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Primary learning from the first decade of my career: in the long run, it is counterintuitively easy to do hard things and hard to do easy things
Chris Brown
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Chris Brown
@almostcmb
Partner @inspiredcap leading early stage into atoms and bits. I like thinking about how to connect old world and new.
- Some happy news (and a rare personal share) to cheer up everyone’s feed. Today, after almost half a year in the NICU, our little guy finally came home. If you know a NICU doc or nurse, please hug them for us. They are the closest thing we have to angels on earth. Grateful.
- Of course that’s your contention, you’re a new VC coming off a two year product stint at a Series C business. You just got done readin’ the blogs, probably Fred and Elad, maybe High Growth Handbook. You’re gonna be convinced of that until next month when..
- Was a “Regards” guy for a little bit. Too formal for me. Shifted over to “Best” for a while but got bored. Now experimenting with “Cheers” but might be too European for a guy from Boston
- Family visiting NYC in January. Has never spent meaningful time here. Care a lot about food/drink. What am I missing?
- I have a thesis that the majority of people who love Barry's/Crossfit/etc did not play competitive sports growing up There is no way you can be forced to do hang cleans and sprints for 20 years and then find yourself excited as an adult to pay $1000s to continue doing so
- How long do you think we can go with the wellness bit paying thousands for blood tests and sleeping with mouth tape before sentiment shifts back towards "life is short and having drinks with friends is good"?
- Should have invested in Coinbase at the seed. What a miss. Simply would have had to turn down Avicii in my dorm room, kick friends out of the pre-game, make some money, develop a network, learn about bitcoin, then google what a seed round was. Tough miss to swallow.
- "Hey, let's post something that terrifies existing users and future customers from sharing their personal information with us"
- Replying to @almostcmbYou gonna plagiarize all of tech Twitter for us? You have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or, or is that your thing — come into the bird app, read some obscure investment heuristic and pawn it off as your own to impress some founding teams
- Request for product I want a Personal Health OS. Ingest my Whoop, Strava, One Medical, Function Health data. Turn these data points from vanity metrics to clinical relevance. Tell me my LDL is trending down and allow me to connect the dots between the outcome and the fact I did
- “See that run rate number on slide 3? Yeah, that’s GMV. Not net revenue.”
- In 34 degree rainy weather
- 1/ As they say, time for *some personal news* After ~4 yrs @firstround learning from the smartest folks I’ve ever met, I’m off on a new adventure. I'm super excited to team up with @alexavontobel and crew as an investor @InspiredCap, our new $200M early-stage venture fund.