lies. i worked
@twitter
5 yrs + wrote 2 books on social media mktg. this is 💯 FALSE &
@twitter
knows it. we never sold it on clicks, bc it is much lower on traffic than FB, LI, etc. twitter has other key strengths. (& mrkting is way more than clicks;)
News: I put on a Handmaid's costume and flew to surprise my pregnant founder with a crazy question. "Can I step in for two months & help out at your startup so you can take a parental leave?"
#valueaddinvestor
😂🦄🤰🏿... A thread:
Some news: Six months ago I switched from angel investor to VC and became a partner at
@magmapartners
. Today, we're launching Brava (
@holabrava
), our initiative to invest in 20+ female founders in Latin America.
you guys my high school BFF
@rorysatran
(fashion editor
@WSJ
) wrote about the power of REVENGE FASHION 👠as a middle finger💄to the dirty sweatpants of 2020 & i'm 98% sure she is trying to tell me it's time to stop looking like shit:
On
@ycombinator
Demo Day, it's time to do better. 🙏🏾YC is GREAT for many. It's a rainmaker. I HUSTLE to help founders get in! But the hard truth is that a key reason YC diversity stats + overall returns are not improving is that YC has no current FT women investing partners.
Just a friendly venture capital reminder that the main way to get into oversubscribed deals is to not ask the founder if they are pregnant. 🤰🏼🦄🍼
#VentureCapital
#bestpractices
#knowledge
I'm a VC who stepped in to help my founder's company so she could take parental leave. I'm begging Silicon Valley to do more to support women founders (cc
@jefa_io
@emmyagsmith
) 🦄🤰🏿🍼🙌🏿
1. YC made a big change yesterday which could have massive negative impacts on emerging markets (hola LatAm 🇦🇷!). Here's everything you need to know. 😢:
How do we FINALLY fix the venture capital funding crisis for women founders?!🤔Focus on this ONE 1⃣ thing.👇🏿My latest (heavily researched) hot take in
@TechCrunch
. 🔥🔥🔥🦄🦄🦄
Finally (10 days late) turned in final edits on the hardest book I’ve ever written (
#9
). Insert exhaustion. Vision: Throw it in the pool, achieve psychological distance via momentous jump. Reality: Poor throw, shallow end, dragged in a 4-year-old who can’t swim, STORY OF MY
#LIFE
The secret is out! 🤫 For 6 months, 150+ professional VCs from 28 countries 🌎
@KauffmanFellows
have been testing if *decentralized venture capital* can improve deal flow, decision making, and *returns*. 🚀 Welcome to
@vc3dao
! A 🔥 thread👇🏼:
Did you know that women investors invest 2-3x MORE OFTEN in women founders & women CEOs? Here's everything you need to know about the social science of HOMOPHILY & why it’s one of the most important factors in startup investing & ecosystem creation. ⬇️👇🏿🔥🦄
DRUM ROLL: We're thrilled to announce KF's newest cohort of 57 brilliant leaders in VC hailing from top firms across 18 countries 🎉 Our most diverse class yet (51% people of color & 42% female)with incredible investing power ($30.8B in total AUM)
Congratulations to all incoming women MBA interns at VC funds everywhere, who after this fine international women’s day crypto bro debacle 🤣 will surely be headlining many top fund Team pages by morning! 🙏
#WAGMI
The most North American-centric take I’ve ever seen. 😳 If I hadn’t left SF to see the 🌍 (paid for w lame online job) I wldn’t have started a Kenyan NGO, become an early employee
@Twitter
, found ❤️ in Argentina, studied in UK, wrote 9 📚 & become a 🔥 VC in LatAm.
#BEHIND
Hi moms & everyone who has ever had one: We are nearly 1 year into this hellscape & the working moms are 1000% still not okay. A thread about how HYBRID PANDEMIC DUMPSTER FIRE SCHOOL is trying to push any remaining working moms out of the workforce.
so I'm a few days into
#SellingSunset
and "jacob" (28?) is interested in a $40M home b/c he "made it big in tech." am i the first to suggest real-time
@LinkedIn
URLs onscreen we viewers can take bets on legitimacy of potential buyers?
"GO TO ARGENTINA," they said. "Go for the women of the third web," they said. 🇦🇷 Vamos chicas, juntas vamos a cambiar este mundo.🚀❣️🦄
@cryptochica_arg
@HannaSchiuma
@mujeresencrypto
Listos para conocer la nueva generación? ...⬇️
For those trying to get in touch with me: My husband & kids have Covid (quadruple womp) so I’m cancelling life this week. Disclaimer: I will likely be trolling Twitter, liking random crap. This is not a contradiction. 😷 😷 😷
If you are a founder from an EMERGING MARKET who is raising money this week from Silicon Valley VCs (hello at
@ycombinator
!), don't be too dazzled by the fancy names. Always ask yourself, “Is this a strategic check? Or is this just stupid?” (Some thoughts .... a thread 👇🏿
Hola Mexico! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 I lived here 17 years ago & now I’m back! If you’re a woman founder or funder slide into my DMs for a small-dinner invite in CDMX;) ❤️🚀🦄
10% of the entire country is in streets / have shut down major highways. Players have to come in on helicopters. Second day of national holidays. EVERYTHING IS FINE. 🔥🤣🇦🇷⚽️
No one really knows where the bus filled with World Cup winners will go. There’s a sea of people eager to celebrate with the Argentina squad but unclear how they will get there. There are now rumors they may put players in helicopters.
Nothing like International Women’s Day in a global pandemic to remind us to celebrate women, who statistically had a crappier year than the other half. 💪🏽💪🏿💪
Data show women *investing* partners are 2-3X more likely to invest in women. Data from
@AllRaise
(etc!) show women founders get better returns. If
@ycombinator
is 0 for 11 (?) in terms of *full-time* women investing partners, their returns are not what they could be.
@jsawadd
@ericbahn
@Twitter
twitter is incredible for getting to know and eventually reaching out 1:1 to someone you want to get in touch w. in one of my books i have a whole evaluation i made of which social sites are best for which goals, and what industry you’re in.
Solution: I,
@claire
(VALUE ADD INVESTOR VC LADY
@magmapartners
@holabrava
) offer to help team so Emma can take a parental leave with new baby. Emma says yes!
@malavikachugh
+ Team Jefa says yes! Everyone wonders if a VC has ever done this? (Prolly no bc maybe v bad idea 😂)
Well that escalated exactly like it deserved to. ❤️ (Thanks
@MacConwell
for being a friend,
@KauffmanFellows
classmate, AND letting me be an LP on your rocket ship.🚀)
My latest in
@TechCrunch
--> Latin America takes the global lead in VC $ and deals going to female founders, *despite* a lack of female investing partners:
It’s been an awful week in an awful year. (No, the pandemic isn’t over in much of the world.) Last night I made myself a Negroni to relax. Tasted a little weird. 2020, I JUST CANT QUIT YOU. 😩🥲🤦♀️
Are you a WOMAN OF THE 3RD WEB in Buenos Aires? 🤔🇦🇷 Come eat with me
@lolitataub
@HannaSchiuma
@CChangs
next week. (I will try to look better in person.) 🙏 DMs open
@shellen
@sacca
i have two of them 😭 (+ their sister). male toddler twins are like having ur kid’s stupidest friend with the most life threatening ideas around ALL THE TIME to egg him on
ASTRAZENECA for ARGENTINE INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!!! For those who have had the misfortune to follow my vaccine journey on the interwebs, you can bet that I feel 100% just as crazed as I look 🤣
Know anyone who wants to use 8-10 TINY seconds of time today to fight discrimination against pregnant women startup founders? Tell me their names or DM me directly to
#raisethebump
🤰🏾🔥🍼🦄
#pregnancyisnotaPRcrisis
5 years ago today I gave birth to preemies 9.5 weeks early! These days, they’re just a couple of cool kids on a couch asking too many questions during
@NakedAndAfraid
🤣❤️😳
On this Valentine’s day, I will love...myself. 😂 By lying alone in a kid bed on a rainy beach vacay eating fries & watching
@BachelorABC
. May no one bother me & may we never again experience the last 11 months. Love to all (but really just mothers). ❤️
hola chicas en tech en Buenos Aires! con
@HannaSchiuma
vamos a tener dos cenas este mes para mujeres en tecnología! (si sos fundadora o inversora y queres venir, mándame un DM! 🙏❤️🦄 💻💪🏻💪🏾🇦🇷
I *finally* got a flight out of Argentina to visit the USA!!!! 🇺🇸 Sure a stable currency, home mortgages, and cars driving in their own lanes on the highway are great but HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A CVS MACHINE IN AN AIRPORT?! 😳😳😳
On a Zoom call this week, I watched behind me as one twin went outside, peed, got it all over his pants, and then tried (unsuccessfully) to get the pants off. SEND THESE CHILDREN SOME CAREGIVERS, STAT.
Sad news: Globally, female founders get just 2.8% of VC $ each year. Happy news: We want to talk funding strategies to help! (think
@ycombinator
deadlines & more!). Come chat with me &
@APatelThompson
on
@wearequilt
TODAY at 4 PT —->
@vickyguareschi
PD: Si sos una mujer en cripto, veni a PITCHEARME a mi (y a
@HannaSchiuma
). Saben que las mujeres VCs invierten en emprendedoras y directoras ejecutivas a una tasa casi tres veces mayor que los inversores?!!
Did you know that women investors invest 2-3x MORE OFTEN in women founders & women CEOs? Here's everything you need to know about the social science of HOMOPHILY & why it’s one of the most important factors in startup investing & ecosystem creation. ⬇️👇🏿🔥🦄
Up, up and to the right! 🤣 Thanks to
@KauffmanFellows
for a truly incredible week in the woods. 🙏 The transparency, the tears, the tequila. ❤️ My vc-human heart will be emptier, until Miami.
#class26
It’s 6:29 PM and only 1/35 of my RSVPs have arrived for the 6:30 pm Mexico City meetup of founders & funders of the tropically afflicted. (Vamos
@HelleJeppsson
@scapeMasajes
, who is swedish, obviously). 🇸🇪🤣
Yesterday, my sweet grandma headed off to Heaven. By now, she’s surely having one hell of a tiny pink gin with Pa up there in the clouds. We love you so much, Ma. Also, eff Covid. ❤️❤️❤️
Last night I gave my husband CBD for the first time. He’s NEVER slept so well & he can’t stop talking about “starting CBD company”. When do I break it to him I’ve already invested in
@house__of__wise
? Congrats
@AmandaMGoetz
@shuggilippo
@KatColeATL
💥🦄🥂
Today
@house__of__wise
announces our $2m seed round to accelerate our mission of empowering women to be in control of their sleep, sex, stress and wealth.
Sharing learnings from our first 6 months as well as some exciting announcements below! ⬇️🧵
Bye hospital!
@lucia
was discharged and is now happily back home in quarantine. 😂 Her mama is the one who now needs some adrenal support. Thanks for your well wishes! ❤️
caption: i am in paradise AND ALSO i am single-handedly keeping everyone from drowning / dictating responses to urgent! pending! whatsapp messages bc LatAm founders keep founding 🔥🤣🇧🇷🇦🇷
If you're building a disruptive company, my goal is to be your first check.
You don't need a product. You don't need revenue. You don't even need a legal entity yet.
I'll invest in the right person going after the right market.
Problem: Founder & CEO
@emmyagsmith
has a sizzling fintech women are clamoring for. Company
@jefa_io
so hot! But Emma so pregnant. 🥲🍼
#WOMP
! Pregnancy has historically been treated as a PR crisis for founders. Is there any way to solve this INTRACTABLE problem!?
In what may come as a surprise to tech bros everywhere, (😂),
@jefa_io
, the women's challenger bank for LatAm, is in the
@TechCrunch
#TCDisrupt
finals! Burn it down
@emmyagsmith
, BURN. IT. DOWN.... 🙌🦄🔥👩🚒
PS: VC *can* be a virtuous cycle for women... if we do it right! Join me this week at the
@WSJ
Women in the Workplace
@WSJforum
to discuss how to better lift up women founders! Watch women win;) 🦄🦄🦄
"How do you convince mainly men investors that a female issue they probably never had is a *real* issue?" A founder in
@triinlinamagi
's latest
@sieventures
cohort today asked me this today. Thoughts? 🥴
the sheer # of “i’m sorry” texts from US friends & family re: Argentina’s new president highlights the complete misunderstanding by US news media about why he was elected & how we feel. despite his hair,
@JMilei
is *not* “Argentina’s new trump”
Our kids started a preschool pod a WEEK ago & we’ve already been exposed to covid so now the 5 of us are back in quarantine ... without childcare. 😂 IS THIS HOW THIS WORKS?
We need a diverse group of investors at the table to best invest in a diverse group of founders with a diverse array of innovative ideas. Full stop. Stay tuned for my article next week in
@TechCrunch
to break it down.🔥🔥🔥
I’m gonna save us all a lot of work and call it. Today’s shot, inclusive of its attendant detritus, will be my best option for a December 2022 holiday card. Remain merry and bright!🎄
Post-Covid video happiness message! For our fam, the last couple weeks were 100% the longest of the 999 weeks of 2020 so far! But Jose and kids are healthy post-Covid and ready for even more togetherness to stave off reinfection 😭😭😭
They sent a photographer to my house so I could break it to you gently that 2020 was the year the global VC industry said, "NO SOUP FOR YOU, WOMAN FOUNDER!" (PS: There's hope. I swear. 🦄)
@AlexGonzor
@restofworld