aviel 🚜 @aviel Twitter profile

Last Seen Profiles

@TJRFC

@me7917232228283

@ArchaeoArchaios

@urfindommother

@Snowadore

@Dt_SurabhiVerma

@lobisomempidao

@gdg_dakar

@Sojiro_Fukuda

@ChristianeSchn2

@BulldogBreadNIL

@_martela

@saki__colo

@Max_Tortola

@astrokelsey

@yummy_bite_

@nontatuoboga

@Tebboune_Info

@official_swg

@AlyaRashpil

@cynanyc

@0xgunboats

@KaoriNagam86311

@NiziU_LiU

@ruths

@shi_zhang82877

@MissSaphiraBln

@JoanieMichaels

@maeeownsyou

@RIN1sanatuki

@KaaziTV

@shmayyn

@schizo_horror

@franklinmedrado

@bis_web

@nufcfoodbank

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

Enough already. There is no pre-seed, seed, or Series A (or whatever the fuck comes before pre-seed). It’s all dead. And that’s fine. IMO it’s now pre-product, early-traction, pre-scale, and scale. And the valuations?

5

30

311

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Alright folks. So my wife helped lead communications for Swine Flu in King County and knows what’s what. Now is not the time to panic. Just wash your fucking hands. When I’m panicking you can panic.

15

22

211

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

@DavidSacks @friedberg @theallinpod Already too late wrt the fertilizer. Most areas had to make the decision already or are this week. Anecdotally it’s gonna be a mess. Hidden story coming is how fucked smaller family-run farms are. Too expensive to plant this year even if inflation adjusted yield justifies.

11

47

172

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Anyone else’s brain not great work lately?

19

183

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

I didn’t take paternity leave and was in a meeting with a potential acquirer for my company the day after my kid was born. I powered through it until I went into such a deep depression that I almost wrecked my personal and professional lives (it was ugly). TAKE PATERNITY LEAVE.

10

6

135

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

“I want to join a board” - Somebody who has never been on a board.

9

2

129

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

In the past couple of months I’ve had portfolio companies with the same ARR raise at a $20m, $200m, and $1.5b post-money valuation. This is not the same game it was a decade ago.

11

6

111

aviel 🚜

@aviel

7 months

@heyalexfriedman Love him or hate him Al Gore as VP and even while running for the presidency always showed up to his son’s sporting events and sometimes would even come watch practice from the bench. I still think about that a lot and it reminds me as a parent that if he could make the time so

5

1

113

aviel 🚜

@aviel

5 years

Here @crashdev and I go! It’s been a truly wild and humbling ride from portfolio founder to partner. I can’t wait to see what the next 10 years brings.

GeekWire

@geekwire

5 years

More cash for Pacific Northwest startups: Founders’ Co-op raises $25M fund, its largest ever

0

6

23

16

0

104

aviel 🚜

@aviel

6 months

No one has ever regretted firing someone.

21

12

97

aviel 🚜

@aviel

6 years

In long overdue personal news… here are my thoughts on joining @founderscoop as a General Partner to invest in Pacific Northwest startups.

15

6

95

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

Today I did the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life and I’ve also never felt better. Other men out there, don’t be afraid of therapy and also lean in when you can. You have no idea what’s possible, it just might take years and more courage than you have today.

11

1

94

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

The only places for food open at the Woodland Park Zoo today require proof of vaccination to enter. The meltdowns are EPIC, I would pay the admission fee for this alone 😂

8

1

93

aviel 🚜

@aviel

7 months

@anothercohen Time to rebrand it from midlife crisis to midlife opportunity.

1

85

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

Definitely don’t move to Seattle. It’s awful here. I hear Miami is great though from many, many people that I definitely trust the opinion of and have no reason to lie to you nor a track record of lying to people.

10

4

83

aviel 🚜

@aviel

6 years

The Seattle startup ecosystem is about to explode. How do I know? Because more amazing folks than ever are asking me for advice on when it’s finally time to quit their day jobs an go full time. So I turned my (rather divisive guidance) into a blog post.

7

18

83

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

Pre-product: $6-40m Early-traction: $10-60m Pre-Scale: $40-$300m Scale: $80m-$1b And it’s not necessarily time-related. You could be raising in any of the first 3 buckets less than 12 months after founding.

7

5

79

aviel 🚜

@aviel

1 year

OMG learning a about a lot of CEOs who wired to their personal bank accounts from SVB yesterday. Time will tell if this was a good decision… the legal and even tax ramifications are uh… real.

14

7

72

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

10 years ago I was interviewing @matt_oppy and @shivaas of Remitly in a shitty unfinished office on Boren Ave N for a spot in Techstars Seattle. Today, they’ve become the first @founderscoop company to go public. And they’re just getting started. 🤯❤️🕺😎

2

3

72

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

1. Startup curious engineer turns down offer at well funded and promising early stage startup because the comp isn’t good enough 2. Said engineer founds company instead and gets funded 3. Engineer turned founder struggles to hire engineers because comp offers aren’t good enough

5

1

68

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

@JoeCrookJD @tressiemcphd One of our initially supportive neighbors petitioned to have our local one removed *from in front of the CHURCH* because the “free food” was attracting a “bad element”. Like… put the food in to feel good but please keep the people who need it away?

2

64

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

My parents, who would normally be with us tonight, went through an elaborate plan of building a believable tube-based machine that could send candy from Florida to Seattle in realtime. We coordinated on the kinds and had it drop from the ceiling after they did it over FaceTime 💯

3

0

67

aviel 🚜

@aviel

6 years

Reading through Techstars applications and feel the need to remind folks that calling yourself a “post-revenue company” doesn’t land like you think it does.

5

4

65

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

Startups are hard.

16

5

66

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Just learned that the last line of my code was retired this week by our acquirer. Congratulations to everybody that no longer has to deal with it and I’m so so so sorry about the past few years 😬

3

0

64

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Seattle residents have been training for this moment for decades. #seattlefreeze

☔🔥☔

@kirbywinfield

4 years

“The best way to [avoid contracting the virus] is to decrease intensity and frequency of contact with other people.” That upcoming weekend-long alumni basketball tourney is looking doubtful af.

2

0

5

2

6

65

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

I never met RBG but I’ve also never been prouder to carry the name, she hung on as long as she could for all of us. Weird fact (and not something I use for security questions) but my dad’s last name is Ginzburg and my mom’s maiden name is Ginsburg.

1

0

61

aviel 🚜

@aviel

5 years

And we are a go!! Working on something awesome? I want to talk to you!

VentureBeat

@VentureBeat

5 years

Amazon launches third Alexa Accelerator for conversational startups by @Kyle_L_Wiggers

0

13

23

5

13

60

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

I have a love/hate relationship with investment memos. Today it’s a love relationship. This $750k was at the time our largest first check *ever* and our first of that size out of our previous $25m fund (it’s now $50m). Glad I didn’t talk (write) myself out of doing this one.

6

0

61

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

I’ve been saving the last bit of this for a very special occasion for many years. Tonight’s the night. Cheers and thank you @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris . Let’s do this.

2

0

60

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Being a founder is hard, but I literally have no idea how folks with kiddos under 13 are doing it right now. Infinite respect for those even pulling it off 10%. I would have failed miserably (in life) if this was happening 5 years ago.

6

2

57

aviel 🚜

@aviel

6 years

We are off and running with the 2018 Alexa Accelerator, powered by @techstars ! I’m incredibly excited to work with these founders for the next 3 months.

2

12

56

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

Tomorrow I begin a 10 day RV camping road trip back to Seattle from the east coast (currently in the Catskills) that we only started planning once we were here and after my parents got COVID and the trip got disrupted. Interesting Tweets ahead…

10

0

55

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

5-year-old: “Look what I made at school” Me: “What the fuck”

13

0

53

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

Thanks @geekwire for chatting with me about my crazy life decisions and helping me workshop my pitch for it. “You might get injured. But there’s gig fiber.”😂

Why this Seattle venture capitalist moved to a farm — and the startup lessons learned along the way

Aviel Ginzburg with his daughter on a tractor at his family's farm in Oregon. (Photos courtesy of Aviel Ginzburg) Aviel Ginzburg has been splitting time

www.geekwire.com

6

53

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

Took off my day sweatpants and put on my night sweatpants.

6

4

52

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 months

This is probably the last day that I can ever share this story so here it is. When I was a kid in 1993 I had an OJ Simpson rookie card. He ended up at my house (long story) and I asked him to sign it. He never did and left with the card. OJ Simpson stole his own rookie card from

6

0

54

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Just go for it Mt. Rainier. What are you even waiting for at this point? A hanging chad?

4

5

50

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

Two of my chickens keep coming up to the main house and shitting on the doormat. This is exactly what it was like running a Techstars Accelerator.

11

0

51

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

I still remember that time that Twitter killed Simply Measured by forcing us to pay them 20% top line revenue (>5x the negotiated ~$800k/yr contract + they were our 3rd most popular network) or sell or get cut off. So basically… I spit on your grave is what I’m saying?

3

1

50

aviel 🚜

@aviel

5 years

In my experience an average non-engineer underestimates technical debt by close to 200% and the average engineer only overestimates it by about 50%. Moral of the story though is that everything is very bad and always on fire always.

2

6

49

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

Just because I’m not in Miami doesn’t mean I can’t dress up like the Bitcoin Monopoly man.

8

0

49

aviel 🚜

@aviel

1 year

@arrington @cullend $175m… closed last week, hadn’t yet diversified.

21

11

47

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Wooo my parents are now registered to vote in Florida. For the first time in their entire lives their vote is actually going to matter.

2

0

48

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

And approved!

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

💯

6

0

47

6

0

47

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

💯

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

It arrives tomorrow... with a week of heavy rain. Measurements show it will (barely) fit in the garage... more soon.

4

0

8

6

0

47

aviel 🚜

@aviel

6 years

As of today Klout may no longer exist, but I'll always have a copy of this signed term sheet (healthy signing bonuses + large equity packages not included) that would have had Untitled Startup acquired by Klout in 2010, months before we came up with and became @simplymeasured .

1

45

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

My grandfather escaped the Nazis in 🇵🇱 and went to 🇷🇺 to join the army & fight back. 10 years later he fled 🇷🇺 after persecution & 2 years in a Gulag to 🇮🇱. The cycle has seemingly ended for my family but continues for countless others. My heart is with 🇺🇦 & all of Eastern Europe

2

0

46

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

The only thing that could make today better is @jack finally kicking Trump off Twitter.

1

46

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

Ancient QR code

2

4

45

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

“So about that whole I will never come back into the office again thing…” - Seattle tech workers without air conditioning

2

0

46

aviel 🚜

@aviel

6 years

@garrytan @RMB + “ICOs are for scammers, so we’re raising a $6m equity round in the holding company on a $25m pre even though we’ve written 0 lines of code and have no track record”

2

3

42

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

This has been... a good week.

7

0

43

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Total fucking bullshit. Fuck you NBC. Shame.

NBC News

@NBCNews

4 years

Seattle a 'ghost town' as residents face uncertainty of growing coronavirus outbreak.

398

108

189

10

2

44

aviel 🚜

@aviel

6 years

Chicken broth... less good in oatmeal than hazelnut milk. Fuck mornings, fuck that packaging, and may the gods have mercy on this twisted oatmeal I’m still going to consume.

6

0

42

aviel 🚜

@aviel

6 years

It’s not news, but here’s your weekly reminder startups are fucking hard. Stay sane friends.

2

6

43

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Look at *any* footage from today and tell me that you don’t want to raise your kids in a city. We’ve got a lot of work to do, but I see a better world through the diversity that exists in our cities and am proud to be part of it. That’s the America I want to live in.

2

0

42

aviel 🚜

@aviel

5 years

My 2 year old: “Daddy, are these the last days?” Me: “What?” Him: “Are these not the last 2 days?” Me: “What?!” Him: “This is a bagel”. *I pour myself more coffee and carry on with my morning… deeply unsettled.*

2

0

41

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

The point being, if you’re trying to invest in a startup with a product or meaningful traction, you’re going to have a bad time without a huge fund. Invest early and with conviction? Carry on.

2

3

41

aviel 🚜

@aviel

7 years

This is my first Super Bowl in almost a decade not working in social media and let me tell you… it’s fucking fantastic.

4

2

40

aviel 🚜

@aviel

1 year

Just signed a SAFE for a new first check investment and will be wiring tomorrow. What a way to end the weekend. 🤣

4

0

39

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Putting Central American hot sauce on my Middle Eastern dinner while listening to Irish folk music is so so so much more American than a boat parade.

2

1

39

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

“Add 3 garlic cloves”

7

1

39

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

😳

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Getting CenturyLink fiber installed next week and am more excited about it than I have a right to be.

7

0

12

9

1

39

aviel 🚜

@aviel

5 years

When you just closed your seed round

5

0

39

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Not sure if my doppleganger is a hero or a maniac or both.

INVESTMENT HULK

@INVESTMENTSHULK

4 years

CRAZY AF.

11

42

163

10

0

36

aviel 🚜

@aviel

1 year

Excel has died more times than all other software products have lived combined.

Zain Kahn

@heykahn

1 year

AI just killed Excel. No more complex formulas and 10-hour tutorials. Use ChatGPT to finish hours of Excel work in seconds: Get more Guides & Prompts like this by signing up to Superhuman AI--the world’s biggest AI newsletter.

10

11

184

7

0

38

aviel 🚜

@aviel

6 years

It’s officially on for the Alexa Accelerator, powered by Techstars 2: Alexa Boogaloo! Working on voice? Let’s talk. (PS: I really hope I’m not that old and that a lot of you still get Breakin’ references).

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

6 years

Amazon expands its TechStars Alexa Accelerator to London, starts search for second cohort by @ingridlunden

1

16

30

4

6

38

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

I brought wine home tonight from a winery in the bucket of my tractor. Am I doing this right?

3

0

38

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

@everywhereist *DOE’S

1

0

36

aviel 🚜

@aviel

10 months

Ever get an email that made you sob uncontrollably? Me either until today.

6

0

37

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

Harvested the Pinot today!

2

36

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

UPDATE: It closed. And returned 80% of a fund. Serious fucking last chopper out of Saigon moment. 😅😅😅

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

A portfolio company’s acquisition close date got pushed from today to Monday and this is my current status.

2

0

10

8

0

37

aviel 🚜

@aviel

1 year

Well I just died. The guy next to me at the bar told his date that the thing he is most passionate about right now is an app he’s building, it’s called Fintech (like the name not the description), and he’s shoestringing it or “whatever it’s called when you self fund”. He has 5

14

1

35

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

🖕Miami. Seattle just stole your future Unicorn.

Chris DeVore

@crashdev

3 years

Double-proud of the @logixboard team - moved to #Seattle from #Miami for @Techstars , stayed on after + raised from @SocialLeverage + @founderscoop , and just added $13M led by (Seattle native) @akad from @redpointvc -- amazing team + journey and just getting started!

0

6

32

2

1

36

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

I present to you… the fucks. 2016: What the fuck 2017: The fuck is this 2018: Fuck that 2019: Fuck this 2020: Fuck

3

1

36

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Mom to our 3 year old: “Do you know what dad does for a living?” Kiddo: “Talks to the computer” Mom: “What do I do?” Kiddo: “Type on the computer” 😷🤠

3

1

36

aviel 🚜

@aviel

6 years

Our inaugural class of the Alexa Accelerator, powered by @techstars is on a roll!

Sensible Object raises $3.2 million for board games you play with Alexa and Google Assistant

GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content...

venturebeat.com

0

11

36

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Same. If it wasn’t for Coronavirus Simply Measured would have IPO’d.

Brooks Barnes

@brooksbarnesNYT

4 years

“I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus. Everything.”

53

50

195

3

0

35

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

When Twilio bought Sendgrid I was outraged that the value went to shareholders and not to me for all the emails that I sent through their service.

4

0

34

aviel 🚜

@aviel

5 years

My Decade in review… 2011: Didn’t wear shoes. 2012: Didn’t wear shoes. 2013: Didn’t wear shoes. 2014: Didn’t wear shoes. 2015: Didn’t wear shoes. 2016: Didn’t wear shoes. 2017: Didn’t wear shoes. 2018: Didn’t wear shoes. 2019: Sometimes wore shoes. The 2020s are gonna be WILD!

5

0

35

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

Happy Thursday!

4

0

34

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

About as perfect and relaxing of a morning as you can ask for in the PNW.

6

0

34

aviel 🚜

@aviel

5 years

My father’s day was cooking my favorite dishes from @pokpokpdx for the family (whole meal took 5 hours doing everything from scratch when possible + created a new fish dish).

2

0

34

aviel 🚜

@aviel

5 years

I think more Seattle startups are going to have closed Series As and Bs this quarter than all of 2018 combined.

1

2

34

aviel 🚜

@aviel

10 months

I just can’t get over how absurdly silent or straight up antisemitic social justice Twitter/X is right now. From the amateurs to the pros. I’m sorry that things got too complicated and that your narratives became fully incoherent. I mean that sincerely, I was always jealous of

3

0

31

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

Starting to think that AWS may be facing some L6 retention challenges 😅

1

33

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

It must suck for all the 9x engineers that keep getting left out of the conversation.

0

3

33

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

I never thought that I’d ever say something like this but I have to... I fucking love my bank. @firstrepublic , @Samirkaji , and all the other folks there that I’ve spent time with are exceptional and provide value I never expected from a bank. That’s it. That’s the Tweet.

3

2

33

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

I couldn’t be more lucky to get to work with @trymystery . When the world changes around you... adapt!

Glue

@glue_ai

4 years

Looking for a way to support local businesses in Seattle? We have a fix! Mystery Night In has launched! Each order supports 10+ local businesses & you get to enjoy a great meal and have fun all from the comfort of home. More info. >>>

2

10

13

3

6

33

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

Scrolling LinkedIn at 8:30pm on a Saturday like a fucking psychopath.

7

0

32

aviel 🚜

@aviel

2 years

It’s actually a 23 hour time change if you have young kids.

3

1

31

aviel 🚜

@aviel

4 years

Happening now in Wallingford

7

0

32

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

Not gonna lie, I’m laughing my ass off at a few people I know who recently left $AMZN for $FB because of stock-based compensation 🤣 You all absolutely fucking deserved this. Also, you should have joined the startup I was trying to get you to join instead 😘 #LONGSEATTLE

1

32

aviel 🚜

@aviel

3 years

Seattle is now in the cold calls from real estate agents with clients offering to buy your house at 25% above the Zillow Zestimate part of the cycle.

7

0

30

aviel 🚜

@aviel

6 years