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displaced south londoner • a poem • storytelling & strategy @browsercompany • formerly @clayrunhq @firstround • big swings only, always

△ bklyn via ldn △
Joined March 2013
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5 years
You (we) are an iteration still iterating.
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@lafillemouen
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2 years
Day 2 with the good, good people @browsercompany ! It's a whole-new-adventure-never-a-better-time-to-reimagine-the-browser type of Tuesday. I wish you the same 💫
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We just passed 10k students on Arc!! But most exciting is how global this @browsercompany crew is... Students in 98 countries (!) all dreaming of a better internet. US, Italy, Ghana, India, UK, Peru, Germany, South Korea and so many, many more This, I love this most of all 🫶🏽
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From a Notion doc, to an all-hands presentation, to sharing it and feeling your responses — a labor of love. So grateful to you all, and of course @lee94josh , @abigailjanvier , @joshm , and your local @browsercompany .
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Our vision for Act II of @arcinternet
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6 years
Community over everything. Via @NotionHQ
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Cannot overstate how thrilled I am to be joining this incredible team and to support New York’s community of phenomenal founders 🚀 Let’s do it!
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6 years
We're growing our investment team in New York. Here's more on the talented crew working alongside @hayleybay . Welcome @LaFilleMouen @cm_brown90 and @_Meg_Kelly_ !
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@lafillemouen
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4 years
Sometimes walking through New York feels like joy.
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Ten years in America, today. Wow.
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This country is exhausting.
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@lafillemouen
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5 years
And sometimes you get to do a thing. Last week’s evening talking venture & access with @ericries and the good people, via @KaporCenter and @NextPlayEvents 👟👟
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@lafillemouen
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Exceptionally lucky to work with this brilliant group as they deepen their craft of angel investing. But also, exceptionally excited to have @firstround play a part in building a community of investors that looks a little more like the world we live in.
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@lafillemouen
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Founders to operators, big thinkers to ceiling breakers, NYC to SF - Welcome, welcome to the new angels joining @firstround Angel Track. We cannot wait to spend the fall with you 🚀
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@lafillemouen
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4 years
Take good care today, good people.
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@lafillemouen
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It's tea bag before hot water and I won't hear otherwise.
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@lafillemouen
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7 years
When @firstround State of Startups is helping you write your final paper on change management at the intersection of gender, inclusion & VC.
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@lafillemouen
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4 years
Good morning, Brooklyn.
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5 years
“If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” Dear Toni M. So thankful for those taking the time to mentor & empower through @firstround Fast Track. Fall is officially in session ✨
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4 years
High praise, higher joy to be backing a dear friend and bold, bold team rethinking how we all use *~*the internet.
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Josh Miller
4 years
A few of the spectacular women who are on our cap table: @lafillemouen @j_l_kelly @freialobo @amelia_acker Nash, Jane, Freia and Amelia are all rising stars in their fields. We hope that one day they’ll work at the @browsercompany 🤞 For now, we’ll take “investor” 😇
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Some of the most inspiring thinkers & doers I’ve ever met. One of the most important communities I’ve been lucky to be a part of. Apply for ⁦ @DormRoomFund ⁩ next cohort of investment partners today 💥
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@lafillemouen
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Take up space.
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5 years
“It was really important for me to make space for Blackness in San Francisco again." Read that once more. My friend, @thatnatanya , a force of nature. @naza_beauty is live, backed by some (crazy) brilliant individuals. Incredibly proud and so, so excited.
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@lafillemouen
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5 years
Indeed. Enjoy, 🌻.
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@lafillemouen
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6 years
Working with @camillericketts is *truly* a unique opportunity. And @NotionHQ is pretty effing cool, too.
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6 years
Community folks - truly unique opportunity to come work with me at @NotionHQ . It’s a community/support role unlike any other I’ve seen. And please share if you know someone 🙏
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Saturdays with Jean-Michel.
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So excited for the fall cohort of @firstround Fast Track in SF & NYC. Mentorship crafted with exceptional care by community wiz @serenabian1 - apply, apply, apply or reach out with any questions!
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1/ Applications are now open for the fall cohort of @firstround Fast Track, an impactful program that pairs experienced experts with new founders and rising stars for 1:1 mentorship. Learn more and apply to be a Mentor here:
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Some things in life change the course of your journey - @DormRoomFund is one such community. If you're a student that loves tech, founders, crazy people with huge ideas, DRF is for you. Apply, apply, apply! or reach out with any questions :)
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Periodic reminder.
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5 years
I was reminded today that my Dad is the type of man to see an elderly lady walking to the bus stop, cane and shopping in hand, and give her a ride home. Just because.
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6 years
Immigrant children correcting their parents’ pronunciation is a very specific seasonal sport.
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@lafillemouen
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5 years
Yesterday was a good day ✨ Huge thanks to @webflow for putting on a brilliant No Code Conference (and for hosting me!)
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. @lafillemouen is giving an incredible talk @NoCodeConf Thank you for such a thought provoking talk! Empowering one another to scale and being mindful of that as we scale is so critical to #NoCode #NoCodeConf
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Annual smiles & schemes with the best people, i.e. the @DormRoomFund family.
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Wow, last week to apply for @firstround Angel Track 😇! Met some truly phenomenal leaders & founders in tech through prior cohorts & can't wait to welcome a new group. Applications right here
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Mentors move the needle and I - without a doubt - wouldn't be where I am were it not for those who shared their time & energy with me each step of the way. Thrilled for the launch of Fast Track and what it could mean for the next generation of entrepreneurs.
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1/ Thrilled to announce @firstround Fast Track, a brand new take on mentorship. This 90-day program matches incredible experts with founders and execs we've backed for a remarkable 1:1 mentorship experience. Apply to be a Mentor or nominate someone here:
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How @SuperhumanCo swooped in and saved my inbox (+ sanity). Or how @rahulvohra and the team found their way to product market fit via @firstround
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@lafillemouen
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Happy New Year’s babes, more mute more life.
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Do both.
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Seeing your founder friends doing the damn thing & thriving >>> ⚡️ Looking at you dear @heyreiwang @ahossain24
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@lafillemouen
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6 years
We’re so excited to see @firstround Angel Track expand to New York and return to SF this Fall! Applications below to join this masterclass & community of exceptional emerging angels. We can’t wait to meet you!
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@thegothamgal @jess @eladgil 2/ Apply to this fall's Angel Track program to learn and practice the craft of investing. Learn what last year's cohort members had to say about their experience:
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It’s been a kids-playing-Uno-in-the-neighbourhood-coffee-shop type of Sunday morning. I wish you the same.
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@lafillemouen
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2 years
more humane, more fun, more love.
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a daily reminder
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6 years
Wow. All the feels. But also incredibly excited for @heyreiwang 's next steps and this next chapter for @DormRoomFund . It's a once in a lifetime type of thing.
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Rei Wang
6 years
Leading @DormRoomFund is the best job I’ve ever had, the greatest team I’ve worked with and the strongest community I’ve ever belonged to. I'm following my DRF role models to #BeAFounder ! We’re looking for the next CEO of Dorm Room Fund. Apply by 10/31
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@lafillemouen
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Excited to be back at my favourite gym @foundergym with some brilliant, brilliant founders and @nmachijidenma tonight ✨
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🚨TONIGHT!🚨 FG Cohort 17 will be STUNNED by the brilliance of FG Expert Trainers, @nmachijidenma of @sequoia & @lafillemouen of @clayrunHQ , in a LIVE session (and FG-first!) on "Pitching Angels + Scouts" Follow #FounderGym at 5pm PST #BetOnBlackWomen BRING ON THE GEMS 😍💰💎
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@lafillemouen
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4 years
you can’t reform when the core is rotten.
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A wild/uncomfortable amount of life is happenstance. Facilitate serendipity.
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Allergic to Penn Station.
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When 15yr old #BreshaMeadows serves life sentence for shooting abusive father but Zimmerman was standing his ground
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4 years
@kan_academy Agreed. @tryramp is pretty clean and stronger functionality, we've found.
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@lafillemouen
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2 years
There are so many stories to be told. And a beautiful one about what the internet is, and can be 🔵 Can't wait to share what we have in store.
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Josh Miller
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@2irl4u @browsercompany just hired @lafillemouen and @hamburger to start to tell our story publicly alongside @karlamickens screenshots and much much more dropping imminently
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@lafillemouen
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5 years
It was all just good just six weeks ago. (and it will be again).
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It’s been a kids-playing-Uno-in-the-neighbourhood-coffee-shop type of Sunday morning. I wish you the same.
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@lafillemouen
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4 years
Eternal sunshine of the SPACless mind
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@lafillemouen
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@browsercompany also shoutout to the 500+ students across 38 schools taking back their internet™️ in our boost hackathon (we see you!)
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6 years
My last minute lifestyle needs TSA Pre ✔️ (and US citizenship)
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@lafillemouen
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5 years
Because the future is multicultural, babes 🤙🏾✨ Yes (!) on @TheGrandWorld candidly and powerfully making room for the questions that aren’t obvious to ask.
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Thrilled to share our first guidebook 📗 How to Nurture Interracial Relationships! Use it to navigate challenging conversations on #race , #identity #family . We hope it can be a practical tool to help you deepen your #relationships . ✨✨
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@lafillemouen
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6 years
The often overlooked art of the double opt in.
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all roads lead to Home
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@lafillemouen
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6 years
Having spent the past two years amongst some brilliant founders & operators in New York, can't wait to welcome @firstround 's first Angel Track NYC cohort this fall. Learn more about the program, its expansion to NYC & SF, and pop in an application below.
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Would buy an Andrew Cuomo bedtime relaxation audiobook for sure for sure.
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4 years
Simply one of the best people ✨ Lucky to have learned, grown and seen what it means to think further (and a little differently) with you. You build exceptional things @phineasb , I can't to see what you'll do next.
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Phin Barnes
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1/ Today, I am sharing that I've made the difficult choice to leave First Round to build again. -
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Saturdays with Toni.
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I just got my @somewhere__good email. @najjmahal and team are very, very, (very) good. 🪐 To be seen is a wonderful thing.
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@lafillemouen
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Leaving our @AllRaise female founder breakfast this morning I was struck & disappointed by how relevant this article remains, hearing my table’s fundraising stories/the questions asked by some of our community’s investors. Do better.
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@lafillemouen
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Critical insights from LinkedIn. Kudos to my other half @cm_brown90 👨🏼‍💻👩🏾‍💻
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@lafillemouen
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Come work with us! Community is core to what we do and who we are ⁦⁦⁦ @firstround ⁩ - and we want to hear from you 👋🏾 Reach out with any questions along the way.
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It’s not too late to apply! @DormRoomFund & @firstround Female Founder Track is coming to NYC and we just can’t wait to meet you brilliant, brilliant women (yes, that’s you!)⚡️
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Shohini Gupta
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NYC!!!! Female Founder Track from @DormRoomFund and @firstround app deadline is tonight! Closed door dinners with people like @hayleybay @rebeccak46 (and exciting announcements to come 😉) and workshops with brilliants like @lafillemouen you cant miss!
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5 years
Saturday better than yours cause I just got off the phone with @thatnatanya
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Meet the 80+ members of the First Round Angel Trak community - builders backing builders ⚡️alldayeveryday⚡️
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Opportunity and exposure compound.
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it's the most wonderful time of the year
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Excited to launch @firstround 's Spring Angel Track program! We've revamped the curriculum building off our learnings from the past three years and can't wait to bring together a phenomenal group of emerging angels. Apply below!
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Simply one of the best. @bmrothenberg front and center on @firstround Review today sharing his trajectory from scrappy zero to triumphant IPO (and all the winds along the way).
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@lafillemouen
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5 years
Difficult decision but incredible execution. @najjmahal and the Ethel's Club team are very effing good. Community care at its best, see you on the internets @ethelsclub ✊🏾✨
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Naj
5 years
Hard, but necessary decisions. Our clubhouse is nothing without the spirit of our incredible members, so we wrapped all that intention up and put it online. @ethelsclub will continue to create experiences meant to inspire, delight & teach until we’re live again. ✨ Stay safe!
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6 years
Another brilliant and necessary initiative from the ⁦ @DormRoomFund ⁩ team || Happy MLK day good people || Announcing the Blueprint Project for Founders of Color in New York City
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6 years
Learning to be ok with New York’s love for indefinite scaffolding.
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Nothing like Christmas pub vibes.
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Solid dose of tips, tactics and truth - some real gems in this year's @firstround Review 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2018 👩🏾‍💻
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“We believe demographics are destiny.” Simply one of the best people there is out there, dear @km . Cannot wait to see Kindred grow 🌱
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Kanyi Maqubela
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...It will be diverse: we are both immigrants and people of color, we believe demographics are destiny, and it is *good business* to invest in diverse problems, and to fund people from diverse backgrounds.
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@MandelaSH @phaedrael @foundergym @PaigeHBuckner Just wrapped up our session, this community is *very very* special. Heart is full. You are both doing incredible and important work @MandelaSH @PaigeHBuckner .
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People, and their dreams, are incredible.
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@phineasb @joshm @DormRoomFund Stay ready so you don't have to get ready, gentlemen✌🏽
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5 years
Nayyirah Waheed, but make it tech.
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3 years
Those are still my boys though 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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6 years
'To see things in the seed, that is genius,' Lao-Tzu | Reasons we, too, stay at seed 'Fewer & Larger' via @fredwilson
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Fewer And Larger
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Feel tiny, feel free.
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It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field. Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb 's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12:
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Simply one of the best. Dear colleague, mentor & friend, @phineasb is looking for a chief of staff to join him here @firstround - if you have any inkling this might be you, click through & do the do.
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Phin Barnes
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I just published Are you my next Chief of Staff?
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3 years
I don't know how @sydneypaige10 does it all, but she does it. And I love to witness it.
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Nashilu
5 years
As a perpetual visa person, brilliant and important opportunity for immigrant founders to just talk and think through what it means *to be able* to start a company. c/o the great minds @UnshackledVC .
@lfdrocha
Lucas Rocha
5 years
We're doing a new thing at Unshackled! If you're on a work visa and have been thinking about starting a company but don't know what (or how) just yet, come talk to us. Building something for you.
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8 years
Early stage founder advice? Don't worship false gods. @davemcclure #500STRONG
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5 years
“The opportunity gap continues to widen and the ability for adults to get good jobs  - that help them save, get insurance, provide for their families  - is harder than ever.” Important work from the brilliant @jerseejess on underemployment & the FoW. subscribesubscribesubscribe.
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Jessica Lin
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I’ve collected stories over past 10 years as adult educator + VC. Putting it all into a new newsletter, all about jobs: stories from students, how they've gotten jobs & interesting tech transforming skills & underemployment. Where the Good Jobs Are:
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6 years
A homecoming, of sorts.
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4 years
Maaan. @thatnatanya & @naza_beauty just do.not.stop⚡️
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Alexis Ohanian 🇦🇲
4 years
Talking @naza_beauty + hair kits with @Venuseswilliams -- y'all need to follow my sister-in-law on IG if you're somehow not already:
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6 years
What dreams are made of.
@eriktorenberg
Erik Torenberg
6 years
equity investing in people.
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Nashilu
7 years
Yes, yes & yes 🙌🏾🙌🏾 || @firstround & @RocNation investing in the promise of people.
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5 years
Welcome, welcome to the family @themollette @ImChauncey 👩🏻‍🦰👩🏻‍🦰 and eff yeah to DRF 3.0 under this brilliant pair
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Dorm Room Fund
5 years
Dorm Room Fund has been on 🔥, but with our new CEO and COO steering the ship, we are about to blast off 🚀 🚀!!!! We are delighted to announce @themollette (CEO) and @ImChauncey (COO) as the two who will be leading the charge!
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5 years
Crooklyn evenings ++
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6 years
Decision making frameworks from product veteran @gokulr - because that's what Tuesday mornings are made for.
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First Round
6 years
Now there are three ways to learn how @Square exec & @TryCaviar lead @gokulr makes extremely difficult business decisions: 🎥 Video: 🔊 Audio: 📖 Article:
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6 years
It’s been a harlem-hair-salon-with-usher-tunes type of Sunday morning. I wish you the same.
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4 years
Aunties Badu & Jill is the Saturday evening we needed.
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6 years
"A lack of diversity means a lack of crucial voices. And critical blind spots." || A Thread || You might win some but you really lost one, it's so silly how come - LH
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Reveal
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13/ Diversity in tech isn’t just some feel-good PC thing. These companies are designing what the future looks like, controlling how we communicate or even influencing how we vote. A lack of diversity means a lack of crucial voices in those decisions. And critical blind spots.
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