NYC is the great equalizer. Rich anywhere else? Congrats, enjoy your 2 bedroom in Tribeca. Have a chauffeured maybach? $2 subway is 50% faster.
Ben Braverman
2,567 posts
Ben Braverman
@braveben
Managing Partner @Saga_Ventures Profound, Mercury, Anduril, Fleetworks, Owner, Stand, Hadrian, Varda, Terrafirma, Monaco. Former CRO Flexport. Growth cures all.
Joined January 2011
- Buffet should name @chamath as his successor, fold in his holdings, and rebrand as Berkshire Chamathaway
- Why is my twitter feed full of people posting that there’s blood in the streets? Both major US indexes are still up ~10% for the year…wtf were you degenerates holding?
- We would be truly blessed if this conspiracy theory came true. I non-ironically believe a zuck/thiel presidency would herald in another century of American prosperity.So Zuck's PR rebrand was a psyop orchestrated by Peter Thiel to make him run for president and win the Millennial voter demographic???
- Is there a regulatory reason one of the big banks hasn’t acquired Robinhood just for the UI/UX? $8B is so cheap relative to how bad banks are at software development.
- If you’re not technical, the best first job is SDR at a well run startup. I can’t think of another way to reliably get to $250k/year by your mid twenties.
- I recently shared that Flexport's been aggressively investing in startups. Would people be interested in reading about the 140 or so bets across FP and my own angel portfolio? I was thinking of doing one thread a day to share each investment and explain what got us excited. lmk!
- would like to report a murder
- The richest guys I know all ‘lost’ a ton of salary/equity negotiations with their best employees
- Just had a company tell me their $5M seed round was $22,000,000 over subscribed. In 2012, I spent 2 years raising $500k 😭
- Replying to @PaulSkallasYou’re wrong about this one. The average American is so overwhelmed by the Starbucks menu that each order takes 10x longer than it should. Force them to order online and we can all get coffee without waiting around like cattle
- No one is going to believe this, but @typesfast designed these booths that every startup on Earth now uses (not the concept, this exact design)This is how shareholder value is created
00:00 - Periodic reminder about Saga Ventures We lead and co-lead early stage rounds and can write checks up to $25M
- I think we can say with certainty that @paulg is the greatest identifier of talent in human history. The early YC founders themselves and now Sam Altman, who was a controversial choice to lead YC at the time, bringing Google to its knees. PG knew.
