Linda Tong @lktong_ Twitter profile

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

9 months

i'm running a hackathon, life --upgrade, sunday 10/1 with @gju__ we'll have folks from @anthropicai , @openai , @langchainai & prizes like 🥗 lunch with @replit ceo @amasad , 🔥 compute credits for making the GPUs go brrr, 🔍 @brilliantlabsAR monocles, etc. come hack with us!

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7 months

there’s too much cofounder matchmaking and not enough dating matchmaking for founders

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3 years

hey #vctwitter , I scraped a list of all North America-based startups in @ycombinator 's S21 cohort - reply to this tweet to get the spreadsheet :)

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built a little chat bot to simulate the @a16z bio investment team with @mendableai - can answer founder questions about what to pitch, who to pitch, and how to scale your startup

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1 year

overheard at stanford: "is she breaking into the thielverse?"

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1 year

if I take a shot for every time someone in my house said ai girlfriend, I would end up with alcohol poisoning

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2 years

realizing today that some of my favorite bloggers - @katmhuang @thesephist @SarvasvKulpati @mathurahravi are / have been @Replit interns

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7 months

crazy to me that cruise only has 9 months of runway

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8 months

anyone want to watch openai dev day with me?

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5 months

told him he should start something new and now he's growing a beard

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2 years

a moment i have been waiting for :)

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1 year

what's the 2023 equivalent of google in 2004? thinking about people who were there then, like @jesskah and @eladgil , and people who could have gone to google then, like @annimaniac and mar from @pearvc , but chose to do other things

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2 years

actually facts

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2 years

a sneak peak of what I'm building...was inspired after @Jhuang0804 showed me the @rootvc website channeling my inner bookbear @noampomsky :)

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@lktong_

3 years

I always learn so much from my monthly reflection calls with @Jhuang0804 . This month, we used @caseykcaruso 's framework from her Medium article: . These were our collective takeaways. (1/x)

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@lktong_

3 years

Thinking back to the advice @saffronhuang gave me a year ago, about leaning into the uncertainty of college and reflecting on the tough questions without pushing them away. (1/2)

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3 years

at stanford, it takes courage to do less

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@lktong_

3 years

nothing better than ai ethics to jumpstart your morning! 😊 thanks so much @catherinehyeo

Catherine Yeo

@catherinehyeo

3 years

We're hosting a free summer weekly workshop series on #AIethics for high school & college students, sign up now! ⬇️

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@lktong_

5 months

🫶🫶

Danielle Jing

@DanielleJing

5 months

My OG fellow @lktong_ hosting Mar in the OG @pearvc offices. Loved this full circle moment 🤩

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

2 years

so proud of everything you’ve accomplished - but also for taking time to look back! :)

jacky (:

@Jhuang0804

2 years

HIII friends!! I finally finished my personal website 🌿🦋✨ Here's a quick walkthrough of my past experiences since Im curr looking for product/UX research/strategy internships for summer 2023 (or maybe even sooner!):

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3 years

@paigefinnn technically not a blog post but love seed to harvest so much! awesome explanations, beautiful illustrations, and #diversity ☺️

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2 years

my two love languages: “thought of you when I was reading this” + calendar invites lol

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2 years

better a witty fool

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2 years

monthly reflection with @Jhuang0804 : we should girlboss because it makes us happy, not to prove to ourselves that we are good enough😊

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3 years

"Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday... you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

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2 years

hbd to @jhuang0804 ! so grateful we met over an @joinEVCA @donutapp call and so proud to call you a friend. love you so much <3

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2 years

it takes soft skills to break into VC, but it takes hard skills to truly thrive

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7 months

what is sf missing?

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

2 years

Pear fellow here :) 🍐happy to answer any questions about my experience so far

Iris Liu

@irieliu

2 years

Venture fellowships are great first roles for students to gain experience and break into VC. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of VCs recruiting this fall: @DormRoomFund @roughdraftvc @pearvc @contrarycapital @BLCKVC @joinrepublic Shout out your favorite programs!

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

3 years

grateful to be part of this crew :)

Danielle Jing

@DanielleJing

3 years

Stoked to be able to host our wonderful new @pearvc fellows in SF this weekend! 🍐🌳

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2 years

scheduling @stanford feels like playing jenga with google calendar blocks

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6 months

is yale endowment still legendary post-swensen? or is it more like apple post-jobs?

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2 years

@venturetwins @noampomsky omg I can't believe @venturetwins reads @noampomsky my worlds are colliding 🤯

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Linda Tong

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2 years

I had a blast working for @FoothillVenture , and they are hiring summer 2022 interns! Foothill Ventures is a $150M seed-stage technology firm. We back technical founders across software, life sciences, and frontier technologies.

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8 months

when your class reading explains why sf tech scene values twitter clout 😮

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@lktong_

3 years

#iykyk

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2 years

you know you’re flying to sf when people are talking about data warehousing at the terminal

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@lktong_

3 years

read @paigefinnn 's seed to harvest to a 10 year-old today...he loved the book, but thought the flip phone was a computer 😂

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@lktong_

2 years

me when all my tests pass 😭😊🥰 ugh literal tears of joy

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2 years

something I've been thinking about: investing is very focused on diving deep into problem spaces and forecasting if proposed solutions will scale, whereas building requires creativity in finding the solutions themselves

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

3 years

finally beginning to learn the importance of finding my own truth, whereas previously, I would take anything I was taught as orthodoxy. there is value in having a clear vision of the future and a capacity for rigorous thought

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

1 year

new drinking game idea: take a shot every time @bhorowitz says 1.6 billion in hard thing about hard things

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@lktong_

1 year

does anyone who has read three body get cheng xin vibes from mira murati? in that sense she was a super strategic hire

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@lktong_

3 years

@michelleqin_ is an inspiration ❤️

jacky (:

@Jhuang0804

3 years

Finally got to chat with the amazing @michelleqin_ and she’s literally the SWEETEST most amazing person ever😩💖 SO inspired by her from our convo to tweet threads and write more about my learnings 👀✏️✨

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@lktong_

7 months

open question! what would the whole earth catalog be for today’s internet?

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

2 years

Some examples - @Jad_AE : - @mathurahravi : - @LilaShroff :

san francisco - winter 2022 | Notion

cafe’s in sf: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7761832,-122.4171408,14z/data=!4m2!11m1!2s17zjysW6SpiLZ8ze5E3UuQ

mathurah.notion.site

Lila Shroff

@LilaShroff

3 years

Welcome to my NYC coffee shop, book store, etc. thread of threads. Pls add!

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

7 months

@sophfuji is reviving @StanfordReview and we love to see it

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@lktong_

1 year

like she is capable but not threatening, which is perfect for the face of a company whose stated goal is to develop agi

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@lktong_

2 years

I think everyone has been talking about how frothy the market feels rn: interesting perspective from @saranormous

when the music stops

sarahguo.com

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

7 months

loved reading this:

Mike Moritz - Riptide

Riptide is an oral history of the collision between journalism and digital technology, from 1980 to today. Featuring over 60 interviews: Tim Berners-Lee, Eric Schmidt, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Arianna...

www.digitalriptide.org

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@lktong_

3 years

some things that are giving me strength, a thread

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@lktong_

9 months

sign up here:

life --upgrade · Luma

How do we use AI to upgrade our lives today? How can we think outside the box to weave AI into the fabric of daily, mundane human tasks? How can AI transform…

lu.ma

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@lktong_

2 years

vcs who go to neurips 🥺

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@lktong_

2 years

@SarvasvKulpati @katmhuang @thesephist @mathurahravi @Replit your substack piece has been making the rounds in my friend group! we’ve had so much fun discussing and are thinking of doing a brunch to talk about it more sometime…would love to have you if you’re in the bay haha

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@lktong_

8 months

sorry google, guess the jig is finally up

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@lktong_

2 years

in many ways @aileenlee feels like the se-ri pak of my generation

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@lktong_

2 years

@jackmmcclelland @akshayadinesh19

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@lktong_

2 years

@startupsearch hooked @jessicafeiyali @isabelle_levent @justinaachuaa @ronawang @vincentjsong also whoever is on the @contrarycapital platform team, huge kudos! you are 🔥, and this idea is brilliant.

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@lktong_

1 year

@catherinehyeo 5 books in 5 days?? pray for me everyone

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@lktong_

2 years

:))

jack mcclelland 🕺

@jackmmcclelland

2 years

@arian_ghashghai i bet way more than you think! lots of tech people i've met love classics and philosophy

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@lktong_

3 years

@vivianmshen @annjhwang @akshayadinesh19

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@lktong_

1 year

✨✨

Chord

@chordpub

1 year

Our beta is out! Chord - an AI engine that does real-time research & serves recommendations for products, books, and more. Imagine an on-demand, crowdsourced Wirecutter: we scour the web for organic discussion on topics and then compose in-depth articles.

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3 years

2. Be more in tune with how you're feeling and take action to change it. Esp re. voicing feedback at work, think about what's the worst thing that could happen, and once you realize you're okay with that happening, it's totally okay to speak up. (3/x)

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@lktong_

3 years

@Nish67 @michschwartzman runs @CardinalVenturs at Stanford

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@lktong_

2 years

@amydeng_ Hi Amy! You’ve probably seen this, but this blog from @_jzhao talks about many similar themes

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@lktong_

3 years

somehow made 3 chip-ins practicing today after 2 years of not playing…guess it was a good day ☺️

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@lktong_

3 years

@akshayadinesh19 who is Ladder’s graphic designer? this looks 🔥🔥

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

2 years

i think there will be a similar wave in venture - girls like me who look up to @donutsdidthis , @annimaniac , @ekp (and so many others) - and want to follow in their footsteps

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

2 years

TIL @Tim_Roughgarden (my go-to for algorithms this summer) works at @a16z 😳

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@lktong_

3 years

3. Mentorship is learning together. Near-peer mentorship works too - it's great to ask questions and reflect with someone who is roughly in the same place you are.☺️(4/x)

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@lktong_

1 year

that’s my TA wooo

Alix

@C51Alix

1 year

1/🧵 Introducing Hubble! As a soon to be new-grad, looking for housing sucks, especially when you need to manually copy every option into a spreadsheet. Hubble solves this with its nifty dashboard and extension to help you automate and aggregate your housing search.

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2 years

@Jhuang0804 appreciation post

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8 months

@thesephist @gabirnbaum

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1 year

@burbeyar @altcap @a16z

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@lktong_

1 year

@CorinneMRiley @ShreyaR @gloriafelicia_ @varunshenoy_ @kazuki_sf_ @hackathongoofer @rememberlenny ❤️❤️

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@lktong_

3 years

@jackmmcclelland so many! ambitious winter break ahead the know-it-alls, noam cohen bullshit jobs, david graeber the world for sale, javier blas minor feelings, crying in hmart never split the difference, chris voss range, david epstein little black stretch pants, chip wilson (about lululemon)

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

2 years

ex-consultants make the best slides willing to fight anyone who disagrees

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@lktong_

3 years

Feel so fortunate to have been part of this incredible team!

Nik Marda

@nrmarda

3 years

The Stanford Tech History Project released its final report on Monday about how tech at Stanford has changed over the past decade I had the honor of co-directing this large & incredible team over the past 9 months with @juliaingram_ Here's a thread with some of my thoughts

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@lktong_

7 months

@ronawang yes

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@lktong_

3 years

@paigefinnn also every guide in @jessicafeiyali ‘s playbook

Playbook for Founders, Investors, Operators | Notion

Hi! I am Jessica Li, chief of staff at Beacons. Welcome to my site where I share inspiration, tactical advice, resources, guides, events, office hours, and content with current and aspiring founders,...

tangible-albatross-565.notion.site

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

2 years

@benjlaufer meeting @Jhuang0804 + @jackmmcclelland at @joinEVCA was by far one of the highlights of my year!

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Linda Tong

@lktong_

3 years

Found this Rilke quote particularly heartwarming: "You are so young... and I would like to beg you... to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language."

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1 year

what is it about working in a mailroom that breeds success in tech investing? both coatue and iac, dang

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1 year

@annasofialesiv @pejmannozad @nicopei_eth

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@lktong_

2 years

hi Twitter hive mind, what are your favorite resources for learning about product?

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5 months

@amydeng_ @jessicafeiyali <3

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@lktong_

8 months

@emilyhxrrera ’s writing is still resonating with me months after i read it…i’m officially a fangirl at this point

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@lktong_

1 year

feel lucky to be subjected to Jacky’s tough questions lol

jacky (:

@Jhuang0804

1 year

some ?'s i've been pondering: - how do you build conviction? - what does it mean to be a "builder"? - how do I tell accurate narratives about myself? what are narratives/identities I've blindly followed - what are your alternate lives, what would you be doing in them?

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@lktong_

1 year

this is my love letter to curius () -- and why I'm excited about building tools for thought

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1 year

open question: is it a red flag if a startup’s seed investor (which also happens to be a multi-stage fund) doesn’t follow on for a series a?

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1 year

@nabeelqu @sophfuji @tianyuf

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@lktong_

2 years

key takeaways here are to find opportunities to learn together with your peers - but also to take the plunge and reach out to the people you look up to! so grateful for the friendships i have formed by doing this

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@lktong_

3 years

don't remember who recommended the know-it-alls to me (was it @LilaShroff ? or @jasminewsun ?), but it's so interesting

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@lktong_

2 years

@theamberyang @jamescham I thought it was the people working at WeWork at 2am 👀

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@lktong_

2 years

@Jhuang0804 and I have been talking about how we're bullish on people who make lists of things - whether it's their favorite books, favorite cafes in a city, a bucket list of places to visit.

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Linda Tong

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1 year

@sophfuji @smsunarto golf and fencing are competitive too. try sailing or squash

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