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May 20, 2017 - March 14, 2019
Founders at Work,
The Rose & Crown was popular with the few hip Stanford grad students who hung around Palo Alto,
One of Mark Twain’s more uplifting quotes maintains that small people always belittle your ambitions, while the great make you feel that you too can be great.
Cthulhu
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. —Mario Andretti, Formula One driver
supremely wrong with New York startupwise: the lack of VC, the hustler rather than builder culture,
Courtney Comstock
Chris Dixon
Fibonacci’s rabbits.
of course; every superaffluent Valley personage with nothing but money and time on his or her hands seemed to spend a good chunk of it perfecting some healthy but useless skill such as road biking or kiteboarding.
Lastly, there’s a high-class brothel: the Rosewood Sand Hill, a posh restaurant and hotel complex wedged in between SLAC and the Sand Hill–Interstate 280 intersection. Thursday nights at Sand Hill are famous for serving as “cougar nights,” where older, lonely women (and younger ones explicitly on the clock) congregate to ensnare Sand Hill’s wealthy denizens.
Our first big-money institutional VC meeting was with Sequoia. Founded in 1972 by Don Valentine, himself a part of the first generation of Valley companies like Fairchild Semiconductor, Sequoia was the absolute crème de la crème, the capo di tutti capi of the venture capital world.*
Bryan Schreier,
Elysian
In VC, as often in life, it’s the incompetent and insecure who are generally the assholes; the masterful and successful—not to mention those universally perceived as the best in their field—are playing the long game. You never know where the next Airbnb is coming from.
Investment bankers have their golf, Wall Street traders have squash, and the new VC/entrepreneur tech elite has kiteboarding.
A senior venture capitalist at Charles River Ventures named Bill Tai (along with professional kiteboarder Susi Mai) hosted the punnily named MaiTai kiteboarding camp in Hawaii.
George Zachary, a partner with Bill Tai at Charles River Ventures.
Chris Sacca;
Ben Narasin.
TriplePoint Capital,
Rodger Cole.”
28 Days Later
Ted Wang of Fenwick & West.
Fenwick partner, Rodger Cole.
Chris Kile was Swiss and represented Ace & Company, an opaque family fund run out of Sound of Music land.
But you go to war with the army, and the war chest, that you have
The terms were horrible for Fenwick, our idealistic legal saviors, a complete prelubed ass fuck of a deal.
obdurate
August Capital
Mayfield Fund.
such as back-end services like Parse,
Given Y Combinator’s immense success in drawing the best entrepreneurs, it had a quasi-stranglehold on the best early-stage deal flow in the Valley.
Paul Graham,
InDinero.
Wilson Sonsini
Jean-François “Jeff” Clavier and Sam Altman.
Hacker News and Twitter,
Whether swindler or dupe, we’re all either subjects or objects of one or another conspiracy in this world.
marketing was like sex; only the losers paid for it.
Jessica Verrilli (AKA @jess).
Adam Bain
romantic interest, house, or car. The target of your interest lays out his
Michel Houellebecq.
Elad Gil,
Othman Laraki,
Mitchell
Zuklie,
Joel Franusic,
Whereoscope,
