If you assemble enough people wearing Patagonia vests, a venture fund spontaneously forms around them.
Feb 4, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
After being on VC Twitter for a while, you are able to categorize most tweets into a set of categories.
Looking at the last 24 hours of my feed, here’s a thread of the types of tweets I saw.
Starting off with a classic, the “congrats” tweet. Can take many forms, often used for starting a new job, for leaving your job, or for raising a new fund
Ex: “Congrats! Looking forward to what you do next” or “Congrats on the raise! Can’t wait to co-invest”
Dec 7, 2019 • 55 tweets • 9 min read
Going to try this with twitter. If you’re a VC, founder or journalist, DM me your thoughts on the Away piece and I’ll anonymously post your response here
(and I’ll commit to keeping your identity confidential)
Founder: “I think this is just market forces at work. There’s not a lot of incentive treat support teams as anything other than cost center. Engineers on the other hand ...”
Sep 26, 2019 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
1/ Ever since posting this tweet, our inbox has been flooded with tales of VCs and incubators acting in bad faith against the interest of founders & companies.
Although most VCs operate with integrity, there are occasionally outliers. Here are a few that can be shared:
2/ An impact investing VC intentionally destroying follow on rounds in a company to displace the founding CEO
Jul 13, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
10x Venture Capitalists
LPs, if you come across this rare breed of fund manager, immediately wire your commitment. Having a 10x VC in your portfolio significantly increases your odds of actually beating the S&P 500
OK, here is the $1B question:
How do you spot a 10x VC?
1. 10x VCs hate "operating". They think it is a waste of time and obvious. They'd rather focus on the more valuable thought leadership on Twitter. They only turn to "operator" mode when they realize there isn't a future for them at their firm and no other firm will hire them
