@NickKristof
You think Israel wants this war? Have you not been paying attention to what Hezbollah has been doing since October 8th? What about the 60k Israeli refugees who can’t go back to their homes in the north? What is wrong with you?
This was the most challenging year of my life, and I am hardly alone. Being a Jew in 5784 was simply harrowing. But instead of recounting this past year's horrors, I want to express gratitude today.
I am incredibly grateful for our brothers and sisters in
@Israel
who fight daily
I have come to understand that one of life's greatest superpowers is to "Give Zero Fucks." It is a consistent trait amongst my foremost mentors and role models. Being unafraid to speak the truth, no matter how unpopular it may be, can be very lonely and difficult, especially
September 27th is the most important day in the Middle East since the Abraham Accords breakthrough.
I have spent countless hours studying Hezbollah and there is not an expert on earth who thought that what Israel has done to decapitate and degrade them was possible.
This is
Antisemitism is one of the longest standing and most pernicious mind virus’ in human history. It is so ingrained in humanity that most people are unaware that they harbour these ideas. It is so whitewashed that even Jews fall prey to its temptation. Teach your children to love,
If you posted in support of Ukraine, and you don’t post in support of Israel now, you are a hypocrite. And if you are a Jew, then you are also sadly very confused. Israel’s safety is your safety. Their security is your security. Study history. Wake up!
Today, we shared some exciting news about our Shine Capital team. I am so proud of our small but mighty group.
We also published our sharpened manifesto, articulating our lateralist approach to early-stage investing ().
Like the incredible founders we
At Shine, we always try to respect your inbox and your time. So we hope you’ll take note of this irregular communication, which contains some exciting news about our firm, as we approach our fourth anniversary.
Alex Hartz (
@aehartz123
) is now a General Partner at Shine Capital,
The word ‘shalom’ in Hebrew means hello, goodbye, and peace. Jews greet each other with a message of peace. This is the essence of Judaism. Shabbat Shalom to all.
@jeremycorbyn
As many as it takes till there is peace and security in Israel. Suck it, Corbyn. The dustbin of history is anxiously awaiting your arrival.
“One of the most complicated hostage rescue missions in history.”
The operation to rescue the hostages from Nusayrat was named "Summer Seeds" and is defined by the IDF as one of the most complex ever for hostage rescue.
The hostages were held in a heavily civilian populated
$300M in fresh funds, new website (), growing team, same strategy.
@ShineCapitalNYC
remains open for business. We are here to help you build…in NYC and beyond.
Along with the State of Israel, the Lubavitcher Rebbe is one of the two greatest gifts given to the Jewish people in recent memory. While ‘inside baseball’ for many,
@DBashIdeas
’ interview with the Rebbe’s student, Rabbi YY Jacobson, is simply profound. If you can access this
I'm connecting my X account with
@getcode
so I can receive tips from people all over the world.
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I finally sat down with the inimitable
@HarryStebbings
for a candid discussion on early-stage venture capital and how we practice the craft at
@ShineCapitalNYC
. Hope you find it enjoyable and perhaps even useful!
We are being divided in real time, on our campuses and in our cities, by nefarious state actors. It is high time for America to take her adversaries seriously again.
🚨Evidence about to drop of China CCP role (massive role) in funding (> $100M) + fomenting protests in US, hijacking, amplifying the most Anti-American messages to divide us, strategically block, disrupt, disable our infrastructure, roads, tunnels, bridges with social unrest. 🤯
@dancohen3000
Israel will survive and thrive; you, on the other hand, are an embarrassment to the name you carry. You will end in the dustbin of history, like the rest of your Kapo friends.
This is a big deal and an important vote of confidence by
@pfizer
in the future of Decentralized Science. Kudos to the
@Molecule_dao
and
@vita_dao
teams for making this happen.
With VPD-54.1, Pfizer Ventures is proposing to contribute $500'000 to
@vita_dao
.
Beyond this capital, they will provide access to dealflow, support incubation and commercialization efforts of intellectual property (IP), and raise DeSci awareness.
Take a good look at
@GretaThunberg
. Hers is the new face of evil. A misguided privileged child cloaking her failed Marxist ideologies in an orgy of hateful virtue signaling. Some of the kids are not alright. The world’s fetish with you and your ilk is coming to an end.
If you read anything this weekend, read this.
The epitome of lateral thinking:
“My ideological framework had been, ‘What’s the next step? How do I make my gaming PC better? How do I upgrade it?’” he told me. “But then I just had this light bulb moment where I said, ‘Next step
@paulg
The true test of character is your morality. Morality should dictate how you treat everyone, no matter how powerful or powerless they are. Looking at things through the narrow prism of ‘powerful’ vs ‘powerless’ at a given moment in time is reductive, ahistorical, and
I’m not Jewish and the Talmud isn’t private or hidden.
You’re welcome to go buy a set online.
Let me know when you get through all 22 volumes (or 73 if you prefer larger text).
It should take you about 7 years or so for the first round of studying.
@parkerconrad
@paulg
I am very reluctant to call anyone an antisemite or racist in general, as I believe those terms are bandied about far too liberally. In this particular case, Paul has shared enough on social media over the past three months and going all the way back to 2014, including many
Tel Aviv mood:
These people on the beach and at the bar all know some of them could be in uniform and in battle tomorrow and that they and their loved ones are at risk of missile attacks from maniacs 1,000 miles away. They are bracing for a potentially difficult week ahead.
So
I don’t know if we are better off seeing the blatant lies and hatred that folks spew on
@X
or being largely blind to it as we were before. I guess it’s better to be eyes wide open. But boy does it hurt the soul to see so much falsehood and hate in the world.
The Spark Capital team is thrilled to share that we have raised $2.3 billion in aggregate commitments for our new early-stage and venture-growth funds: Spark Capital VIII & Spark Growth V.
I could not be more excited to have
@aehartz123
join the Shine team. Alex has a big brain and an even bigger heart. He is emblematic of our values at Shine and a true partner to entrepreneurs. Welcome, Alex! Let's Shine!
After 8 amazing years
@SciFiVC
, I have joined
@ShineCapitalNYC
as a partner based in San Francisco! Thank you so much to
@mlevchin
and
@nlevchin
who took a bet on me as a new grad, and have been fantastic mentors as we partnered with dozens of category-defining founders.
I am
Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir Jan (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40) were rescued in a special operation by the IDF, ISA and Israel Police from 2 separate locations in the heart of Nuseirat after being kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova music festival.
They are in good
@KBAndersen
@nytimes
This is such typical partisan bullshit from the
@nytimes
. A few anecdotes strung together to support a preconceived narrative that tars the broader Israel, the vast majority of whom are completely opposed to this. Most of these people are not “terrorists,” Israel’s democracy is
BREAKING: 1987 College graduate Jon Huntsman Jr. told Penn President Liz Magill on Saturday that his family will stop donating to Penn, stripping the University of a longtime donor amid backlash from influential trustees and alumni.
@piersmorgan
Revenge attacks? Are you insane? There are 150 hostages that need to be recovered and a group of barbaric terrorists that need to be destroyed. What revenge attacks are you talking about? Once a putz, always a putz.
So excited for Variety’s newest list: The Absolute Worst People in Hollywood. As you could imagine, this was an impossible list to cull. Congratulations to all of the morally depraved winners!
We have moved from the P&L era in venture capital to the Balance Sheet era. Founders and investors will be rewarded for prudent capital stewardship and allocation and penalized for the inverse. Understanding finance is a critical advantage once again.
Paul and
@GolatoTyler
are visionary leaders, and
@Molecule_dao
is one of the biggest ideas we’ve come across, not just in crypto, or bio, but in general. We are at the very beginning of this journey, and the
@ShineCapitalNYC
team is incredibly excited for what lies ahead. LFG!
“Civilians” has lost all meaning in the inversion. Everyone is a civilian. Everyone is a victim. There are no bad guys. The greatest gaslight the world has ever known.
I think consumer is coming back
Active thesis: lots of things with marginal long term cohort retention (<20% d90) could possibly become viable 40%+ long term retention (asymptotic) with LLMs doing heavy lifting making consumer scenarios much more compelling
1/ One interesting potential consequence of the NFT explosion could be that it finally brings the digitally-native generation to appreciate more traditional forms of artistic expression.
PSA to all the terrorists out there: you might want to sleep with one eye open from here on out! The long arm of justice is coming for you.
#AmYisraelChai
@GarySpedding
@aziz0nomics
@OwenJones84
@HenMazzig
Zionism was the secular humanist idea of Jewish self determination, which incidentally helped spread the idea of self determination more broadly, including for the Palestinians, a group of people who didn’t identify as such until much later.