Einstein was wrong. The most powerful force in the world isn’t compound interest. It’s social capital.

As an Angel Investor, part of my job is to help connect founders with potential employees, customers, vendors, other investors, and anyone else who can help them along in their…

6. Moon's shadow seen from space during total solar eclipse

God, our kids are so fucking cool. Such a fun day with them!

With Colleen Marie

Mac The VC Elizabeth Yin 💛 with the fire! Founders from failed companies will probably reveal more about an investor than a founder from a company that is doing well.

This is incredible.

From Jamie Lane where AirBnBs are fully booked next week.

Financial models are back!

For years founders rolled their eyes when I asked them to take me thru the model…. ‘I mean we have one, but we are pre-seed so it doesn’t mean anything’

Yikes noooo.

Would be epic if one day IPO’ing was as simple (or at least as guided via software) as issuing a SAFE note is today. 🤔

Software AND a Service are the new Software as a Service.

The founders who continue to ignore this dated VC dogma and embrace the model as a superpower will increasingly win in a world awash with commodifying SaaS.

there's literally no better feeling on the planet than tickling your baby into a fit of laughter for the first time

can't believe some people intentionally choose to not experience this

It's totally OK to ask a VC at the end of a pitch meeting, 'Based on what you know now, what are the odds you'd invest?'

In fact, it can save a lot of time

1/ I often give this advice to founders around fundraising:

The best fundraises are ones where you are so 'fundable' that its easy.

You really don't want to fundraise when you are 'unfundable' or even borderline 'fundable'. Those fundraises take months and are demoralizing.

Liquidation preferences in US VC deals - still rare in early stage, but showed up much more frequently last year in late stage deals.

Many with a slightly elevated liq pref, but also quite a few over 2x. A few deals over 3x 😐

More frequently in bridge rounds than primaries

Livestream of @Neuralink demonstrating “Telepathy” – controlling a computer and playing video games just by thinking

The promise of AI is no UI.

Ocean temperatures climbed to new highs in March 2023. Every day since has set a new daily record: more than 365 consecutive highs

We used a Spilhaus map projection to focus on the world’s oceans, by showing them as one connected body

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Many of the biggest opportunities in AI will be taking functions or processes in business that are artificially constrained by their cost or complexity, and scaling them up to 100X more customers than were previously served. SaaS did this for software. AI will do this for labor.

Going through the latest YC batch companies you can instantly see how much opportunity there is with AI. This feels like over a decade ago again when there were endless wide open markets that software startups could chase after.

SpaceX has only been around for 22 years and is doing laps on, well, the entire world.

Europe and Russia have largely done nothing in the last two decades to address the competition.

SpaceX just put a rocket into orbit today that will extend its lead dramatically, while just…