In an ironic sign of the times, was driving by Benchmark’s office in Woodside on an urgent call with a company I invested in that just got preempted by a16z and the call failed due to no service. No notes.

Is there anywhere to meet people outside of Blue Bottle in South Park? I take all my in person meetings there, go for a walk around the park & end up at the Cluely or Standard Intelligence offices. Also looking for the best bars, lunch places, coffee shops, etc. to meet people.

Need to take a Zoom from 11:45-12:15 in Palo Alto tomorrow does anyone have an office I can working out of 🥹 I’ll buy your team coffee

SF is funny cus I hosted a dinner with @rhobusiness and 14 of my founders & an old lady at the table next to us wanted to use one of their smart glasses & then told us her husband is a billionaire VC…??? @AviSchiffmann @KevinUnkrich @jzlegion @jasonljin @jusungpark_ @kunalshxh

I went to market beating my chest about how good I am at investing and literally not a single LP cared. The only thing that mattered was could I get them into the next sequoia or benchmark deal and if I had 8 figs of coinvest. Dumb, but that’s how you raise fund 1 in 2025…

Wrote a check into a co at a $40m cap like 6 weeks ago because I figured Zuck would buy the team for at least $800m and they already raised at $120m from Nvidia. I can't believe I spent 5 years getting punched in the face as a founder when I could've just been Chris Sacca.

Are any researchers going to ICML this week? Friend who runs a huge AI co and is giving a talk tomorrow is hosting a bunch of events and happy hours. Another researcher (my old co-founder from yrs ago) @_lychrel will also be there w @IsomorphicLabs and wants to meet people!

Given that DoorDash is a luxury service, I am happy to pay significantly more to make sure what I ordered gets delivered and the person doing the delivery is able to communicate with me in English & doesn’t steal my food (as has happened 2 days in a row)!

My friend @jonsidd runs one of the FASTEST growing cos in tech (adding 9 figs ARR monthly). Jon’s hiring a Chief of Staff for @turingcom. You’ll be in his meetings closing deals, hiring people, spinning up new products, & more. Reach out if you’re young, hungry, & technical!

LPs always want to know how I built my network to start investing. Me: “I started a community for Gen Z founders in tech that all the VCs wanted access to 5 years ago during covid” Then they want to know what it was called & every time I shed a tear before going “Gen Z Mafia”😭