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While
@lennysan
's deep-dive on
@Linear
was creating a stir,
@MenloVentures
had the honor of co-hosting a product dinner with Nan Yu,
@Linear
's now-famous solo product leader to talk shop.
What's clear is Nan Yu is not your ordinary PM. 🤘 Stay tuned as Nan and I share our
My deep dive on
@Linear
caused quite a stir, so I sat down with
@karrisaarinen
to dig even deeper into how Linear operates. Karri rarely does interviews, so this is quite a treat.
In our conversation, we discuss:
→ The Linear method for modern software development
→
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Someone just dubbed a venerable VC firm as the puppy mill of venture capital. Now I can't unthink it.
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@lexithevc
I owe my career into VC to
@jdrive
+
@RRE
. They were not looking for a ivy-league 20 yr-old from a pedigreed family/resume. They wanted someone who pulled themselves out of adversity. Bc coming from nothing gives you the empathy to believe founders who are building from nothing.
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time & still retain the ability to function. One should, for ex, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.” - Fitzgerald
#TuesdayThoughts
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Finally the news is out! The end of building experimentation platforms in-house. I was struck by Che's thoughtfulness as a product visionary when we originally met at the seed + the depth of his experience having built
@Airbnb
's +
@Webflow
's experimentation platforms.
I'm happy to announce
@Get_Eppo
raised $16M from
@npilosof
at Menlo VC, on top of a prev $3.5M led by
@sarahcat21
at Amplify.
This funding comes in a looming recession. You're about to hear a lot more about AB experimentation in the coming months.
👉🧵
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Co-hosted a
#ProductAssembly
event w/
@Airtable
's VP of Product +
@Slack
's fmr VP of Product
@Ilanfrank
to collab w/ PMs from
@Gong
,
@Amplitude
,
@Middesk
,
@Confluent
,
@Captivateiq
,
@Gusto
,
@Superhuman
+ more. Stay tuned for top takeaways on how to make software enterprise-grade!
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If you don’t take the time to understand your users, they won’t understand your
#product
. Seasoned innovator
@iambangaly
shared some lessons with me about embracing
#diversity
to improve product during his time at
@Facebook
:
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What
@dauber
sends me to convince me not to wear heels 💅🏼
Fast walkers have higher IQ and larger brains than slow walkers.
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Not to stir the pot even further from my last tweet. BUT if VCs back outliers and the “underdog”, then why do most vcs come from only two schools.
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@darian314
this blows my mind as a fellow VC. as a fellow human. on what planet are we trying to play god and will stoop so low to blow up someone's life. be compassionate. be kind. live and breath empathy.
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Companies deserve monetization and billing infrastructure that works for them! Not vice versa.
Use
@useorb
!
@npilosof
@ktempestkeller
@MenloVentures
Today, we announce our $14m Series A funding led by
@MenloVentures
to continue building
@useorb
, the modern pricing platform that you actually want to use for your business.
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💥⚡️At
@Replit
’s first Developer Day watching demos. Favorite idea - someone building a social layer on chatgpt!
#hackathon
#GenAI
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How do you make software enterprise-ready?🤔I explore this topic with
@ilanfrank
@Airtable
's VP of Product and
@Slack
's fmr VP of Product. See his thoughts on the 5 Requirements of Enterprise Readiness here:
#Software
#enterprise
#productmanagement
At Menlo’s recent Product Assembly,
@airtable
's VP of Product
@ilanfrank
, sat down with Product Managers from across the industry and shared his five requirements to achieve enterprise readiness. Read this post from
@GraceWenGe
:
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@ychernova
@WSJVC
I look at this time period as being pretty formative in my career. Bc the pace is less frenetic, we really learn the art of the biz, how to be impactful as a good board member, how to build an enduring company through all market cycles. The refocus on post-investment is welcomed.
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Real talk advice with
@lennysan
. This week, we discussed Good v. Great growth rates at each stage of business. IMO: Velocity is everything post launch so you can prove your dream is REAL. Check out Lenny’s Newsletter:
"Velocity is everything post-launch. As the company matures, it’s less about convincing investors to dream the dream and more about proving the dream is real, executable, and monetizable.” —
@gracewenge
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What are other key layers in the modern AI infra stack?
Had a great time moderating 4 key players & layers:
1) FM Layer
@OpenAI
2) Inference & Training
@LaminiAI
@GregoryDiamos
@realSharonZhou
3) Data
@pinecone
@halfabrane
@EdoLiberty
4) Monetization
@useOrb
@kshithappens
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I had the honor of co-hosting a virtual
#ProductAssembly
event with
@klaviyo
's VP of Product
@jenkessler1
. Read our top 10 tips to consider as you build/scale new products here:
#Klaviyo
#SaaS
#VPProductTips
#ScaleYourStartup
#StartupTips
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@rauchg
I've said many of times. "The best AI products don't market themselves as AI products."
Congrats on hiring Kunal J to the Vercel team btw. He's a gem.
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For the SE,
@Vivun_Inc
gives them a voice at the table. For AE to CRO, it gives a differing technical perspective on the forecast and why deals are/aren’t closing. For product, it helps shape a roadmap based on data vs instinct. For CEOs, it's a barometer of market/customer needs
When we back founders, we look for a team that's "lived the problem." We found that in
@Vivun_Inc
with Matt Darrow and
@thebruce
who both spent many years in
#Presales
roles and now are filling the void in presales. More fm Menlo's
@GraceWenGe
@MMurph
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If I summarize what I do all day as a VC, think of a benign version of the show “You.”
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Lots of amazing primary research on the Enterprise State of AI by Menlo Ventures!! 👇👇
#GenerativeAI
#VentureCapital
#startups
Today, we released our State of Generative AI in the Enterprise, which draws on real-world budget data and insights from 450+ enterprise executives to unveil the evolving landscape of AI adoption, market trends, and how the future may play out.
The biggest surprise? Despite
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Why do I feel like I’m in an never-ending episode of Game of Thrones?
#CallTheElection
#CallTheRace
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@mmurph
Great dinner and even better conversation!
Amazing to see our NY stronghold continue to grow! Proud to be in
@pinecone
,
@FireHydrant
,
@Particle_Health
+ so many more!
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Amazing insights from
@kshithappens
'🌟 ALL-STAR GenAI Dinner last night. Quite hard to get an elusive invite to one of these infamous dinners (ping me if you need help). 🤣
#GenAIRevolution
Last night I hosted a
@useOrb
eng leaders private dinner with an amazing group of AI companies including
@Get_Writer
,
@robusthq
,
@typefaceai
,
@attentiveHQ
,
@AdeptAILabs
,
@basetenco
and more.
🧵here's what was top of mind for those in the room 👇🏽
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Thank you to everyone who attended our marketplace event
@TheBatterySF
and to our amazing speakers
@cpoetzscher
@marybiggins
@aaroneasterly
@marrc
@venkyganesan
@Bad2theSloane
. To those who couldn’t attend, we’ll release our State of the Marketplace report soon!!
@MenloVentures
Full house at
@MenloVentures
event "How to win as a marketplace" with
@cpoetzscher
@marybiggins
@aaroneasterly
at
@TheBatterySF
- attending with
@silenok
@clothia
@innavationlabs
#startupchats
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@ktempestkeller
@mmcolerSF
@DominicMadori
@ripple_ventures
@pearvc
@CRV
@NimaCapital
@SusaVentures
@davefontenot
@neotribevc
@FoundationFund
@Base10Partners
@MenloVentures
@RadicalVentures
@cerebral_valley
@timt
+1! boots on the ground is the way to go. IRL - we are know post-zoom era. :)
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Software is eating the office. Congrats to the super talented
@Altimor
and
@getTeamflow
.
Welcome to the
@MenloVentures
family! Great post from
@nmasc_
.
1/ I'm insanely excited to announce what I've been working on for the last year:
Teamflow, a virtual office that makes you feel like a team again. Coming out of stealth and announcing our $3.9M seed round today 🎉🎉🎉
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From the very beginning, we knew you were the type of founder who could run through walls to achieve anything. In this case, you are digitizing them :)
Congrats
@Altimor
!!
Thrilled to announce Teamflow has raised a $35M Series B led by Coatue's
@LucasSwisher1
!
Existing investors
@npilosof
,
@gracewenge
,
@NeerajVC
and
@BrandonGleklen
are joining the round as well.
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Congrats to
@Altimor
and
@getTeamflow
on the launch of Teamflow 2.0 today - bringing the
#metaverse
to work with all new features to make remote collaboration absolutely seamless. Via
@siliconangle
@robhof
1/ Insanely excited to announce Teamflow's biggest update yet — Teamflow 2.0, featuring:
- a complete redesign
- iOS and Android apps(!!)
- AI face framing
- multiplayer screen sharing pointers
- multiplayer web browser
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An amazing accomplishment on
@SlackHQ
's end that should be spoken about more!
For those of us in tech, I hope our passion reflects an equal desire to advocate for new upstarts that equalize access to opportunities and amplify voices previously not heard.
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Congrats
@nik_mijic
,
@Zakstein
@Matik_io
+
@chesharma87
@Get_Eppo
Couldn't be a more proud partner!!!
🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
Proud partner of two
@Forbes
#Cloud100
Rising Stars! 🌟Congrats to
@Matik_io
&
@Get_Eppo
- amazing teams & software that lets users shift from manual work to solving higher-order problems (like driving revenue!). Cheers to the full list: cc:
@MenloVentures
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✨
@Figma
's CPO extraordinaire
@yuhkiyam
+ I did a deep-dive into what was truly happening behind the scenes of the design darling leading up to the proposed Adobe acquisition.
Check out our conversation below 👇🏼
Figma’s story of disrupting the
#design
category is a Cinderella story. Product teams could learn from the Figma playbook, so Menlo’s
@gracewenge
sat down with
@Figma
’s CPO
@yuhkiyam
to learn how key product decisions put Figma on a path to success. 🚀
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@roshanpateI
investing from a first principles approach obviously. Haha. Also if that’s your real reason, just make up another reason!!
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Thanks Tiff! No patagonia puffer here tho they are great for the SF cold 🤭🤔
No
#VCstarterkit
needed! Not only does my
@gracewenge
defy many VC stereotypes she does it with style & grace(!) She's an amazing partner to early-stage teams, respected for her insight and instincts & also my fashion icon.
#IForgotHowToDressPostPandemic
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@timy0ung
Also please don’t raise at such a high valuation that there is little upside for these folks to join.
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April 24 @ 5:30 with
@OpenAI
@pinecone
@Cloudflare
@useOrb
@LaminiAI
. Location
@Cloudflare
HQ. Invite only.
DM+like if you are interested.
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Congratulations and welcome to
@bobbytables
and the
@FireHydrantIO
team on their Series A. Thrilled to have you join the
@MenloVentures
portfolio and can’t wait to see what you accomplish with this game-changing systems management tool.
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@ashramachandran
@ashramachandran
i actually think being a "perfectionist" is a valid response. it hurts velocity and prevents you from seeing the forest from the trees because you are so anxiety-ridden from doing everything right. it's a huge weakness because in pursuing perfection, nothing is.
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“Why hadn’t I been born a boy? I had all these ideas, all these dreams, but nobody would ever recognize them”. - every woman. Really loving the slow roll-out of
@sidraqasim
’s
@WearAtoms
story via
@humansofny
.
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Horrible lighting. Good food. Even better conversation. Favorite eng icebreaker: “What was your favorite bug that you had to fix while on call?”
Also why is Datadog so f***** expensive 😭.
Had a great time at the
@useOrb
engineering leaders dinner co-hosted with
@gracewenge
alongside leaders from
@ScribeHow
,
@niledatabase
,
@basetenco
,
@webflow
,
@temporalio
,
@twilio
,
@InstabaseInc
, and more! 5️⃣ lessons below.
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So proud of you
@nik_mijic
+
@Zakstein
!!
@npilosof
and I knew from first meeting the
@Matik_io
product was a no-brainer given the ability and potential to abstract so much repetitive work across a variety of form factors. Welcoming
@kshenster
to the Matik family :).
1/ Congrats
@matik_io
on your Series A! It’s been a pleasure working with
@nik_mijic
, &
@Zakstein
as they build an automation platform for personalized, data-driven documents. Welcome to
@a16z
’s
@kshenster
& more from
@bayareawriter
via
@Techcrunch
here:
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@akothari
Mine took 15 and I lived in the US since 3. Even then, people want to know what country I’m from even if I identify as American. It’s a struggle when you feel in between places and can’t call home home.
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Yooo…thought we were just getting the hang of covid. Now we have monkey pox. Just don’t tell me when the invasion of the body snatchers start.
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@rubenharris
No! I 100% agree with you. Just my reaction to folks that gave that advice in the first place.
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Has anyone else tried the Rabbit R1?
@rabbit_hmi
Pros:
- Beautiful design (reminds me of the gameboy)
- Perplexity credit
- Good start on cross-app automation
- Vision feature
Cons:
- Functionality missing that
@jessechenglyu
demoed
- Some hallucinations
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Quibi funding 2020: $1.8B
ALL female VC funding 2020: $2B
😒😒
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A necessary dose of optimism: Many of today's top tech players were born or built during recessions and downturns.
@Microsoft
1975
@Apple
1975, 2001
@Airbnb
2008
@Asana
2008
@Square
2009
@Uber
2009
@Slack
2009
@Cloudflare
2009
...and many more...
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And later stages as well!
@npilosof
The current seed stage climate is wild.
==2019==
VC email: Sorry, we're going to pass.
[10 min later]
Founder: Damn. Would anything change your mind?
==2020==
VC email: Sorry, we're going to pass.
[4 days later]
Founder: No prob! We got 6 term sheets and we're oversubscribed.
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If you look at the people in your circle and don’t get inspired, then you don’t have a circle. You have a cage. -
@NipseyHussle
#ThursdayThoughts
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@itsmeeraclark
Irrational = the normal baseline for nice but the bar is so low now any empathy is over the top.
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No matter what walk of life you come from or ideological belief - most people want the same thing: to be loved, support their families, and have the opportunity to pursue their dreams. Something to remember during the
#DebateTonight
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@jonsakoda
Not easy to do in every situation and hard to do if you have not spent significant time mapping out people you want to follow and developing those relationships. Takes a shift in thinking about your career not hop to hop but broad arcs of time.
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@sreenidhikolli
Agreed! Operators and founders alike. My inbox is open as well grace
@menlovc
.com.
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3. Navigating the American healthcare system, the discovery of qualified doctors, the payment of care
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@garyvee
Always a nice day somewhere :)
...that is of course until climate change ruins everything.
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Great insight from
@RoverDotCom
@mealpal
@Poshmarkapp
@cpoetzscher
on marketplaces and how to best scale them (via
@MenloVentures
)
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for all the people private DMing me who 😂
only 2 people got it right
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@haydenfield
@polina_marinova
@ProfileRead
@MorningBrew
@etechbrew
Congrats! Jerry is amazing. Not only is he one of the pre-eminent experts in the QC space but a wonderful teacher and human being. When I was deep-diving in the space at RRE, he was an invaluable guide and mentor. Can’t say enough good things.
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