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Like today I realized in a group chat, I am a Rawlsian accelerationist. r/acc ftw
Roy E. Bahat
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Roy E. Bahat
@roybahat
VC in future of work, @BloombergBeta ⚖️ Former founder, media, gov't 🧸 Believer: worker power, r/acc ⚡ Podcast: #thisisnotadvice 🕊️ חיים...حياة
- Three years ago, I built a bot in honor of something that makes America proud -- Hamilton. It's been tweeting the entire musical, one verse each day. Tomorrow, it finishes. Thank you @Lin_Manuel for giving me a whisper of joy every day for years, and, some days, a shout.Oh, I can’t wait to see you again It’s only a matter of— Time Will they tell your story? Time…
- Realized: many VCs are now quiet quitting. ⤵️
- So if Burning Man is so life-changing transformative explain to me why all the tech bros still so tech bro
- The differences between New York and Silicon Valley business culture continue to astonish me, almost 15 years after moving to San Francisco. I've seen the game in both places, and, to caricature a few differences, with as much truth as possible...
- Our son said, out of nowhere: Wouldn't it be great if Google products were real things? Google Drive would be a car Google Docs would help when you get sick Google Slides would be fun at the playground Google Sheets would keep you warm at night
- Your ability to work hard is also, to a degree, luck.
- What, in the US, we are currently calling a debate between 'capitalism' and 'socialism' is really a debate between different types of a selectively regulated market economy -- so let's stop overloading a sensible conversation?
- Someone please host a reverse pitch competition where VCs pitch their firms to founders ("founders should take our money because...") with a panel of esteemed founder judges. Have many firms compete, brackets, etc. Winner is the founder's choice VC. "August Madness"
- My San Francisco ballot is right in front of me and, after plenty of consideration (including on whether to say something in public), I'm voting NO on recalling @chesaboudin -- and I encourage you to do the same. Why? ⤵️
- Special thank you in my heart for the little detail of people who, when they send you a calendar invite, put *their* name first so in *your* calendar it's clear who you're meeting.
- SVB is about the whole country. See this founder we backed... in Ohio.
- Lots of people in VC learning the difference between an income statement and a balance sheet today.
- Startup geography: 2009: Founder moves to SF at request of VC from whom they just raised. 2019: Founder lives in SF and raises VC, then leaves.
