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Investing in crypto projects at Awesome People Ventures ✨ Love @daomastersxyz @awesomepeoplehq @seedclubvc @fwbtweets jokedao maxi
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Dear founders,
If you’re a Series A+ startup, raising from a tier 1 fund, and want more women in your cap table, HMU. I’ll get you $1M-$5M. Getting more women on your cap table is as easy as sliding into my DMs 🚀
Yours truly,
Julia
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I'm not sure that VC Twitter is ready to hear this:
62% of women aren't satisfied with their sex lives.
It's a big fucking market.
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Next-gen real estate platforms will offer new data that's important in a remote world, e.g:
- Wifi and cell quality
- Street noise
- Nature access
- View type
- Climate change risk
- Natural disaster risk
- Air quality
- Local politics, values, and top issues
What else?
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I left SF 3.5+ years ago and I've been a digital nomad ever since. I don't maintain a residence. I'm continuing to nomad during the pandemic. AMA 😀.
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Just made a confession to my LPs 👀
I've never been so scared to press the send button on an email 😅
Big things happening at Awesome People, stay tuned🚀
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Founders seem confused about metrics for a Series A. Here's a list of comparable b2b saas deals I've seen with tier 1 leads:
Aug 2021: $350K ARR - $150M val
Oct 2021: $1.2M ARR - $130M val
Oct 2022: $2M ARR - $40M val
This market is no joke.
Stay safe. Generate revenue.
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Who are your fav women in crypto? I’m working on something new and would love to get them involved 👀
Experts in Defi, NFTs, DAOs, SaaS, Protocols… anything goes.
They don’t have to have a social following or be fancy investor-types. Just kickass at what they do ❤️
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One of my b2b SaaS angel investments is now used by 50% of Fortune 100 companies. They’re raising a seed with a tier 1 lead. For this round, I want to put together an SPV of all badass female angels. Who should I include? Big and small checks welcome 🚀
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I can’t wait to have f-you money so I can invest in super out there, potentially world-changing sh*t 🚀
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1/ Founders, please share investor updates.
Investor updates are a superpower.
Here's why 👇
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I just hired my first EA.
I think this is the nicest thing I've ever done for myself.
Highest level of self-care.
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I still receive web2 pitch decks.
I politely respond that I'm 100% focused on Web3.
About 1/4 of founders respond with a new deck that magically incorporates NFTs.
Founders, please don’t do this.
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1/ Over the past few months, I've met 5 anon accounts that I follow IRL. Two were super hot women in their late 20s/early 30s, one was a woman in her sixties, and two were college kids from outside of the US.
Probably nothing...
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A lot of venture-backed companies should pivot. Founders keep raising because they can, but they don't have PMF. It's going to end poorly. It's insanely hard to pivot. It takes setting aside your ego. It takes a top 1% founder. Notably, some of the best cos came from pivots.
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Any woman who has been through multiple cycles of IVF is a superhero and will absolutely crush as a founder. Startups are a cakewalk in comparison. Their levels of emotional endurance, tolerance for pain, and drive to win are unmatched.
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Kicking off 2022 with a bang! Just sent a ~ $500k USDC investment via
@SyndicateDAO
to a founder. That's the most I've ever sent on-chain 🔥
Happy New Year everyone!! It's go time 🚀🦄 ✨
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I’m working on 3 deal memos in the next 12 hrs 🚀
If you want to learn and are a good writer, happy to loop you in.
I can share the decks (with founder permission), notes, and why I love the deals. We can chat async.
DM me if this sounds like fun & you want exposure to VC!
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Pro tip: If you email me with Dr. Sir, I probably won’t invest.
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1/When friends ask why I’m not apeing into more stuff, don’t own a cryptopunk, and am very ETH poor, I have to explain that I spent 4 yrs investing all my $ into illiquid cos, helping founder/VC friends, & inspiring people to build a better world. So, Idk…
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@lilykonings
I once realized that my peers were making 3X more than me and totally lost it. Please talk about this stuff with people. It will make you so much $$$.
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Dream team, it's time for a big experiment 🚀
A lot of people are researching DAOs. Think we can crowdsource DAO market research? If you know anything about DAOs, please contribute to the sheet ✨
Everyone has edit access. Please be kind & factual 🙏
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I'm working on a project to get more women on Series A+ cap tables. If we can pull it off, it will be epic. I'm considering hiring someone to run the program. They'd get carry.
Who are the best female up-and-coming angels and VCs? Or Chief of Staffs to current GPs🙏
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My happy place. Alone. In a remote beach town. With fiber WiFi. Dancing and working on my next big thing 🚀
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Fun fact: I’ve lived out of a carry on and backpack for ~4 years. I own very few possessions. AMA 😀.
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We have a huge talent problem.
We have to make solving the world’s hardest problems as fun & profitable as working in crypto. I’m seeing top healthcare & climate talent flee in droves.
Default work sucks so much that ppl would rather flip jpegs 😳.
(And I don’t blame them)
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1/ Today is the day! We're launching
@daomastersxyz
V1! Our long-term mission is to onboard the next million DAO contributors & operators.
Here's the story 👇
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I think it’s quite possible that 2 of my high flying portfolio companies will never raise from VC funds.
They’ll only raise from angels, customers, and syndicates.
These founders will reach a $B valuation before traditional VCs believe 🚀
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I'm training my EA to draft my emails.
Today, I asked her to read all my emails & study my tone.
Then I asked her to draft a few herself.
She put "lol" in 80% of them.
And now I can't stop LOL 😂
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Can’t stop thinking about
@alexia
’s tweet, “Founding a company is basically committing to being in ‘fight or flight’ response for the next 10 years.”
This is serious stuff and takes a toll on folks. We don’t talk about this enough. Take care of yourself and those around you ❤️.
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My partner and I are separating. It has, hands down, been the worst week of my life 😭
Thankfully, my community has really stepped up and is taking incredible care of me. You know who you are. Thank you for your tender care❤️
Please send me your best breakup tips and advice 🙏
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1/ One of the NFTs projects I’m most fascinated by is Damien Hirst's, The Currency. The Currency is a collection of 10,000 NFTs which correspond to 10,000 unique physical artworks stored in a vault. Tomorrow is a big day for the project.
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We have a problem. There are no women on a bunch of these wellness cap tables.
Ladies in VC, who loves early-stage wellness deals 😍?
I have deals for you 🚀!
Please tag or 🙋🏻♀️ below!
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1/ I'm considering buying a house in Austin and it has nothing to do with taxes. Here's why 👇
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Hey
@jack
!
It seems like Twitter and Discord are the comms infrastructure for Web3. Twitter could be the highway of the world. What's the plan to open it up and let people build? I think it could be cool. We'd be down to help 🚀
Keep up the good work 🙏,
Julia + the internet
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1/ Over the next few months we’ll launch a few projects focused on DAOs and talent. This is the first. Welcome to the DAO Masters Crowdfund
@viamirror
! Our goal is to demystify starting a DAO.
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1/ I once wrote an 85,000-word book. I never published it. One of the chapters is about the crypto bull run in 2017. I was living on a tiny island in Thailand at the time. Here's an excerpt:
The vibe has changed on Koh Phangan. Cryptomania has taken over...
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I'm SO close to starting a talent DAO. The inefficiency in the talent market is SO bad. It's driving me nuts 😅
1) DM if you're interested in building an Awesome People talent DAO
2) Can we find this man find a DAO UI/UX project? We've never met, but his portfolio is solid 🔥
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Seems like every VC will be in Miami next week.
Founders, it will be like shooting fish in a barrel. Hang out in hotels.
Probably no better time to create hype and FOMO.
*Also, pls remember building a co is not just about fundraising and hype. You need to build a real 🚀
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Discord and tg are rotting my brain. This is not the future of work.
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I’ve been nomadic for 5 years and I just signed a lease for the first time since leaving SF. AMA.
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1/ I just spent the past 12 hours giving founders feedback on pitch decks.
It's frustrating to see the same mistakes over and over.
Here are the 5 most common mistakes 👇
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One of the many reasons why women don’t get funded is the right ppl never see their deals.
That’s why I’m SO excited about all the incredible women who are 🚀 on Twitter now!
Ladies, keep shining bright ✨. I’m here for it.
(Working on 2 deals via cold outbound DMs now 🙏)
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Who's coming to consensus? I’m hosting a coworking day, pool party, and a couple intimate dinners. On Friday, I’m also hosting a ladies brunch! Would love to meet you IRL ❤️
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Dream team, 3 of my fav single women in the whole world are in NY right now. They're all besties, successful, in their mid-30s, and want to find life partners. Who's single and awesome in NY? This is not a drill ❤️
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It's happening! The first DAO Masters airdrop. DAO contributors deserve to be celebrated. If you're in a DAO, tag 3 contributors whose work inspires you. We'll pick 42 people to send something special and rare✨🚀
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What’s the craziest thing you think we’ll see in the next 10 years?
Space, therapeutics, bio, crypto, housing, culture, gov, finance... everything is fair game 🚀
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💯 If I wanted to buy $500k - $1B of Stripe stock, how would I do this?
Any ideas? Any deals to be made? Serious question.
Assume I could raise the capital.
I'm going to risk calling it. The feeling of deja vu is too strong. Stripe is the next Google.
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Who's working on privacy and security in Web3?
Does anyone want to help make a market map of all of the projects?
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I'm home helping my parents with health stuff, and horrified.
My dad's doctor gave him Boost in the hospital and told him to keep drinking it.
3 of the top 5 ingredients are Glucose Syrup, Sugar, and Canola Oil.
We're killing our seniors with this crap. This is criminal.
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I regularly play with new web3 products to stay fresh and remind myself of the avg consumer experience.
Today's conclusion:
It's still a total cluster. Most products will never go mainstream in their current form.
More better UX-forward products, please. UX is everything.
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Who's raising pre-seed or seed in crypto now?
I'd love to do a deal this holiday season. Happy to work holidays. DM me your deck.
Preference for cos that leverage tokens for something novel that otherwise wasn't possible. Think defi, stables, RWAs, and other wacky stuff.
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I'm convinced that ETH has become the rich people chain.
ETH boomers are a thing. They're the people who bought ETH yrs ago and don't understand why today's gas fees are prohibitive to new dev.
Most younger crypto founders I meet with are trying to figure out where to build.
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I have no idea how Oatly convinced all of Zurich’s coffee shops that it’s sugar free and the healthy option. It will spike most people’s blood sugar to the moon and is borderline offensive.
/rant
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Who’s building the API that enables payroll tools to pay out in crypto?
Who’s building the API that enables products to charge in crypto?
🔥🔥🔥
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To all the men who ask how they can support women in VC:
Here are some things NOT to do
1. Take our allocation if we connect you to a deal
2. Disproportionately cram us down on your cap tables
3. Assume we’ll work for free
Just some thoughts 😘
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Never thought I’d say this, but I’m going full YOLO:
I’m headed to the Miami next week, who do I need to meet?!
🤩✨🚀
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I've never met
@brian_armstrong
but the shear amount of fighting this man has done for our industry in the past decade is next level.
From the outside, his commitment and tenacity seems unmatched.
Sending him, the team, and our community all the good vibes.
1/ Today Coinbase received a Wells notice from the SEC focused on staking and asset listings. A Wells notice typically precedes an enforcement action.
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Who is building the Lambda School for Solidity and Web3 devs? Or a DAO that funds onboarding and placement into Web3 cos?
Love what
@rabbithole_gg
and
@layer3xyz
are doing, and I think there is room for a more job oriented approach.
And yes,
@0xSTATION
is ❤️🚀
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This version of capitalism is so terrible at attributing value to value creation. I don’t know how much longer I can take it...
New goal: make enough $$$ to retire in the next 3 yrs so I can play the game however I want.
Boom! It’s going to happen.
Who’s with me 🚀?!
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1/ Last week I sent out an Awesome People Fund I update. In the spirit of building in public, here are my top learnings from Fund I 🚀
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1/ Today, I’m excited to relaunch to answer all your startup questions.
Ask your question, and Founder Guru, our new AI chatbot, will respond based on 1,000+ vetted resources.
Founder Guru always cites its sources so you can click to learn more.
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Gas fees are legit cost-prohibitive. I've spent over $250 in gas fees today just to use the tools that run awesome people and dao masters. That's like if every time I used a feature in an app, the app charged me $25.
Web 2 VC $: ads
Web 3 VC $: gas fees
awgmi?
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US healthcare is so f-ed. I’ve been mostly bedridden & in and out of the healthcare system for 2 mos. I’ve now had 3 bodywork sessions in the past 3 days. I’ve stopped hemorrhaging & the pain is cut in half 🤞.The gap between eastern and western medicine is borderline criminal.
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1/ I help a lot of people apply for jobs. People really suck at applying and interviewing.
I find myself repeating these same 5 tips. If nothing else, read this first tip and let me know how it goes!👇
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3/ These people forked their identities and started over based on pure merit. With an anon account, they built a brand solely on their contributions. Identity is fungible on the internet. I wouldn't be surprised if the on-chain gen started anon 👀
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Fundraising for a fund be like -
Web2 investors: Here's a 7-page doc of legal edits
Web3 investors: Can I increase my commitment from $420k to $690k?🤣
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Yassss!!! Just wrote the last check out of Awesome People Fund I✨
We're taking Awesome People to the moon 🚀
Literally 😉
This rocketship can no longer be contained to planet Earth 🛸
See you all in space 🙏
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My GP LPs are trying to hire me. I’m trying to hire my GP LPs.
Honestly, I’m not sure who is going to win first.
This whole situation is hilarious 😅
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To the person who just applied to our syndicate, and listed an ice cream shop under their previous angel investments, I salute you ❤️
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Bat call! One of my Web3 portfolio cos is looking for more female angels. Let's help him out and get more women on these cap tables!!! Any women out there who love DAO tooling? 🚀
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Was re-reading old emails and found this list of ideas I sent to
@cdixon
in 2019 on how to get more ppl interested in Web3.
I was wrong. Turned out that the best way to make ppl interested in Web3 was to make people rich & start jpeg clubs. Then ppl would start to ask real ?s🤷🏻♀️
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Calling all founders and builders in Web3 ✨. If you could only work with 3 VC funds + a community round, who would they be? Asking for a friend 🙏
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1/ Internet, please help brainstorm! How do I design an Awesome People DAO 🥳 ?
Goal: design a system where smart nice people win in VC. It might not be possible, but I'm damn sure going to try.
Context, use cases, and questions 👇
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Who's in Paris for ETHCC?
I'm getting pumped! I'm hosting a walking tour and perhaps a Parisian picnic.
Founders, I want to meet you and invest in you. Friends, I want to see you!
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Dream team, if you're a
@ljin18
fan, please give this tweet a like or send her a kind note. She's taking a lot of shit for this post & isn't having the best day. She's one of the most compassionate, well-intentioned, and thoughtful people I know ❤️
DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) represent the next step forward in the labor movement.
A thread 🧵
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Dream team, shit is getting crazy 🚀
We've officially deployed more capital in the past 2 mos via SPVs than our entire Fund 1 over 2 yrs 📈
I can't remember the last time I had this much fun working with founders 🥳
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2/Some days I’m really proud of what I’ve built and some days I just feel like the biggest fucking idiot.
So yeah… 2021… that’s where I’m at…❤️
Oh, and I love you all, obvi 🙏
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I just talked to 2 people in the Awesome People community who did ~$1M freelancing and ~$3M in NFTs this year 🤯
... it's probably nothing
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1/ Drum roll, please! Today I’m launching the Awesome People Talent Web3 collective. I want to help you find your first (or second or third!) role in Web3. It’s free. Ladies, please don’t be shy. Apply to join here.
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The universe is just a decentralized network of consciousness.
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Someone just sent me a pitch for a web3 adult entertainment company. They acquired 35+ adult clubs and are making a shared currency across clubs.
I have no idea how to respond. Lmao.
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Most VCs preach being non-consensus and right. Most funds are concsensus driven.
Can someone please explain this to me?
Additionally, many GPs’ angel portfolios out perform their fund investments.
Something doesn’t compute... 🤔
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1/ Last month, DAO Masters shut down. We returned the remaining ETH back to token holders.
I suspect most DAOs and communities are default dead. It felt inevitable for DAO Masters.
Why?
The give/get equation was off. Let me explain 👇
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I'm organizing a private in-home dinner at ETHDenver. Who will be in town?
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I'm legit worried about friends' mental wellbeing in the metaverse. It's an infinite game, so please don't get stuck. Extreme consumption usually ends poorly. Sugar > obesity epidemic. Social media > anxiety epidemic...
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Who's building a DeFi 101 cohort-based course or coaching co? Not Youtube videos. Live accountability to get set up. The returns are crazy, but it's inaccessible to most.
If you want to launch this, and have a strong track record, DM me. I'll help you recruit participants 🚀
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Who's in SF and who's in Austin? Making the rounds in a bit and hosting some magic, would love to meet IRL✨
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Dream team, I apologize in advance but you’re all going to be very confused by my twitter feed.
We’re launching a bunch of projects in the next 6 months, both web2 and web3 related.
It won’t make sense now, but I promise it will all make sense in 10 years 🙏
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1/ Watching
@SamCorcos
build
@Levels
has been a highlight for me as a VC.
He's one of the most operationally excellent early-stage founders I know. He's also absolutely nuts about tracking his time. Here's how he spent every minute during his first 2 years as CEO👇
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Anyone else have the feeling that they can do anything and that they’re the only one holding themselves back?
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I’m interested in UBI and how DAOs can play a part. I’m considering taking a small % of my comp from
@daomastersxyz
Season 1 and running a DAO UBI experiment. My first thought was to give everyone an equal %.
Thoughts? How would you do it? What experiments would you like to see?
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I've organized 5 group houses for friends, founders, and VCs during Covid. Each was 2 weeks+, 5+ people, and in a beautiful location. AMA.
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It's hilarious that VCs spent all of 2020 funding remote work "presence" tools and all people wanted was "gm" and "gn"
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