We Back Builders. Founded by @Jason. Team behind @twistartups @launchincubator @thesyndicate415 @founderuni @remotedemoday
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2010
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Love this. Awesome takeaways @jungkeunhong!
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My media properties, from All In Summit to LIQUIDITY to @twistartups to @ThisWeeknAI and @thisweekinvc are growing -~5x over the past seven years
We are hiring people who are extremely hard working and talented, from zero to 10+ years experience in research, writing, social media and podcasting
Please reach out if you’re awesome and want to be part of the builder side of the business, as we are the first venture firm to combine podcasts, newsletters, live events and investing — something almost ever single firm has now copied!
Join us and win… no politics, no bullshit, no link bait, no sinking media company dynamics
just great work and access to the top builders in the world
No woke or maga bullshit — just reporting the facts and collecting the most intelligent takes
Want to come work with @Jason?
If you're highly motivated and passionate about tech, AI, and startups, our venture firm @LAUNCH and media division @twistartups have 14+ roles open!
Here's the full list 👇
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Techstars Tokyo, sponsored by JETRO, has two goals, says Yuki Shirato: Japanese startups global, foreign founders in. Jason Calacanis’s pitch for entering: 100 million customers with money. Sell into Japan, or build from it?@Jason @Techstars @JETRO_InvestJP
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In 1984, the Mac put files and folders on every desk.
Forty years later, we still name them, sort them and dig through them by hand.
Starting today, nobody has to touch one.
Introducing The Drive AI (thedrive.ai)
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Hello! Today, we're releasing Instant from @densityio
You can now ask a utilization question from our huge sensor dataset + get a chart instantly
Density produces and stores billions of rows of building data at 1 sec intervals
With Instant, it's absurdly fast to visualize them
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Video editors, wanna come work with @Jason on @twistartups?
We're hiring a podcast video editor to help us expand our content engine our venture firm, @LAUNCH. This role will edit short-form content for TikTok, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube Shorts.
If you're a highly driven video editor, fascinated with tech, AI, and venture capital, and always trying to up your editing game with the latest AI trends, this position could be a fit.
Apply at lnkd.in/gjXHFs_y
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Excited to start @FounderUni back up in Riyadh in November!
If you want to build a great business in MENA, come to Riyadh in November.
Online with in-person sessions at Sanabil Hub.
mena.founder.university/
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I wanted to announce that I'm working on a new project, Xash. Digital Cash, backed by Gold.
This is the world's first gold-backed stablecoin (USDX) with a built-in and patented reward token for users to earn (XASH).
xash.com/
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we are live talking about the insane world robot games... it's the end of days folks! Also, Hugging Face is for Sale?!?!?!?!?!
AWS or SpaceXAI should buy Hugging!!!!
Also, Nvidia is betting $6B -- ON OPEN SOURCE!!!! @JensenHuang is going for it!!! Full stack baby!!!
nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1pJkOXaqP…
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While quick revenue extends your runway, it won't make your company last for years to come.
Angel investors have seen too many companies flame out. They push for revenue to protect their bet.
VCs give you plenty of runway to have one out of 10 companies have a billion-dollar exit. This tension on the cap table will show up for every founder.
But what is your vision for your company?
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Based on the feedback from our 9,000 investors, we’ve evolved the syndicate from focusing on early-stage startups to securing allocations directly with founders of late-stage, pre-IPO companies
We asked a half-dozen billion-dollar startup founders (and their CFOs) if they would give us a $ 1- 20 m allocation — and we're batting 100% at this point.
We only do an SPV when we can do it directly and with the founder and CFO's blessing.
All these shady and fraudulent SPVs have burned our members, so we’ve built a new platform that's rock-solid.
We are taking meetings with family offices over the summer, and sharing our roadmap of deals.
Email [email protected] to meet the team
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.@Netflix's CPTO Elizabeth Stone on the rise of generalists
"The days of very narrow deep specialization feel limited to me. I still believe we'll need some specialized practitioners, but as a general rule, compared to 5-10 years ago, we'll have fewer specialists and more generalists."
Listen to the conversation here: youtube.com/watch?v=t0GiTyz4…
Elizabeth Stone's first visit to the podcast was my second most popular episode of all time (right behind @bchesky). Her second visit is already trending far beyond that.
A lot has changed since I first spoke with Elizabeth 2.5 years ago. She was promoted to CPTO at @Netflix, taking on product and design orgs, on top of the engineering and data orgs she already led. Also, AI.
In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:
🔸 Why all the top AI labs converged on Netflix’s culture
🔸 Why Netflix is hiring more "systems thinkers" — and fewer narrow specialists
🔸 How she protects quality when AI makes output nearly infinite ("If I had more time, I would've written a shorter letter")
🔸 The most impactful AI use cases internally
🔸 How Elizabeth builds "excellence as an operating system"
Listen now 👇
youtu.be/t0GiTyz4syY
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All-In Liquidity has begun.
Stay tuned for incredible content from the best investor summit in the world.
This year sold out in a few weeks, next year will sell out faster.
Apply now to lock in your early bird pricing for 2027:
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i built from $0 - $300k ARR in 6 months. now i'm building in public to 1M by the end of the year. if you're a founder looking for advice, send a dm. if you're following me i'll reply.
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Week 4 of Founder University with @heidibraun and @rajeevbehera covered something founders often put off: The back office.
We spend all our time on product and growth, but ops will catch up with you if you let it slide.
4 takeaways...
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We officially kicked off Founder University Cohort 12 🎉
And what a start it was.
300+ founders joined our first virtual session, coming off the momentum of an incredible @LAUNCH Fest and diving straight into building.
