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robin

@zebird0

stealth consumer bio | prev founding team @a16z @speedrun | writer of the bird’s nest, robin-guo.com

Los Angeles, CA

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Joined December 2019

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@zebird0
Sep 18, 2025
Life is poker, not chess Four years ago I walked away from a guaranteed promotion at McKinsey and a $300K PE offer to work in gaming for a third of the salary. Many thought I was insane. They were playing chess: calculating the optimal move with perfect information.
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@zebird0
Sep 27, 2025
The best advice I got early on was to play positive sum games Add value expecting nothing in return. Be genuine in seeking advice. Don’t make relationships transactional. People will naturally help people they like. Life is much more fun when you view it with optimism
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@rauchg
Sep 26, 2025
A lot of younger people who’re new to the industry ask me how to do “networking”. How do you go from knowing no one in San Francisco to having a network of people that you can do business with, learn from, hire, etc. The trick is I never set out to “network”. Maybe due to
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@zebird0
May 27, 2023
This one hit harder than I thought
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@zebird0
Feb 17, 2023
Today's my one year anniversary @a16z. It all started with a cold email. A story about my winding journey to becoming Employee #1 at Games Fund One 📖
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@zebird0
Mar 27, 2025
Replying to @im_roy_lee
But did you studio ghibli the rejection letter yet Roy
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@zebird0
Dec 10, 2024
LA founders, the @a16z team has an extra floor in Santa Monica that we were thinking of turning into a hacker house idea - Top founders + operators + portfolio - Luminary speakers / OH - Unlimited Diet Coke - PC bang for playtests Thoughts? Still early brainstorm rn
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@zebird0
Apr 15, 2025
🚨 New a16z request for startups: "delightful utility" apps 🚨 Have you spun the discount wheel while shopping on Temu? Or grown emotionally attached to the Duolingo owl? Maybe you cycle harder on Peloton when you see your position on the leaderboard drop or log back into
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@zebird0
Apr 23, 2023
Today I turned 27, a couple reflections now that I'm officially in my late 20s and my group is 5 years out of college 🤔 1/ Everyone who's successful is smart AND works their ass off. At first I thought it was a NYC work just for work-sake thing...
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@zebird0
Sep 1, 2025
Your success is directly proportional to your suffering
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@zebird0
Sep 23, 2024
Anime is eating the world. I've always been an anime fan. The gateway was Naruto of course, but then Code Geass and Steins;Gate and FMA and many more surrounded me with intricate worlds, complex characters, and dramatic romances. It was a niche, nerdy hobby then, but no longer
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@zebird0
Sep 13, 2025
The best founders see three things clearly: 1. The market: where opportunities hide, where they end. 2.The customer: what they need, fear, and love. 3.Themselves: their own limits and abilities The trait of seeing reality for what it is. And then add a lil optimistic delusion
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@zebird0
Sep 10, 2025
🚨 a16z @speedrun request for founders: the modern growth hacker 🚨 Distribution hacks change every few years. Airbnb growth hacked Craigslist, Zynga growth hacked Facebook. What’s next? Here’s the current meta that many are missing: clip-farming. Find an army of
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@zebird0
Jan 23, 2025
How the last generation of consumer tech companies won: - Build for boredom (TikTok) - Build for ego (Instagram) - Build for anxiety (Notion) What's next?
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@zebird0
May 6, 2024
This chart shocked me today. Web3 games have 3.3M MAU, already way higher than the previous peak driven by Axie. I'm sure many of these are bots if the data is not cleaned but still impressive to see the recent growth led by Pixels. Feels like this is really slept on.
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