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working on many new things | founder @ v2 admissions | prev @ bessemer, vista, ut austin
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fun life update: i quit my job
friday marked my last day as an investor at
@BessemerVP
-- although short-lived, I couldn't sit still anymore not working on the ideas and vision I've been dreaming of building for these last few years across my various investing roles
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I turned 22 this year (thinking I’m early to the game), and I just wrote my first angel investment check…
for a 15-year-old founder.
Here’s why
@ericzhu105
is gonna change the VC world with
@joinaviato
🧵👇
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@PrivatEquityGuy
Mutual of mine, selling online courses teaching guys how to create dating profiles around $200k monthly, subscription 😮💨
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1] Passion for Building
2] Understands Meme Culture
3] Solving a True Problem
4] Loves Storytelling
Let’s break these down:
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Excited to finally share... I'll be joining the Forge team at
@BessemerVP
to focus on software investing! Making the move out to SF was a huge decision, but can't wait to get settled in and explore a new city -- that being said, hit me up for food & drinks!
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i'll be sticking around SF as I've built high conviction there's no better city in the world right now to build with high prioritization and intensity + i've found an incredible community and group of friends in just the few months I've been here
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more threads and thoughts to come on what's next, but as a sneak peek:
- continuing to build college admissions biz
- rebuilding the creative agency I previously sold
- most importantly, something critically needed in education
- some upcoming travels across asia / south america
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I first saw his viral story across TikTok and Twitter where he raised $500k from his high-school bathroom. 🤯 Wild.
I reached out to him immediately and set up a call.
Within 15 minutes of chatting, I was sold and had conviction in him as a founder. Here’s what I saw in him 👇
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I started a (now) 6-figure consulting firm when I was 17 and have operated at 85%+ margins for 5+ years without spending more than a total few hundred $s on marketing.
This thread will break down my journey and the key decisions I've made along the way.
Here's my story 🧵👇
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3] Solving a True Problem
Dry powder is accumulating within the VC world and GPs are struggling to find the next big thing. As we approach a potential recession, tools that help identify the next unicorn are going to be in high demand.
Aviato bridges great founders to great GPs
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@nonmayorpete
Google v Microsoft is going to continue accelerating AI adoption into mainstream, exciting stuff!
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1] Passion for Building
Eric creates because he absolutely loves it. What started off as memes has turned into a real product that serves a great use case: helping VCs find incredible startups.
And for Eric? From just our conversations, I can tell he lives and breathes his work
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As an Asian-American who has spent years in college admissions consulting… this is just a bad excuse for having a bad application. Tens of thousands of kids have 1550+ on SAT every year, it’s just a baseline metric
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2] Understands Meme Culture
I’ve shared with a few twitter friends about my first angel investment. And the first few comments are always:
“Oh Eric? He’s hilarious”
“I absolutely love his memes”
“10/10 tweets”
He’s been building a great brand right in front of us
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All in all, I was sold. I don’t even have that much money to throw towards angel investing. Just doing it cause I’m excited to support him in his journey as a founder.
Check out — big things are coming!
As a note, this is not an ad. Just super pumped 🫡
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4] Loves Storytelling
Eric loves and knows how to effectively story-tell. The story behind Aviato? A great meme from the show, Silicon Valley.
Eric knows his audience well and curates both his content and product to future users of his own product.
It all fits together.
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this is my start in exploring tech/vc/sf twitter! here’s an about me 🧵 (all tweets are my own, no affiliations)
- moving to SF from chicago
- incoming associate at a new PE fund
- founded college admissions consultancy
- sold creative agency at age 21
more details below 👇
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@MorganBarrettX
@ericzhu105
@joinaviato
🫡 this is just the start! Whether it’s building or investing, end goal is making an impact. Money is a byproduct
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Watched this page grow from 3k to 4.5k in a matter of an hour. Really valuable content on here… sharing for visibility
JFC !! You guys took me from 200 followers to
1,000 in 6 hours!
Merry Christmas and TYSM!!!
Please send more content requests. I can talk for hours on PE firm life
If someone teaches me how to use spaces, happy to do one!
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@stephmui
Funny enough, if some gen z founder built a Facebook replica un-ironically and marketed it as such, I’d bet adoption wouldn’t be too shabby
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Have a top tier technical founder friend (ex Stripe / Citadel) looking for technical co-founder (someone full-stack, front-end focused). 10x engineer looking for 10x engineer. Any got leads? 👀
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Best take I’ve seen on this… SAT / GPA are probably the least differentiating factor of your application nowadays to college.
If you’ve spent time in admissions, you don’t bat an eye at headlines like these…
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Enjoying funemployment and treated lil brother to his first omakase
📍Hidden Omakase, Houston TX
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Finally found my favorite personal CRM with
@FolkHQ
— incredibly simple and intuitive with a great UI… only feedback is better mobile contact integration. But otherwise, this app finally has what I’ve been looking for 🫡
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Would highly recommend the kid go to Stanford if he’s optimizing for tech / entrepreneurship. Build contextual knowledge early and be exposed to the environment.
Harvard may provide a *very* slight edge in professional optionality, but students have so much more leverage in
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New bull market starts tomorrow
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Been spending a lot of time interviewing teachers these past few weeks, really concerning to hear some of the pain points that have existed for decades without solutions… would love to continue these convos if anyone has friends or mentors who teach!
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Jalen Green is ridiculous. The most excited I’ve been for the Rockets in years 😭
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Our results, you might ask?
~95% accepted into 1 of top 3 choice schools
~97% accepted into at least 1 Top 20 ranked school
~50% attend an Ivy League or Tier 1 (Stanford & MIT)
With nearly ~75 students in our sample size now... we keep rolling...
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*help needed*
moving to SF and am in need for recs! in order of importance:
- best restaurants / eats (all cuisines welcome!)
- who should I meet / get coffee or drinks with?
- nicest parks / weekend trips (thankfully will have my car!)
- what's important to know?
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In short, I help high-performing kids get into elite colleges.
It started in high school when I helped a close friend of mine apply for Questbridge Scholars, and he ultimately received a full-ride scholarship to study CS at MIT and Stanford 🤯 How?
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Interesting to see the types of reactions this post is garnering. Just a friendly note that not everybody has the same definitions of fun!
Got invited to a pre-New Years Eve party in SF…
But instead of partying, everyone was just hacking on startups and side projects. They were intense.
Here are some of the demos we saw from the party animals at
@AGIHouseSF
(🧵):
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Finally 1500 in bullet (1/1 setting) after years of casual chess and 45 straight days of focus… pretty happy with that 650 ELO jump
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- html
- gave up
In what order did you learn programming languages? I’ll start:
- basic
- qbasic
- javascript
- java
- matlab
- mips assembly
- c
- perl
- bash
- sml
- python
- c++
- php
- ruby
- objective c
- typescript
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@AnanthVeluvali
Lol love this, did something very similar scraping r/chanceme and r/applyingtocollege for admissions consulting leads
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Alright… how can we get
@Costco
to see the fact my mom bit into a literal metal rod in her snacks 😅 yikes
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@jackmmcclelland
It’s usually when I’m three drinks in and ask my friend if they want to build an AI company with me
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Know a few ‘A’ tier data scientists looking for exciting new roles across transportation, e-commerce, healthcare, insurance spaces… anyone hiring? 👀
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@privateinequity
A few slides are always enough to see someone’s legit / has gone through their MBB stint!
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These are the types of essays you gotta write to be differentiated in the college admissions process 🫡
was showing my gf some of my past writings. came across this one. quite proud of it
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I just so happen to be moving to SF day of JPMorgan healthcare conference so all my flights are $1000+ 🫠
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Never thought I’d see Sugar Land TX on any of these lists 👀
Seed funding in Chicago is on the rise. We were one of only three major metros on this list that had a positive % change in funding from 2022 to 2023. Rome wasn’t built in a day. BULLISH.
Data from
@PeterJ_Walker
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Huge, congrats
@Cyrus845
🫡
I'm thrilled to announce that
@usehaven
has closed its Pre-seed and blown past $1 million in topline revenue 🚀
We've come a long way in a short time, achieving profitability within our first year and building an amazing team of 14 — and growing!
If you haven’t heard of us,
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cheers to dry january
(I didn’t participate, just celebrating those who did)
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@gaganbiyani
@MavenHQ
As someone who has tried building courses on a ton of separate platforms, this is incredibly exciting. Will dive in soon 👀🫡
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Incredible we’re starting to see fascinating product launches and demos more and more often… should we be scared or excited?
With OpenAI, Figure 01 can now have full conversations with people
-OpenAI models provide high-level visual and language intelligence
-Figure neural networks deliver fast, low-level, dexterous robot actions
Everything in this video is a neural network:
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If you truly live in Texas, you shouldn’t be enjoying either 💀
These 2 Texas taco joints are poised to take over the world. Move over, Chipotle.
Velvet - 63 locations
Torchy's - 125
And I'm proud to say "I knew them back when" But which one is better?
Torchy's has the best queso on the planet, hands down.
But Velvet's red curry queso is
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Glad UT publishes this data, standardized testing is an incredibly important baseline benchmark to test for generic aptitude capability within higher education.
You aren’t admitted because of a high score. It’s just a baseline to know whether you can handle academic rigor
University of Texas data dump on test-optional students. I've been waiting for this! Ivies will never publish out of embarrassment, but UT did.
Test-optional admits had a first semester GPA 0.86 points lower than those who submitted SAT/ACT. A whole grade!
The median SAT of
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How did we do here for an 8-man league? 👀 fleeced Kelce in 2nd round
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First, we're fully comprehensive. So we help students through the whole nine yards: picking the schools to apply for, what majors to study, summer programs, internships, resumes, interviews, literally anything tangentially related to your college application.
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Me when filing taxes:
my favorite feeling in the world is “I’ve done everything I could, and whatever happens from now on is not my fault so I can just relax”
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The set is stunning, Kith continues to be stellar
Still can’t believe Taylor Made was able to execute this. I told them I wanted to work on a gradient metal set. Took two years of development, but the outcome is beautiful. Thank you
@TaylorMadeGolf
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The prop auction for Succession is easily the most exciting live auction that is ongoing right now… how can you not love this as a fan of the show?
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Not yet an accredited investor but I’ll invest in your tweets pre-virality
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In response? 😉
"Well, look at these results we've received over the past few years, I'm cost-effective 🤑, and your kids will actually enjoy working with a recent high-school grad rather than an 'ex-college admissions professional' who has a 20+ year age gap."
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I'm offering due diligence as a service. Before you invest millions into an AI or hard tech startup, hire me for $9.9K. I will evaluate feasibility of idea and realisticness of timeline given founder.
Send money before reach out, dm for CashApp. Will refund if not a fit
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I gave GPT-4 all the info I have about my startup:
- All of my historical financials
- Perspectives on growth and potential
- TAM/SAM market sizing
- Customer health metrics
Synthesized and consolidated into one easy takeaway: throw away the business 🥹
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founded college admissions consulting firm
- worked with students from 30+ states, 10+ countries
- was not cited in operation varsity blues (no funny business here, i promise)
- 95% of our students get into 1 of their top 3 schools
- created the first masterclass on college apps
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This kid grew up to be Bill Ackman… inspirational
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@litcapital
+120 Launches with ex-KKR
+200 Launches with ex-Carlyle
+600 Teams with Skky Partners
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investing (early- and late-stage)
- full-time, i focus on b2b software (more soon!)
- part-time, i'm building & investing in edtech
- part-time, i help friends in consumer software
- have written a few small angel checks (shoutout
@joinaviato
&
@ericzhu105
for my first check)
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Absolutely huge 🫡🫡
I couldn't be more excited to announce in
@TechCrunch
that
@joinfizz
has raised $14.4M in Seed Funding, led by Ilya Fushman
@ilyaf
at
@kleinerperkins
.
Thank you
@bayareawriter
for breaking the news.
In year one, we went from 0 to >300 campuses, and helped tens of thousands of
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@Bosefina
Go to Neptune Oyster! Loved this restaurant, and maybe check out the Chinatown there too it’s pretty good 😄
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