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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

10 months

Delighted to share that @Bedrock 4 – our newest flagship fund which closed earlier this year – has just been upsized.

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Geoff Lewis

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3 years

If fully vaccinated people get and transmit Covid explain to me why vaccine passports make sense

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

wanted: mckinsey but for helping companies undo/reverse whatever mckinsey recommended over the past thirty years. will fund.

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

reddit is currently the world's most undervalued fintech company

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

anyone who works at any company is one tweet away from cancellation

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4 years

Whereabouts of both founders unknown.

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4 years

Bitcoin is now worth more than Alibaba (~$670B)

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4 years

Bitcoin will at least 2X within the next 6 months. This is not investment advice.

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

COVID as a potentially debilitating virus remains. COVID as a debilitating psychosocial phenomenon ended just now.

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

Church of Bitcoin would be tax exempt just thinking aloud

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

Yesterday, me to friend: "Hold your airbnb shares. Do not sell. It will be a $100B company in 1-2 years." Today: airbnb is a $100B company.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

hey quick question where’s Jack Ma?

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

Someone somewhere has spent the past decade doing nothing but cost averaging into BTC, binge watching porn, and binge eating Cheetos. They are now loaded. There’s more to life than money.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

McKinsey is 10X more sketch than literally any startup I’ve ever met.

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

1,500+ @nytimes articles on Banksy respected his pseudonymity, because art. 1 article on @slatestarcodex cannot, because smart.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

I graduated college 15 years ago. As of today, I feel full wholly free to invest only in endeavors I care about profoundly, and work only with people I want to be around for life. Pro tip for youngsters: Get to this point as fast as you can! I was a little slow.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

The lucky man says it’s smarts. The unlucky man says it’s luck. The smart man says nothing.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

Covid canceled cancel culture.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

goldman trying to cancel bitcoin signals bitcoin has a shot at canceling goldman

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Geoff Lewis

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5 years

On March 3rd, I dined at the Four Seasons NY and the maitre d gently asked me to stop wiping my silverware and table down with Clorox wipes, fearing I was alarming other patrons. Today, the Four Seasons NY is a dormitory for medical staff.

Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo

@NYGovCuomo

5 years

The Four Seasons Hotel on 57th Street will provide FREE lodging to doctors, nurses & medical personnel currently working to respond to the #COVID19 pandemic. Thank you @FourSeasons . The first of many hotels we hope will make their rooms available.

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Geoff Lewis

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5 years

I’ve been in COVID-19 prepper mode for 2 months. Today omw to get gas and water, I turned a sharp corner and was met w/ a deer. Swerved off road to avoid hitting it. Car almost flipped. Life flashed before my eyes, but no injuries. Life is fragile. Can’t prep for everything.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

Some of the most generative people on earth will be leaving California - and perhaps even America - over the next 12 months.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

$1000 USD of BTC purchased a decade ago would be worth approximately $100,000,000 today.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

10 years ago today, with $0 to my name, I quit my job to start a startup — with the backing of my then-boss. I don’t think things would have worked out this way for me anywhere but the USA.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

COVID-19 Narrative Mirage #1 : Masks don’t help unless you are sick.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

When I was a fresh founder, Steve Jobs held open a door for me in the Fifth & Mission garage. We’d never met. He smiled. I smiled. And we made the most exquisite eye contact. I began to imagine that he believed in me. Sometimes just imagining someone believes in you is enough.

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Geoff Lewis

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6 years

Best investing lesson I learned from Peter Thiel: Valuations are best considered as a discount on the future vs. a premium on the past.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

6 years

Words cannot describe how proud I am of John, Logan, and the entire @lyft team! Live @ $LYFT 👊🏻

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

In 10 years we'll look back on this as an epic f u power move from Travis. CloudKitchens may very well eat UberEats [ +20% of Uber 'gross bookings'] and then keep going...

Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Departs Board, Sells All His Shares

Travis Kalanick is parting ways with Uber Technologies, the company he co-founded and turned into an icon of startup ambition before his tumultuous ouster as CEO in 2017.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

Impossible to overstate how much in business comes down to psychology.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

SENATOR A: quick question should we sneak a bomb to destroy American defi into the infra bill last min? SENATOR B: wtf is defi? SENATOR A: big banks who give us money hate it SENATOR B: ok def

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

why are so many people wearing masks outdoors in San Francisco wtf is going on

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

Two things are true. (1) Jason has the right to run his business however he wants. (2) The below is absolute, total, 100% BS.

Jason Fried

@jasonfried

5 years

Giving out equity in startups benefits ownership way more than employees. It allows the owners to push employees harder and harder because “you’ve got skin in the game now… you’re an owner.” No you aren’t. Owning less than 1% of anything isn’t ownership.

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Geoff Lewis

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1 year

No way to prove with quantitive data, but a shockingly high percentage of people have actually gone totally insane over the past few years.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

Conformists run middle management. Rebels run the world.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

3 Years. 3 Funds. $1 Billion approx AUM. Still just getting started. @Bedrock 3:

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

Societally, Bitcoin is the healthiest of today’s secular religions.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

This is coming from one of the most resilient and brilliant restauranteurs on the planet.

david chang

@davidchang

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I cannot stress the ineptitude of leadership at every level of government and political party. Fuck all of you who let this happen.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

I’m busy packing as much love, joy, and beauty into my life as is humanly possible — now more than ever, as I fear we are dangerously close to an ahistorical precipice none of us can understand.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

6 years

Journaling w/ pen and paper each night for 10 min or so before bed is the single most postive sleep quality intervention I’ve implemented in life (10x better than meditation).

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

I think we millennials are finally so collectively sick of bullshit that just being bluntly honest is a massive comparative advantage today in all contexts.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

Runway is the new product market fit.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

The current market is minting tens of thousands of liquid employee millionaires owning <1/100th of 1% of equity in their employers. Hopefully it’s the death knell of cruel and exploitative anti-equity advocacy.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

Any VC who says it’s business as usual is either lying or super dumb. fin.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

You learn several insane things about the world that only other entrepreneurs can understand when you build something from nothing.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

Lyft driver to a friend en route from O’hare into Chicago: “I’ve got to get gas now all the gas stations downtown are closed. You should make sure to eat before going into the city.” Orange sky moments are all around us. Open your eyes.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

I once begged a college classmate for an invite to the McKinsey Party at Davos. How young I was. How naive I was about what actually mattered in the world; how unaware I was of what is actually good.

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Geoff Lewis

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3 years

Home prices indicate that a dollar a year ago is worth around fifty cents today.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

18 days

There is an extremely unhinged and perhaps demonic energy in the air in both San Francisco and New York these days.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

Thinking of all the personal angel investments I wouldn't have been able to make if the top capital gains rate had been 48% when I sold my startup and finally got out of borderline-bankruptcy credit card debt in 2011.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

Sorta sad we live in a world where @elonmusk had to do what basically amounts to a "proof of sanity" podcast with Rogan because of a few awesome tweets

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

World Health Organization - @WHO - operates a fraudulent and dangerous narrative mirage. Advancing their “”diplomatic aims”” = Lies and obfuscation to the public on COVID-19 from Day 1. They are a political org, not a health org.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

hard pass

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

If you ever catch yourself feeling compelled to lower your morals in order to interface with someone or something, stop. Wish it a very lovely life, and briskly walk in the opposite direction.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

1 year

Things worth owning; 1. A farm in a remote locale. World’s gonna get super wild. Peace out, and love to all.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

Changing the timescale on which you think will change your life.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

Love ya @ShaanVP but my physical life is worth more to me than my digital life — in this moment, and always.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

Conformists run middle management. Rebels run the world.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

1 year

Value of most SaaS goes to zero within the decade.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

My career tip for the day: Every major career decision I’ve made seemed like a bad one to those closest to me at the time I made it (starting w/P&G in 2004 over a top tier consulting firm because I wanted my green card and they’d sponsor 🇨🇦)

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Geoff Lewis

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3 years

if you have ~$100k+ liquid, and you want to keep it; congrats, you get to moonlight as a hedge fund manager for the indefinite future

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

2 years

Increasingly believe the next mega platform is @OpenAI .

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

2 years

If you tracked into startups or vc because they are prestigious (as they’ve been for like a decade), now is a good time to offramp. In the years to come, we’re going to find out precisely who is real and what is real.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

2 years

Mega vibe shift in SF —> new over past 3-5 weeks. Bullish.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

In the future, @reddit will run the stock market and @chamath will run California.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

Yes, VC is now commodity. Personality and critical thinking skills in an investor remain rare. Lead with vibe.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

@dickc @pt @Jason @coinbase "I'll happily provide video commentary" ????? Wow.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

Work hard play hard doesn’t work for startups.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

Biggest example of genuine VC value add I’ve seen in my lifetime is @a16z with helping @joinClubhouse breakout. Zero doubt their media endeavors will be hugely successful.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

Attack problems, not people.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

they wanted cancel culture; instead we’re canceling culture.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

2 years

From houses to startups, we’re at a moment in time where nobody knows what anything should be priced at.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

Robbinghood.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

We're pleased to share that @Bedrock has closed a $350 Million Fund II to support our search for narrative violations

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

The pendulum has swung too far toward efficiency. Efficiency is a tool, not an end. We are due for a correction back toward humanity.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

Eric Schmidt is incorrect.

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4 years

Eric Schmidt makes a smart point: The pandemic could actually be great for commercial real-estate, because companies will want MORE office space, not less, as they redesign offices to support social distancing.

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Geoff Lewis

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3 years

If someone tells you to “read the room”, exit the room immediately and never return.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

The virus broke woke.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

If $8,049 <= 1% of your liquid net worth and you don’t yet have BTC exposure; buying 1 BTC right now and HODLing is probably not a bad idea. *Disclaimer: This is not financial advice*

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

Hedge funds can eat venture capital, but they can't eat vibe capital.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

To be clear, I was strongly in favor of a far stricter lockdown and border closure earlier on in the US. But at this point in CA, closing outdoor dining entirely is absolutely demented.

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Geoff Lewis

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5 years

Wanna run a huge company and considering grad school? PhD Psych > MBA

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

She gets the problem dead right. She gets the solution dead wrong.

Ilhan Omar

@IlhanMN

5 years

$1.5 trillion is now tied up in student debt. It is destroying lives and it's a drag on our whole economy. We need transformative change. It's time to eliminate all student debt and guarantee debt and tuition-free public colleges.

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Geoff Lewis

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3 years

Living in a place where the people are generally good natured is highly underrated.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

it would be in the public interest for news organizations to somehow be transparent on which journalists have large trust funds

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

Huge congrats to @a16z on latest funds. Literally every person from the firm I’ve interacted with over my 10 years as not-a-vc has been an excellent person.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

I’m often asked about my investing framework. I don’t have one; I vibe. What does this mean? Frameworks arise each time anew – assembled on the fly in concert with the uniqueness of the entrepreneurs and their pursuits. This is vibe capital.

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

Friend in San Francisco yesterday: "the outdoor dining culture that's emerged has been the one upside to covid here." SF today: Outdoor dining locked down until Jan. Orange sky moments are all around us. Open your eyes.

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

‘Pro startups, but anti big-tech’ is a position I’m seeing more and more folks adopt. Like most convenient positions, it’s a logical contradiction.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

Very hard to name a single grassroots movement that hasn’t been co-opted by powerful people with an agenda misaligned with the movement’s origin.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

pains me to say, but New York City is profoundly screwed.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

6 years

New VC fund = assembling a plane while flying while concurrently identifying other mid-flight mid-assembly planes you believe won’t crash.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

One large contract — just one big deal — can turn a company from fake to real.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

3 years

If you're going to burn a bridge, you better be sure you're right.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

6 years

Twitter has bifurcated into a cesspool of ad hominemism for people who think primarily about other people juxtaposed against an inspiring fount of knowledge for people who think primarily about ideas.

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

excessive alcohol consumption is immunosuppressive yet liquor stores are essential businesses smh

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

Increasingly convinced too many inhabitants of NYC and SF (and maybe LA) are suffering from a mild sort of civic Stockholm syndrome.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

r/wsb “we can stay [r-slur] longer than you can stay solvent” is the most authentic mission statement in finance

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

4 years

To all the fine young folks who became VC associates in 2019: You joined at the absolute peak of an asset class bubble and it’s not going to be fun for at least 24 months.

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Geoff Lewis

@GeoffLewisOrg

5 years

Two weeks after I joined the Clarium hedge fund, Lehman Brothers collapsed. Today feels to me like that day did.

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Geoff Lewis

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2 years

Raging bull market on get-rich-quick schemes juxtaposed against bear market on generational assets. What a time to be alive.

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Geoff Lewis

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4 years

Count me as part of the 30%.

CNN

@CNN

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Despite evidence from infectious disease experts suggesting otherwise, nearly 30% of Americans in a new Pew poll said they believe the novel coronavirus was likely created in a lab.

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