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Vivek Sodera
@vsodera
GP: Supercharge.vc || Founder: @Superhuman, @LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) || Investing: pre-seed enterprise AI, physical AI, productivity, & devtools
Austin / SF
Born April 1
Joined July 2006
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    Grammarly has officially rebranded to Superhuman! ☑️Superhuman Mail ☑️Superhuman Go ☑️Coda Docs ☑️Grammarly ☑️Agent Store Mail, Docs, and AI that work in every app and tab. Superpowers, everywhere you work. Congrats @shishirmehrotra, @rahulvohra, and team. Let's go! 🦾
    Huge news: We’re changing our company name from @Grammarly to Superhuman and launching a new product! The Grammarly brand isn’t going anywhere, but we’re evolving into a multi-product company that includes Grammarly, Coda, Superhuman Mail, and a new AI assistant called
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    For those that aren’t aware of the power outage situation in Austin (and the rest of Texas) or that aren’t fully groking the situation, can’t speak for others but here’s what we’re going through. Part I:
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    To all my Israeli and Jewish brothers and sisters, we have your back! 🇮🇱 Anyone offended by this, please unfollow me and go f*ck off.
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    When the founder doesn’t have product-market fit and is attending event (e.g. SXSW), after event (e.g. TED), after event (e.g. Miami Tech Week). 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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    Some pitch trends from YC S20 Demo Day: • Superhuman for X (flattering) • Shopify for X • Figma for X • Lambda School for X • Plaid for X • Zoom for X • Brex for X • Zapier for X • Impossible Foods for X
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    Founders and investors be aware of doing any business or associating with antisemite, Hamas supporter @Chris_Mischler, his YC co @DeskimoID, and his VC fund Swiss Founders Fund (@founders_fund).
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    In interviewing 400+ PMs over the past 6 mo (to find our 1st PM at @Superhuman), it's shocking how many PMs don't talk to their customers & instead rely solely on analytics. More so a trend at big consumer focused companies (Amazon, Lyft) vs enterprise/B2B companies. #dontbeshy
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    Forgot how much I love NYC. If I were in my 20s doing a startup (especially B2C) would definitely be living in NYC. So many great ppl, so much action, so much magic.
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    Founders: Please don’t listen to this. Durable companies don’t start out by getting to millions of ARR in days. Companies that flame out do. If you want playbooks on how to build a durable company, talk to investors who have experience founding and building successful companies.
    $2M ARR in three months used to be impressive. Now we expect it within ten days. Right now, momentum is the only moat.
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    During a call today, had a founder tell me to “f*ck off” after I politely and matter of factly gave him feedback on why I was passing on investing. (I previously sent him a rejection email with some feedback, but did a follow up call as a favor to him, per his request.) Note:
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    This needs to be said: Gen-Z VC should not be a thing. Instead those folks should be operators and develop years of experience + domain expertise, before investing in founders. There are outliers who actually add value. But 98% don’t and they’re a detriment to the ecosystem.
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    Excited to finally announce @superhuman raised a $75m Series C on an $825M valuation, led by @IVP. ‘Be Intentional’ is one of our core values and we were very, very intentional about who and the mechanics of the fundraise.👇🏼 1/5
    News: startup Superhuman has raised $75 million ahead of its email app coming to Android and Outlook users. I spoke to CEO @rahulvohra about bringing on investors like @drewhouston, @ariannahuff and @aplusk, and the future of his still waitlist-only app. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…
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    Toying with the idea of putting on a 'Future of Work' invite-only, 1-day conf/event later this year. Besides @superhuman @NotionHQ @airtable @zapier @useloom @holloway, which companies and individuals would you want to see represented?
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    I get asked by founders often about @a16z. They really that great? My response: 1000%. They are the real deal. @Superhuman wouldn’t be where we are today w/o guidance, wisdom, & resources of @davidu (on our speed dial), @pmarca, & crew. If you get the opp to, raise from a16z.