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Jordi Hays

@jordihays

9 months

1/ Excited to share that @capitalxyz is joining @rhobusiness 🎉

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2 years

Generative AI this, generative AI that, how about you generate some revenue

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Elizabeth Holmes reading TechCrunch today

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Most men would be better off spending their money on a Porsche 911 than on therapy

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what opinion will you defend like this?

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VC: “sorry I can’t today, my calendar is packed" The calendar:

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“Worst environment I’ve seen for raising venture capital in my entire career” - Jake, 19, Gen Z VC since 2021

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VCs in 2021

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Pretty insane fact: 20% of all VC dollars raised in 2021 went to founder dinners 😮😮😮

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What bear market

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2 years

If I were a VC I would simply invest in a pre-seed startup that exits for $20B

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1 year

Just saw the chainsmokers getting off a commercial flight The bear market is officially here

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2 years

VC backed founders finding out their startup actually has to make money

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One of the biggest mistakes I see venture-backed founders make is not building billion-dollar businesses

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Startups building their own tech stack

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2 years

Tired: Sending someone a cold email asking to meet Wired: Guessing someone's Calendly link and booking time without asking Unhinged: Guessing someone's email and using it to book a random time in your own Calendly

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2 years

Introducing Capital ( @capitalxyz ) Founders can now raise, hold, spend, and send funds - all in one place.

Modern companies are built on Capital

Raise, hold, spend, and send funds — all in one place.

capital.xyz

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Twitter glorifies the founder path, but there’s nothing wrong with earning a $1M annual salary working for your dad’s venture fund

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they don’t make em like they used to

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What is this? A startup for ants?

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Me adding value as an angel investor

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Day 5 of becoming a founder

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VCs trying to explain their investment thesis

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2 years

VCs always invest with conviction

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Jordi Hays

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1 year

Founders — What’s an acceptable end of year tip for your VCs? I usually tip 10-15% depending on how helpful they‘ve been, with a 5% bonus for retweeting me often

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2 years

I don’t care what you’re building, if you have the letters “A” and “I” in your deck invite me to your round on Capital and I’ll invest $50k

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Shitting on Galloway is played out 90% of people that rag on him aren't capable of original thinking and wouldn't dare make a public prediction of their own Roasting someone for being wrong here and there while having zero skin in the game is just sad I'm long Prof G

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1 year

Never ask: - A woman her age - A man his salary - A startup founder "how are you holding up"

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2 years

There are only 5 ways to help a founder: 1. Introduce them to customers 2. Introduce them to candidates 3. Introduce them to investors 4. Give them access to your Gulfstream G700 5. Amplify their company on Twitter All other "valued add" is just glorified therapy

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2 years

Given the popularity of my fundraising guide, a few junior VCs were in my DMs asking for advice too. Here’s the advice I gave them:

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2 years

$33B of VC dollars were invested in crypto last year 🚀 A breakdown of how that was spent: - 30% team retreats in Puerto Rico - 20% crypto conferences and parties - 20% anchor treasury collapse - 15% airdrops - 10% actively managed NFT “investing” - 5% on team and product

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Adam Neumann pitching his new real estate co

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2 years

In 38 days we’ll make an announcement that will change @PartyRound forever For now, I thought I'd share the deck that @sarahchase and I used to raise our preseed in May of 2021, in case it'd be helpful to anyone who's thinking about raising their first round:

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Jordi Hays

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Dana White ( @danawhite ) just posted a video talking about his recent experience doing an 86 hour water fast His results are incredible, but to anyone who has experimented with 72+ hour fasts, the results are actually nothing out of the ordinary I’ve been fasting for nearly a…

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2 years

As the CEO of @PartyRound I get asked about fundraising a LOT, so I decided to make a quick guide for anyone thinking about starting a raise:

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Coinbase’s new documentary on the business & Brian Armstrong is such a missed opportunity Why make an incredible piece of content about your co then charge your fans and users to watch it? Shows a deep misunderstanding of the internet and how content should be used today

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2 years

Founders that previously built a successful agency business are usually killers 🔪 Here's why:

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POV: You're a founder at LA Tech Week and just mentioned that you're bootstrapping

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Jordi Hays

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6 months

Just got asked to invest in a startup making the “first” male birth control that is non-hormonal, long lasting, and reversible Passing because NFTs already exist, have the same effect, and are basically free

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2 years

Excited to finally announce our seed (and pre-seed) here @PartyRound led by @a16z 🎉

TechCrunch

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Party Round raises $7M to make the process of raising capital less awful by @alex

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Jordi Hays

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2 years

A VC just texted me this

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2 years

To the VCs reaching out to pre-empt my son’s round: Please give him space. He’s heads down building and he’s only one month old

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Jordi Hays

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1 year

Reminder: Depositing $1,000,000 into a business checking account on @capitalxyz will earn you $40,000 over 12 months Depositing the same amount into @chase will earn you... $100 Your choice founder 🫡

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Jordi Hays

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2 years

Founders if you’re raising a round right now, I would just take the week off. The most successful VCs aren’t answering emails this week, they are at Burning Man.

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Jordi Hays

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2 years

Raising capital? Let’s get you some meetings right now Reply with your: - favorite VC - desired valuation - industry - traction* - revenue* *optional

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people hate how little it takes to make a founder happy - 75MM pre-seed valuation - 10 users - 3 chiefs of staff - 1 helpful VC

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No VC has all three: - Value add - Fashion sense - A good reputation

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2 years

I invested in 4 new startups this month: 1. Consumer social 2. Dating app 3. Cross-chain crypto payments 4. Ecomm Enablement The market may not be as “hot” as it was last year, but there’s no shortage of incredible founders building their vision of the future

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Tiktok is giving startups the same opportunity that Facebook did nearly 10 years ago Apps like @oopsfinance & @bopdropofficial are getting hundreds of thousands of downloads and climbing the AppStore charts without spending a single dollar on paid ads Incredible to witness

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Jordi Hays

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3 years

Common Projects are just LA Allbirds Silicon Beach lore says that if you wear these for long enough a creator economy startup will form around you

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Founders often ask me where I find my motivation, here’s the secret: When fundraising, I intentionally botch pitches with VCs just so they pass. Every pass inspires me to grind harder.

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I’m organizing a dinner for the worst VCs in the industry, who should I invite

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If you're an early-stage founder and your Calendly looks like this I don't care what you're building just send me an invite on Party Round and I'll invest

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Jordi Hays

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. @partyround retreat in 2 weeks and there's 1 extra bedroom 🎉 If you're a product or brand designer, full-stack or iOS or platform eng, or content marketer and you're ready to make a move: 1) Shoot me a DM 2) We'll run a 7d hiring process 3) If it's a fit, we'll fly you out

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Jordi Hays

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2 years

Up next: @jet_dao (✈️,✈️) A DAO to purchase and maintain a jet that flies back and forth from LA to NYC. WAGBAJ

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Hot take: If the founder sleeps more than 30 minutes a night, the startup won’t get off the ground.

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Hot take: If the founder doesn’t work on Sundays, the startup won’t get off the ground.

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“As investors, we have a very specific thesis — we invest exclusively at the intersection of the creator economy, web3, American Dynamism, and Generative AI”

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I can tell within 10 seconds of looking at a VCs portfolio how much seed oil they consume in their diet

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VC: “I have a diversified portfolio” The portfolio:

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VCs after sending a competitors' website to one of their portfolio founders

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How It Started How It's Going

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3 years

If you're a VC and didn't get an NFT today, here's a JPG It's basically the same thing

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1 year

My grandmother Forbes 🤝 People that call me Jordan

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Jordi Hays

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2 years

Mix @yugalabs + @PartyRound and you get one of the most iconic rounds of all time 🎉 Congrats to @BoredApeYC , @ChrisLyons , @guyoseary , and an incredible group of investors including @SHAQ , @serenawilliams , @1GunnaGunna , @3LAU & more. LFG

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Jordi Hays

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2 years

Founders can now raise capital: - From anyone around the world - Instantly - For free - 24/7 (weekends included) Simple feature, deceptively powerful 🎉

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@capitalxyz

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Starting today, founders on Party Round can raise in USDC

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Jordi Hays

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2 years

If you were wondering why the government stops you from investing in startups but supports gambling on lottery tickets, here’s why:

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VCs: “During downturns, it’s best to become profitable” 💬 132k ♻️ 324k ❤️ 598k

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Many of the sharpest and most ambitious ~20 year olds I know are going to @davefontenot and @lucy_guo ’s Hack Week Miami has been meme’d into reality and it’s not just for crypto maxis and VCs There’s a palpable level of excitement and optimism there and it’s infectious

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Jordi Hays

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Packy just dropped 6k words on @capitalxyz & how we got here. He believed in us when we were just 7 slides in a deck & has had a front row seat ever since. Here's our story:

Capital & Taste

Meet the Company Formerly Known as Party Round

www.notboring.co

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1 year

Why launching more often is a competitive advantage

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4 months

Guys our Uber driver is driving a Rolls Royce, dressed as his favorite NFT, and is pitching us various shitcoins We’re actually so back

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If I was a college student interested in startups I would get really good at deck design With current state of design tools and gen ai all you need is good taste and commitment to learn and you’re in business Can easily make $1,000/deck and build relationships at the same time

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Jordi Hays

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3 years

Excited to finally share @partyround with the world 🎉 Will save a thread for another day, for now if you want to join our world-class team (including the infamous @joshqharris ), check out some of our open roles or shoot me a dm 👇

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Since you asked, this is @PartyRound . We're building better tools for founders, starting with an automated fundraising tool. Generate & send docs, collect signatures, and receive funds, automating your raise from open to close.

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Founder: “Wow this VC spent 3 minutes on my last slide in Docsend. They must be really interested!” VC: Spent 30 seconds on the deck, switched chrome tabs and left the docsend open

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Jordi Hays

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2 years

Please help this tweet is going to bankrupt me

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Jordi Hays

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3 years

This was the insight that led @sarahchase and me to start @PartyRound Founders have made it easy to invest in every other asset class: NFTs, trading cards, wine, art, sneakers, etc It's about time we made it easy to invest in our own 🎉

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It is bad for society that it's easier to invest millions of dollars into an NFT than a startup.

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SVB is quickly becoming irrelevant to modern founders. Our data @PartyRound shows they have ~5% of the pre-seed/seed banking market. Their current market cap sits at 24B. I wouldn’t bank on that number increasing over the next decade.

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Jordi Hays

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2 years

Alternatively, you can join @partyround and work on this problem at an early stage co Plus you can still work with someone named @brianarmstrong DM me 🎉

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If you're interested in building this, come send us a note: 🙏

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@sama If only a small group of passionate people spent hundreds of hours a week on this problem

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Sending @capitalxyz hats to every founder that funds their account this week 🎉

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NextRound: Hey can I copy your homework? Party Round: Sure just change a few things so it’s not obvious NextRound: ok thanks

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3 years

Beyond excited to announce that @wowbestie is our first BIGTECH™ Fellow 🎉

A startup paid a Facebook product designer $50,000 to quit her job and launch her own crypto-lite...

Party Round is giving a Facebook product designer $50,000 to quit her job and build a crypto-focused financial-literacy platform.

www.businessinsider.com

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There’s less competition in web3 than you’d think Mostly because ~80% of the people that should be building are still obsessed with the floor price of the latest PFP project 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️

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VCs trying to get into a hot round

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Thrilled to announce that @tj_cages is joining @PartyRound 🎉 Tyler built us a drop while interviewing & it was so good that I had to share it. Choose a founder & collect investors on your cap table, Pokémon style

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Happy birthday to the 🐐 @iankar_

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VC Analysts after their first trip to Tulum

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Drop 002 — Helpful VCs Investors have 5 hours to verify and claim their NFT by tweeting it out… if they don’t, it goes to auction. Not a VC? Retweet this tweet for a chance to win a Helpful Analyst!

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If the VC giving you a term sheet dresses like this, you're getting a 3x liquidation preference

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Biden is talking like he's about to announce that he joined @a16z as a Partner

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“You’ll never find another like me” “Me”: a VC with 10K+ followers, 4 threads per year, mild takes, and a rolling fund

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Evidence is emerging that the blue light emitted by our phones, computers, and tablets is killing us. Luckily for us, @AnjanKatta has spent the last 6 years building @daylightco , a personal computing company backed by people like @blader , @lachygroom , @joshm , @dwr , @balajis and…

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Selling my 911 to get something that can fit a car seat ETH, BTC, SOL preferred but will accept USD DM for details 🏁🏁🏁

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Founders have a lot to learn from this WSJ piece on King Push Specifically that consistency and patience can sometimes matter more than being smart

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Attention all VCs 🚨🚨🚨 When you're on vacation this summer in Europe PLEASE use the hashtag #hotvcsummer so your portfolio can follow along Your founders will be grinding to return your fund so the least you can do is share the fun Thank you

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just experienced the third approach and FWIW I respect the hustle

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