I come from a country where a Series A fundraise is national news; you essentially have to disrupt the entire nation first before even getting a shot at venture capital; so many bold ideas never get the support they deserve
So every day, I am in genuine awe that a city like SF exists, where we give builders & dreamers such tremendous opportunities to succeed; pictured was @speedrun demo day, packed; 80 amazing founders sharing their vision with thousands of investors excited to support them; SF truly is an ecosystem like no other
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New world indeed; phenomenal teams like the one below can win in this market so fast 🚀
i'm working with a startup that signed a $67M ACV deal last week...
what a time
I sincerely hope that a version of what @paulg wrote here is true, that kind people succeed as I have gravitated towards kind colleagues & now founders, all my life
“Early on, build for as few user personas as possible” - @nicckopp (founder & ceo of rillet), dropping wisdom on how to select your startup’s ICP
Simple idea that continues to hold true for me: If a few of your most talented friends / colleagues are joining a startup, that startup will very likely win
This tshirt would 100% sell out in SF if launched; amazing display at Meta Connect for personal agents & wearables
Was doomscrolling on X past the usual tech & AI stuff, & suddenly got hit hard by this; Insightful words from Carl Jung
Tldr: If you don’t sleep properly, it seems the benefits of your fat loss plan/diet go out the window; reminder to sleep well 😴
She is certainly cooking here as they say 👑
@a16z I think kids today call this “aurafarming”; am cooked.😆
If you work out, muscles talk to brain to reduce depression 🧠 Needed this reminder; almost thought of skipping the gym today
“Tokenmaxxing is the best product marketing strategy that the AI labs came up with” - @sama in the @speedrun house
We love backing exceptional founders accelerating the physical buildout of AI @speedrun
Incredibly cool opportunity for global founders by @speedrun
it’s live! we’re flying 20 top builders from around the world to San Francisco for Tech Week
Oct 5-11th
Applications for the Global Founder Sprint by @speedrun are now live
What?
- up to $3K to cover travel costs to SF (by @Airwallex)
- small dinner with a16z investors
- invites to VIP a16z events @Techweek_
- access to executive buyers & customers at our AI Faire
- US sales coaching
Who?
- very early global builders just thinking about starting
>>> Apply below! App open for 7 days <<<
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I have loved Pokemon for years; so nice to see them host the world championship so close to home here in SF ❤️
This is part of my story. If the borderless founder story resonates with you and you are starting a company, let us know at a16z @speedrun
Consider co-hosting an event for SF/LA Tech Week! Deadline is 8/21 ⏲️
we opened a new office in Jackson Square (woo!) just in time for SF/LA Tech Week that we're hosting coming up
If you want to co-host an event, the deadline is this Friday, 8/21
Want to run a panel, dinner, demo night, happy hour, we'll put it on the official calendar and send a ton of traffic and leads your way.
submit here:
Everyone will be there- Anthropic, AWS, Databricks, ElevenLabs, Deel, Gamma, Google, IBM, SAP, Adobe, Canva, Atlassian, Cloudflare, Datadog, Elastic, Vercel, Cursor,, Fireworks, Exa, Deel, Okta, PwC, Fenwick, HSBC, Axios, Braintrust, Auth0, Fin, Hyperagent, HappyRobot
get in before Friday and you're part of the calendar launch in early September — a coordinated push across our 400K email list, the full host network, a16z and speedrun channels, and everywhere else we can reach.
this is the single biggest marketing moment we run all year. it trends on X every time. easiest exposure you'll get this fall
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Co-hosting my 1st office hours in the brand new office for @speedrun with the amazing @tkexpress11
My genuine request for the AI labs: please don’t train LLMs to use semicolons for writing; it’s my fav punctuation to use. We already lost em dashes to AI
Felt like reading an epic; one of the most exciting stories in tech in the past few years 🚀
