John Melas-Kyriazi
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co-founder & CEO at @metrics_co // dad x2 and husband to @christinaphili5
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Working with customers like General Catalyst, Salesforce Ventures, and Bessemer is the best part of what we do at
@metrics_co
. 🙏
We've built a brand new homepage that shares more about how we support our customers at . Take a look and LMK what you think!
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Just witnessed a car break-in on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Guy on a bike smashed a Tesla window and took some things from the back seat. Parking lot attendant told me he’s seen five smashed windows today.
This city is a fucking mess.
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One of the best investments in history was made by South African media company Naspers buying a huge early stake in Tencent. This is right up there with SoftBank/Alibaba as one of GOAT VC moves.
$32M —> $175B between 2001 and 2018 💸
Little is said about Naspers, a south-African company that invested $32 million in Chinese startup Tencent.
The stake is worth over $175 billion now.
In fact, the value of that investment is more than the market cap of the investor.
@asemota
@NaijaFlyingDr
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@terronk
@elonmusk
@micsolana
Same. My perspective on this issue has shifted pretty dramatically over the past five years just from witnessing the absolute chaos that’s unfolded here.
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With full hearts (and sleepy heads),
@ChristinaPhili5
and I are so happy to welcome our daughter Sophia into our family and into this world. 🙂
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Excited to announce our $23.7M Series A led by
@8vc
and an amazing group of customers/supporters (more on that!) to scale our data & relationships platform for the private markets.
Also unveiling our new name: Standard Metrics!
@metrics_co
(👋 Quaestor)
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Our newest recruit at
@QuaestorTech
is already teaching me about rapid iteration, time management, and working through sleepless nights. 🤠
@ChristinaPhili5
and I are so happy. We can’t wait for the world to meet little Theo. ❤️
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We have news!
@quaestortech
has raised a $5.8M seed round from
@8VC
,
@sparkcapital
,
@abstractvc
,
@global_founders
,
@riotvc
, and
@fathomvc
.
We’re proud to all share a common mission: improving the efficiency of the innovation economy. 👇
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The minute I get tired of San Francisco, I fall right back in love.
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Excited for my wife
@ChristinaPhili5
— a super talented product leader (
@Affirm
@gofundme
) and angel investor (
@Habi_co_
@CarrotFertility
@PayWithCatch
).
Now she gets to team up with
@merritthummer
@mattcharris
@BainCapVC
to help a next generation of founders!🚀
#proudhusband
We could not be more proud to welcome
@ChristinaPhili5
to our team of partners
@BainCapVC
! A proven operator and angel investor, Christina will work closely with the next gen of fintech and commerce founders.
@bayareawriter
@TechCrunch
has the scoop ⬇️
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Gorgeous day in the city. Met in person with an investor. Lunch with the team. Ran into an old friend on the street. Hugs and handshakes. Everyone vaccinated. No masks.
SF is back, baby!
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I'm so proud of my wife, mom extraordinaire, and
@Affirm
product leader
@ChristinaPhili5
.
Big career milestone today with Affirm's IPO — although this is technically her second IPO after
@driveshift
went public last year 🙂.
Here's looking at you, kid.
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Shared
@SlackHQ
channels with customers are a total game changer for B2B customer service.
Speed of communication is 10X faster. Breaks down the barrier and makes you feel like you’re on the same team — which in some ways you really are.
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Founders need better tools for managing board meetings. At
@Quaestortech
, we've partnered with three incredible investor/operators —
@JTLonsdale
,
@DavidSacks
,
@nabeel
— to demystify the board deck:
More below on how we got here. 👇
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Thankful for many things today, but especially for my wonderful family.
Happy Thanksgiving to all! 🦃
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Took this photo walking through the Presidio with
@ChristinaPhili5
yesterday.
I feel so fortunate to be able to access this incredible urban park on a weekly basis. One of the best parts about living in San Francisco.
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Angel investing advice: commit early & aggressively to a company you like. Lock it down.
Entrepreneurs appreciate the conviction and will remember you for it.
If you wait around and allocation gets tight, you will get cut back b/c you didn't move forward with confidence.
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Hard to not feel this walking around San Francisco over the past month.
Streets like Chestnut/Fillmore/Valencia packed. Even the financial district feels more lively and full.
Optimism about changes in local and state politics re: housing, etc. People are here to build.
Mega vibe shift in SF —> new over past 3-5 weeks. Bullish.
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@nikillinit
My take: companies are all setting up software and systems to support WFH. After COVID-19, most people will go back to working from the office. But the infrastructure will remain, which will make it easier for companies to onboard and effectively integrate fully remote employees.
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I have to say, especially after listening to
@KTmBoyle
on the
@AcquiredFM
podcast recently…
The “American Dynamism” investment thesis at
@a16z
gets me SUPER fired up. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
More of this mentality, please.
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Sugarfish should come to San Francisco.
That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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We closed another $1B VC as a customer at
@metrics_co
today. Before us, they were collecting & analyzing data from their portfolio manually.
The VAST majority of VCs still don't use software to manage their core business data. If this is you, you're not alone! Come talk to us.
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Another one of the best VC firms in the world became a customer of
@metrics_co
tonight.
So proud of our team and incredibly excited about the user community we’re building. 🙏🏼
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Another 🍌 week for
@sparkcapital
...
🚀 Coinbase IPO (invested in 2017)
🧠 ScaleAI $325M round
💉 Benchling $200M round
✨ Co-Star Series A
... and it’s only Wednesday!
Big congrats to
@jgphilips
@willreed_21
@kevinthau
& the whole team. Always proud to see Spark thriving. 👊🏼
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Excited to share more about what we’re building at
@QuaestorTech
and why.
That starts with putting a stake in the ground: Investor Relations is broken for startups.
Stay tuned as we roll out more solutions over the coming weeks & months!
Investor Relations is broken for startups.
Founders don’t have tools to communicate what matters most to their stakeholders.
VCs don’t have modern software enabling them to understand the health of their companies.
We’re solving this at
@QuaestorTech
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66 degrees, sunny (ish) and clear (ish) skies in San Francisco. AQI at 29. About to fire up the grill and make hamburgers.
Never been this appreciative of clean air in my life.
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Proud of our co-founder
@JTLonsdale
@8vc
for making
#18
on the Forbes Midas List today.
@WishShopping
,
@PalantirTech
,
@OscarHealth
,
@Addepar
... and of course
@QuaestorTech
👊🏼🔥
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“They read about us in the
@packyM
piece” is becoming a common refrain during our recruiting pipeline discussions at
@metrics_co
.
Amazing what a thoughtful and detailed piece on your company’s thesis can do for attracting mission-driven employees.
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It's been one heck of a ride so far with Justin, Aryé, and team, and we’re excited at
@sparkcapital
to continue supporting
@wildtype_inc
and their mission to make better meat. Read more below about their $12.5M Series A led by
@CRV
. 🍣
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This
@wildtype_inc
tasting in Portland was a special night. Their salmon was prepared six ways by three chefs. So exciting to hear the chefs talk about working with their product.
Cell-based meat is happening. 🐟
Thanks for coming
@joshpetri
@business
.
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My wife
@ChristinaPhili5
went to pick up medication that wasn’t covered by insurance and was quoted $200 at Walgreens.
Quick search in
@GoodRx
and it ended up costing $40. Same store.
I’m pleased w/ the result but even more puzzled than ever about our wacky medical system. 😟
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@thogge
An inevitable trend that neither of those groups is overthinking.
This meme is perfect:
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Beautiful rainy morning with cherry blossom trees blooming in Pacific Heights.
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Let's go
@BrynnPutnam
@kevinthau
@sparkcapital
! Lululemon + Mirror is such a great match. 💪
Lululemon to Buy Mirror, a Fitness Start-Up, for $500 Million
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The startup veterans at
@AzraGames
are using
@metrics_co
to scale their IR function and collaborate with not only their investors, but also their advisors, employees, and potential future investors.
More on their story here 👉
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Some firms have had amazing success with incubations:
Sutter Hill (Snowflake)
Flagship Pioneering (Moderna)
Greylock (Palo Alto Networks)
Atomic (Hims)
@8vc
has several exciting ones in growth mode, e.g.
@Affinity
&
@QuaestorTech
(😇)
Who else?
/cc
@johnolilly
@jjacobs22
@jjacobs22
Maybe, although if you incubate with an EIR, the returns can be unbeatable. Palo Alto Networks, Snowflake, others. Order of magnitude better than backing a new fund.
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Grateful for so many things this Thanksgiving, but particularly my wife
@ChristinaPhili5
, my two crazy kids, and my wonderful family who trekked from Boston and Mexico City to visit us in San Francisco ❤️
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Happy for
@DavidSacks
& team at
@craft_ventures
today as they announce their monster $1.1B new fund.
We did a fun collab with David earlier this year — join hundreds of entrepreneurs using his fantastic board deck template (for free!) on
@QuaestorTech
.
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I finally started reading Caro’s The Path to Power (LBJ biography) and my god it’s good
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Thrilled to share that
@BessemerVP
has become a customer of
@metrics_co
! 🎉
Bessemer is a pillar of the startup community, sharing their investment insights & industry knowledge. We’re proud to become their source of truth for portfolio data.
More here:
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Just onboarded a new firm onto
@metrics_co
and half of their existing portfolio companies are already using our product 🤯
Brick by brick… 🧱
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So proud of
@Andela
's team — $200M fundraise from SoftBank! 🦄
My first trip to Lagos with
@JeremyJ
@sasschristina
@iaboyeji
&
@finkelstein1
@sparkcapital
changed my life and opened my eyes to a world of global talent.
This is just the beginning!
#TIA
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Top
@ycombinator
companies by age cohort sliced by geo. The blue bar is San Francisco.
Striking trend. San Francisco went from ~75% market share in the 9+ year cohort to ~40% in the 1-4 year cohort.
The biggest growth market: Bangalore. cc
@anmolm_
h/t
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The biggest joy in my life right now (or ever?) is helping my son learn words, and slowly but surely, sentences with
@ChristinaPhili5
.
It’s truly magical.
Latest unlock: ice cream!
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What happens when a board deck doesn't cut it? Want a more focused & deep interaction with your key investors?
Announcing our first "Anti-Board Deck" collab at
@quaestortech
: the Working Sessions template with
@hayleybay
, Partner at
@firstround
. 🔑
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I truly love this quiet part of San Francisco that’s bustling under the surface — Jackson Square up to Telegraph Hill and the Northeast Waterfront.
Happy to call it home at
@metrics_co
.
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I love this photo of the
@Andela
NY team with Vice President Al Gore.
Proud that his fund Generation Investment Management (
@sparkcapital
co-investor & Andela Series D lead) just announced a new $1B growth fund today. 👊🏼
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“Mama gives people money to make computers”
Not a bad description of a VC from our 4 year old 😂
@ChristinaPhili5
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Astounding story — an incredible effort from
@parkerconrad
and team at
@Rippling
to do right by their customers while SVB was collapsing. And they pulled it off.
We aren't customers (and I have no tie to the company) but I'm floored and had to share.
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@amerhandan
True, but I also just don’t believe that crime or violent crime is being catalogued at anywhere near the rate it’s happening here.
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I accidentally put my AirPods through a whole laundry cycle today (forgot them in my gym shorts).
I found them at the bottom of the washing machine, dried them with a blow dryer, and then popped them in my ears.
They work flawlessly.
🤯
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Proud husband. 🙂
@ChristinaPhili5
,
@merritthummer
,
@mattcharris
,
@SarahHinkfuss
,
@ajay_bcv
, and the whole team at
@BainCapVC
— some of the smartest and kindest people in the business.
Congrats!
I’m thrilled to announce our $1.9bn of new capital! We are ready to go!!
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Reflecting on incredible year of growth for
@QuaestorTech
— and for the innovation economy we serve.
Particularly grateful for our steadfast & ambitious team and our early customers who took a chance on us. YOU are the engine behind this. 💙
Excited for what's ahead in 2022!
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.
@CendanaCapital
is a giant in the pre-seed / seed space and has backed
@SusaVentures
,
@uncorkcap
,
@rootvc
,
@ForerunnerVC
,
@K9Ventures
, and more.
Excited to see that they have fresh powder to back the next generation of great early-stage investors.
Congrats! 👏
Cendana Capital, which has been backing seed funds for a decade, has $278 million more to invest by
@cookie
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Some news to share today... 🥁
@LererHippeau
has selected Standard Metrics (
@metrics_co
) as their source of truth for portfolio data! We're honored to be supporting Lerer Hippeau and their portfolio companies.
Want a demo for your firm? 🤗
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I just published a short piece about why I take photos.
It's a simple hobby for me. But the process of visual mindfulness and discovery that comes through photography makes me profoundly happy and at peace. 🙂
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.
@wildtype_inc
in the New York Times today.
Growing meat with amazing texture is a huge challenge and an enormous opportunity. Proud of the progress this team has made.
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“A company has no value in and of itself. It only has value to the degree that it is an effective allocator of resources to create goods and services that are of a greater value than the cost of the inputs.” -
@elonmusk
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Not now, Ebola.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry reported a fresh cluster of Ebola infections in the country’s northwest
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I think I just submitted my fastest investor report ever on
@metrics_co
today...
One of our VCs sent us a request. Every data point was already auto-filled. They requested 5 docs, and all 5 were already on platform. Was able to go through the entire process in < 1 min.
🙂
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One of the best.
@dhaber
left
@sparkcapital
right before I joined but was always a mentor to me. Fun to see him start his own company, serve as an exec at Goldman, and now get back to his roots. All-star fintech team at
@a16z
with
@astrange
@seema_amble
.
#longlivesmallbusiness
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“If half [of my my investor friends] wouldn’t laugh, I’m not taking enough risk.”
Terrific interview with
@rabois
with great insights on building and investing.
Well done
@thogge
@sterlingmsnow
— this podcast is off to a great start.
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The best investment I ever made was buying a Nespresso machine.
Capsule cost: $0.70
Savings vs. cafe: ~$2/coffee
Coffees/year: 300
Annual savings: $600
Machine cost: $150
Machine lifetime: 5 years
5-year profits: $2,850
IRR = 400% 💪🏼
(Or, I could just drink less coffee! 😛)
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1️⃣ Pays well
2️⃣ You work with smart and ambitious people
3️⃣ Helpful training and connections for any career path
I didn’t pursue consulting when I graduated, but it’s baffling to me that this is even a topic of conversation.
This is an important story in its own right, but there's a meta-level that's easy to miss. Why do so many smart young do-gooders, like Pete Buttigieg, decide to go to McKinsey out of college? What's the appeal?
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Using
@QuaestorTech
to manage our own investors/advisors & get help from them is a superpower for our company. There's so much potential locked in people networks that can be unleashed through better software.
Very excited for when every company will be able to do the same. :)
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@NikMilanovic
Change kid’s diaper
Make breakfast for him
Quick cup of coffee
Zoom for the next 10 hours straight
How about you?
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Welcome to a longtime friend of
@QuaestorTech
,
@rjwalsh88
, as our new Head of Engineering!
RJ helped build
@aurora_inno
,
@accompany
, and
@ZanbatoGrp
(w/
@denykhoung
) from the early days. Thrilled to now have him on our team.
Come join RJ — we're hiring!
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Huge congrats to the amazing team at
@Affirm
on this $500M growth round... especially my wife and Affirm product leader
@ChristinaPhili5
!
It's been so exciting to follow this company since
@sparkcapital
led the Series B back in 2015. And they're just getting started.
💥
We’re thrilled to announce a $500 million Series G round of funding and a new interest-free biweekly payment solution that allows consumers to split the total cost of purchases $50 or more, with no late or hidden fees. Read more here
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Between
@OpenAI
investment, recruiting back
@rabois
as MD, and $3B in new funds raised...
@khoslaventures
is on an absolute tear right now.
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Wondering how VCs can add tangible value in the early days?
Wonder no more. 👇🏼
Excited for Ansa and already love using their product on a weekly basis with a cafe in our neighborhood.
👏🏼
@ChristinaPhili5
@sophgoldb
@jt_cho
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