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Lenny Pruss

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Lenny Pruss

@lennypruss

VC @AmplifyPartners. Tepid takes on distributed systems, dev tools and #SJSharks

Joined February 2010

Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Apr 29, 2025
1/ My hot take: LLMs haven’t transformed software engineering yet, they’ve just augmented a human-centric SDLC. For a future where autonomous agents will be writing most of our code, we need a completely redesigned SDLC, from IDEs to CI. A thread on what this will look like…
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Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Sep 28, 2024
Israel systematically destroying Hezbollah has proven to be the ultimate Rorschach test for those in West. We can now trivially identify the morally deranged among us. Thank you, Israel.
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Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Apr 8, 2025
The AI revolution everyone's talking about hasn't started yet. The true platform shift – autonomous, agentic apps – will precipitate a complete changing of the guard in infrastructure, tools, and software systems built during the previous cycle. A thread on what's coming...
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Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Dec 9, 2023
Replying to @ArmandDoma
Sorry maybe I've been in a fever dream...has de-tracking, killing standardized testing, debasing math while overseeing the lowest math and reading scores in history come from the right?
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Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Mar 11, 2023
Shame on those reckless cronies at SVB who took incalculable risks by investing in...[checks notes]...long term US treasuries.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Mar 11, 2023
The regulators were there until SVB lobbied Congress to remove the guardrails that prevent this kind of crisis in the first place. Warnings were everywhere. SVB, like many gamblers before them, knew what they were doing. Let the FDIC open the books & see what it’s working with.
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Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Jun 5, 2025
Humbled and proud to announce we’ve raised $900M in fresh capital to support the next generation of deeply technical founders advancing the frontiers of AI, developer tools, and infrastructure. Here's to the next decade of builders!
Amplify Partners
@AmplifyPartners
Jun 5, 2025
New funds, new look, same Amplify. Announcing our $900M 6th set of funds, our first ever digital bio fund, and our new logo and site. The first (and best) investor for technical founders. amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/fun…
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Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Aug 18, 2025
Replying to @mattyglesias
Great, Matt. That’s what should be reported. Instead we get a choreographed smear campaign: “genocide,” “starvation,” etc., backed by lurid, purposely-misleading headlines and images designed to emotionally blackmail audiences to delegitimize the one Jewish state. Why is that?
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Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Jan 15, 2020
Humbled and, dare I say, *thrilled* to join the ranks! Thank you @dhaliwas, @dauber and the incredible @AmplifyPartners team. And HUGE congrats to my amazing colleague @sarahcat21! Onward!
Amplify Partners
@AmplifyPartners
Jan 15, 2020
Congratulating @lennypruss and @sarahcat21 on their promotions! 🎉 blog.amplifypartners.com/growth-from-wi…
Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Jul 31, 2025
Everyone's talking about AI agents as the next architectural shift. They are not a mystical, secret thing: they are just complex, long running, dynamic workflows. And engineers building them will run into familiar problems to anyone building distributed systems.
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Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Feb 10, 2021
Genuinely curious: is there a single identity group or socio-economic class that has benefited from SF’s progressive* agenda over the last decade+? Seems this city is hell-bent on collapsing the cieling for everyone rather than raising the floor for anyone. cc: @michelletandler
Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
Feb 10, 2021
We have a vote: The board voted 5-2 to make Lowell's admission process like all other high schools, which is primarily a random lottery.
Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Dec 9, 2023
Replying to @ArmandDoma
It appears intra-left is because the inanity is most acute in the deepest of blue districts. The results are so bad in places like SF that reasonable liberals are pushing back on ideologues. The point remains the craziest stuff in education is a byproduct of the far far left.
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Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Dec 9, 2023
Replying to @ArmandDoma
Congratulations! You have successfully defended your position (not by contending with any of the counter-argument's truth claims but by establishing that the other guys are bigots). You may now proceed to the next level.
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Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Jun 13, 2022
Hey! We raised a bunch of money to support the next generation of technical founders! A huge debt of gratitude is owed to to our LPs for their unwavering support and to the past, current and future founders who entrust Amplify to support their bold vision. Thank you and onward!
Amplify Partners
@AmplifyPartners
Jun 13, 2022
Announcing Amplify Partners Fund V and Amplify Select V: $700M for technical founders. Same mission as 10 yrs ago - an unwavering focus on early-stage company building and true partnership to technical founders as they realize their vision! Blog: amplifypartners.com/firm-news/fund…
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Lenny Pruss
@lennypruss
Feb 4, 2025
Venture is a long game—particularly the way we play it at Amplify—but one that rarely turns out how you expect. I met @narayanarjun over 6 years ago as he was leaving @CockroachDB to found @MaterializeInc. Fast forward to today and I get to call him my partner @AmplifyPartners!
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