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the team is one of the most cracked teams i met.
Young, hungry, and built an 🤯 product in no time (we've tested out all the players in the market).
@sobhan_nejad
and
@zaygranet
are ones to watch.
Happy to be a small part of it!
Today, marks a major milestone for us. We’ve closed our series A with $22M in funding. As we emerge from stealth, we wanted to formally introduce you to Bland, Your newest AI employee.
Bland is a customizable phone calling agent that sounds just like a human. It can:
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With the rise of substack and branding as a moat in VC, this thesis on the importance of the internet and branding just shows how far ahead of the game
@garyvee
and
@Jason
were. Glad I got to intern
@VaynerMedia
at the time and see the magic working on Fortune 500 brands
#Throwback
to 2010, when
@garyvee
shared why he believed the internet was massively under-rated & his prediction on what the future of content marketing & branding would look like!👇
Full episode🔥
📺:
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In a world of my consumption of media being relatively high, podcasts such as
@theallinpod
have clearly elevated my "online diet" and made me feel healthier. The equivalent of eating good fish and broccoli for the mind. 🥦
Thanks!
@chamath
@Jason
@DavidSacks
@friedberg
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Had an issue with
@GrainHQ
today, pinged support and within 30 mins their Head of Product
@jeffrewhitlock
fixed it, god tier support stuff.
You just know that cos. with this type of support are going to win.
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Pumped to be announcing our $4.4M seed round led by
@PointNineCap
! ⚡️⚡️
Come and build the future of veterinary care with rockstars such as
@thomjenko
,
@willmonk
, and many others! 🚀
This is just the start :)
Today, we are excited to announce our $4.4M seed round led by
@PointNineCap
to accelerate our mission of empowering veterinary teams! 💪 🐕 🚀
Read all details and more here:
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Get yourself a friend like
@lolawajs
- bumped into her during my flight to NYC, she picked out this healthy-ish goodie bag for me!
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last investment of this quarter signed. groundbreaking company in the making.
🐧🍿
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This is what peak performance looks like.
Saturday, somewhere in Shoreditch, 2023, in the midst of the bear market.
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To be a great leader, you have to be a great listener. Empathy is the 🔑
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@es_dlr
@mariodgabriele
@dscape
@decipad
--> BiaB for restaurants
@rrruibento
@Talkdesk
--> built by one of my fav's
@cnfonseca
@decipad
-->
@dscape
is a star
-->
@VieiradaJoao
is a star
@RowsHQ
-->
@patife
the man
@swordhealth
-->
@vafbento
@amplemarket
-->
@luismbat
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The
@PetsAppLtd
team will be
@WebSummit
in Lisbon this year, from November 1–4! 👀
If you’d like to learn more about us, visit us at our booth
#B221
on the 3rd and catch up with our founder
@thomjenko
! 🐶
#websummit2021
#WebSummit
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Another day, another pet owner happy 🐶 making pet care more accessible (&fun), one step at a time :)
join the rocketship!
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@eriktorenberg
Congrats Erik! Turpentine is a a great source of knowledge for someone raising a first fund :) appreciate it and excited to connect sometime!
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For some people work is an escape from home/family.
As more jobs get automated over the years, being comfortable and happy at home with your family becomes crucial.
You can’t choose your parents but your life partner is the most important decision you’ll ever make.
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london, wednesday 9pm, and feeling blessed bc of all the amazing people in my life.
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10pm after a long day of work, the vibes in a small resto for a quick dinner and a glass of wine are absolutely amazing.
Jazz playing, majestic.
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When
@donald_bringman
and I met
@merwanedr
and
@cwmdo
, it was obvious we had to back them on their mission of building
@dummeai
!
Go check it out! ⚡️🤘
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Founders, don't let idle cash sit on your account and not earn interest, it could literally mean a new hire or more customers!
Check out: or ping
@SaketRKumar
🚀
Announcing this fundraise is something I’ve been looking forward to for a while now, but as I remember from my time in VC: fundraises don’t matter - customers do. It’s been a genuine joy to bring Vitt Treasury to life over the past few months.
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@ric0seq
A lot of the smartest founders and people I know in Europe are moving to the U.S. — SF and NYC are the obvious suspects.
Europe and the UK is losing out on a lot of talent, agree.
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@shak
@modic123
@a16z
In my view
@PointNineCap
has pioneered the content production model here in Europe and founder support (financial models, decks, etc. as templates) + metrics that a lot of founders use as a reference and value. Of course focused on early stage but still holds.
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Collaborating with teams on retros is tedious - using tools like Figma and others as a workaround.
Not anymore - check it out with at !
✨ Eraser AI, the first copilot for technical design.
So many coding copilots, but what about a copilot for non-coding tasks like drawing arch diagrams and writing tech docs?
After 1M diagrams generated, Eraser AI is here for engineers and architects.
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Data modelling made fun again! 🤩🍿 Join in on Friday and get started with modelling everything from your crazy startup plans all the way to your personal budget for that vacation once lockdown is over 😜🍹
@decipad
Super excited about our data modelling day. Join us on discord and I’ll share the zoom meeting there!
⏱This Friday, 2-4pm
🗺
What are we talking about? 👇
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Care package from
@ncsh
|
@adjacent
💙
Can’t wait to get the pack
@PetsAppLtd
on some 🎮
cc
@backbone
@willmonk
@thomjenko
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@paulbz
From experience, customers, especially in SMB in the US do care a lot about US HQ and having boots on the ground. Having a US "HQ" does matter I find
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This is so true.
Grateful for all the people in my circle who keep pushing the agenda.
"almost 98% of people in the world will try to pull [your ambition back] and say 'seems a little bit too crazy, a little bit too out there, a little bit too ambitious"
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Even my heater is trying to drive up its valuation with their new feature.
Summary of 2023.
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Good take and not talked about enough.
You need some degree of wealth (upper middle class) to have the mind-space to start building a generational company.
Great companies are products of _leisure_.
Poor people don't start great enterprises. Why? Because they're too busy trying to survive.
OpenAI, Anduril, and SpaceX were all started by people with the freedom to do whatever the hell they want.
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Introducing PetsApp Wellness Plans! 🐶 🐩
Pet care can be lonely and frightening - with Wellness Plans we make lives easier for both the pet owners and the clinics. ⚡️
🚀
Introducing PetsApp Wellness Plans to UK customers.
No more paper forms, additional portals and low adoption. Say goodbye to "another thing to do" and say hello to PetsApp Wellness Plans.
Speak to your pack member today 👉
#veterinary
#pethealth
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This is why I was a big fan of
@danielgross
‘s approach with pioneer - how can you make the game more accessible and break it down into small tasks.
Still think there’s something there. In the meantime I’m backing my most exceptional friends and people I meet with belief
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And the switching starts :) 🍿
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I’m so proud & excited to finally share that
@deel
has raised its Series C of $156 million led by
@ycombinator
Continuity & co-led by
@a16z
+
@sparkcapital
.
That’s 🦄 status, captain!!!
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@stevegraham
100% + all the apparent beef with Sacks which he spoke about in a podcast, saying he got backstabbed etc.
Sounds like a movie I’d watch 🍿
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@Curiousjorge65
yap, unless you have a clear edge or differentiated approach, you'll likely get middle of the bell curve returns which are not acceptable.
smaller funds are on the rise though.
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the great stagnation, no one cares about UI/UX anymore on these e-commerce checkout pages.
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Announcing a huge partnership and customer with one of the biggest animal welfare charities in the U.K. 🇬🇧
Welcome to the pack
@The_Blue_Cross
! 🐶
The team is on fire! ;)
Welcome to the pack
@The_Blue_Cross
🐶❤️
“Giving clinics the ability to meet growing demand without requiring more of their teams is what PetsApp is all about." -
@thomjenko
Read more here
#veterinary
#veterinarylife
#startupgrowth
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“Who are you without the world telling you who you should be?” -
@rivatez
Very interesting thought experiment at 50:25 —
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Embracing risk and serendipity is one of activities that generates the highest alpha in life.
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There’s a lot of alpha in striking up conversations with people you don’t know in person. Basically no downside. Unlimited upside. Not many do it.
Some of my best friendships and relationships came from something that started as that.
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Charging for pitch feedback is grifting.
Ping me and I’ll gladly help you perfect it. Have done this several times and put rounds together for friends/portfolio.
The TechCrunch journalist who got fired for telling half of Silicon Valley CEOs to “fuck all the way off” is now trying to convince founders to pay him $20,000 to review their pitch decks 😂
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A Kindle is cool and all but libraries are just aesthetically superior 😎📚
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reading about
@johndoerr
and
@vkhosla
(back then at KP) teaming up to do Netscape and making a 100x on a $5m investment is amazing.
“You succeed by doing the right deals, not haggling over valuations” still applies today.
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Been using Popcorn, absolute game-changer.
No more dead-zones and bad UX/UI + having to buy data packs🍿
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@ncsh
@withopal
@kschlenker
@TechCrunch
Tried it today! Sick, much better than before when you had to VPN, will be using it all the time now :)
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@JNeedem
@2112Power
@anduriltech
@VardaSpace
@Astranis
@SpaceX
@praxisnation
@balajis
Obviously
@shariq
who is building
@prosper
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Having never worked in anything other than startups in my career - still astonished by how slow big incumbents and corporates (on average) operate.
Just getting a reply takes 3/4/5 follow-ups. No urgency, always on annual leave (more like weekly leave). No wonder they'll die.
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Family is all that matters.
We so often search for idols in today’s world to look up to, when the real heroes are so close to us and have so many lifetime stories to tell us about sacrifice, wars, and much more.
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@philippvdk
I'd argue even more than 3x.
The Nasdaq 100 has returned 5x MOIC on a pretty consistent basis for the last number of years. If you just take a 10-year rolling QQQ that's a 5x MOIC for a long time.
Not many venture funds return 5x consistently.
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Who needs Miami when you have Lisbon😜
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Pluto has been the game-changer for adding serendipity back to virtual hangouts/meetups. 🏃♂️ One for you to check out 👾
@sab8a
@thomjenko
@dscape
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Employees wasting time on politics is probs the main reason companies lose PMF and traction.
Obsessive customer centricity, everything else is bs.
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@Kieranleehill
@HarryStebbings
You should meet
@amanmibra
,
@sobhan_nejad
,
@_shinkim
,
@colintluce
and
@cjfbutcher
:)
On the investor side,
@murr
is great!
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