Dez Fleming @DezFleming
Investor @firstmarkcap. Helping founders and sharing stories. Subscribe to my weekly(ish) newsletter for insight on who and what's next in venture capital. apexventurestudio.substack.com New York, NY Joined April 2021-
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Addressing the structural lack of supply of single family homes is one of the most challenging & exciting problems today. Excited to be partnering with the @do_backflip team and @JoshErnstNYC & @romejake1
Addressing the structural lack of supply of single family homes is one of the most challenging & exciting problems today. Excited to be partnering with the @do_backflip team and @JoshErnstNYC & @romejake1
First @nvidia DGX H200 in the world, hand-delivered to OpenAI and dedicated by Jensen "to advance AI, computing, and humanity":
A tip for pre-seed/seed founders on raising a Series A: Systematically record & track your customer conversations I was chatting with a forward thinking founder friend of mine who had just raised & was asking for advice on how to navigate Series A VC conversations Series A…
Big Knicks W last night, my doorman daps me up yelling “KNICKKKSSS TAPE BABYYYY” this morning. I am officially and forever a New Yorker
A fascinating element of modern startups & VC is that the best entrepreneurs & investors are sharing their earned insights & strategic thinking literally for free
Stack ranking of wedding guests: 1) Family - the big dawgs, OGs can't touch em. Will always contain a cousin who is the life of the party & makese people feel welcome 2) Childhood Friends - effectively family, can't touch. Seen the worst & the best and stuck around. Can be seen…
2004: Software as a Service 2024: Service as a Software h/t - everyone
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness; starving for exits. dying to reaccelerate growth, searching for answers of why didn't I join stripe in 2015
An analogy I love (and use frequently) when thinking about early stage companies: "Am I fishing in a pond that can become a lake?" TAM constraints are a consistent reason why VCs (myself included) pass, but lots of category leaders I can think of (i.e Ramp, Deel, Coinbase,…
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we scaled @unifygtm's new revenue bookings by nearly 300% in q1. we powered this growth by dogfooding unify. here are 3 of the ways we're using our own product to scale the business: 1) automated outbound re-targeting of paid ads. over the last month or so, we've…
So grateful and thrilled to have this opportunity at a place that has given me so much! @Cornell The program is in an exciting place ... can't wait to keep growing this thing with our guys and make @CornellAlumni and @CornellSports supporters everywhere proud
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Jon Jaques '10, an impactful player and coach on some of the most successful Big Red teams in school history, has been named the Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of @cornell_mbb. #YellCornell bit.ly/4aJVRIc
Question for my millennial peers < 35 yo, do you think you will buy a home in the next 5 years?
Great advice for founders, thank you @emolikememo
Matt Turck @mattturck
96K Followers 2K Following VC at @FirstMarkCap. Links to my blog, podcast and events: https://t.co/HAX12dVijm
Nicole DeTommaso 🪄 @nic_detommaso
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Mac The VC @MacConwell
96K Followers 42K Following Managing Partner @RareBreedVC | underrepresented founders | Hacker turned Hustler | Entrepreneur | Vampire | Former Gamer | @inside | @KauffmanFellows class #26
em herrera 🌃 @emilyhxrrera
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Dan Primack @danprimack
150K Followers 5K Following Biz ed @Axios. Pro Rata newsletter. Native Masshole. [email protected]. DM for Signal/Telegram. Or send tips anonymously via https://t.co/di6m7R3C3U.
Gabby Cazeau @gabbycazeau
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Lisa Xu @lisamxu
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Alex Iskold | 2048.vc @alexiskold
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Kyle Harrison @kwharrison13
17K Followers 829 Following Investor. // Building @contrary, @Contrary_Res // Former Index, Coatue, TCV // Husband, Father, Christian @ch_jesuschrist
Ian Kar @iankar_
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Hadley @Hadley
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Tautear @Tautearcc5XF
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lexi burbey @burbeyar
641 Followers 526 Following Day Job Consumer Investor @ G Squared; Fun Job Consumer & Vertical SaaS Angel; Bombas, goop, Knowde, Lucid, Halfdays, Fishwife, Checkmate, Kopia, Huron, Altis
Evan Bedell @BedellEvan
506 Followers 5K Following SB • NY | @UCSB Gaucho & @uclaanderson Bruin | CEO @ Lot Line https://t.co/NMjCkYJ05W
しいのきみわ @shiinokimi1162
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Rhina Green @RhinaGreen19
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Tom Strachan @ServiceBuddy_io
127 Followers 576 Following CEO of Service Buddy. Software that powers the rug, carpet & flooring industry. Vertical SaaS & Embedded Payments
Trevor Tellin @trevortellin23
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Nikhil Namburi @nikhilvnamburi
55 Followers 226 Following Venture @Lux_Capital | previously @InsightPartners @UCSF @psumvc https://t.co/cd0VByTABt | @Columbia alum
Jonathan Kat @JEmeryKat
61 Followers 374 Following Infra-Enthusiast| Warhammer40k nerd| RoboDog in the works| Founder @dadsrobotics | Building your next Robot Pet. Hang with us https://t.co/jo8QWlUk4c
OpenLP @Open_LP
4K Followers 359 Following #OpenLP aggregates and amplifies insights across the entrepreneur ➡ GP ➡ LP venture ecosystem. Powered by @SapphirePrtnrs, the LP arm of @SapphireVC.
AJ @mrcommonsenz
655 Followers 4K Following Learning all the time, optimist, Hiking. Co-founder & CEO @DapiHQ YC W20. 0xfintech: borderless Global financial infrastructure.
Anonymous Founder @anonymfounder
380 Followers 7K Following My startup diary. From startups to marketing, finance to entrepreneurship........and cryptocurrency.
Nuran Rahman @nuranrah
506 Followers 3K Following Self-Made Entrepreneur | Co-Founder @FameMedla | Featured on @Enews @MensJournal @USAtoday
Marie Gielens @mariegwana
31 Followers 445 Following
Nikhil Deshmukh @nikhildes
347 Followers 2K Following Food, gardening, music, technology, 'AI' in quotes (he/him/his). The future of work is leisure. [email protected]
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Apolonia Reem @ApoloniaRe24934
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Idell Hilker @IdellH43656
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Kevin Loi @KevinQLoi
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Kira Hinebaugh @HinebaughK11422
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Dad's Robotics @DadsRobotics
221 Followers 2K Following Building your future RoboDog | Pre-Seed, Contact @KevinQLoi 🌰 | Robotics Company | Hang out with us: https://t.co/A33p5T6qM4
Elif Boykin @BoykinElif29094
81 Followers 5K Following
Cross Border Capital .. @cbc_advisors
507 Followers 2K Following | Series "A" & Later Stage Funding | Access to Concentrated Capital from Hong Kong's Family Offices & Diverse Local Investors | Seeking to deploy 10MM+
Beeten @Beeten292776
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Stan Milc @stanmilc
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Cole Oglesbee @oglesbee53472
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8 Followers 333 Following If you want to make friends, you can contact me anytime TG：https://t.co/rZGMDzh3i0 WS：https://t.co/2ogqNTZ1cu
Lorimer Ventures @LorimerVentures
685 Followers 689 Following Lorimer is a Brooklyn-based venture capital fund that backs bold entrepreneurs building exceptional B2B SaaS startups. 📧 [email protected]
Kunal Batra @kunal732
2K Followers 2K Following Building something new. Previously @AWS, @Clarifai, @Auth0, @SendGrid Opinions are my own.
David @deepinyap
292 Followers 875 Following Building tools to make the fundraising process less painful. Get instant feedback on your pitch deck with https://t.co/mXy1IiiXgh.
Brian Forde @BrianForde
30K Followers 2K Following Co-founder, CEO @Numeroai Recovering Congressional Candidate
Startup Shinobi @startupshinobi
2K Followers 4K Following Wit and wisdom for founders and investors from a GP. Startups and VC are ripe for ridicule. Follow me for the knowledge but stay for the laughs.
Seraf @serafinvestor
1K Followers 716 Following Streamlined deal flow & portfolio management for venture funds, angel groups & early stage investors to track, analyze, and report on their startup investments.
Mahnoor Lipford @mahno_m
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Zainab Etoll @EtollZaina67797
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Opal Elledge @OElled
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Slirkasoo @slirkasoo22070
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Brian Mulvaney @CapTableZero
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Nikil @NikilKonduru
587 Followers 952 Following Head of Expansion at @lithic | Previously: Fintech VC at @Nyca
Technology Accounts @StartupTech23
1K Followers 4K Following Following top accounts in technology and startups.
Paul Graham @paulg
1.9M Followers 772 Following
Matt Turck @mattturck
96K Followers 2K Following VC at @FirstMarkCap. Links to my blog, podcast and events: https://t.co/HAX12dVijm
Nicole DeTommaso 🪄 @nic_detommaso
59K Followers 550 Following Tweet about All Things VC. Providing insights to demystify the industry🪄. Investor @HarlemCapital | @Columbia alum | 🇵🇷🏳️🌈 (she/her)
Nik @NikMilanovic
24K Followers 298 Following Fintech enthusiast @twifintech General Partner at https://t.co/fWbpP6fmEj (@thefintechfund) The dogs bark but the caravan moves on
Mac The VC @MacConwell
96K Followers 42K Following Managing Partner @RareBreedVC | underrepresented founders | Hacker turned Hustler | Entrepreneur | Vampire | Former Gamer | @inside | @KauffmanFellows class #26
Dan Primack @danprimack
150K Followers 5K Following Biz ed @Axios. Pro Rata newsletter. Native Masshole. [email protected]. DM for Signal/Telegram. Or send tips anonymously via https://t.co/di6m7R3C3U.
Charley Ma @CharleyMa
16K Followers 2K Following co-founder, managing partner @exponentcap Former first biz / head of growth @usealloy, @tryramp, @Plaid.
Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan
206K Followers 2K Following Newsletter: https://t.co/LF0tRFpCeT 💥 Podcast: https://t.co/ZQWNT0iXvJ 💥 Jobs: https://t.co/h5qbpegVYd 💥 Lennybot: https://t.co/TqkCh3hVCa 💥 Swag and Book: https://t.co/qgtUH5DM4S
Ben Tossell @bentossell
139K Followers 698 Following twin dad || learn how to use ai for work - https://t.co/iLpIJT2Vlg || investing in AI cos - bens bites fund || founder of makerpad (acq by zapier '21)
Lisa Xu @lisamxu
4K Followers 1K Following VC @FirstMarkCap investing in early stage startups // alum @onepeloton @Handy @BainandCompany @Wharton // #longNYC 🗽
Alex Iskold | 2048.vc @alexiskold
45K Followers 2K Following VC | Lead Pre/Seed 🧬🤖⚙️ @2048vc | Pitch me https://t.co/7RMuMRnXF1 | Coach @HarvardHBS | Blog https://t.co/0DoDmSLmNZ | Systems Thinker
dallas schray @dschray
402 Followers 1K Following building deep space infrastructure @CrescentSpace 🚀 🌗🛰🇺🇸
Mason O’Hanlon @MasonOHanlon
510 Followers 495 Following Consumer x Culture Investor // Podcast Enthusiast // @babson alumn // Frequently 🏃🏼🚴🏻🏊🏻♂️
stephen balaban @stephenbalaban
9K Followers 1K Following Co-founder, CEO - Lambda. We’re hiring: https://t.co/n0yFaq0ZDn
evelyn 🩵 @evelynjunn
2K Followers 676 Following building @kawaiifund | previously @stanford | hopeful post-postmodernist
Boyuan Chen @BoyuanChen0
2K Followers 277 Following PhD student @MIT_CSAIL @MITEECS, Ex @GoogleDeepMind, @berkeley_ai; Doing AI & Robotics. Foundational model for decision making. World models and robotics.
peter sweeney @peter_sweeney0
755 Followers 1K Following growth @Footprint_HQ. previous founder and IB @goldmansachs. writing about startups and philly sports.
Kristen Anderson @FintechKristen
27K Followers 702 Following Product Lead @CashApp. Exited founder. Making things people want. Tweeting opinions that are my own but that I’m willing to share.
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237K Followers 40 Following Minimalist DMs are now closed. Just email me: [email protected]
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12K Followers 1K Following Stanford AI & Robotics PhD @StanfordAILab | Creator of Mobile ALOHA, Robot Parkour | Past: Google DeepMind, CMU, UCLA
Pengming Wang @PengmingWang
187 Followers 157 Following Founding team @poolsideai | prev @DeepMind, PhD @Cambridge_Uni, FunSearch co-author
Sholto Douglas @_sholtodouglas
15K Followers 858 Following Scaling Gemini @Deepmind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter
Ben Lang @benln
28K Followers 546 Following Angel investing, building @nextplayso, prev early Notion team
Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut
370K Followers 2 Following towards a plurality of humanity loving AGIs @openai
François Chollet @fchollet
470K Followers 770 Following Deep learning @google. Creator of Keras. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'. Opinions are my own.
Sharif Shameem @sharifshameem
53K Followers 3K Following founder @LexicaArt • in pursuit of good explanations
Gregory Ugwi @ugwigr
1K Followers 1K Following Cofounder @Thinknum @wefranch - Franchise enthusiast | Startup Zealot | Immigrant
Tom Noyes @noyesclt
8K Followers 172 Following Pymts Geek, Network Theory, Founder/CEO, Advisor/Investor. Former: NASA Engineer, Bank Exec, Oracle, 4 exits. Building teams connecting great people. SDG
Ofir Press @OfirPress
10K Followers 3K Following I build tough benchmarks for LMs and then I get the LMs to solve them. Postdoc @Princeton. PhD from @nlpnoah @UW. Ex-visiting researcher @MetaAI & @MosaicML.
Yusuf Olokoba @OlokobaYusuf
440 Followers 369 Following I like to build time machines. Building @fxn_ai.
Derek Thompson @DKThomp
202K Followers 2K Following Writer @TheAtlantic. "Plain English" podcast host @Ringer. Mondays on NPR's @hereandnow. Co-writing a book about abundance.
Eli Wachs 👣 @EliWachs
946 Followers 633 Following Founded @Footprint_HQ and @TechFightsDobbs to give people control of their data| Part-time comic | .001% @Avicii Spotify Wrapped
Taylor Jean-Jacques @TaylortheVC
486 Followers 678 Following Investing in tech startups & publics at General Atlantic. Fmr: @Fidelity @Meta @JPM @Princeton. Views my own, not advice. DMs open
Todd Baldwin @tbaldjr
292 Followers 883 Following UGC & Influencer for Retail Brands | @princeton alum | talk to me about playing golf, watching sports and food
Ryan Orley @ryanorley
280 Followers 854 Following
Aman Kabeer @AmanKabeer11
568 Followers 1K Following VC @FirstMarkCap, prev @ICONIQGrowth. Big Sports Guy (USMNT, Gators, Jags, MUFC). Unapologetic country music enthusiast. Thoughts my own
Placeholder @Project2662
293 Followers 2 Following A new on-chain social experiment designed by @joshqharris
Mike Speiser @laserlikemike
38K Followers 327 Following Building products and companies at Sutter Hill Ventures in Silicon Valley and London
Bags @secure_bags
236 Followers 107 Following VC shouldn’t be your only option for funding 💰 #debtfinancing #securethebag
Plenty @withPlenty
101 Followers 4 Following Where couples invest and plan for the future. Our mission: wealth for every household.
Robert F. Smith @RFS_Vista
49K Followers 104 Following Founder, Chairman & CEO Vista Equity Partners. Philanthropist. President, founding director Fund II Foundation. @Fund2F #The2PercentSolution @blkhistory2min
Richie Serna @RSerna2010
2K Followers 388 Following CEO & Cofounder of @Finix. Former engineer at @balanced. Payments and a pup named Daphne.
christiano boria @christianoboria
486 Followers 2K Following investing and partnering with software and AI cos | student of startups & markets | @coatuemgmt @goldmansachs @brownuniversity 🇵🇷🇺🇸
Pablo Meier @PabloTyped
248 Followers 326 Following I appreciate (and try to create). reminders that tech is for and by humans. Formerly @tryramp (founding engineer), Lyft, ClassPass, Google, Adobe. 🇺🇸/🇬🇹
Kaylock Yam @KaylockYam
166 Followers 376 Following Founding Team @unlimitedfnds. Ex-@equityzen @vinovest1. HK-born, Toronto-raised, NYC-based. Penn Quaker. FinTech pro, movie buff, sports fan, fanboy.
Andrej Karpathy @karpathy
979K Followers 905 Following 🧑🍳. Previously Director of AI @ Tesla, founding team @ OpenAI, CS231n/PhD @ Stanford. I like to train large deep neural nets 🧠🤖💥
Josh Elman @joshelman
134K Followers 3K Following I have been very lucky to work on or invest in many products I use every day including this one when it had a different name.
Ethan Mollick @emollick
211K Followers 552 Following Professor @Wharton studying AI, innovation & startups. Democratizing education using tech Book: https://t.co/CSmipbJ2jV Substack: https://t.co/UIBhxu4bgq
JT @jt_cho
141 Followers 56 Following Working on something new. Formerly Google, Impira, Affirm. UPenn '17.Backflip is our most recent in a string of Real Estate investments including @staykasa @orchardhomesco @revela_co and Sonar among others. Putting more about what gets us excited in the future of Real Estate here: firstmark.medium.com/real-estate-gh…
A Waymo costs $7.60 for 15 min ride. So for 8 hours that is $243. Put a bed in it and you have moving hotel room. Extend range and you could go to sleep in SF and Wake up in LA.
Special episode of the MAD podcast: @AmanKabeer11 (aka “the intern”) and I chatting about all the craziness in the AI market Open source, agents, what we’re investing in YouTube: tinyurl.com/484berp2 Spotify: tinyurl.com/2c8eskdp Apple Podcast: tinyurl.com/3hm2k42d
@ns123abc @ID_AA_Carmack i think there were actually like 30 delivered but here there are arc.net/folder/D0472A2…
the caliber of our team makes it hard not to be confident that the future of warm outbound will be led by @unifygtm. there’s no other product on the market that brings intent signals and sequencing under the same roof – and there’s still more to come on the product side in the…
Many of my podcast episodes will make you better at your job, but a select few will make you better at life. Today's episode is one of the latter. Carole Robin spent 20+ years teaching a class called Interpersonal Dynamics, affectionately known as “Touchy Feely” at Stanford…
If you’re splitting a Hamptons rental with 20 of your bros this summer, you don’t have to worry about Joe Biden’s 45% capital gains tax rate
you might disagree with me here: you can spend as much as you want on software tools to add to your stack... but you're missing the mark if those tools don't truly replace human labor and busywork. that's the direction we're headed, whether you're on board or not.
Here are the 15 IPOs w/ <$500M in revenue. They did more than fine. 9x+ since IPO. smaller cos can 100% go public w/ good growth + efficiency (rule of 40).
Thrilled to announce our Series A in AI-powered claims review platform @Alaffiahealth ! What TJ Ademiluyi and Adun Akanni are building will be transformational for the healthcare industry! firstmark.medium.com/ai-powered-pay…
Investing is the closest tech gets to “co-signing” the next generation Hiphop has this down to a science: Jayz crowns Ye Wayne sponsored Drake Dre & Snoop crowned Kendrick Ye sponsored Trav We have Thiel Fellows I guess… But I want Chesky putting a chain on Dylan Field
Best advice I ever got: think like a VC when looking for tech job. It led me to joining Rippling ($11B+) before its Series A. It changed my life, so I built a free tool to help others. We expect that each company listed on Prospect will grow at least 2X over the next 4 years:
Some quick notes from that great Zuck podcast on AI with @dwarkesh_sp New launches:
Our Same-Day network and Prime Air drones are two innovations helping us deliver even more quickly for customers. So we're excited to bring them together. For the first time, drones will begin delivering orders from our Same-Day delivery site in the West Valley of the Phoenix…
i'm extremely lucky to have found @HeggieConnor as a co-founder. we've hit on a real formula for success as a duo — here's why: connor and i’s journey began about a decade ago at rice university. we weren’t necessarily best friends then, but we shared a ton of mutual friends…
The New Power Law: An Exclusive Breakdown of Top VC Firm Returns Following a viral tweet last year, we got our hands on an anonymized dataset from the SPI team over at Stepstone breaking down the portfolio returns and concentrations strategies of more than 150 top VC funds
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