Excited to be joining
@GreylockVC
today 👋🏼
The opportunity at Greylock truly brings me full circle. I first learned about the tech and VC industry from current and past leaders at the firm. I am incredibly honored to now call them colleagues.
I'm thrilled to share that I've joined
@villageglobal
to focus on early-stage company building and investing. Having admired Village Global for some time, I've consistently been impressed by their hands-on support for founders, extensive network, and tight-knit team culture.
I’ve always been on the side of builders & creators and I can’t imagine a better time to be starting something from the ground up. Look forward to partnering with founders especially at the early stage.
Say hi at mfrai
@greylock
.com. Cheers 🤘🏼
Humbled to share a lovely conversation I had with
@bella_bongiorno
. An inspiring design+tech leader who started out in astrophysics to now founding
@Humane
with her husband
@imranchaudhri
🙌
Our first
@GreylockVC
team appearance for
@EthCC
🇫🇷 thanks to all for stopping by for treats & chats at the beautiful Lucid gallery, thanks to our friends at .
onboarded to
@tryamie
and you can easily tell
@dennismuellr
& team have put their heart behind it.
some first hour impressions -
1. small design details everywhere
e.g. switching from light to dark mode changes the preview hours and events (7am -> 8pm, "breakfast" -> "dinner")
It's never been easier and more seamless to collaborate in digital product design - it's about time we've had the same for video. From the first product demo to conversations thereafter, I knew
@SceneryCo
is poised to become a game changer.
If you're a pre-seed founder, a soon-to-be founder contemplating your next steps, an angel investor interested in collaborations, or otherwise just curious about Village Global, don't hesitate to reach out at maya
@villageglobal
.vc.
90 days drinking from the firehose. Looking forward to 90+ more, learning and growing alongside new friends, colleagues, and mentors.
TLDR; my top 5 below✌🏻
1 mo in and ramping up
@YouTube
during this climate has been 20% understanding what a 15-yr old revenue model looks like and 80% understanding how it gets flipped on its head
One of the coolest marketing campaigns to be a part of:
- Smash the "glass ceiling" w/ toffee hammer (as used by suffragettes)
- Honor 365 women over 365 days breaking the glass ceiling in their careers:
Follow
@jenpelka
@unefemmewines
for what's next 🍾
We just closed Weekend Fund 3. 😊
Our latest early-stage fund is backed by 350+ operators and founders, a foundation for our upcoming community projects.
Here’s how and why we raised from so many (exceptional) LPs.
Had so much fun getting to know
@CarlyLayy
and featuring her work
@ModernFertility
. As an incredible creative and storyteller, Carly and her co-founder
@aaffttoonn
are focused on making the science of fertility more human and helpful for women everywhere. Check it out 🙌
Introducing the LHI
#HearHerStory
Podcast 🎙✨ We’re so excited to share both audio + written content with the community. Our first interview for the podcast features Carly Leahy, CCO + Co-Founder of Modern Fertility. Check out the interview here: 👏
Village Global was founded on this very principle and I am grateful to be a part of their exciting next chapter, alongside both familiar and new faces. Village recently announced a $250M Fund III, with Reid Hoffman joining as Chairman, to back the best entrepreneurs at inception.
A record-setting 62 million households chose to watch The Queen’s Gambit in its first 28 days, making it Netflix's biggest scripted limited series to date.
2005 NYT critique of Coldplay's release album. Chris Martin agonized over this.
X&Y became the best-selling album of 2005, selling over 8.3 million copies.
Reminder that focusing on support > dislike. :)
Underrated skill: taking young people seriously.
Treating them w/ similar respect others will give them in a few years--or not immediately discounting them because of their age.
Later on, they’ll remember who treated them well & who saw something in them before others did.
@helena
Still keep this a momento from the first time I purchased a sampler. Was impressed by the brand and product then and continue to hold Haus in high regard. Sorry to hear this and wish the best outcome for you and the team. ❤️
There are thousands of women to be celebrated due to their monumental efforts in advancing gender equality––this campaign is only one part of honoring these many women. Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
❤️
Sent in my Mac for repair and been pleasantly surprised by how seamless the transition has been to solo working on an iPad. Aside from design work, workflow is much less distracting.
@sketch
@figmadesign
designing off the Mac would change the game 💯
Super excited to share this interview with
@cherylyeoh
, an incredible woman doing amazing things for a global community of entrepreneurs and leading change for female founders.
#LetsHearIt
From Station Newstand, by
@mayafrai
––
The pursuit of an autonomous career path can fulfill the human need to feel fully utilized.
Web3 is one manifestation of that desire for autonomy and meaningful contribution.
Spoke to the incredible
@jessegenet
of
@Lumi
over the summer about her experiences in building a network of brands and factories to tackle one of the biggest problems in e-commerce: packaging. Take a look at what we talked about on
@lhiplatform
👀
A beautiful place my family and I call home has been in a constant state of torment. My own experience was in 2014, spending my last 2 weeks in bomb shelters. The misinformation and comments from those who feel they must take a side makes it all the more heartbreaking.
My family just sent me this from Israel:
Boys are at home but are scared. Unfortunately I cant tell you things are ok. We are under a terrifying massacre.
We have so many direct or indirect people we know either killed or kidnapped to Gaza. The brother-in-law of my admin
Over the past year and a half, I've had the privilege of growing as both an investor and founder at Greylock. I'm grateful for the wealth of experiences I gained and relationships I cultivated. One specific lesson is that it takes a network to build legendary companies.
People often correlate being creative with being able to come up with ideas. I’d argue it’s also about being results-driven, putting as much fuel to the fire as you can to land ideas and look back on creations as a series of personal milestones.
Super excited to launch the BKYD Playbook w
@fkpxls
🚀 Featuring inspiration, content, insight, and resources to kickstart a side project.
Let us know your feedback & hope you share it w your friends with an idea they've been rambling about
#BKYD
I am thrilled to announce that I have joined
@GVteam
full time as of this May.
I worked as an eng/PM at Google on Payments/EM/Crypto before GV. At GV, I will dedicate my time to all things crypto as a start
I am very grateful to for the opportunity
"Emotional commerce is the idea that retail is still about discovery and art. Google and Amazon may own search, but no one owns creation, neither in the digital or the physical worlds. Creation is one of the lone remaining points of differentiation."
Today
@re__inc
launches the Reset The Table Conversation Cards, a product we hope inspires exploration, collaboration, and connection with others. Wrote a little something about this special moment during this climate:
#ReimagineWithUs
Wrote a bit abt the TV & ads biz from my time at YouTube this past year. TLDR; YT is a sales machine, and although COVID made it 10x harder to do what all PMs need to do—test your product—lucky to have experienced the whirlwind that is the content biz.
.
@vedikaja_in
&
@rrhoover
are some of the best in the biz. Dream opportunity for anyone looking to get into venture.
Most of all they're empathetic, giving, and thoughtful.
The best products are those that emulate human nature rather than try to change it. Developing a functional product that resonates with users requires a design-first approach to innovation, and that it must be rooted in the understanding of how people work, think, & take action
Meet Tina He—Designer, Investor & Gamer
@fkpxls
"By being “different” when you walk into the room, knowing that the data points you’re about to contribute would update the existing model..."
Get the full Q+A
I've had the pleasure of listening to
@TobinHeath
&
@ChristenPress
share their many game-day experiences and learnings from their gender pay lawsuit. We launched the
@re__inc
podcast last year to share these stories globally. We'd love your support :)
Thanks to everyone who supported
@re__inc
1st NFT drop in March. We're back with our 2nd: CryptoQueens, a collection of Changemakers ready to smash the patriarchy in the Metaverse (while unlocking streetwear + ⚽ game tickets)! Donating a % of profits to
@blackgirlscode
too ❤️
Finished
@johnmaeda
’s “How To Speak Machine” & noted 2 things that stuck out to me:
1) Mind the humans - even in the age of AI, humans are at the core of technology (esp inclusive humans)
2) MVLP (minimum viable lovable product) - efficiency & delight should both be a priority
“As female athletes, we have done a lot of work in the fight for our fair slice of the pie. In 2019, when we founded
@re__inc
, we created a new pie—one where we could fight for something bigger than ourselves."
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