Junior VCs after having told a founder that they wanted to write a check

Anthrophic’s approach to government relations in one photo

In a sign of the times: Mike Krieger might end up making more money from joining Anthropic than from selling Instagram

Terrible news for @Jason

Every VC: Wow this post about AI is amazing. Essay of the year.

12 hours later

Every VC: Wow this reaction article countering the original AI post’s views is amazing. It’s the essay of the year.

Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
AI Companies emailing their customers: We just hit $100M ARR!

*taps the sign*

The Windsurf founders being hired by Google is like the Luka Doncic trade for people who know what carried interest is

Founders when their startup gets cloned by OpenAI

Defense VC Starter Pack. Huge if True.

I always enjoy reading the bios of VCs who’ve never started a company & seeing which childhood story they’ve selected to showcase their innate scrappiness and persistence

VCs: We have a huge platform team that will help you recruit

The “help”:

Map of San Francisco

The one thing founders and politicians have in common

being junior in vc maybe the worst job in tech:

1. difficult to become a partner
2. you deal w/ large egos
3. no transferable skills
4. if you start a company and your former fund doesnt invest nobody will
5. you learn social habits that make you insufferable

VCs: We work closely with founders to help them

The help:

Founding CEOs: I'm irreplaceable

VCs when growth slows:
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Live footage of investors at YC Demo Day trying to meet companies raising at under a $15M pre-money valuation

Palantir convinced Stanford CS grads to be government contractors with the "Forward Deployed Engineer” title

GPs convince Stanford CS grads to be bankers with the “Investor @ VC Firm” title

"Strong opinions, weakly held"