🌌founder @stellation 🤝🏾partner to @skybysoftware @joinswsh @mainframe ++ 🎓alum @generalcatalyst @harvard @stuyny
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Incredibly proud & inspired to share: Ken Chenault, former American Express CEO & newest board member of @Facebook & @Airbnb, is joining our firm @gcvp as managing director & chairman nytimes.com/2018/01/29/busin…
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Brooklyn 60° energy: toy poodle x Skate or Die SBs (casual un-DS from 2008) #nike #sneakerhead
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Excited to double-down on our commitment to investing in founders at the earliest stages! We are expanding our seed investing work at @gcvp with our amazing team @bonatsos @KTmBoyle & support across our partnership: techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/ge…
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🙏🏾 @SVB_Financial has been a long-standing and dedicated partner to the founders and venture firms that have defined the industry we’ve all shared for years. Sending their team all our best on navigating this challenging moment, our support & hope is with them. Their enduring success & health means our collective success & health.✨
3/ I believe the biggest risk to startups AND VCs (and to SVB) would be a mass panic. Classic "runs on the bank" hurt our entire system. People are making public jokes about this. It's not a joke, this is serious stuff. Please treat it as such
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📓 Back to school! Favorite time of year. Opening applications to join our @roughdraftvc team, share with the amazing MBA / undergrad / PhD students in your life —> link.medium.com/GJVhtjEgC9
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Next generation founders & engineers: @patrickc @mwseibel hosted by @ycombinator @roughdraftvc @KPCBFellows @DormRoomFund @thielfellowship
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👟💛Something that never gets old: traveling anywhere in the world and sparking a serendipitous conversation over sneakers. We may not all speak the same language, play the same sports, or have the same skin tone. But we can connect over a shared community & narrative on our feet
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🗺 Best-in-class travel tools in 2018:
• shared Google docs
• starred Google maps
• forwarded unformatted emails
• blog posts
• Instagram
• Pinterest
• Foursquare lists
What am I missing?
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"Blind Date With A Book" brings surprise & delight to the bookstore discovery experience #independentbookstoreday
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Fund IX @GCVP: $1.375B to support the next generation of world-class founders | medium.com/@gcvp/gc-ix-were-…
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🌌 Hosting a dinner of Stellation portfolio CEOs, friends, LPs, managers, colleagues, bank partners and future founders: no better reminder of how we are ALL in this together. Community & collaboration is our industry’s foundation. 🙏🏾
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Working together to support the future leaders of tech with capital & community: Rough Draft x YC x DRF x Thiel Fellowship x KPCB
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Open for Business: the new @GCVP-NYC office! Welcoming friends, amazing portfolio founders & collaborators as we expand our opportunity here
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Today, we're opening up applications to our @gcvp @roughdraftvc $1M search for student founders, professors & university-led projects that address critical challenges bottlenecking blockchain adoption. medium.com/rough-draft-ventu…
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Venture: Friends & Family Edition | Hosted by @alanafanderson (w/ @graceisford @sabrinahahn ++)
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Huge congrats to our @gcvp portfolio company Kensho & our partner @larrybohn! $550M acquisition by @SPGlobal
A 158 year-old Wall Street firm just completed the biggest A.I. deal in history. @forbes @kensho @SPGlobal
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Feeling so lucky for the friendships & partnerships built along the way. Even more excited for the next 3 years... medium.com/@badboyboyce/anot…
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🙏🏾💙 RIP, everlasting inspiration to so many of us and legendary impact on such a powerful range of creative industries. Huge loss for humanity. Thoughts & prayers to Virgil’s family & friends.
LVMH, Louis Vuitton and Off White are devastated to announce the passing of Virgil Abloh, on Sunday, November 28th, of cancer, which he had been battling privately for several years.
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Great time hosting @gcvp x @roughdraftvc x blockchain dinner with my colleagues @thisgirlisfunny @bonatsos @meganbytes94 & venture fellows @dillchen @nickabouzeid. Joined by awesome founder friends & special group of talent from @Stanford @UCBerkeley @Wharton @MIT & more.
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"Your background pushes you to construct a worldview that transcends the tribal."
Opinion: The research on the benefits of diversity doesn't bode well for our mostly white administration nyti.ms/2lJwNrV
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(1996) “I look forward to the day when I walk into another room and [the internet] just works” @charlierose @pmarca
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I’m going down with the ship. Times like this reveal the hometown heroes. NYC for life. Best city in the world. 🙏🏾
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Applied Math + Sociology + Computer Science = Data Science >> Can You Live Without a Data Scientist? cc @hseas @dpatil feeds.harvardbusiness.org/~r…
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“Youth is a competitive weapon. Young VCs are open to new ways of doing things. This form of ‘rule-breaking,’ or intentionally ignoring yesterday’s doctrine, may in fact be a requirement for successful venture capital investing.” — @bgurley abovethecrowd.com/2012/03/26…
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Proud to be hosting our 5th Annual @Harvard in Tech Summer Social: gathering entrepreneurs & engineers to share the NYC founding stories of Huge / HerCampus / Handy / Rebag with the community.
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Natalia & her team's work getting the recognition they deserve! Her dedication to improving civic life for New Yorkers 🗽 through technology inspires me every day. 😍 40 Under 40 - @NataliaZarina crainsnewyork.com/awards/40-… via @CrainsNewYork
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Our @gcvp portfolio company Cadre Raises $65 Million in Series C Financing, Led by @a16z. Go @RyanAWms & team! businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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Proud to share our newest @gcvp portfolio company: @GreatJones. Thrilled to lead their $3.35M raise to support childhood friends & co-founders @maddymoelis @SierraTishgart on their mission to build the next great consumer brand in the home forbes.com/sites/chloesorvin…
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👀 Spotted: @roughdraftvc t-shirt in the gym 🏋🏽♀️. Alumni & founder community growing!! 👩🏾🎓👨🏼🎓👩🎓👨🏾🎓👩🏻🎓
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Lucky to be alongside amazing young leaders transforming tech, venture & media lists.linkedin.com/2016/next… #LinkedInNextWave via @LinkedIn
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The @atom_finance team is on a mission to bring more powerful financial tools to a wider investor base. Here at @GCVP we are leading their $10.6M Series A to support the team, continue championing early stage founders, and doubling-down on NYC's fintech community.
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And with many more on the way being built & scaling today! Proud of NYC’s community of founders & venture investors
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"Diversity in the technology digital industry is a big issue," he said. "If we don't make accelerated progress in that area, it will have dire consequences for our society." -- Ken Chenault @GCVP Chairman & Managing Director cnb.cx/2E23o9O
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Great reminder of what’s possible with great design & consumer-centric UX >> medium.com/@awilkinson/slack… by @awilkinson
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Proud to support one of the best weekends of the year: @joininteract gathering the brightest young technologists to connect & collaborate
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Let's put in work to change this. Each day is another opportunity to re-write the script. Will keep burning the midnight oil...
Only 2 of the 300 case studies read by first-year Harvard Business School students include black executives wapo.st/2p7LeMP
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Positive, powerful change begins with all of us by @gcvp link.medium.com/IfJJd62QX6
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Huge congrats to @zmh: one of the best folks I've had the opportunity to call friend & collaborator. So well-deserved.
Meet the 4 Goldman Sachs 'game changers' that made Forbes' 30 Under 30 list this year read.bi/2i6PSDv
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Strong weekend read: index of AI content compiled by @SamDeBrule >> A Human's Guide to Machine Learning nzzl.us/bMeVXVt (@medium)
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So excited to see @NataliaZarina’s new leadership with @transittechlab: creating innovative partnerships & incorporating the latest technology into New York City’s public transportation system 🙏🏾🚇🗽
We're thrilled to welcome @NataliaZarina as Director of the @transittechlab! Learn more about Lab and how we're working with the @MTA to bring more innovation to public transit.
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“… making him the most powerful Black executive in the most powerful luxury group in the world. It was a nontraditional job for a nontraditional personality who was more interested in carving a new path [] than following in anyone’s footsteps.” nytimes.com/2021/11/28/style…
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🦄 At age 29: @aprilkoh_ is co-founder & CEO of @spring_health, a $2B+ healthcare company. So proud to see her scale & accomplishments since the earliest days as one of our truly special @roughdraftvc portfolio founders✨ forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgra… #30under30 #forbes
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We are incredibly grateful to be investors in @stripe. Our @gcvp partner @htaneja has been a champion of @patrickc @collision through the years. Such an epic journey started by student founders... bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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We all have various parts to play in advancing equity. Proud to continue supporting friends & our community as a Partner in Valence. Important leadership from @kobiefuller & this group of champions. Our industry will thrive with more black founders & investors.
Partners at Sequoia, GGV, General Catalyst and Greylock join Valence's VC initiative for Black founders tcrn.ch/2YyGbp3 by @jshieber
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Thrilled to host the amazing students of SVB Talent Trek here at General Catalyst - Palo Alto! Fireside chat with our very own Phil Libin
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“Having New York City as a homebase and getting close and understanding how these companies work has been very critical for us in the earlier phase of the company. I don’t think we could have done this outside of New York.” — @WSJ wsj.com/articles/venture-fun…
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So proud of my partner-in-crime @NataliaZarina for her work building community for female leaders in venture with @parity_partners. Contributing to the conversation on important #sxsw panel: schedule.sxsw.com/2018/event… 🙌🏾
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Celebrating the next generation of female leaders in VC & PE here in NYC! @parity_partners x @gcvp
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So much opportunity left to invent software solutions for personal finance... this class is perfect example of what we need more of, while also testament to lack of education/tools/best practices >> @Stanford CS 007: Personal Finance for Engineers cs007.blog/
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🗽💙🌌 It’s all part of the plan…
They want to be a part of it: VCs are flocking to New York like never before.
Here's what's driving a great migration in startup capital to the city that never sleeps (on dealflow).
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Such an incredible end to the 2017 Fall Semester for @roughdraftvc. Great leadership from my colleague @DenaliTietjen and our stellar venture fellows! With cameo from our friend Mickey Drexler 🚀
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Rough Draft Ventures 2016: Expanding to NYC and Backing 100+ Student-Founded Startups medium.com/@badboyboyce/rdv-…
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Shout-out: the readability of @FortuneMagazine @nytimes & @axios newsletters is top-notch. Quality content key & delivered— but the attention to detail in formatting takes to next-level. Thank you @adamlashinsky @polina_marinova @danprimack @jonathan_wolfe @Ali_Lev
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Valentin from our @roughdraftvc team introduces closing keynote for Startup @ @BrownUniversity: @gcvp portfolio CEO @lizwessel of @wayup!
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🤩 Find a @crypto_coven that looks like you with @web3medotfun ✨
web3me.fun (built by @doriandargan 💙)
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A peak inside the success of Robert Smith’s Vista Equity Partners: wsj.com/articles/billionaire… via @WSJ
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World-class investors. We need more good news like this, well deserved to see @645ventures expand their fund. Hats-off to @thedatavc @Aaronholi the team they've built and founders they've championed.
@645ventures is proud to announce the closing of Fund III, a $160m fund to invest in exceptional Seed & Series A companies. We’re also announcing our Connected Network of operators, founders & investors who work with our cos to help them reach large scale. 645ventures.com/645-ventures…
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Incredible night with the @roughdraftvc NYC family. More founders & friends to share in the journey
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Incredibly important leaders highlighted here. Has been amazing to see @zatlyn take @Cloudflare to epic heights. fortune.com/2018/03/21/women… (via @FortuneMagazine)
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Black artist’s brownstone (Ernest Crichlow) home attic studio in Clinton Hill x Nike SB T-19: sneakers designed by Tokyo’s top skater for Nike’s Japan team (2005) x OVO + Murakami Varsity Jacket (2018)
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Glad to see @A16Z lead $23 million Series A round in our @roughdraftvc portfolio company Instabase out of @MIT cnb.cx/2t3r857
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Congrats to our @roughdraftvc portfolio company @LearnLux on winning #SXSW pitch-off! With @aplusk @McConaughey @Benioff @MelodyMcC @garyvee
Fantastic #SXSW event with @Benioff @aplusk @McConaughey @garyvee @MelodyMcC. Love the presentation by @LearnLux!
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Hosting our 5th @Harvardintech Social: 200+ @Harvard @HarvardHBS alumni founders & friends helping build NYC tech
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New #Supreme #NYC store?! Going up now in iconic corner building at 190 Bowery Street (former Germania Bank Building) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ…
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Inaugural Class: @GCVP x @RoughDraftVC student trek! Amazing 36 hours with friends & portfolio companies in NYC.
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Thrilled to be at @UCBerkeley's "Building The Future" class with amazing students, @oculus co-founder Jack McCauley, and @thehousefund friends
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Hosting Friday afternoon @gcvp visit with @nyuniversity's Freshman Circuit! Talking startups, NYC tech, & student entrepreneurship
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Some of the most consistent, high-quality writing on the intersection of culture & the internet has been coming from @rex_woodbury. Each week I share one of his posts as a piece of primer to a friend. He's uncovering & sharing some of the 'cheat-codes' --> digitalnative.substack.com/
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Founder lunch: @mark43's @scottecrouch sharing journey from @Harvard student startup to 85-person team creating software to save lives
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(1996) @larryellison’s idea of a ’network computer’ & @pmarca’s prediction of ~subsidized smartphones @charlierose charlierose.com/videos/11983
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Job of both founders & investors: become ‘learning machines’ // Charlie Munger vía @farnamstreet fs.blog/2016/04/munger-opera…
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I am always inspired by the energy & curiosity of students. Working with universities as a core foundation of my career in venture has been a dream come true. I am certain our future will be brighter by empowering new generations in technology 👩🏽🎓💻🚀
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3 reasons New York City is the best place to start a tech company tcrn.ch/1U3eP26 via @techcrunch
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NYC raises the bar again. New records for the highest-ever rate of early stage deals: 149 companies scooping $418.5M. Read on to see the details and trends our team spotted from cos like @Zebec_HQ, @bridgesplit, @Strava, @MomentoNFT, and many more.
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Amazing evening at @Penn @Wharton with @roughdraftvc friends & student founders. We are just getting started on campus — grateful for our venture fellows @Adina_Z_Davis @shoshannaisrael, portfolio CEOs @josephscue & student groups @pennFC
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🗓️ New favorite Friday afternoon program: 1-1 meetings with venture investors that are gearing up to take the mantle of leading & defining the next generation of our industry. Our collective technology future is brighter with their contributions 🙏🏾
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There was nothing like this when I was at @StuyvesantHigh! Great to see over 100 students gathered for weekend hackathon #stuyhacks
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“Good startup ideas are well developed, multi-year plans that contemplate many possible paths according to how the world changes.” cdixon.org/2013/08/04/the-id…
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So proud of the first team members of @roughdraftvc -- critical role in shaping our work supporting young founders lnkd.in/duq_gYC
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8 years to achieve 70 million total arrivals. Last year: 70 million arrivals alone... @Airbnb tipping the scales | @gcvp portfolio fireside
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