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VC at @FirstMarkCap . Links to my blog, podcast and events:

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Joined February 2011

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It's out! After hundreds of hours of work, excited to publish the TENTH annual MAD (Machine Learning, AI & Data) Landscape. 🔥🔥🔥 The OG of data/AI market maps is back, bigger than ever lol + 24 themes we're thinking about in 2024 w/ @AmanKabeer11

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Full Steam Ahead: The 2024 MAD (Machine Learning, AI & Data) Landscape

This is our tenth annual landscape and “state of the union” of the data, analytics, machine learning and AI ecosystem. In 10+ years covering the space, things have never been as exciting and promis...

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Shot on a Shot from a $700 iPhone $65M fighter plane

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Movie watching experience: 2005: go to a movie theater 2015: stream Netflix 2025: ask LLM + text-to-video to create a new season of Narcos to watch tonight, but have it take place in Syria with Brad Pitt, Mr Beast and Travis Kelce in the leading roles

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Sam Altman returning to OpenAI after a day is like Steve Jobs returning to Apple after 12 years, but for the TikTok generation

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Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

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Seed investor who hasn’t spoken to the company in 7 years, on IPO day

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Love this shot of Jensen Huang from the NVIDIA Q4 results announcement

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Breaking: Facebook India to be renamed to Mehta

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How a startup vs. How a startup looks on the looks on the outside inside

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Name this venture firm

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The pitch deck vs the 1st board meeting

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When your startup never gets acquired

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A rare video of the SVB bank run

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NYC cabs upgraded to Tesla and I’m here for it

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I’m struggling to use ChatGPT, it’s really unfortunate there are no threads on here to help me

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I know Meta has huge engineering resources and expertise, but kinda wild that a new product could go from zero to 100M users in days and the whole infra scales beautifully without a glitch or even slowness

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Everyone in tech: A/B testing Bill Gates: A/B/C/D/E/F/G testing

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I did like Uber better when it was subsidized by VCs lol

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Hearing growing buzz in startup land about something called “EBITDA”. Anyone know anything? I checked, not a new coin apparently

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Some stories rarely get told: * Startups that turn down a big M&A offer and fizzle out in obscurity years later * VC firms that can’t raise the next fund * Founders who fail and never quite recover professionally Behind the scenes, things are even harder than people think.

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Who else has been doom scrolling non stop for the last 4 days

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Gaslight: An app for teenagers to anonymously compliment each other, except you make it B2B and it’s for office colleagues to anonymously say mean things about each other and you call it 360 degree feedback performance review.

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I am a venture capitalist. Here's my daily routine 🧵 8am: Wake up hungover from a crypto dinner. While in bed, tweet how refreshed I feel from a great night on my Eightsleep and my 1-hour morning meditation.

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Reporting live as VCs amass in front of Sam Altman’s house following rumors of new venture

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We are so back.

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Breaking: USA raises $1.9 trillion growth round

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The junior person you ignore or dismiss today will be the decision-maker of tomorrow. When your paths cross again years later, you may not recognize them, but they sure will remember you.

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Google Translate for venture capitalists, 2021 vs. 2022.

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VC is the best job in the world Market goes up: “portfolio is up 10x, we’re geniuses” Market goes down: “you all founders are going to need to be a lot more disciplined and focused, for real”

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Running a successful startup

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“Yup that’s me, you’re probably wondering how I got here”

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Epic (sound on)

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Halloween is going to be lit this year

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I was on an H1B visa for 10 yrs. Started a company with co-founders also on H1Bs. Hired American employees, served US customers. This was our American dream. But today the same company could be started anywhere. Why would the next generation bother if they can’t get a visa?

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When you have raised huge amounts of VC money and your board tells you to keep the burn low

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Amazing how many top tech companies are run by Indian CEOs

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How it How it’s started going

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$2B: the purchase price of Credit Suisse, a global firm with $22B in revenues and 50k employees Also, $2B: the current valuation of dozens of (also money-losing) unicorns with <$50-75M in revenues

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The new startup founding team: * CEO * CTO * 2 engineers * GitHub Copilot

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VCs switching from crypto to generative AI

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Can only imagine if we were attacked by a foreign nation and all of us men 18-60 on Tech Twitter had to go fight We'd all be like "10 best ways to fire your automatic weapon, a 🧵" and "Don't fight hard. Fight smart. It's not about the number of hours"

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My VC resolutions for 2023: 1) Update public profiles: remove any reference to ever having ever liked crypto/web3, deny any rumors that I was claiming to be “down the rabbit hole” less than a year ago, say that I would have “definitely done deep due diligence” on FTX

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When you ask Web3 founders about their monetization plan

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The golden age of design

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Thrilled to announce our newest partner

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Literally the #1 reason why America has produced so many incredible startups

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L: bootstrapped founder doing $80M ARR owning 100% of the company R: YC founder who raised $5M on a $30M cap, pre-product pre-revenue

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The pitch The 1st board deck meeting

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I went to a VC party in a hip hotel in NYC last night. As I arrived in the hotel lobby, the cooler-than-thou staff took one look at my Patagonia and Common Projects, and ushered me directly to the elevator to the VC event. Not a single word was spoken, they just knew.

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Adobe blocked from buying Figma JetBlue blocked from acquiring Spirit Airlines Amazon abandons $1.4B deal to buy iRobot as it sees "no path to regulatory approval" Something is very broken in antitrust enforcement

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SaaS startup Fintech startup $3m ARR pre-product growing 85% yoy $100m pre

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Careers are very long. People may get lucky early, but it is amazing to observe how the passage of time eventually favors the persistent and focused. I have now seen this play out so many times.

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Finance math VC math

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New York, the city where everyone is a venture capitalist

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VCs tweeting about how to operate a startup

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Wow Black Friday is 🔥 this year

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Being “good at prompt engineering” in 2023 is like being “good at Googling” in 2003

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I’d love to use GPT-4. But I’m STUCK in newbie mode. Too bad there’s no content to show me the 10 BEST PROMPTS that would BLOW MY MIND.

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AI leaders in the US 🇺🇸 Yann LeCun, b. France 🇫🇷 Ilya Sutskever, b. Russia 🇷🇺 Andrej Karpathy, b. Slovakia 🇸🇰 Fei-Fei Li, b. China 🇨🇳 Mira Murati, b. Albania 🇦🇱 Wojciech Zaremba, b. Poland 🇵🇱 Mustafa Suleyman, b. UK 🇬🇧 Andrew Ng, b. UK 🇬🇧 etc. Keep immigration open

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People make fun of Twitter VC, but retooling overnight from epidemiology expert to oil macroeconomist ain't easy.

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1 month into 1 year into building a building a startup startup

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Everyone: Design is eating the world! Berkshire Hathaway: here’s our WEB page

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VCs tweeting vs VCs investing

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Reddit: acquired for $10m PowerPoint: acquired for $14m Venmo: acquired for $26m Android: acquired for $50m Timing an exit is one of the hardest things in startups/venture.

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Every fundraising pitch right now

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Omg such a deep crash we are doomed

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Vibe capitalism

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Running list of startups / categories that are proving anti-fragile to the current mess: * Remote work: Zoom etc * Gaming, online entertainment * Social (Twitter), messaging * Food delivery: Blue Apron etc * Online education * Telehealth, digital thermometers * What else?

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The pitch The 1st board deck meeting

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Clubhouse, but you access it by dialing a phone number on Sundays, and the only other participant is your mom

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The energy in NYC right now is crazy. Center of web3, everyone in tech moving here, tons of VC money, great startups everywhere. So fun.

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Godspeed to the startups building in “stealth mode”, but they often exit their silence period only to find out nobody cared and they’re 2 years behind on marketing lol

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Senior VCs excited for junior investors to experience their first bear market

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Are we witnessing the Great VC Pullback of 2022? After a few years of craziness, things seem to be really changing and everyone is trying to figure out what that means 1/7 👇

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VCs trying to differentiate from all the other firms

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LOL - everyone on Clubhouse (sound on) @subhitaha_

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Some of the best startup name changes: * Palo Alto Delivery —-> DoorDash * /dev/payments —-> Stripe * BackRub ——> Google Who else?

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How startup How startup founders look founders feel

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who else finds this so stressful each single time

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Amazon just bought for $1B a startup whose CEO is a black female - why is this not all over Twitter as something to be celebrated as a beacon of hope?

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Thinking you're late to AI today is like thinking you're late to the Internet in 1996

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Children are so cute and naive to believe in a global network launched by a man no one has ever seen

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Here it is! 🔥 After 100’s of hours of research and writing, excited to release the 2021 ***MAD*** landscape (Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data) - with my colleague @john_d_wu A crazy, intense, and fun year in the ecosystem 👇👇👇

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Red Hot: The 2021 Machine Learning, AI and Data (MAD) Landscape

Full resolution version of the landscape image here It’s been a hot, hot year in the world of data, machine learning and AI. Just when you thought it couldn’t grow any more explosively, the data/AI...

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Startup valuations start making a lot more sense once you factor in that Mars will soon be part of the TAM

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America has its flaws but remains the country where journeys like this happen more often than anywhere else

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Everyone updating their deck rn:

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Breaking news: Alex Honnold will free solo the East face of the Shopify stock chart as his next big challenge post El Capitan

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Y Combinator

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Best name for a new VC firm (wrong answers only) I’ll start: LastMinute Capital Follower Fund

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The last 10 years in venture capital

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Two stages of life of tech people: Young trying to be successful Successful trying to be young

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Every VC firm right now: VC: "for our associates, we have strict requirements, like 2 years in consulting/banking, then 2 years at a hypergrowth startup" Candidate: "gm WAGMI HODL Packy Axie" VC: "you're hired"

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Peloton, but outdoors, on a real bike, with no instructor

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Request: shorter podcasts.

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If Harvard moved 100% online, how would future grads get to say “oh, I went to school near Boston”? 🤔

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The magnitude of the assault on Wall Street is kinda crazy when you put it all together: Hedge funds —-> Robinhood Bloomberg —> Reddit Mutual funds, gold etc —> Crypto IPO bankers —> SPACs Early innings, but giant dislocation ahead

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Quick update on “you can’t build huge tech companies in New York”: Datadog: $32.5B market cap Peloton: $32B Etsy: $17.3B MongoDB: $14B

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