Honored to be a #VB100 Innovator. Thank you Vogue Business for recognizing our work at Alta!

#1 way founders miss the mark from Serena Williams at Primary Summit: Marketing. “You might have the greatest product in the world, but how do you get people to know about it?”

We brought together top AI founders building the next wave of AI applications in NYC. Key takeaways: The hiring challenge is real → Finding engineers who are "AI-pilled but not too AI-pilled" - skilled enough to leverage AI tools like Claude Code, but disciplined enough to

geriatric doctor friend who sees patients over 85: Half have dementia and 1/3 of deaths are caused by mere falls. ‼️We only have until mid-thirties to build bone density. After ~35 bone mass only declines 🤯 The best solution: weight-bearing exercise and limit alcohol.

Wow mindblown by Apple. my AirPods just survived a full 2hr hot heavy duty extra rinse wash cycle in the washing machine, still works perfectly fine 🤯

Sharing 4 founder events I'm co-hosting this week across SF & NYC: TONIGHT (Monday 9/15): Come play pickleball with a great crew of founders and funders at the SF East Cut Crossing! 6-8pm w/ Oliver, Alpha Partners luma.com/voky08ub TOMORROW (Tues): Building the Team That

Congrats to Joel Hellermark and the Sana team on the $1.1B acquisition by Workday! Our partner Jean-Paul (JP) Sanday met them in Stockholm before ChatGPT had taken off and they were already harnessing LLMs to become the "UI for AI." He got Workday to co-invest along with us back in

One of the least understood but most painful parts of startup equity is the phantom tax bill that comes with exercising stock options. Here’s how it works: When employees exercise their options, they don’t just pay the strike price, they also owe taxes on the spread between the

Hi guys I made my first meme Bc the Uber was taking so long.

It’s 8am on a MONDAY and over a hundred Stanford University students (and some investors) are trying to get into the hottest new class on campus - The Modern Software Developer taught by Mihail Eric. For the first time in history, CS students are facing record high unemployment rates,

Talking to a founder who doesn't want to raise again "the valuation is really nothing other than a hurdle"

We have three cool announcements today: (1) OpenAI is launching commerce in ChatGPT. Their new Instant Checkout is powered by Stripe. (2) We're releasing the Agentic Commerce Protocol, codeveloped by Stripe and OpenAI. (3) Stripe is launching an API for agentic payments,

Huge.

Congrats on the launch and $64M seed round. Excited to be supporting Carina and her incredible team on this journey.

I spent 24 hours in El Segundo to host a founder dinner and it was the single most inspiring day I've experienced as an investor. This small pocket of LA has become one of the most concentrated ecosystems of visionary founders building companies that push the frontier of deep