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You don't learn crypto / Web3 from a curriculum.
You learn it by installing Metamask, buying some ETH, minting a Bored Ape, joining a Discord, getting a DM, entering your seed phrase, losing your Bored Ape, and emailing Opensea.
Let’s goo @bentay and @jaiyagill 🚀
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When the opportunity cost is Anthropic Claude credits everything feels really expensive all of a sudden
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Asked the intern for a project update during our 1:1 and bro just went:
"Scarface, the famous lion from Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve, died on June 11, 2021 at the age of 13 or 14. He died from natural causes, likely due to old age and starvation."
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Sachit Sachdev retweeted
> be Vinod Khosla
> spawn in India, parents want you to join the army
> fall in love with entrepreneurship instead after reading about Andy Grove immigrating to the US and starting Intel
> start the first ever programming club at IIT (early signs of crackedness developing)
> get into CMU and leave for the US to begin your journey
> 2x rejected from Stanford MBA, but fuck it, apply again - and get in this time!
> cofound Daisy Systems (early EDA company), but leave to build a hardware company, which quickly fails
> cofound Sun Microsystems and raise only $300k. Reach $1bn revenue in under 5 years & invent Java, but we're just getting started
> dip to join Kleiner Perkins as a GP and become the OG goat of incubations with a legendary win-streak:
(1) help create microprocessor co Nexgen, acquired by AMD for $850m
(2) invest & personally mentor early search engine Excite, exit for $7bn
(3) personally incubate early internet router co Juniper Networks, earn $7B for Kleiner Perkins alone from the deal
(4) incubate fiber optics co Cerent, exit to Cisco for $7.8bn
(5) incubate broadband co Siara, exit for $3bn
> still not enough. Leave to found Khosla Ventures with the money you made from Sun
> write about reinventing societal infrastructure with technology, then spend the next decades putting your money where your mouth is
> single handedly carry the climate tech VC industry until it becomes sexy w/ investments like impossible foods & blue river
> call OpenAI early in 2019 with no signs of traction, investment now worth >$4bn
> Khosla Ventures reaches #1 on founder based VC ELO rating database founderschoicevc[.]com, absolutely mogging the competition with a 200 ELO gap
> what's next?
Sachit Sachdev retweeted
quick call today with one of our epic @EniacVC founders
me: "we're growing revenue like crazy this is insane. are we hiring any strategy roles?"
@deemurthy: "we only have one strategy. get more sales."
me: 🤐
I joined @ghst_io 6 weeks ago and it's been a privilege to work with such a high velocity team.
Series B ✅ and we're just getting started. We're accelerating our global presence so if you know a brand or retailer that might be interested in our b2b marketplace, reach out!
B2B inventory marketplace Ghost reappears with $30M Series B to expand outside US tcrn.ch/3qDOUHq by @christinemhall
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Sachit Sachdev retweeted
Now let’s get of legacy admissions!
Anyone think RFK Jr. got into Harvard on his own merits?
He was kicked out of 2 boarding schools and had an arrest on his record in HS.
But Harvard named a school after his uncle (a grad) and his dad was a grad too, so RFK Jr became one too