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Leore Avidar reposted thisLeore Avidar reposted thisWe’re growing fast and building even faster 🚀 After our biggest year yet, Alt is expanding the team behind one of the fastest growing marketplaces in collectibles. We’re looking for card obsessed builders across key areas, including: 🛠️ Engineering 📱 Product & Data 📣 Marketing & Events 👩💻 People 🗃️ And more If you’re ready to make real impact in the hobby, now’s the time to jump in. https://lnkd.in/gkAnapD2
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Leore Avidar reposted thisLeore Avidar reposted thisWe’re growing fast and building even faster 🚀 After our biggest year yet, Alt is expanding the team behind one of the fastest growing marketplaces in collectibles. We’re looking for card obsessed builders across key areas, including: 🛠️ Engineering 📱 Product & Data 📣 Marketing 👩💻 People 🗃️ And more If you’re ready to make real impact in the hobby, now’s the time to jump in. Apply today ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e4Np9y-V
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Leore Avidar shared thisI’m hiring a Chief of Staff to work alongside me and help scale Alt through our next phase of growth. In 2025, our marketplace volume grew ~500% YoY and revenue grew 200%+ YoY. We’re now focused on building the operating system required to support the next order of magnitude of scale, with a clear path toward a $100M+ revenue business over the next 18–24 months. This role is about owning strategic workstreams end to end and turning strategy into execution as complexity increases. The archetype I’m looking for: - Someone who can take a messy, high-level initiative and drive it from strategy to execution - Financially sharp and comfortable working directly with data and finance to get real answers - Knows how to navigate the organization to unblock themselves and move quickly - Highly organized, keeps the trains running on time, and hates dropped balls Collaborative across functions, but comfortable owning outcomes - Genuinely excited about collectibles and alternative assets (non-negotiable) Most importantly, this role is for someone who is intentional about their own growth. The best Chief of Staff candidates come in with a clear learning thesis. They know what they already do well, are honest about their gaps, and have a strong point of view on what they want to master next and why Alt is the right place to do it. This is not a generic Chief of Staff role. The why matters. If you want to be at the frontier of liquidity and build shoulder-to-shoulder with me, DM me or apply: https://lnkd.in/ezjj76yt
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Leore Avidar shared thisCongrats to Tradepost and Tyler Mozeleski on the launch! Big things ahead and excited to be along for the ride.Leore Avidar shared thisSell anything in 30 seconds Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and available today on the App Store
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Leore Avidar reposted thisLeore Avidar reposted thisThis 2024 Panini Flawless Triple Logoman of Kevin Durant, Lebron James, and Stephen Curry just sold for a record $615,000 in Alt Auctions. This is officially the third highest ever sale for a Triple Logoman and highest all-time sale on Alt.
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Leore Avidar posted thisI’m working on a unique project at Alt and looking to connect with recruiters who specialize in hiring top-tier quants or engineers from proprietary trading firms or hedge funds. If you’ve worked with (or know) someone who’s exceptional at finding engineers with strong quantitative or high-frequency systems experience, I’d love an intro. We’re working on a special product - can’t share much yet, but the right technical talent will know why it matters. Appreciate any leads or connections.
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Leore Avidar shared thisAlt is hiring 🚀 We’re building the fastest growing trading card marketplace, tackling the ~$400B+ collectibles market. Our Momentum: 📈 $150M+ run rate, growing 150% YoY 💵 $17M in annual revenue, growing 80% YoY We’re an AI-first company. Lean, fast-moving, and experimenting with the newest AI/Automation tools to shape the foundation of Alt. If you join, you’ll have the freedom to push emerging tech into production at scale. We’re looking for top engineers in data, AI, and machine learning to build out the Alt Value — the industry’s leading predictive price for the collectibles market. This is a greenfield challenge at the intersection of fintech, AI, and marketplaces. If you’ve built pricing models or risk engines and want to apply your craft to the next liquidity frontier, this is for you. 👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/d4y57sdB Or DM me directly.
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Leore Avidar reposted thisLeore Avidar reposted thisAt the National, we handed out of $5 million in cash advances on 4,000 cards valued at over $7 million dollars. Many of these amazing cards are live now in Alt Auctions.
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Leore Avidar reposted thisLeore Avidar reposted thisWe are excited to partner with Alt, an online platform that enables users to exchange, invest, value, securely store, and authenticate their collectible cards. #TRIN #AssetBasedLending #Collectibles Read the full story here - https://lnkd.in/gYCGVBAz
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Leore Avidar liked thisLeore Avidar liked this"We are the shipping layer of the internet." Laura Behrens Wu, founder and CEO of Shippo sits down at Nasdaq MarketSite to discuss the company's journey since its founding in 2013 and the software's solution for small business shipping. Watch the full interview here: http://spr.ly/6040B6oy8n
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Leore Avidar liked thisLeore Avidar liked thisOur best sponsor relationships aren’t transactional. They’re two sides sharpening the same deal. Every opportunity runs through our Intelligence Engine before it reaches our investor network. Automated underwriting, four stress-tested scenarios, every key assumption extracted and benchmarked against live market data. The Engine surfaces where the sponsor’s model holds up and where it needs pressure. And every time we bring those questions back to our sponsor partners, the deal gets tighter and both sides come out more aligned. That process is the whole point. Not to second-guess sponsors we already know and trust. To make sure the conversation between sponsors and the investors deploying capital starts from a deeper, more precise place. The investors we work with aren’t looking for more deal flow. They’re looking for better opportunities that have already survived real scrutiny. If you’re deploying $100K+ per deal across multiple opportunities a month and want to see what our process and deal flow looks like, DM me.
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Leore Avidar liked thisLeore Avidar liked thisOne thing I've noticed about building companies is that progress is hard to see when you're in the middle of it. Most days just feel like steady work. Small improvements, one step at a time. But every once in a while, you zoom out. Earlier this quarter, we crossed $400M in investments on the Arrived platform, and stepping back made me think a lot about how real estate portfolios grow. Early on, the progress feels small. A property here, a dividend there. Then, over time, income grows, equity builds, and the portfolio starts to compound. Platforms aren't that different. A lot of small steps that slowly start to add up. Grateful to the Arrived team and to the investors building alongside us, and here's to the next $100M as we continue making real estate investing simple and accessible for everyone.
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Leore Avidar liked thisLeore Avidar liked thisCome join our team! Please reach out if you're interested in learning more. https://lnkd.in/gGSRkFjABusiness Development Manager, Prime Video Device and AI PartnershipsBusiness Development Manager, Prime Video Device and AI Partnerships
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Leore Avidar liked thisHad a great time catching up with friend and Alt customer, Pang Ming Wee, for the fist time since ASCC in Macau on his Courtside Investor podcast. Shout out to all my former Lobsters 🦞 in this first clip! Check out the full episode 3/8 and more episodes here: https://lnkd.in/gk5m9CdTLeore Avidar liked thisMy next guest offers exclusive behind the scenes look of what goes on in the week of the back office in Alt. Tyler Dornenburg, the COO and the point man behind the operations, shares stories of a typical but exciting week in the office. This snip bit talks about how he met founder Leore Avidar and that turned into a tremendous role. So many details go into a power week that the interview needs to get broken down into two parts - Monday to Wednesday in Part 1 follow by auction night Thursday and post auction chaos Friday in Part 2. First part drops this Sunday 3/8 7pmET. Link to the Youtube channel in the bio.
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Leore Avidar liked thisLeore Avidar liked thisIf you’re excited about building in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment with an incredible team and seriously amazing energy — this is your sign. Come shape the future of collecting with us. Check out the Lead Product Designer role (and other open positions!) here: https://lnkd.in/eQPUEQZh
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Leore Avidar liked thisLeore Avidar liked thisI came to real estate curious, not an insider. I’ve always loved the physical and emotional side of it: the mix of art, design, hospitality, location, memories, and that its a vehicle for bringing people together. And over time, I realized I loved that all of that lives inside an investment opportunity. As I went deeper into the world of investing, fintech, and alternative assets through my time at Alt, I started getting curious about how I could apply what I was learning to an asset class I genuinely enjoy and feel connected to. Real estate ended up being the perfect vehicle. - It went from something I used to bring people together physically, through events and activations, to a way to bring friends together to co-invest and make money together. - It went from something I loved daydreaming about- buildings, neighborhoods, experiences I was a consumer of- to something I could participate in as an investor. But I noticed something: the energy and excitement my friends had around other alternative assets (crypto, sports betting, trading cards, art, tickets, rare whiskey, etc) wasn’t passing through to real estate. And I couldn’t stop asking… why? What would it take to make real estate investing feel more intuitive, social, fun, high energy, and emotional- especially for people who are curious, experimental, asset-class agnostic, and investing at the intersection of finance × passion × culture? I noticed something else... The more time I spent analyzing deals, the more I realized the hardest part isn’t access or underwriting. It’s discernment. Learning how to decide why an opportunity is compelling, or why it isn’t. That’s the question I keep coming back to. So Juliana Mandel Gabay and I started writing as we learn and build- in a new private newsletter called Inside TheHouse. If you’re also real estate-curious- follow along. Drop me your email address at TheHouse.xyz and I’ll add you to the list.
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Leore Avidar liked thisLeore Avidar liked thisThis morning I had the privilege of watching the Affiniti team deliver a 10/10 all hands to their team of absolute dogs titled “Road to $100B of Revenue” I first met Aaron and Sahil when they were 16 and 18 years old calling from their college dorm room weeks before they dropped out of Freshman Year. It’s so amazing to see how much they have grown as leaders and founders. Bullish on Aaron Bai and Sahil Phadnis who are building a massive fintech with focus and intentionality. 🚀🌶️
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Hadley Harris
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If you look at the early-stage fundraising funnel, conversion rates are tightening, but the companies that do raise are doing so at higher valuations and with larger checks. The market seems to be betting on fewer winners, but those winners will be bigger. I’m not convinced. I do believe the very biggest winners will be larger than ever as AI expands the reach of technology, largely by replacing labor. But I don’t believe there will be fewer winners overall. Most B2B solutions are moving toward verticalized, specialized use cases that deliver superior value compared to generalized horizontal platforms. That shift should create more winners. While these vertical players may not reach the scale of the horizontal mega-winners, they can still generate the kind of multibillion-dollar outcomes that venture is built to fund.
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Kasey Z.
Osmosis (YC W25) • 8K followers
With RL techniques like GRPO, it’s become easy to fine-tune small models to outperform foundation models on vertical tasks. We’re open sourcing Osmosis-Apply-1.7B: a small model that merges code (similar to Cursor’s instant apply) better than foundation models. Links in comments! Using foundation models for high specificity, low complexity tasks like code merging can be overkill - instead, it’s better to use a specialized model instead for higher performance and latency. We fine-tuned the model on 100K real-world code commits where the model needs to merge a code edit snippet into an original code snippet. On the test dataset (subset of CommitPackFT), foundation model performance ranged between 0.77-0.93 reward score. In comparison, Osmosis-Apply-1.7B achieved a 0.98 reward score - while also being 3X-5X more affordable than the next cheaper model AND ~10X faster! Why this matters: the best AI agents use multiple models to ensure task specialization and reliability at scale - on top of cost and latency benefits as well. Links to the model and full write-up (with reward function, hyperparameters, etc.) are in the comments - reach out if you’re interested in using reinforcement learning!
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Ella Molony Cook
Creative Capital • 15K followers
𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗘𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘃𝘀. 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 - 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲? At DFX, we see founders and investors mix these up all the time. They’re both private capital. But they operate very differently. Here’s the breakdown: 1️⃣ 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗘𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝗣𝗘) • Buys mature, established companies • Often post-revenue, profitable, or cash-flow positive 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 (𝗩𝗖) • Invests in early-stage startups • Pre-seed to Series B (sometimes later) 2️⃣ 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗣𝗘 • Acquires companies across industries • Focused on operational improvement + financial optimization 𝗩𝗖 • Often concentrated in tech, biotech, fintech, climate, AI • Focused on innovation and high-growth models 3️⃣ 𝗢𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗘 • Frequently acquires majority control • Often 100% ownership in leveraged buyouts (LBOs) 𝗩𝗖 • Takes minority stakes • Typically below 50% 4️⃣ 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗣𝗘 • Large investments • Often $100M to multi-billion-dollar transactions 𝗩𝗖 • Smaller checks • Can range from $250K to <$10M at early stages 5️⃣ 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗘 • Uses a mix of equity + debt • Financial engineering plays a major role 𝗩𝗖 • Primarily equity (sometimes convertible notes or SAFEs) Neither is “better.” They serve different moments in a company’s lifecycle. PE optimizes and scales proven businesses. VC fuels innovation and growth before stability exists. Understanding the difference changes how you position your company, and who you pitch. So tell us… are you building for PE or VC? Graphic from WallStreetMojo. #PrivateEquity #VentureCapital #PrivateCapital #Founders #Investors
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Jeremy W. Greenfield
Founder and Managing Partner… • 4K followers
I didn’t start Redline Ventures because the world needed another fund. I started it because too many exceptional founders are under-supported, and too many serious investors are locked out of real tech deal flow. As a YC founder, I’ve seen how outcomes are actually created. Not by logos on a cap table, but by one investor who shows up, opens doors, and leans in when it matters. Redline exists to be that investor. For founders, that means operator judgment, hands-on support, and capital that comes with leverage. Intros, hiring help, distribution, and direct feedback. No cosplay. No performative “value add.” For LPs, it’s early access to the best technology companies in the world through Y Combinator and HF0 Residency. Deals they would never see otherwise, at the same terms, long before they read about them in the Wall Street Journal. This isn’t about spraying checks. It’s about conviction, alignment, and doing fewer things better. Access compounds. Trust compounds. So do results. That’s the thesis.
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