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✨Announcing Adverb Ventures!✨
A decade in the making, @aunder and I are teaming up to build an early stage venture firm.
We’ve closed a $75M fund and are open for business! If you’re building something new, we’d love to be your first call.
Jessica Verrilli
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Jessica Verrilli
@jess
✨ Managing Director & Co-Founder @adverbvc. Co-Founder @hashtagangels. Prev Corp Dev @twitter, GP @GVTeam. On a life adventure w/ @tdrobbo and kiddos.
- 👑 @AOC brilliantly summarized two important ways to fix the pay gap: 1. No asking for salary history. 2. Allow salary info to be shared at work. And for Silicon Valley folks: make sure you audit equity as well.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Paycheck Fairness Act: "It is time that we pay people what they are worth and not how little they are desperate enough to accept." abcn.ws/2DMekr2
00:00 - What an extraordinary example of using your platform. “I’m not going to act like my whiteness has nothing to do with me standing before you now.” Bravo @mPinoe!
- Not surprised but impressed to see @jack continually on the frontier. I expect many tech companies will follow. For software, remote work is here to stay. "Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever."
- As Twitter stock continues to climb it’s nice to look back at this moment from 2.5 years ago when @jack donated 1/3 of his shares to an employee pool for recruiting and retention. It was a long road but the team built something bigger 🚀.As for me: I'd rather have a smaller part of something big than a bigger part of something small. I'm confident we can make Twitter big! ✌️
- I’ve seen so many startups reimagining urban living, largely for millennial or young populations. I would love to meet founders rethinking eldercare and building better mixed use buildings and communities for people as they age. If you’re working on this, please reach out!
- 🐥⚡️ Some news: I'm going back to @twitter! I believe completely in this team. I love this company. And I’m in for the next chapter!
- Yes MADAM VICE PRESIDENT!!! 🇺🇸This election is about so much more than @JoeBiden or me. It’s about the soul of America and our willingness to fight for it. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Let’s get started.
- Some personal news: I'm delighted to announce I'm joining @GVteam as a General Partner: medium.com/@jess/hitting-…
- I was on this flight last night w/ my 2 kids 😭. Thank god everyone is ok ♥️. “An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot was booked into jail on 83 attempted murder charges after he allegedly tried to shut off the engines of a SF-bound plane.”
- OH: “Silicon Valley used to be a counterculture. It’s not anymore. It is the establishment. The crypto community is the new counterculture.”
- Observation from a founder: remote work reinforces a strong written culture. This is especially true with teams spread across multiple time zones. You need efficient ways for async communication, so documentation is key. Which companies do this well? Stripe comes to mind.
- Every startup hits a point when you have to start to write things down and define aspects of the business that, previously with a tiny team, are just understood or intuited. Culture is one of those things. (And then you have to figure out how to embed it in everything you do).
