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Shawn Carolan

@shawnvc

Investing in consumer tech to make life better/faster/cheaper @Menloventures. Founder, engineer, product fanboy, dad, aspiring empath, and in ❤️ w @jencarolan

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ShipBob CEO & Co-Founder, Dhruv Saxena, is the @EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2024 US Technology Software Award winner! Read the story behind Dhruv’s motivation to co-found ShipBob & how his leadership has driven ShipBob’s success: hubs.la/Q02YVwYM0

ShipBob CEO & Co-Founder, Dhruv Saxena, is the @EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2024 US Technology Software Award winner!

Read the story behind Dhruv’s motivation to co-found ShipBob & how his leadership has driven ShipBob’s success: hubs.la/Q02YVwYM0
cristian rus (@cristianrus4) 's Twitter Profile Photo

hey 👋 I made an app! Meet Left, a new way to visualize time inspired by Tim Urban, I decided to build an app to see the time left as dots it's completely free and now available on the App Store

hey 👋 I made an app!

Meet Left, a new way to visualize time  

inspired by <a href="/waitbutwhy/">Tim Urban</a>, I decided to build an app to see the time left as dots

it's completely free and now available on the App Store
Shawn Carolan (@shawnvc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Love Monarch and happy to be both a customer and investor!! I'm 8/10 until they nail automatic categorization, AI is too smart to spend my time on that.

Houman Haghighi (@houman81) 's Twitter Profile Photo

From chips to style tips: Convincing the NVIDIA boss that orange complements his leather jacket collection right before our fireside chat. Mission accomplished! #MenloOrange Menlo Ventures color

Whisper Aero (@whisperaero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Distribute Logistics. Save Fuel. Sustain Airpower. Today, we’re announcing Collaborative Logistics Aircraft (or CLA for short), a family of rightsized systems for contested air logistics.

Distribute Logistics. Save Fuel. Sustain Airpower.

Today, we’re announcing Collaborative Logistics Aircraft (or CLA for short), a family of rightsized systems for contested air logistics.
Alex Hormozi (@alexhormozi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you don’t have confidence, build evidence. If you don’t have evidence, build skill. If you don’t have skill, build discipline. If you don’t have discipline, build accountability. If you don’t have accountability, remove friends + change environment + add stakes.

Menlo Ventures (@menloventures) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎉 Huge congrats to Nikita | Scaling Postgres and the entire Neon - Serverless Postgres on joining forces with Databricks! A powerful combo—bringing serverless Postgres and AI-native infrastructure together to shape the future of intelligent apps. For more on why Menlo's Tim Tully backed Neon early:

🎉 Huge congrats to <a href="/nikitabase/">Nikita | Scaling Postgres</a> and the entire <a href="/neondatabase/">Neon - Serverless Postgres</a> on joining forces with <a href="/databricks/">Databricks</a>! A powerful combo—bringing serverless Postgres and AI-native infrastructure together to shape the future of intelligent apps.

For more on why Menlo's <a href="/timt/">Tim Tully</a> backed Neon early:
Deedy (@deedydas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Claude Sonnet 4 set the state of the art in agentic coding! It beats OpenAI o3 and even the larger Opus 4 with the first ever 80% on SWE-Bench verified.

Claude Sonnet 4 set the state of the art in agentic coding!

It beats OpenAI o3 and even the larger Opus 4 with the first ever 80% on SWE-Bench verified.
Shawn Carolan (@shawnvc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Several good questions from Morgan Brennan on CNBCOvertime. Thanks for having me on and covering such a great, newly public company in Chime. Team Menlo Ventures is so happy for and proud of this team!

Shawn Carolan (@shawnvc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our first broad-based consumer AI survey in the US. Leading the pack, unsurprisingly, are students with 85% AI usage (monthly), but in 2nd place are parents of kids under 18 with a whopping 79% penetration! We break down: * What penetration has AI achieved slices by demographics

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What has most impressed me about Anthropic is the underlying value the are creating to drive these metrics, and with a strong moral compass. The founders feel it, their team feels it, every "vibe coder" out there is feeling it (myself included), and countless others who are

Shawn Carolan (@shawnvc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations Deedy, lucky to call you partner!! Cheers to a future of silently speaking to an interpretable model to get a synthesis of the latest AI research. 😉

Ashlee Vance (@ashleevance) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An aerospace revolution might be on us. We went to Tennessee to check out Whisper Aero's ultra quiet engines and put them to the test. Full, glorious epsiode down below