David Hornik
@davidhornik
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David Hornik is an investor at Lobby Capital and August Capital, the executive producer of the Lobby Conferences, and teaches at Stanford and Harvard.
Palo Alto, CA
Joined March 2007
If you haven’t tried out the @TheEasyCoHQ wallet, it is pretty fantastic. Easy is on Product Hunt today. Go check it out and give it a vote!
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I had very low expectations of @elonmusk here, but he has immediately exceeded my low expectations. Thanks to all of you who have engaged with me on Twitter over the years. I will miss you.
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Also known as failing.
@davidhornik For sure agree. Depends how you define failing. It is possible to collect fees and do nothing for years on end. It is also possible for a person to hang back while others at their firm are 110%. For an individual VC trying to back great companies, I agree.
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There is no such thing as quiet quitting in VC — you are either 110% in on the startup ecosystem or you will fail.
Realized: many VCs are now quiet quitting. ⤵️
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Inbox Zero. I truly don't think I've ever gotten to Inbox Zero before. I've always had some stupid email lingering. But tonight at 1:32am I have gotten to inbox zero. I will now go to sleep and awaken to 30 new emails. But for this brief moment, I am the master of my inbox!
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So fun speaking at the Masters of Scale Summit (@mastersofscale). Apparently I make faces when I'm excited.
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This is why I love teaching Startup Garage at @StanfordGSB — awesome teams like the amazing founders of @MakerWineCo:
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Got my new iPhone but forgot that all iPhones are carefully designed to never fit in old cases. I am surprised by how nervous having a caseless iPhone is making me. You’d think I hadn’t bought the bionic Apple Care for the price of the phone.
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What he said … exploding term sheets work with folks who don’t have the self confidence to call bullshit.
@villi They work... sometimes. Not always.
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I would love to see that data. What is a “lucky VC” if not someone who has the fortune of finding amazing companies? So how would luck correlate with bad performance? I guess it depends upon your definition of “lucky.”
@m2jr The really interesting thing according to the data is that the lucky VCs end up performing worse than the unlucky ones in the long run, so VC has created a system that elevates the worst future performers. It's one of the biggest problems in all of finance.
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How am I just learning about this? Hello? @sm and @sippey, you might have mentioned. So excited for this podcast!
I recorded a podcast with my oldest friend @sippey. This is just a soft launch to our friends on Twitter so would love your feedback if you have a chance to listen over the weekend (feel free to slide into my DMs) You can follow @thesandmpod too ☺️
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Emailing a VC and saying “I saw your Portfolio and it looks like we are focused on the same market” is not the same thing as doing the work to actually see where there are synergies in my portfolio. Raising money is hard. And it starts with that first email.
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Congrats Villi and team!
Thrilled to announce our new $400M set of funds. Grateful for the amazing support of our founders, investors, and partners. I cannot be more excited about the opportunity to support the next generation of founders.
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If you question whether Double Bottom Line investing is just mythology, check out this amazing company I funded called EarlyBird (@EarlyBirdLearn):
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Ok, not about Venture Capital, but Bay Area people, my son Julian is playing Bing Studio at Stanford on November 4th:
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Funny, loving, charismatic, empathic ... Ted made us all better. We need more Teds. Miss you.
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