA.

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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

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Twelve years at @LightspeedVP today. I love my job!

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"A CEO has 50 plates spinning at a time and her job is to decide which 10 to keep spinning and which 40 to let drop. Execs are either plate adders or plate removers. Plate adders have to go" - @cquarles (CEO @Corelsoftware ; Former CEO @OpenTable , Former SVP-GM @Disney )

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“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” -Pablo Picasso True not just in art, but product management, investing etc One error I see is early-career people disregarding rules altogether. The other, in mid-career, is overly applying rules once learned.

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I’m an immigrant. Came here in 1996. Became a US citizen in 2016. Voted in my second election today.

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The awesome story of how Whitney Wolfe Herd built @Bumble to $100M in revenue in 3 years in Texas. 70 employees, 85% female.

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5 years

We’d all like to think that the best product wins. But it often does not. And when it does not, the reason is usually a larger competitor's networks effects and ability to fast follow:

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Good thread from Josh on reconciling the valuation of @joinClubhouse : -Series A: 4/20 ~1k DAU, $100M pre -Series B: 1/20 ~1M DAU, $1B pre vs @Snapchat at same rounds: -Seed: 4/12 90k DAU, $4.25M pre -Series A: 12/12 3M DAU, $61M pre -Series B: 6/13 19M DAU, $800M pre

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Clubhouse is certainly having a week. With people like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Vlad Tenev having big public conversation. All thanks to @sriramk and moreso @aarthir . I have gotten a lot of questions about it’s $1B valuation and if it is really “worth it” so fast?

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Founders: What criteria would you use to rate the quality of a meeting with a VC? (e.g How respectful were they? How helpful were they? How well did they understand your company? What else?)

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Evan Spiegel on why @Snapchat doesn’t “move fast and break things”

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Even the biggest companies can only focus on 3-5 things at a time. It's hard to compete head to head with FAANG's A team. It isn't so hard to compete against their C team. If what you're doing isn't a top priority to them, they're beatable

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@jrichlive 1. I don’t need to drink to fit in 2. I can’t have it all. Work, family, fitness, hobbies and sleep are all competing in a zero sum game. 3. It’s better to have other people feel smart than to have them feel that you are smart

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Big couple of days for @lightspeedvp crypto portfolio! Announced investments in @ParallelFi & @OffchainLabs (arbitrum) as well as acquisition of portfolio co @ledgerx by portfolio co @FTX_Official . And so much else going on across the portfolio @amytongwu @ravi_lsvp

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1/7 We deserve more women in tech as founders, as funders, as early employees, as engineers and leaders. Otherwise, terrific talent and potential is not fully realized.

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3 years

The goal of a pitch deck is not to educate an investor on your business. It is to secure a second meeting

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The #1 fundraising mistake I see founders make is treating the pitch deck as a vehicle for the delivery of facts, when in fact it is a vehicle for the delivery of emotions.

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I’m just finishing two weeks of intermittent feasting. Benefits include a renewed appreciation of tropical fruit, a happy belly, general well-being and an excuse to buy new clothes.

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Success in Venture Capital ultimately comes down to getting an entrepreneur to pick you. And getting lucky. Here are my thoughts on how to be a good investor:

Success in Venture Capital comes down to getting an entrepreneur to pick you.

And getting lucky

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In the US we have real messaging app fragmentation. But we largely all know when to text, when to Snap and when to DM. We tried to make this implicit decision more explicit here.

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@quantumtemporis Invent a time machine. Go by ordinary means from red to blue. Use time machine to be on time for the meeting.

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1/ Many are trying to reconcile the "We're open for business" message from VCs with a sense that deal flow is slowing down. I know why my intent and my behavior is divergent; perhaps it applies to others also (thread)

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Many successful entrepreneurs start a company because they have a compelling passion about a problem that they want to solve. Few successful entrepreneurs find a problem that they want to solve because they have a compelling passion to start a company.

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@lightspeedvp @Affirm @Honest My partners at @lightspeedvp are extraordinary with exciting portfolio companies incl. @BookCameo @outschool @calm @splitgate @faire_wholesale . I'm glad to continue as a partner at Lightspeed in my new role, and support their success and that of our firm and portfolio companies!

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Earlier this year, an Indian company set the world record for most viewers for an OTT video stream. 10m concurrent viewers, 2-5x more than any us stream. Here’s what we can learn from that:

The US internet industry can learn a lot from Indian cricket

Ten plus years ago, when the Chinese internet was getting off the ground, many Chinese internet companies were clones of US companies. QQ…

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First rule of introductions: Double opt in. Second rule of introductions: Make it easy by providing a Clean Email, exactly as outlined by DK below:

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1/ I love to connect people when it's a mutually beneficial intro, but I always request that the asker send me a "Clean Email" so that I can clear the intro with the prospective connection. What is a Clean Email ™ 🧵👇

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Throwback Thursday. That's me on the right from about 1978. Apparently I've been wearing fancy pants for a very long time!

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The only difference between a rut and a groove is how much you like being there

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> @affirm provides BNPL to @Shopify customers @affirm provides BNPL to @walmart customers Now @affirm provides BNPL to @amazon customers So that's something.

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An exciting step forward as we expand our network — we’re partnering with @Amazon to deliver @Affirm ’s flexibility and transparency to select customers at checkout in the U.S.

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If turkey was tasty (like duck for example) you would not need gravy, cranberry sauce, stuffing or anything else to make it edible.

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"People who are right a lot of the time often change their minds. It’s perfectly healthy to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today.” - @JeffBezos

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Absolutely this! Like Picasso said, learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist. Before you learn the rules you say yes too often. When you only apply the rules you don't say yes enough. But when you understand the why behind the rules you get your yes back.

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One thing I was taught as a young VC is that new investors want to say yes to new investments too often. So you get more selective and say yes less often over time. I think there's a second wave where you find your groove and want to say yes more often again based on experience.

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When given the choice between fixing something that is broken and amplifying something that is working, always choose the later. Even if it means with living with the bug

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Really good analogy describing how @Twitter works from @jonnysun from last weeks @nytimes article:

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One upside of this terrible time; I now get to eat dinner with my family every night

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How to Build a Breakout Brand = Organic Strategies + Paid Campaigns. If you’re launching a brand today, you’ll have a big leg up by utilizing one of these organic channels: an owned content channel, organic social, or real-world word-of-mouth:

How to Build a Breakout Brand

Most new brands today will choose to launch online. Online, it’s easier to test and iterate to find the sweet spot in each of the 5 Ps…

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Over the past few years 75% of @lightspeedvp consumer investments have been outside the bay area.

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Silicon Valley is changing “This dispersion of startups embodies a deep irony. The technology industry, which has disrupted nearly all other sectors, is disrupting itself.” #RiseOfRest

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If you work at a company where I am a board member and you believe that you have been discriminated against at work due to your race or gender, you can email me at jeremy @lsvp .com and I will ensure that it is looked into

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Potentially not a coincidence: "Approximately 31% of companies included in the global unicorn club are valued at exactly $1B." @CBinsights

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Crypto today

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Everyone looks like a genius in a bull market. Stay humble.

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. @ravi_lsvp has been an investor in the following 4 multi billion exits in the last 18 months: @zscaler (only early stage investor), @nutanix (first investor), @MuleSoft (largest investor) , @AppDynamics (first investor). I’m glad to be his partner at @lightspeedvp

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Congratulations to the @zscaler team on their initial public offering today. My thoughts on the path to IPO: cc @lightspeedvp

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1/19 @PiperJaffrayCo ’s Fall 2019 #GenZ Insights Project is a useful read on teen consumer trends. If you can’t access it I made some notes for you:

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1/19 Great article in @theeconomist - explains that Entertainment is what drives internet use for the next 1bn users. (paywalled) some highlights below:

How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use

Movies, not grain prices, are bringing the poor world online

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How can a DNVB increase LTV? - Increase prices (uncommon) - Increase contribution margin (economies of scale) - SKU proliferation (the most proactive approach) Am I missing any? cc: @kirstenagreen @Nik_Quinn @dunn @rebeccak46

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As I spend more time as a VC I get better telling good from bad but I don’t get better telling great from terrible 👁 👄 👁

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I spent a year selling websites door to door to local businesses for @Citysearch in 1997 and it taught me as much as @StanfordGSB

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Something that they don’t teach you in elite business schools — how to actually sell things.

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. @FortniteGame entered popular culture so quickly because it shares many of the viral characteristics of social networks. Here are ten ways the game echoes social software:

Ten ways Fortnite is like a social network

Social media has incorporated many aspects of gamification. Now games are taking on aspects of social media.

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This is madness

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New tonight — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s adopted hometown of San Francisco on Tuesday formally condemned the naming of a major hospital after him and his wife, the latest flashpoint in the debate over the proper role for billionaire philanthropy.

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How to build an MVP http://t.co/sBlb3Oi8gl

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Why @jessicaalba started The @Honest Company; video of interview at the #Alibaba global conference http://t.co/uExswyh18a

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Diversity means including people from a range of different social & ethnic backgrounds & of different genders, sexual orientations, etc. Individual people can't be diverse Groups of people can be diverse Please don't describe a person as diverse when you mean "not a white man"

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Three ways to ask the same question when investing at an early stage: “Why Now?” - @sequoia “What’s the unique insight?” - @lightspeedvp “Revisit fundamental assumptions and check the time stamp” - @eladgil

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A new smartphone app needs >25% DAU/MAU and >3 sessions/day to have shot to displace an existing homescreen app. >>10k+ DAU for significance

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I was the first investor in @blader ’s first company (serious business!) & can vouch for the fact that he could not read an income statement. It does not surprise me that over 12 years he still can’t, and to avoid doing so he is literally going to start a company

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12 years ago, I started my first company. I didn’t know how to read an income statement. 12 years later, I was running @sandboxvr . I still barely knew how to read an income statement. Financials make me feel stupid, and I know I’m not alone in feeling this way …

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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb http://t.co/lAUdfh10pH

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If you're an entrepreneur you should watch @planetoftheapps for its window onto pitch meetings @techcrunch

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I spent my first Independence Day as an H1B immigrant, in 1996. I finally became a citizen in 2016, to vote. I've learned that on the 4th we celebrate freedom. Yet we are not yet free of systemic racism. Injustice against one of us is injustice against #allofus . #BLM

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“ @Fortnite is not a game they play... it’s a place they go with friends... It’s fulfilling the same development role as those illicit teen spaces from the 1970s and ’80s — those dodgy youth clubs, arcades, and video stores that we discovered unchaperoned.”

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Of the four new social messaging companies that @alexheath identifies as ones to watch in @theinformation ( @ttylapp , @trysquadapp , @yoloapp and Cocoon), three use @snapchat developer platform for user auth and the other one hasn't launched yet.

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Jeremy Liew

@jeremysliew

5 years

. @wsj has great stats on ⁦ @tiktok_us ⁩. Engagement is strong -8 sessions and 45+min per day. $1b+ in annual revenue. Surprisingly, $1b+ in marketing spend. We haven’t seen a US social media winner spend meaningfully for customer acquisition before.

TikTok’s Videos Are Goofy. Its Strategy to Dominate Social Media Is Serious.

China’s first big hit in the U.S. uses an advanced algorithm to personalize its addictive video-sharing app, and parent Bytedance’s enormous ad spending on Snap, Facebook and Instagram aims to hook...

www.wsj.com

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Jeremy Liew

@jeremysliew

4 years

Founders, ref check your investors

sarah guo // conviction

@saranormous

4 years

Here’s a strong case for not shotgun-marrying a board member with a 2-day process. Brutal, but 1/100th brutal as the founders and other board members enduring this guy for years

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Jeremy Liew

@jeremysliew

5 years

In @forbes list of 30 Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2019, three have more revenue than equity raised: @Rothys : Raised $42M, 2018E Rev, $140M @truepill_rx : Raised $13M, 2018E Rev: $48M @Davesavesyou : Raised $13M, 2018E Rev, $19M

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Jeremy Liew

@jeremysliew

4 years

$20bn ( @instagram revenue in 2019) > $15bn ( @youtube revenue in 2019). Later start and much steeper ramp of monetization

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Jeremy Liew

@jeremysliew

2 years

$10B+ in returns across 9 IPOs. @roelofbotha is one of the all time great venture capitalists

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Jeremy Liew

@jeremysliew

6 years

How did @Amazon build 100+ private label brands in <10 years? "About 70% of the searches done on Amazon’s are for generic goods. That means consumers are typing in “men’s underwear” or “running shoes” rather than asking, specifically, for Hanes or Nike."

How Amazon Steers Shoppers to Its Own Products (Published 2018)

The company now has roughly 100 private label brands for sale, but few of those are sold under the Amazon brand.

www.nytimes.com

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Jeremy Liew

@jeremysliew

3 years

Entrepreneurs, write a will. When Colin Kroll died he didn't have one. Same with Tony Hsieh. It might feel morbid, and hopefully will be irrelevant, but you should give thought to who inherits your money and just as important, your stock and your board seat.

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