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We raised a $135M Series A! 8090’s Series A was led by Salesforce Ventures and joined by WNDR, Craft Ventures, The Production Board, and LAUNCH. We also had the support of a group of esteemed angels including Nikesh Arora, Cliff Robbins, Adam D’Angelo, Shyam Ravindran, Abhi Arun, and Thomas Laffont. We’re grateful for their support. It validates 8090’s mission and traction so far, but mostly it accelerates the work ahead. The capital will go to two places. The first is hiring more people, because the demand we have is accelerating rapidly. The second is investing in the compute and infrastructure needed to keep delivering our solutions at high quality and reliability. 8090 works with the biggest, hardest, most demanding customers in the most regulated industries: healthcare, insurance, life sciences, aerospace, energy, manufacturing, financial services, and the United States government. We help them win by using our AI-enabled Software Factory to design and build entire new systems, refactor old ones, and find and accelerate their edge. Our view is that as Software Factory is used more and more to do mission-critical work inside industries with the least tolerance for error and the most oversight, it will be used to bring transparency, consistency and control to work everywhere. And as we expand the potential of the biggest organizations, we are also building a playbook and a series of network effects into Software Factory that will be valuable to everyone, from SMBs to solo founders. With much gratitude, back to work… PS - A note on why I am doing this as CEO, rather than from the board. This is one of those rare moments when the technological ground is moving so ferociously underneath all of us that the decisions made in the next few years will set the stage for the next twenty. AI can be the grand equalizer. It is the thing that can give everybody a shot, and I would like to help it achieve that potential. Since I left Facebook, I was waiting for a moment like this to return to a full-time operating role. I was a demanding manager back then, but I felt I had no choice given how powerful and undeniable what we were building was. I am convinced that what we are building now is even more important, so there was no decision to make except to be all in.

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Valthos builds next-generation biodefense. Of all AI applications, biotechnology has the highest upside and most catastrophic downside. Heroes at the frontlines of biodefense are working every day to protect the world against the worst case. But the pace of biotech is against them: more powerful methods to design biological systems, with near-universal access, open up an increasing surface area of threats. In this new world, the only way forward is to be faster. So we set out to build the tech stack for biodefense. Our team of computational biologists and software engineers applies frontier AI to identify biological threats and update medical countermeasures in real-time. We are backed by $30M from OpenAI, Lux Capital, Founders Fund and others including Definition. We are actively hiring engineers to join in the mission - if that sounds like you, get in touch.

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Today, we are launching the All In Golden Ticket program. Because the best founders building in AI deserve to build with the best customers and the best talent. The quality of companies, talent and capital in AI that has concentrated in SF over the last three years is unprecedented. We consistently see that the founders that move there build much faster and bigger companies. The US is very unique because it aggressively pays for software and automation. The U.S. spends more on software than the EU and China combined—multiplied by two. We are very clear - if you want to build a global AI company, don't waste your time by starting with the domestic market and think about moving later, you will be too late. Indian founders have the hustle and grit to win in this race and we want to back those who are willing to take the leap and build from the US from Day 0. We will be your first investors, fly you to SF and help you soft land into the ecosystem with our network. You will also get enough credits to build an almost free MVP that can help you get revenue and investors. Only one condition - one cofounder has to be technically strong -either prestigious college or strong work experience. Fresh grads are also encouraged to apply. You will have fewer things to unlearn than grown ups and will adapt to the SF mindset quickly! Accepting applications till Feb 15. Link in comments - go and apply!

Kushal Bhagia 🇮🇳

39,948 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

General Matter is enriching uranium for the US. We will revive nuclear fuel production in America. We chose to do this not because it’s easy, and not because it’s hard, but because it needs doing. Nothing gets made if fuel isn’t made. America’s ambitions, from manufacturing to AI, all require nuclear. It’s the only source of energy that is reliable, scalable, and clean. It’s not only our future but our present, powering almost half of our clean energy and roughly 20% of our grid today. But the US is forced to look abroad for our nuclear fuel. Despite pioneering the technology, we’ve since outsourced enrichment to allies, competitors, and even adversaries. We didn’t just give up the lead. We’re no longer even in the game. It’s time to enrich. For the past year, General Matter has been incubated within Founders Fund, with a team from SpaceX, Tesla, Anduril, national labs, and the DOD. We are undertaking an engineering challenge which, if successful, will fundamentally improve the trajectory of our nation. The raw material is embedded in the bedrock beneath our feet. America’s future is written in stone. We are turning our potential into power, and exceptional talent is needed. Join us.
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General Matter is enriching uranium for the US. We will revive nuclear fuel production in America. We chose to do this not because it’s easy, and not because it’s hard, but because it needs doing. Nothing gets made if fuel isn’t made. America’s ambitions, from manufacturing to AI, all require nuclear. It’s the only source of energy that is reliable, scalable, and clean. It’s not only our future but our present, powering almost half of our clean energy and roughly 20% of our grid today. But the US is forced to look abroad for our nuclear fuel. Despite pioneering the technology, we’ve since outsourced enrichment to allies, competitors, and even adversaries. We didn’t just give up the lead. We’re no longer even in the game. It’s time to enrich. For the past year, General Matter has been incubated within Founders Fund, with a team from SpaceX, Tesla, Anduril, national labs, and the DOD. We are undertaking an engineering challenge which, if successful, will fundamentally improve the trajectory of our nation. The raw material is embedded in the bedrock beneath our feet. America’s future is written in stone. We are turning our potential into power, and exceptional talent is needed. Join us.

General Matter

719,708 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

We’re thrilled to share that Outset has raised $17M in Series A funding, led by 8VC to help companies better understand their customers. When michael hess and I founded Outset, we set out to solve a critical problem: truly understanding your customer is painfully slow, expensive, and at times, impossible. It shouldn’t be. We believed AI could change this by focusing on the human side of AI. So we built the world’s first AI-interviewer. An AI agent that asked questions, listened, and learned from real humans. By removing the barriers of traditional research and allowing companies to have deeper conversations with more customers more quickly, we could help teams infuse their products with genuine human understanding at a speed and scale previously impossible. So what was the moment we knew we were onto something? When WeightWatchers ran that first pilot back in early 2023. Participants shared incredible amounts of depth, all with the world’s first AI-interviewer. We got a call the next day from their head of research: "You built a thing. We want that thing. How do I pay you for it?" That validation has turned into explosive growth. We've doubled our revenue in just the last 4 months alone, with >50 enterprise customers like Nestlé, Microsoft, and WeightWatchers trusting us to unlock deeper customer insights. All of this built on the backs of a truly special early team with 0 employee turnover. This funding round was led by 8VC, with participation from an incredible group, including: Future Back Ventures by Bain & Company, Y Combinator / Garry Tan, Adverb Ventures /April Underwood / Jessica Verrilli ), Alt Capital / Jack Altman , Rebel Fund, Genius Ventures, Ritual Capital, and many more. So what's next? We're scaling our engineering and go-to-market teams to build the world's most powerful agentic customer research platform. All focused on one mission: helping companies better understand humans. To our customers, investors, and team - thank you for believing in this vision. Now check out the video to see Outset in action, testing the video itself with real people!
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We’re thrilled to share that Outset has raised $17M in Series A funding, led by 8VC to help companies better understand their customers. When michael hess and I founded Outset, we set out to solve a critical problem: truly understanding your customer is painfully slow, expensive, and at times, impossible. It shouldn’t be. We believed AI could change this by focusing on the human side of AI. So we built the world’s first AI-interviewer. An AI agent that asked questions, listened, and learned from real humans. By removing the barriers of traditional research and allowing companies to have deeper conversations with more customers more quickly, we could help teams infuse their products with genuine human understanding at a speed and scale previously impossible. So what was the moment we knew we were onto something? When WeightWatchers ran that first pilot back in early 2023. Participants shared incredible amounts of depth, all with the world’s first AI-interviewer. We got a call the next day from their head of research: "You built a thing. We want that thing. How do I pay you for it?" That validation has turned into explosive growth. We've doubled our revenue in just the last 4 months alone, with >50 enterprise customers like Nestlé, Microsoft, and WeightWatchers trusting us to unlock deeper customer insights. All of this built on the backs of a truly special early team with 0 employee turnover. This funding round was led by 8VC, with participation from an incredible group, including: Future Back Ventures by Bain & Company, Y Combinator / Garry Tan, Adverb Ventures /April Underwood / Jessica Verrilli ), Alt Capital / Jack Altman , Rebel Fund, Genius Ventures, Ritual Capital, and many more. So what's next? We're scaling our engineering and go-to-market teams to build the world's most powerful agentic customer research platform. All focused on one mission: helping companies better understand humans. To our customers, investors, and team - thank you for believing in this vision. Now check out the video to see Outset in action, testing the video itself with real people!

Aaron Cannon

34,386 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

We did it, from idea to creation and execution. One year in the making, but the biggest challenge starts now. CoreNest El Salvador 🇸🇻 is going to impact generations of founders and their families, create thousands of jobs, and provide funding for entrepreneurs who otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity to follow their dreams. In small countries like El Salvador and across Central America, access to risk capital simply doesn’t exist the way it does in the U.S., Canada, or Europe. With the support of President Bukele Nayib Bukele , the Ministry of Economy Ministerio de Economía, and the Invest in El Salvador team, this vision is now a reality because CoreNest Capital was willing to pioneer, take on the challenge, and accept the risk. A $25 million fund with a new accelerator launch pad with government incentives like no other in the world, to invest in 300 startups and then follow-up $100 Million to invest in over 1000 more startups. I’m honored and proud to join this journey with the CoreNest El Salvador VC Fund and Accelerator as their Venture Partner to support all marketing efforts. Bob Ras Bob Ras and Reza Bashash Reza Bashash are true visionaries who turn words into action, but it takes a team to make this happen. Pedro Crespo PedroCrespo (Venture Partner) and our Accelerator CEO, Jose Roberto Rodriguez Duque Jose Roberto Rodriguez , are both executing tirelessly to turn this into reality in El Salvador 🇸🇻. Now, if you know any founders in Latin America who need funding and a launch 🚀 platform where they’ll have incredible incentives and mentorship from a rockstar team let them know about the CoreNest project in El Salvador. Submit applications at
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We did it, from idea to creation and execution. One year in the making, but the biggest challenge starts now. CoreNest El Salvador 🇸🇻 is going to impact generations of founders and their families, create thousands of jobs, and provide funding for entrepreneurs who otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity to follow their dreams. In small countries like El Salvador and across Central America, access to risk capital simply doesn’t exist the way it does in the U.S., Canada, or Europe. With the support of President Bukele Nayib Bukele , the Ministry of Economy Ministerio de Economía, and the Invest in El Salvador team, this vision is now a reality because CoreNest Capital was willing to pioneer, take on the challenge, and accept the risk. A $25 million fund with a new accelerator launch pad with government incentives like no other in the world, to invest in 300 startups and then follow-up $100 Million to invest in over 1000 more startups. I’m honored and proud to join this journey with the CoreNest El Salvador VC Fund and Accelerator as their Venture Partner to support all marketing efforts. Bob Ras Bob Ras and Reza Bashash Reza Bashash are true visionaries who turn words into action, but it takes a team to make this happen. Pedro Crespo PedroCrespo (Venture Partner) and our Accelerator CEO, Jose Roberto Rodriguez Duque Jose Roberto Rodriguez , are both executing tirelessly to turn this into reality in El Salvador 🇸🇻. Now, if you know any founders in Latin America who need funding and a launch 🚀 platform where they’ll have incredible incentives and mentorship from a rockstar team let them know about the CoreNest project in El Salvador. Submit applications at

Eric Damier

76,056 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce

Today, KOHO announced $130M in new capital at a $1.33B valuation. We’re very happy to welcome Mubadala, Savano Capital, tobi lutke, CEO, Founder of Shopify, and Michael Linford, COO of Affirm, to the KOHO story. We’re also grateful for the continued support of Drive Capital, Portage Ventures, Eldridge, BDC Capital, and HOOPP. One of my favourite things about KOHO is that the only way we win is if millions of Canadians choose us. We cannot out-spend or out-market. We have to out-build. The progress we have made reflects the progress our users have made. So, while we feel very proud of what’s behind us, we’re much more humbled by what’s in front of us. With this capital, we’ve earned the right to keep building on our promise to users. That job remains monumental, and we’re very honoured that we get to do the work. I want to thank the team for their incredible work these past few years. The world doesn’t yet know how talented, smart and kind the KOHO Collective is - but they will. I want to thank our investors for their continued trust and support. We’re lucky to have partners who recognize and support the need to take the longer view here. More than anything, I want to thank our users. We’ve come a long way with much farther to go. We’ll keep earning your trust every damn day. Back to work 🔥
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Today, KOHO announced $130M in new capital at a $1.33B valuation. We’re very happy to welcome Mubadala, Savano Capital, tobi lutke, CEO, Founder of Shopify, and Michael Linford, COO of Affirm, to the KOHO story. We’re also grateful for the continued support of Drive Capital, Portage Ventures, Eldridge, BDC Capital, and HOOPP. One of my favourite things about KOHO is that the only way we win is if millions of Canadians choose us. We cannot out-spend or out-market. We have to out-build. The progress we have made reflects the progress our users have made. So, while we feel very proud of what’s behind us, we’re much more humbled by what’s in front of us. With this capital, we’ve earned the right to keep building on our promise to users. That job remains monumental, and we’re very honoured that we get to do the work. I want to thank the team for their incredible work these past few years. The world doesn’t yet know how talented, smart and kind the KOHO Collective is - but they will. I want to thank our investors for their continued trust and support. We’re lucky to have partners who recognize and support the need to take the longer view here. More than anything, I want to thank our users. We’ve come a long way with much farther to go. We’ll keep earning your trust every damn day. Back to work 🔥

Daniel Eberhard

25,822 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

Today, I'm thrilled to announce Pramaana's $27M seed, led by Khosla Ventures. The foundational domains that hold the world together: tax, law, finance, healthcare; all run on certainty. Probabilistic AI can't give them that. We’ve been asked to accept wrong answers with AI as ‘hallucinations’, while in traditional software terms, it’s just a bug. And a wrong answer in such mission-critical domains is more than just a bug, it's a liability that could have catastrophic impact. We built Pramaana to deliver a 100% trustable experience to the domains that run on certainty: AI that is provably correct, not probabilistically correct. We turn statute and regulation into machine-verifiable code, so every output ships with mathematical proof of correctness. Our mission is to make AI take ownership of it’s work. Pramaana in Sanskrit stands for “means of valid knowledge”, and we’re going to achieve that by formalizing the world’s knowledge.
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Today, I'm thrilled to announce Pramaana's $27M seed, led by Khosla Ventures. The foundational domains that hold the world together: tax, law, finance, healthcare; all run on certainty. Probabilistic AI can't give them that. We’ve been asked to accept wrong answers with AI as ‘hallucinations’, while in traditional software terms, it’s just a bug. And a wrong answer in such mission-critical domains is more than just a bug, it's a liability that could have catastrophic impact. We built Pramaana to deliver a 100% trustable experience to the domains that run on certainty: AI that is provably correct, not probabilistically correct. We turn statute and regulation into machine-verifiable code, so every output ships with mathematical proof of correctness. Our mission is to make AI take ownership of it’s work. Pramaana in Sanskrit stands for “means of valid knowledge”, and we’re going to achieve that by formalizing the world’s knowledge.

ranjan_raj

327,559 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

David Friedberg: How to Save Social Security Using Compound Interest david friedberg with an incredible breakdown on E219: "The US Social Security Program is meant to be kind of the retirement program for folks that don't have access to private retirement accounts." "This program was set up in the 1930s after the Great Depression. There's a trust fund, the OASDI, which is the fund that they invest the capital (from)." "So every year we all put money in with our social security taxes out of our paychecks, (which) goes in there." "It gets invested in one thing: US Treasuries." "Which have averaged about 4.8% return per year since the beginning of the program." "Meanwhile, the S&P 500 has been averaging 11%." "So here's the math: if in 1971, which was the year that we went off the gold standard in the US, if we invested the Social Security Trust Fund in the S&P, the balance of the social security trust fund today would be $15T." "That would be roughly one-third of the value of the total S&P 500, which would be jointly owned by all Americans." "Now here's what's f*cked up: the middle class people who had access to private retirement accounts benefited by buying the S&P 500 and the wealthy were able to access it." "So all of the equity value that accrued from American enterprise and the prosperity of the American system accrued to the people that had access to the private accounts." "Meanwhile, the people that only had access to the public accounts got stuck owning treasuries." "Today, the Social Security Trust Fund has a $2.7T balance, and based on the outflows and inflows, it's going to go bankrupt in 2032." "So I did the math: If you assume that the S&P 500 continues to grow at 10.5% per year on average, we could put about $500B in the trust fund today, and it will not go bankrupt again." "And it will continue to grow every year. And then all Americans have participation in American enterprise." "And importantly, this becomes the world's largest sovereign wealth fund ever. You don't need a separate sovereign wealth fund. We already have one." "We've totally mismanaged it. And I went back to try and understand why this is the case. Why have we only ever bought treasuries? " "Early on, the US needed someone to loan money. So they basically forced the citizens to loan the government money in the form of treasuries." "But today, the social security trust fund owns less than 10%, about 8% of the total treasury bonds outstanding." "So why are we forcing all the American citizens to participate?" "Through the social security system, we've created the deep inequity we see in this country." "If instead we had allowed the social security system to invest in the S&P 500 to buy American enterprises to fund American businesses, then every American would be wealthy and that middle class that uniquely participated by basically arbitraging the market where they forced the treasury bond yields on the poor and they got to take access to the equity yields would have not happened."
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David Friedberg: How to Save Social Security Using Compound Interest david friedberg with an incredible breakdown on E219: "The US Social Security Program is meant to be kind of the retirement program for folks that don't have access to private retirement accounts." "This program was set up in the 1930s after the Great Depression. There's a trust fund, the OASDI, which is the fund that they invest the capital (from)." "So every year we all put money in with our social security taxes out of our paychecks, (which) goes in there." "It gets invested in one thing: US Treasuries." "Which have averaged about 4.8% return per year since the beginning of the program." "Meanwhile, the S&P 500 has been averaging 11%." "So here's the math: if in 1971, which was the year that we went off the gold standard in the US, if we invested the Social Security Trust Fund in the S&P, the balance of the social security trust fund today would be $15T." "That would be roughly one-third of the value of the total S&P 500, which would be jointly owned by all Americans." "Now here's what's f*cked up: the middle class people who had access to private retirement accounts benefited by buying the S&P 500 and the wealthy were able to access it." "So all of the equity value that accrued from American enterprise and the prosperity of the American system accrued to the people that had access to the private accounts." "Meanwhile, the people that only had access to the public accounts got stuck owning treasuries." "Today, the Social Security Trust Fund has a $2.7T balance, and based on the outflows and inflows, it's going to go bankrupt in 2032." "So I did the math: If you assume that the S&P 500 continues to grow at 10.5% per year on average, we could put about $500B in the trust fund today, and it will not go bankrupt again." "And it will continue to grow every year. And then all Americans have participation in American enterprise." "And importantly, this becomes the world's largest sovereign wealth fund ever. You don't need a separate sovereign wealth fund. We already have one." "We've totally mismanaged it. And I went back to try and understand why this is the case. Why have we only ever bought treasuries? " "Early on, the US needed someone to loan money. So they basically forced the citizens to loan the government money in the form of treasuries." "But today, the social security trust fund owns less than 10%, about 8% of the total treasury bonds outstanding." "So why are we forcing all the American citizens to participate?" "Through the social security system, we've created the deep inequity we see in this country." "If instead we had allowed the social security system to invest in the S&P 500 to buy American enterprises to fund American businesses, then every American would be wealthy and that middle class that uniquely participated by basically arbitraging the market where they forced the treasury bond yields on the poor and they got to take access to the equity yields would have not happened."

The All-In Podcast

166,742 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

🚨 a16z a16z speedrun 🧊 applications are now open! we invest up to $1M in new start-ups building at the frontier - but that's just the start. beyond the investment, founders join a legendary community, work with our world-class operating team, and tap into the a16z network. details below: 1) the founder community - starting a new company is an emotional rollercoaster - being able to talk to founders on a similar journey can make it a bit less lonely - Speedrun is a tight-knit community of founders who support one another closely - providing advice, design partners, talent referrals, even investing in one another’s startups - during the program, we open up the a16z offices in SF and LA to founders as coworking space. dozens of founders work alongside each other before establishing their own offices - we have an alumni community >600 strong that come together every quarter through reunions and events at Tech Week 2) the a16z operating team - our operating team is a team of experts at the top of their field who provide specialized programs and hands-on support to founders. a few examples of how we help Speedrun founders: a) recruiting support to assemble and scale your team - direct intros to top talent in AI research, ML, full stack engineering, etc b) people support on US immigration and comp guidance for new hires / advisors c) GTM support on finding design partners and over $5M in credits on cloud, AI, and software spend d) marketing programs to build your brand and craft the perfect launch video to showcase your product e) capital networks support to refine your pitch deck and connect you to hundreds of prospective investors at demo day - many founders consider our operating team to be an extension of their own team in impact and how closely they work together 3) the a16z network - a16z as a firm has massive breadth and scale - we invest in and have networks across AI, bio/health, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, infrastructure, american dynamism, and more - our network provides our founders an unfair advantage - it’s a rolodex they can tap into for intros to potential customers, employees, partners, and investors - providing a sense of power and reach you dont usually build until you're much farther along we know the best founders have many choices. if you’re setting out to build a generational company - we're confident you'll get unparalleled operating support, networks, & community from a16z Speedrun - all from day 0 if this sounds exciting, check out the link below!
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🚨 a16z a16z speedrun 🧊 applications are now open! we invest up to $1M in new start-ups building at the frontier - but that's just the start. beyond the investment, founders join a legendary community, work with our world-class operating team, and tap into the a16z network. details below: 1) the founder community - starting a new company is an emotional rollercoaster - being able to talk to founders on a similar journey can make it a bit less lonely - Speedrun is a tight-knit community of founders who support one another closely - providing advice, design partners, talent referrals, even investing in one another’s startups - during the program, we open up the a16z offices in SF and LA to founders as coworking space. dozens of founders work alongside each other before establishing their own offices - we have an alumni community >600 strong that come together every quarter through reunions and events at Tech Week 2) the a16z operating team - our operating team is a team of experts at the top of their field who provide specialized programs and hands-on support to founders. a few examples of how we help Speedrun founders: a) recruiting support to assemble and scale your team - direct intros to top talent in AI research, ML, full stack engineering, etc b) people support on US immigration and comp guidance for new hires / advisors c) GTM support on finding design partners and over $5M in credits on cloud, AI, and software spend d) marketing programs to build your brand and craft the perfect launch video to showcase your product e) capital networks support to refine your pitch deck and connect you to hundreds of prospective investors at demo day - many founders consider our operating team to be an extension of their own team in impact and how closely they work together 3) the a16z network - a16z as a firm has massive breadth and scale - we invest in and have networks across AI, bio/health, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, infrastructure, american dynamism, and more - our network provides our founders an unfair advantage - it’s a rolodex they can tap into for intros to potential customers, employees, partners, and investors - providing a sense of power and reach you dont usually build until you're much farther along we know the best founders have many choices. if you’re setting out to build a generational company - we're confident you'll get unparalleled operating support, networks, & community from a16z Speedrun - all from day 0 if this sounds exciting, check out the link below!

Jon Lai

784,248 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce

Kamala Harris goes on a bizarre rant about the “light inside people” during her appearance on The View. What on earth is she talking about? Harris has clearly learned nothing from her brutal election loss...when she failed to connect with everyday Americans. Word salad like this is exactly why no one took her seriously then...and still don’t now. “And I do believe that moving forward we’re going to remember that the power ultimately is with the people and we have to remind folks that they cannot let their light and their spirit be diminished by who happens to be in the Oval Office at this moment.” “And that’s part of what I hope to achieve with the book is to remind us, people by the tens of thousands for those of you who were there came to those events with such enthusiasm and optimism and dare I say joy….” “About the possibilities for our country and that light is inside people.” “It’s there and it cannot be diminished or extinguished by an election or an individual and we have to remember that. That light is inside us, and it’s inside each of us and we have to see it in each other and let that guide us through this very dark time.”
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Kamala Harris goes on a bizarre rant about the “light inside people” during her appearance on The View. What on earth is she talking about? Harris has clearly learned nothing from her brutal election loss...when she failed to connect with everyday Americans. Word salad like this is exactly why no one took her seriously then...and still don’t now. “And I do believe that moving forward we’re going to remember that the power ultimately is with the people and we have to remind folks that they cannot let their light and their spirit be diminished by who happens to be in the Oval Office at this moment.” “And that’s part of what I hope to achieve with the book is to remind us, people by the tens of thousands for those of you who were there came to those events with such enthusiasm and optimism and dare I say joy….” “About the possibilities for our country and that light is inside people.” “It’s there and it cannot be diminished or extinguished by an election or an individual and we have to remember that. That light is inside us, and it’s inside each of us and we have to see it in each other and let that guide us through this very dark time.”

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

54,055 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce

Keith Rabois: “I tell founders not to worry about runway. Worry about lift.” “If you think about lift in a plane context, a company is only valuable if you achieve lift. Runway is a tactic for achieving lift, and you may need to extend the runway so that you have more time to get lift. But unless you’re actually achieving lift with that extra time, it doesn’t help you.” Keith continues: “I hate when a founder is like, ‘I want to raise this much money because it gives me two years runway.’… That is a stupid way to think about your fundraising.” Instead, founders should ask themselves what they need to achieve to achieve lift, and then work backwards from that. When Keith invests at Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund, they write internal memos about the three key risks to the company. Usually you can’t achieve all three in one financing, so founders should be asking themselves, What’s the most important inflection? And then structure their financing to achieve that. Keith advises founders that it’s ok to let their runway go very low if they feel like they’re approaching lift: “A lot of founders get very bad advice like ‘Oh, you need to have this much runway or you won’t be able to raise money from strength.’ That’s nonsense. If you have traction - if you hit a viral coefficient of 1 with three months of runway - almost every VC on the planet knows how to invest in that company, and it will not be a problem.” Video source: Khosla Ventures (2024)
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Keith Rabois: “I tell founders not to worry about runway. Worry about lift.” “If you think about lift in a plane context, a company is only valuable if you achieve lift. Runway is a tactic for achieving lift, and you may need to extend the runway so that you have more time to get lift. But unless you’re actually achieving lift with that extra time, it doesn’t help you.” Keith continues: “I hate when a founder is like, ‘I want to raise this much money because it gives me two years runway.’… That is a stupid way to think about your fundraising.” Instead, founders should ask themselves what they need to achieve to achieve lift, and then work backwards from that. When Keith invests at Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund, they write internal memos about the three key risks to the company. Usually you can’t achieve all three in one financing, so founders should be asking themselves, What’s the most important inflection? And then structure their financing to achieve that. Keith advises founders that it’s ok to let their runway go very low if they feel like they’re approaching lift: “A lot of founders get very bad advice like ‘Oh, you need to have this much runway or you won’t be able to raise money from strength.’ That’s nonsense. If you have traction - if you hit a viral coefficient of 1 with three months of runway - almost every VC on the planet knows how to invest in that company, and it will not be a problem.” Video source: Khosla Ventures (2024)

Startup Archive

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