Legitimately had a dude tell me that his $12k one-time revenue from a two week pilot was the same as a $325k annual contract with a company. Levels of grift are reaching 2021 crypto / Miami out here in SF.

omg they should do this for 30 under 30s but say which of us are in jail and which of us aren't

When you go to dinner with Corinne Marie Riley and she works through it

You're in his DMs He's in my decagon We are not the same

BREAKING: YC starts a 2+2 program to compete with HBS, Stanford GSB, and Wharton.

Hugely excited to be partnering with Periodic on their $300m inception round. Science has only been bounded by humanity's ability to design, test, and iterate on experiments. Periodic will accelerate science beyond belief, to the benefit of us all!

The indomitable “hey man!”

The triality of San Francisco

"Now finance firms create corporate merch that is cool for the sake of being cool." LMAO hell yeah we do

Asked a founder today what kind of support he wants from a potential investor and he said "I just wanna make insane vids you know?" legit going to show up to work looking like this tomorrow fr

VCs watch Dev Day to spam the speakers and ask them to start companies Founders watch Dev Day to see if their company should still exist by the end of it BigCo PMs watch Dev Day to write their annual roadmaps

Bay Area high school lore is so strong that people are self clarifying on LinkedIn. Wonder how many VC-hosted alumni reunions bro got invited to 😂

I've been ridiculously impressed by recent UCLA grads and the companies they're starting. A bunch of us have been getting together every couple of months in SF, hmu if you're Bruin affiliated!

> be me > host a dinner for a few founder friends > they're tizz maxing each other > family-style salad comes out > serve a lil salad on each person's plate > they're shocked > one says "wow so classy!" > shocked pikachu face

I need Jared Kushner’s reading list STAT

Biggest pet peeve in meetings is long intros. Nothing kills aura like a long intro where you're losing track of what makes the person actually goated because they're too busy going through their 4th most recent job.

Just one more b2b saas bro. I promise bro it'll fix everything bro. Just one more b2b saas. Please bro. One more b2b saas bro and we can fix the rare earths problem. Bro cmon one more b2b saas I promise bro. please bro I just need one more b2b saas and we'll fix rare earths bro

I’m at SFO sitting next to a sales guy who works at one of the vector database companies and I’m listening to what could possibly be the bleakest sales call of all time. Short the whole category now