Andy Dunn
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Entrepreneur. Author, “Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind.” Cofounder @bonobos @redswanventures .
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Let me tell you a ghost story.
My Ghost first arrived in the year 2000 and would haunt me for the next sixteen years. It was a secret, known only to a handful of my closest loved ones.
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Yesterday I was humbled to be invited to speak at a prestigious event hosted by a male VC. He offered to fly me on a private jet to an amazing place to be there. Wow. I was about to accept. Then I saw the list of advertised attendees. 20 men, 0 women. No thank you.
@AllRaise
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Good night New York. This is the most beautiful I have ever seen you.
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When I got to NYC in 2007 I was told we don’t make billion dollar tech companies here. We’ve seen the data that only 9% of VCs are women & only 3% of founding CEOs are. Today NYC minted it’s 2nd billion dollar woman-led & founded company *this week.*
@RenttheRunway
@glossier
🦄🦄
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Idea: a YouTube show called . We find five grandmothers to do pre-seed investing. $2m fund that writes 20 x $100k pre-seed checks. 20 deals over 2 years, 200 pitches so ~2 pitches a week and 10% investment rate.
Hypothesis is the grandmas outperform most
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Recently we moved at our company to 5 days a week in-person, all day every day for everyone.
We had to 100% change out personnel on a small team. Everyone leaving had an offer to move and 90 days of severance if they didn't want to.
With nothing but gratitude to the people that
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There comes a moment in everyone’s life when it’s time to face down your demons. For me, today is that day.
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If you’re into the intersection of AI x consumer social x the loneliness epidemic, react to this post or DM me.
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In 11 years of building
@BONOBOS
I have never been more proud. Today we relaunch our brand not just around the evolution of menswear, but the evolution of men.
#EvolveTheDefinition
We interviewed 172 individuals across a spectrum of body shape, race, age, and identity about the definition of “masculine.” Add your voice to theirs and help us
#EvolveTheDefinition
and create a world where every man fits.
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Have an executive coach you've worked with who you *love*? I'll put out a list once folks have weighed in. 🏅
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Who are the best venture capitalists and angel investors in Chicago?
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My TED talk is live. It’s called “Lessons from losing my mind.” If you’re looking for silver linings to hard things, you will find them here.
@TEDTalks
#MentalHealthAwareness
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If you’re in Chicago this summer and you’re looking to meet people, I’m hosting a ton of events.
Just interact with this tweet and
@cleo_shine
and I will send you details on how to get early access to them. 🎉
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It actually is 100% wrong. I remember walking into Bank of America the day Lehman Brothers failed with $300k of angel investor checks. The teller asked me: "what do you do??" I replied: "I sell pants." She said: "Everyone needs pants."
#everyonneedspants
The most important
I keep hearing the refrain, “Now is a terrible time to start a company.” And I don’t think that’s 100% wrong, but I do think it’s mostly wrong—especially for proptech businesses.
I actually think right now is maybe one of the BEST times to start a proptech company.
The real
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Most exciting thing in venture capital right now is the number of emerging female-founded funds. This will change entrepreneurship forever.
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My mom was born in a refugee camp in India. She came here when she was 20. She was a dreamer. She still is.
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Burn Rate is now a national bestseller. This speaks not to my book, but to the snowballing movement of mental health disclosure. Let’s keep telling our stories. Let’s keep going.
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Woke up this morning thinking about Kate Spade. I suffer from clinical depression - and am surviving it thanks to the efforts of loved ones and wonderful medication and a great doctor. It's time to de-stigmatize mental health issues.
@StampStigma
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Thank you
@selenagomez
and
@fromdaniella
for having me on the new Wondermind podcast!!🎙
The Business of Feelings Podcast is HERE! 🎉 Listen to our very first episode where
@fromdaniella
talks with
@dunn
about startups, his mental health journey and why it was so important for him to come forward with his story. 🎧
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I have never seen more people more motivated to change the world than right now.
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The first venture capital term sheet I ever received was from
@jeremysliew
and
@lightspeedvp
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This is Fearless Girl. If you don’t think we need more female statues, just look at this little girl. She’s been the subject of enormous controversy. Dressed and defiled in MAGA, sued, even decried by feminists as corporate exploitation. But she’s fearless. She doesn’t care.
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@matt_slotnick
@DemianCo
@dyah10
@AllRaise
Exactly. I like the thought though. Go and engage is better than be superior about it. But it is nuanced. You know what’s awesome? Guys talking about this. In public. On Twitter. 😁
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I worry for anyone in stealth mode. A dangerous combo of thinking (1) that anyone cares and (2) that ideas matter more than execution.
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1. People looking primarily to be right. 2. People looking primarily for the truth. A subtle difference with enormous consequences.
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Here’s the thing: I still live with it—but beginning today, the Ghost, my diagnosis of bipolar disorder, isn’t a secret anymore.
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Today was unreal. I can’t wait to share this with all of you.
@TEDTalks
@dunn
Thank you for the inspiring talk about your
#mentalhealth
journey. Truly worthy of the Standing O you received.
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Let's help the people of Nepal! I am contributing $10,000 to get this going. "Entrepreneurs for Nepal"
@indiegogolife
http://t.co/Y4qchjDSqo
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Honored to share my podcast w/ the indomitable
@guyraz
and the very well prepared team at
@HowIBuiltThis
. Most honest I've been about the mental health challenges so many of us face. To
@brianspaly
: thank you for inviting me to build
@bonobos
.
#grateful
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"Stepping Up" is my story of hiring Fran Della Badia to be the next CEO
@Bonobos
. We feel very lucky today:
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Amazing piece from
@TheEconomist
on why
@bonobos
we believe, paradoxically, the future of online is offline.
http://t.co/HDT5p9olve
@pmarca
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My TED talk goes live on Wednesday. There is a saying I heard recently that the gift is in the wound. Our mental health can undergird our greatness and see to destroy us at the same time. If any of that resonates with you, this one’s for you. 🔮
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Announcing the Dr. Charles and Usha Dunn Scholarship Fund in honor of our parents. It will be for international students in honor of Mom and at Dad’s alma mater
@NorthwesternU
@NUAlumni
in his honor. We love you both. Love -
@monicaandykids
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Strong ideas welcome dissent. Weak ideas fear it. Strong people welcome dissent. Weak people fear it.
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Humbled, honored & excited to announce our $55M round and plans to open 40
@Bonobos
guideshops
http://t.co/smPOxDJxgS
http://t.co/cEBteEzFvj
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This tweet is now a cult classic. Congrats
@saraduit
on your $20m round with
@a16z
. At
@redswanventures
we're excited to be a tiny part of our your journey.
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You can tell when an investor cares about the soul of your business vs caring only about the math. You want investors who care about both.
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” - James Baldwin
This is a serious question.
Why are white men like this so angry?
White men are at the top of the country’s racial caste system. What is the reason for the hatred?
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This is how America works. It goes to extremes. From Bush to Obama, Obama now to Trump. Oddly, its how it stays balanced. Believe, America.
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Dear
@VivekGRamaswamy
, for the love of God: it is not a bailout if depositors are protected but equity holders get wiped. Am I missing something? CC:
@WSJ
and everyone else in Capitalism.
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What
@PeteCarroll
just did is textbook leadership. Take the blame, whether it was your call or not.
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Founders love shiny new objects. CEOs know they can't afford to. Big step in the founder to CEO journey: learn to love one thing at a time.
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We are now live on
@TEDTalks
’s site. In 12 hours, between TED and YouTube, approaching a quarter of a million people have viewed this talk.
Friday I will be sharing a call to action. Watching a TED talk is cool. Doing something about it is even cooler.
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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I have read in several years. Pages ripping by. Astonshingly good.
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Germany has 9k dead. If Merkel was our President, leading with courage, candor, urgency, and an appreciation of science, we might be at 36k based on 4x population. We're at 134k. That means Donald Trump has ~100k +dead on his hands. That's World War I. That's *thirty* 9/11's.
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3 kinds of employees: 1. Always agree. 2. Rarely agree. 3. Never agree. What to do? 1. Fire. 2. Promote. 3. Insist they do start-up+invest.
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I'm a liberal. But I'm tired of talking to liberals who have no friends who voted for Trump. If you don't have a friend with a pickup truck, you don't get it. If you can't have civil dialogue with someone you disagree with, then you're not a liberal.
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SNAP goes public. Stock tanks. GOOG buys SNAP, then TWTR for 10% dilution. Fixes TWTR. Puts on homepage. FB vs GOOG, game on. Please!
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Dear
@JustinRose99
- So very honored to be partnering with you
@Bonobos
. Never thought we'd have one of the top golfers in the world and an Olympic gold medalist representing us. Love your passion for diversity & inclusion. Excited. Here we go.
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Let's build in Chicago.
Chicago based iOS Devs Andy who led Bonobos to a $310M acquisition by Walmart is looking to hire someone to work with him at the intersection of social connection & AI
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It’s easy to tell my wife I love her. It’s harder to do my half of all the housework to show her that I do.
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The last 100 years, retail organized arounds the automobile. The next 100 years, retail re-organizes around the smartphone.
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Kate Spade's market cap is now bigger than Sears. Retail is hard no matter who you are, but right now I'd rather be a brand than a channel.
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I don't understand "out of office" replies. I am going to start sending "away from my phone" replies.
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It was a thrill of a lifetime to be with the wonderful
@GayleKing
,
@tonydokoupil
and
@nateburleson
of
@CBSMornings
. This is the 6 minute summary of
#BURNRATE
🔥. They were so prepared and engaged: it blew me away. 💛
In a candid memoir, Bonobos co-founder
@dunn
recalls being diagnosed with Bipolar I disorder and battling the stigma surrounding mental health in the business world: “We need to normalize disclosure.”
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Note to "venture" investors: You always want to know who else is in. Truly great investors have courage to lead & don't follow the crowd.
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I'm reading Sapiens and so far MIND BLOWN. Entrepreneurs as sorcerers, modern day shamans of sorts. Yes.
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This is the most thorough article of 2016 on what we are doing
@bonobos
. The cat is out of the bag for all to see. 🐯
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Michael Sam jerseys are outselling Tom Brady jerseys. It's now cooler to be gay than to be married to a supermodel. Now that's progress.
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I had a life changing experience this week. We volunteered with
@DefyVentures
at Wallkill Prison. It’s incredible. By mentoring inmates on jobs and entrepreneurship recidivism can be reduced from 80% to <3%. Many folks have been their decades. Tears. Cheers. Amazing.
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We have a social isolation epidemic. We have a screen time problem. 😔 📱
But there’s good news! 🌈
People are working on it.
Do you know anyone who is the social glue in your 🌎 ? The person that plans stuff, and brings everyone together? Is it you?
If so DM me! 🔮
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The older I get, the more I learn, the less I know, the happier I become at what there is to learn. Rinse, repeat. Pass it on.
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The more people I hire who don't overly care what I think, the better our company does.
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Thank you FDR for creating the FDIC and Janet Yellen and co. for carrying the torch. To all the entrepreneurs and spirited teams who weathered this storm, god bless. The wires are hitting. In the US financial system we trust. 🇺🇸 🗽
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Today
@CoryBooker
announced he is running for President. From the first time I heard him speak, I knew this day would come. He will run as a unifier, because he is. He will run as a fighter, because he is. He will run as an optimist, because he is. Godspeed.
My soul belongs to God. I fear no man.
And I believe that anyone's individual capacity to denigrate will never be as strong as our collective power to elevate.
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My letter to dumb VCs on behalf of all entrepreneurs "Dear Dumb VC"
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Whenever I feel like maybe I am too busy, I just think about Jack Dorsey and then I feel better.
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