you guys I just overheard a girl outside a Starbucks in Palo Alto yelling at her phone because her boyfriend broke up with her and said he got an offer at OpenAI and has to lock in
Itโs like Zack with an R. Bay native ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ณ. Product lad turned partner @BainCapVC. Investing in AI & security from seed to IPO. Grew up @Atlassian.
- And thus YC was bornIf I give you $1m, and you give me the $1m back, weโll both be at $1m ARR
- Legitimately don't understand why NYC people spend $20k on a weekend in Montauk or the Hamptons just to get the same vibe as a very average backyard in San Mateo.
- Iโm at SFO sitting next to a sales guy who works at one of the vector database companies and Iโm listening to what could possibly be the bleakest sales call of all time. Short the whole category now
- hiring is an absolute blood bath right now. if you've been in your current role for >1 year, you might be drastically underpaid!
- thinking about the time I was a junior at UCLA, learned that our endowment was an LP in a VC fund, and emailed that fund's GP that I'm an LP and want an internship. I would go on to learn that being a student at a university whose endowment is an LP did not mean I was an LP
- Zoho just hit $1b in ARR, and did it totally bootstrapped while opting to stay private ๐คฏ
- my LinkedIn bio has been โsomething newโ for three hours and Iโve already gotten six inbounds from angels and VC firms. this funding market is something else ๐
- BREAKING: Tiger to use Accenture for diligence instead of Bain to cut costs amidst market losses
- Got on a bus in SF today and a guy flashed a knife at me and got into a fight with another passenger. Got off, switched buses, and another dude got on with a knife and pretended to stab a different passenger. I canโt make this shit up.
- Sitting next to a Databricks engineer on Caltrain who's crushed three Celsius cans, is typing with the fury of a thousand Devins, and has not made eye contact once. This is what dreams are made of
- I'm thrilled to share that I'm now a partner at @BainCapVC , and thrilled to be investing at the earliest stages in the most talented cyber security, AI, and infrastructure founders! The past three years have been some of the most fulfilling of my life and career.







