Skeptical optimist @felicis
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2011
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Today, @Felicis announced that we're committing 1% in non-dilutive capital on top of every 1st check we write to be used towards personalized founder development (exec coaching, therapy, leadership development, peer groups etc). Story from @alexrkonrad: forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/…
Useful to ponder: "What does your company understand that is genuinely hard to understand, and is that understanding getting deeper every day?"
As orgs rapidly become people + agents, leadership profiles are evolving accordingly.
KC is a former CIO and eng leader whose last role was Chief People & Systems Officer at Roblox.
AI is changing how work gets done, and we want to lead that transition responsibly.
Excited to welcome Arvind KC as Chief People Officer to help OpenAI grow and be a model for how AI-enabled work can expand what people can do. openai.com/index/arvind-kc-c…
Lots of change in venture right now.
Talent (eg @eriktorenberg, @jaltma)
Capital (see patient cap from @willmanidis)
Strategies (eg holdcos, fellowships)
Then there’s the part no one’s really talking about yet. AI collapsing workflows means reimagining what a firm needs to be. Who it hires. How it operates. New structural advantages in the making.
Our formula is pretty simple: believe early and with conviction, be there through highs and lows, and let founders build on their own terms.
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I joined @aydin from @fellowapp on the Supermanagers pod and it is out today! We talked about responding to problems as a leader, navigating organizational growth and why we do work trials at @linear! 🎧 Listen 👇
fellow.app/supermanagers/cri…
Building a startup is a superhuman feat in *any* economic environment. I'm proud that @felicis pioneered the 1% pledge to put real $$ towards supporting founder mental health & development. And, stories like Melia's remind us that there's so much more to do.
The startup founders are not all right — I spoke to 16 founders and investors about the weight of building a company in an economic downturn, and how they're coping. businessinsider.com/startup-… via @BITech
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12 years completed @felicis, never a dull week serving the folks moving humanity forward - our founders and our world positive LPs ❤️
Wisdom from @vivfaga. I'm especially aligned with "only the paranoid survive" 🙃
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Today @airtable takes a massive leap forward towards our mission of allowing anyone to build software, meet: Interface Designer! Congrats to our talented teams for bringing this powerful new product to life.
📢 Today we're thrilled to announce Interface Designer: Our new offering to create complete and customized applications with Airtable.
Get the details here 👉 blog.airtable.com/introducin… and watch this space for more info and resources to come!
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1/ I’m launching my second cohort of Startup Hiring! 🙌
Applications are now open: startup-hiring.com
It’ll be a smaller class designed primarily for founders/CEOs, the group that stays up at night thinking about this problem.
Here are observations from the first cohort:
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Why Founders Should Prioritize Personal Development with Shopify's President and Felicis xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1MYGNnZBo…
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"We have this wildly optimistic belief that there is enough money, goodwill, and good intentions in the world to solve most of the world’s problems, and we want to spend our lifetime working towards that." ❤️ medium.com/canva/a-note-to-t…
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Way to act on your values, @lyft @logangreen.👏👏👏
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Big day: new @felicis $900M Fund 8, betting on super trust in the era of super capital + excited to welcome @vivfaga as our newest GP cc @weschan @speechu @victoriatr @nikipez via @Cookie techcrunch.com/2021/08/18/fe…
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Exciting news from all of us at @GuildEducation today -- we've raised our Series E financing with $150M in new capital to invest into our mission of upskilling America's workforce.
cnbc.com/2021/06/02/guild-ed…
Founders and athletes have a lot in common, and I hope this inspires even more conversation around mental health in startups & tech.
Leaders like @tobi, @justinkan, @harleyf & many others have already started it.
nytimes.com/2021/06/01/sport…
Annual @speechu appreciation tweet - I missed out on the first three years, but grateful for the eight (!) we have spent building, learning, laughing and experimenting together 🥳
As good as last year’s HBR article on grief
The absence of mental illness doesn't mean the presence of mental health.
Even if you're not depressed or burned out, you might be languishing—feeling a sense of emptiness and stagnation. Meh.
Naming it is a step toward lighting a path out of the void.
nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/…
