BΞN / Ben Narasin
@BNarasin
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Founder & GP Tenacity VC 25yr Entrepreneur | 15yr VC | Pitch me by DM w/1 line elevator pitch and ARR
Joined May 2011
My deck recipe (big fonts, relevant images only: 1/ Cover - Name/Logo/Elevator Pitch 2/ Who you are - Pictures, names, relevant icons for schools & jobs 3/ What you do - Clean, specific. 4/ Who you do it for (customers) 5/ How you do it. 6/ How you get paid. 7/How you are doing
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Trying out online Omaha h l. Won a tourney of 264. Fake money:(. Bought in 25 k busted out in three hands then rebought and went all the way
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So true. Number one hazard of fostering puppies is the loss and damage of shoes and slippers.
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Describing a 5x, or even 3x, as “easy” is silly. data shows most funds under deliver but when you pick wel focus on folks with strong track records that demonstrate consistent returns and that continue to work hard to do so, while there is always variability, it should work out.
Most people have no clue how rare a 5x fund in vc is. Reading all the rhetoric about how a portfolio of small funds will somehow result in an easy 4-5x is not realistic. 5x+ funds are essentially unicorns
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I believe you are wrong on Jason. Feel like I met his wife at a bbq at his house.
wow, I’ve been informed this is also the case for the following tech bros: - sam altman - tim cook - keith rabois - jason calcanis fellas… is technology gay?
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RT @Geiger_Capital: I’ve never seen a poll like this… 🔵Democratic Party: 31% - Favorable 57% - Unfavorable (-26) The Democratic Party ha…
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Not different at all. Along history of misappropriating other companies IP without compensation. This will likely prove to be the same.
@BNarasin American companies have been battling cheap overseas knockoffs for decades. AI is no different.
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Interesting. I haven’t followed a lot of the details on RFK but for someone accused of being a whacko he clearly looks like the logical and thoughtful (and patient) one here while the” senator shows a serious level of derangement in a non sensical hypothetical endless rant.
Elizabeth Warren has humiliating psychotic breakdown doing everything she can to protect her big corporate pharma donors. RFK ends her in 7 second masterclass: RFK: "You're asking me not to sue pharma companies" Warren: "NO I AM NOT!" RFK: "That's exactly what you're doing"
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For those interested in learning about Greenlands strategic importance to, and cooperation with, the US, ask ChatGPT to tell you about Camp Century and its secret Cold War project in 1960 from declassified military docs.
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Dude. I funded his last company. Groupon bought his startup. He only worked there because they acquired them. I still remember when he pitched me Boom. I said I love it. It makes sense. You only have three issues. Financing. Financing. Financing. He’s threaded a needle and rocks
Blake (Boom) is getting some well-deserved hype (I can't wait for my first supersonic flight!), and lots of folks are discovering that he last worked at Groupon. Kind of surprising now but Groupon was an awesome talent magnet, and a good place to learn - we were figuring out new categories with limited resources. Back in 2012, I worked closely with: Blake Scholl, CEO of Boom Varun Krishna, CEO of Rocket ($RKT) Tuomas Artman, founder of Linear Julie Szudarek, CEO of Self Sumir Meghani, CEO of Instawork Sean Harper, CEO of Kin Jason Harinstein, CFO of Flatiron, then Collectors along with Jeff Holden, CEO of Atomic Machines David Thacker, VP Product at Deepmind (former VP Product at Linkedin) Ryan Denehy, CEO of Electric AI Jason Child, CFO of Arm Simon Goodall, CEO Caribou Eric Lefkofsky, CEO of Tempus Andrew Mason, CEO Descript Rob Skillington, co-founder Chronosphere and many others!
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Those were the days. Fathers in law, mother in law, brother in law.
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A friend, who I was more overt about my specific suspicions, just sent me this with the note “you called it”
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Prediction - it will be discovered that deep seek works based on something nefarious. I have specific realities I believe but will leave it at that for now.
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Personal portfolio pride - nice progress proof - Clay raises $40M at a $1.25B valuation with GTM development environment that turns growth ideas into reality
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Entrepreneurs, in success, should always do better financially and be worth more than their VC backers. Unless those VC backers were themselves entrepreneurs of substance and got there before them large liquidity wise.
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