Oana Olteanu @oanaolt Twitter profile

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Oana Olteanu

4 days

Are Semantic Layers the treasure map for LLMs?

Semantic layers are not new, they started in 1991, when BusinessObjects patented the semantic layer. It’s a great concept but it hasn’t really taken hold in the enterprise. Now LLMs are generating...

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

1 year

My walk back from the gym in North Beach to Soma looked like out of a zombie movie Can anyone explain why? How? I moved here from Europe and I don’t get why people who are incapable to wash themselves or eat or have basic hygiene are left to rot outside on the side of the road

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Oana Olteanu

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2 years

If I was a founder with no network, I’d just go to the South Park Blue Bottle and sit there and code. Odds are that a VC, usually an older looking dude, will come up to talk with you and ask you what you’re building. The café is packed with investor-founder meetings rn.

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2 years

Found at Safeway a flower I had in my garden in Romania. Happiness is the simple things. Spring is here 🌸 In a city always chasing what’s next, enjoy what’s now.

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2 years

@manekinekko

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2 years

Home blanket 🥰

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4 years

Founders often tell me they’d like to hire more women in product/engineering but they are hard to find. The women say the startups are hard to find/pick. I built a simple site to connect both. This is totally free and a soul project

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Oana Olteanu

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3 years

VCs, when you’re hiring, will you please consider @AllRaise or ask one of the women in ventures if they can recommend candidates? Feel free to DM me as well, I know many women across the range from associate to partner whom I’m happy to intro you to. Let’s end the all dudes thing

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Oana Olteanu

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1 year

Open Source AI repos that caught my 👀 this week @MetaGPT_ - multi agent collaboration - MetaGPT encodes Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) into prompts. The claim is that it takes a one line requirement as input and outputs user stories / competitive

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Oana Olteanu

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2 years

No warm intros or deck needed to chat, I’m here to serve you founders Bias for action 🖤

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Oana Olteanu

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2 years

when you incorporate all the feedback from your VC: grow at all costs, no be efficient, top down, no PLG, "have you thought of adding LLMs?" and whatever is popular this week on twitter

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

1 month

Underrated VC skill Don’t bring down founders

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Oana Olteanu

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2 years

@cory @kevinhartz I’m happy to work together to get more of the wonderful funding and support to female founders as well, increase awareness etc. let’s talk, I have ideas

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! I’m grateful for the existing and all the new friends I’ve met 🥂 May this year be a special one 😘

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Thank you, Josh Constine, for writing about my path as an outsider! There have been many people who have helped me and supported me along the way, some of them at key turning points, whom I'd like to thank. A thread 🧵👇

Why founders and VC Journal call Oana Olteanu a Rising Star | AI Venture Capital

SignalFire partner Oana Olteanu has been awarded VC Journal's Rising Star of VC award for her helpful approach to venture capital investing.

www.signalfire.com

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Oana Olteanu

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2 years

Thanks @HarryStebbings and the amazing 20VC team, was fun talking about how VCs can better serve the entrepreneurs because it’s the foudners who have an impossible job of building these companies against all odds. My job is the easy one. Bias for action 💜

Harry Stebbings

@HarryStebbings

2 years

2 months ago I tweeted I wanted to do a 20VC on a rising star in venture. We had 738 submissions. The #1 had 3 times as many submissions as anyone else. 20VC’s rising star @oanaolt @SignalFire 🔥 👇

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Oana Olteanu

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2 years

Hot take: most production use cases use #OpenSource models through @huggingface even if there is a big hype about APIs a la OAI. Will most people pay up for big proprietary API calls?

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

American bread - one thing I’ll never get used to. Why put sugar in the bread? Why? Why? Why? Diabetes anyone?

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Uber driver: so are you Russian? Me: Romanian Driver: hmm Romania…is that where Andrew Tate was arrested? 🤦🏻‍♀️guess now we’re famous for: Dracula, gymnastics (Nadia Comaneci) and Andrew Tate Him: does Jerry’s pizza taste good?

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Oana Olteanu

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1 year

I am convinced that my home country 🇷🇴 will become a touristic destination. This is not a resort in 🇨🇭, it’s just a random village in the Carpathian Mountains where my grandparents are from and where I spent a big chunk of my childhood.

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

9 months

Yesterday I spent my lunch break testing out an electric, hydrofoil, intelligent boat, built by @navierboat and it was nothing like I expected it. I spend quite a bit of time in boats going deep sea fishing. This was different. It blows my mind to think this is the future of

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

5 months

Unsolicited advice for young women in venture. I say young because the industry is so small that if you’ve been around it, you’d hear about bad actors. But if you’re new and a VC guy reaches out to meet you, he’s more senior, you have not even met and he offers you

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Surprising (to me) side effects of speaking on @HarryStebbings Other VCs will listen to it then look at your portfolio and they reach out for intros. VCs source deals via 20vc podcast 🤯 How amazing is this?!

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

ChatGPT after having to deal with humans all day

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

The Romanian Christmas market: garlic and pork Is there anything else anyone would want? 🧄🐖

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Lots of 🤗+🧠at the @huggingface spontaneous happy hour with @ClementDelangue And among them customers of @explosion_ai Prodigy 💖

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

1 year

Excited to share the news that @SignalFire is announcing our AI Lab to bring founders together with future partners and customers at the earliest stages and provide our support programs to help these entrepreneurs build smarter and grow more quickly.

AI Lab | SignalFire | AI Venture Capital

Explore AI Venture Capital with SignalFire. Recruit, research, and source with our AI-based platform. Seek out new talent with in-house AI.

www.signalfire.com

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

3 years

When your name is Oana but you’re no longer in Romania

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

3 years

San Francisco is a village!! On hike with new friends: Them: we play tennis in the Presidio and there is a basketball court. It’s funny, there is alway only one woman playing basketball with 5 guys Me: it’s me 😂

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

1 year

It’s Sunday and so many in the Bay will work today My uncle passed away at 60, brain tumor. He worked hard his entire life Work didn’t go to see him. We did. if he didn’t postpone doctors for work, he’d live Take pride in prioritizing your health, and relationships, not work

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Happy 1st of March to all who celebrate - Mărțișor The custom of gifting and wearing the Mărțișor is a nationwide tradition among Romanians, Moldovans, and Aromanians. Similar customs include the Martenitsa, celebrated by Bulgarians, Macedonians, and a few others in The Balkans

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

VC: what’s your secret to sourcing? Me: hard work! meet smart people and ask smart questions. VC: c’mon share I swear it’s true, I didn’t even go to school in this country, don’t have a rich dad to get me intros or Stanford roommates to call. Possible to do it as an outsider!

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

1 year

So many people in the bay worry about how successful their kids will be, what friends to surround them to be successful, what internships to get their kids to be successful etc Successful, successful, successful In my village parents wished for kids to be happy, that’s all

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

7 months

I haven’t heard the word “love” or “favorite VC” or “friend” in the same sentence where a VC is being named, as much as I heard it about @jamescham , both from founders and VCs. Hey @jamescham besides the memorable and infectious laughter, what’s the secret? How come a VC gets

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Oana Olteanu

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2 years

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

3 years

Female founder: do you know any other women who build that I could talk to? Me: here is a list of ~70 from the top of my mind. I’m starting a founder/top exec channel on and all the women on this thread will be invited 👇

She's Ready To Dev

Dare to build the products that you think should exist. More women who build. More women CEOs!

www.shesready2.dev

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

1 year

People who believe in u when nobody did🤗 “You are from a 🇷🇴 village w/o running water? You shouldn’t be.. ✨going to highschool ✨NASA ✨in 🇩🇪 to study ML ✨👩🏻‍💻 at SAP ✨in VC ✨winning deals in Silicon Valley” Shouldn’t = it’s possible with friends who believe in you🫶

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

6 months

Venture has a lot of turnover, the fact that Martin’s people are still there and he’s generous with them and supporting them to achieve their full potential speaks volume about @a16z as a firm and @martin_casado as a leader and human. YES 🙌🏻 more of this please

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@martin_casado

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So very excited for the promotion of @JenniferHli to GP. She's a primary reason @a16z enterprise investing is what it is, being a key player behind so many deals, our team and our investment philosophy and process. She really is "the best of us".

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Oana Olteanu

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2 years

“They got $20m in secondary” 🤯🤯 I’m all for founders getting wealthy but, I’ve seen early secondary change 1) incentives of founders vs employees. Imagine googling your boss to realize they bought a $5m new home 2) productivity and in one case, saw it kill the company

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Thank you @VCJournal for the award 🙏. We @SignalFire treat the founder’s time as more valuable than our own, because it’s the founders who have an impossible job of building these companies against all odds. Our job is the easy one.

Venture capital’s 2023 Rising Stars (4 of 4)

Oana Olteanu, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Pocket Sun and Rosie Wardle are among the 40 Rising Stars under the age of 40 in Venture Capital Journal's fourth consecutive list.

www.venturecapitaljournal.com

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

I want to give a special thank you to @HarryStebbings and all the founders who nominated me. Due to this one podcast, I got to meet incredible founders and LPs. Today got a note from someone I play basketball with, I consider him a coach and a mentor on the court, went to my ❤️🙏

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

As a VC, I’m mega disappointed at the VC leaders/heads of funds that I looked up to. All this lip service post fact. Where were you when this all started and you could have stopped it? “We stand with you” but not doing anything, is neither inspiring, nor helping the founders.

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

4 months

“I made more progress in 2 weeks since I’ve been in SF than in many months in London” Spoke with a dev tools OSS founder from Europe who just started to raise He was shocked to find out out that our IC meeting doesn’t happen just once a quarter as some do in Europe 😅 I see

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

18 days

There really is only one brand worth building: Integrity. The rest is just veneer. Integrity is not built by growing one’s social media audience, PR, vanity metrics shared on social media and is not correlated to the number of likes.

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

3 years

💥is chosen not sold - a thread

Explosion 💥

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3 years

Since founding Explosion we've run the company as a profitable business. We now want to release more things & expand the team, without compromising our direction or stability. We're pleased to announce that we've found a deal that ticks all the boxes 👇

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Oana Olteanu

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2 years

For all the VCs who want to grab dinner with me while in New York, One way to make it happen and get to my heart (of dealflow) is to go to a Romanian food place. We don’t have any in SF and seems New Jersey has a ton here. => I’ll say yes to dinner if it’s Romanian food ☺️

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

JavaScript - makes life better!

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Before VC, I had an actual job: boring software at SAP, not the vc bs operator(6months) but 7 years. Just spoke with one of my SAP Customers, a large retail chain. Beyond excited about the future of foundation models for commercial use. It will change software as we know it🎊

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

#goals : be the vc the founder goes to dinner with while telling others they are not raising

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Wow over 2k people registered for the meetup with @huggingface and @ClementDelangue 👀 Come say hi, I’ll be there too

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

1 year

Note to founders If you’re telling me “men are better than women at programming” Better not make your next sentence “I’d love for you to be an angel investor” I WON’T 😄 even if your lead investor is a fancy firm, even if I like your product

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Oana Olteanu

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2 years

🎉 for all of us born in March 🎉

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

1 year

I’m in awe of female founders from India 🙇🏻‍♀️ came across two of these ladies today, so strong and on top of their stuff. The world needs more of them. Oh they have paying custoemrs at seed ☺️

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

When your father picks your favorite spring flowers from the forest 6,495 mi away in Romania. Spring is coming!

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Oana Olteanu

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7 months

Much talk about product market fit and too little mention of investor-founder fit

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

6 months

Uber was valued at $4M at seed and now has a market cap of $143B Founders, please aim for the billions of dollars later, not the valuation you get at seed before you even know if the customers want what you’re building. Do you think because you raised at $150M valuation at seed

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Oana Olteanu

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3 years

Intro to me “Calling her a VC is a bit of a disservice she’s an ML engineer gone to the dark side and one of my favorite people to talk to about what's next in ML” - yeah that’s right, don’t call me a VC 💖💖💖

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

“We are an AI fund” Goes to team page, wow everyone was an investment banker before.

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

There are no people left in SF, everybody left the city ☺️

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

3 years

Don’t wait until your Series A to hire a first female employee. The longer you wait, the harder it gets. Check out - it’s free!! also, how come appropriate parental leave isn’t a given?? This kind of information should be common knowledge 🧐

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Happy Valentine’s Day to my forever valentine - R2D2 2008 - undergrad, hand painted yet often got “oana why did you paint a vacuum cleaner on your wall?” 2017 - drawing at the Sapphire SAP customer conference 2019 - meeting a founder in the presidio 2022 - gift from coworker

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Oana Olteanu

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4 years

Met a founder who had 6 back to back investor meetings. Founders, why don’t you @loom the pitch once and share it with all the investors? Have them get back to you with why they are excited and 3 questions. Use that to decide who gets your time. Hustle for customers, not VCs.

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2 years

“Romanians are so friggin good 🤯” Founder asking me to help recruit a badass a 🇷🇴female engineer. She is that good.

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Excited for open source infrastructure software from Europe @explosion_ai Berlin @enso_org Krakow @budibase Belfast What a privilege to meet the founders in person in their natural habitat. Thank you for the warmest welcome. European infra is 🥵🥵🥵

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Oana Olteanu

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2 years

A VC asked if I wrote the thesis AI blog myself 😂 Bonkers to think there is the alternative where people have ghost writers Shocking but nope I don’t like to outsource my thinking so I can’t recommend any agency Want me to write your blog? Make me an offer I can’t refuse 😂

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

If you’re watching Wednesday on Netflix, it’s filmed in my home country, in Romania

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

The Bay Area waking up to life 🧡 Mornings, best time of the day, full of promise… 🙏 grateful, I get to wake up here, particularly this morning with a hectic travel with still lost luggage and a missing green-card. The energy of this place is unparalleled 🙏

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

SF is back

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Being away from the Bay Area for a bit makes it so clear how busy life is there and how big the accent is always on doing and achieving vs just being and enjoying life. I believe Europeans get the pleasure and value of doing nothing a bit more. It comes more natural.

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Founders, the AI market is hot Investors are buying, both MLOps and LLMs. Great time to raise

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

Overheard on zoom: “sorry I just lost power because of the rain” I used to do homework under a candle light, but that was rural Romania, not the center of all innovation. How come we’re not equipped in Silicon Valley

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

1 year

What I didn’t anticipate when the attack of #HamasTerrorists started, is losing even friends who are not in the conflict region, trying to defend their families. Friends in the bay area who make a lot of money in tech and who post on their Instagram support messages for

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

8 months

Old dogs can learn new tricks! 1st time🎿 Wish i grew up in the bay area with parents who take me skiing vs parents who take me to tresh corn by hand. Dare to be a beginner again, to fail

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1 year

@karpathy

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

After 7 years in California, first business trip Wow, Europeans 🚬 no 🥑 or 🥗 but beans with 🐖 blood sausage?! drenched in oil = 💚🙈 Wow, no homeless, safe to walk at night Wow, no lululemon gym clothes being worn outside gym I miss “how are you?”, american politeness 🤗

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Oana Olteanu

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4 months

“We should hire more immigrants, they seem to work harder” “Oana where is your energy coming from??” Think anyone leaves their family on the other side of the globe to be mediocre? I am no different than any other immigrant! My heart is with all the founders and people who

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1 year

A lot of folks are struggling right now, morale is at an all time low. No, it’s not just you. I hope my silly memes will inspire

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@oanaolt

1 year

Good morning, your first angel investment is a unicorn now🦄🤯 F yeah!!!! After a hell week and homeless break in, it’s a Good Friday! First deal in vc a unicorn, now first angel check is one too. Universe, can it get better??? It could, an exit….

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

@chriszeoli @brextonpham Ah those Thursday nights at Rosewood 😁

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@oanaolt

2 years

VC pet peeves: 🥇VCs who waste a founder's time 🥈VCs who feel entitled to your dealflow and show up unprepared. aka you could have used your crunchbase or pithbook paid account for this 🥉VCs who obviously mess up and blame it on the EA. that hard to take accountability?

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

3 years

VCs, ghosting founders does not leave the door open for you to come at the next round and say we’ve❤️ you from the beginning. Stop this sh*t! Founders, you gave them your precious time, it’s💯 ok to (re)ping them for real feedback, not “you’re too early” bs. Get something back!

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Oana Olteanu

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2 years

✔️head of product ✔️design lead ✔️full stack engineer This is the talent that I was fortunate to source for my founders in the past month. I love talent 🥰 And for founders not in my portfolio ✔️Chief Privacy Officer ✔️Chief of Staff ✔️PM

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2 years

#TankTuesday

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21 days

Full house at @join_ef with @patrickc presenting European founders to Bay Area VCs

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11 months

So many amazing people are moving to SF right now for the AI rush. This city is booming

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1 year

One of the best ads ever

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2 years

Are we back to 90-100x ARR?? Hearing termsheets flying around at at billion dollar valuations

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2 years

Dali, the original generative AI

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2 years

I get asked a lot what do I think about the state of machine learning infrastructure. I started as a machine learning engineer a decade plus ago, and now help build ML models at @SignalFire and invested @explosion_ai , @kolenaIO , @fixieai etc. Thoughts👇🧵

Tomorrow's machine learning startup opportunities | AI Venture Capital

Machine learning is a staple of our investments at SignalFire. We are interested in MLOps, AI infrastructure, and native LLMOps.

www.signalfire.com

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2 years

Want to know how we are thinking about LLMs and why we at @SignalFire invested in @FixieAI ? Here is why, below 🧵👇

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2 years

ChatGPT For technical founders to write emails to non-technical VCs

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2 years

Another Christmas tradition: getting your ass kicked at chess by your champion dad.🤞not this year Hope springs eternal

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6 months

The LLM demo The LLM on your data

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11 months

🙋🏻‍♀️Eastern European here

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3 years

Want to build a female friendly startup? I have suggestions

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3 months

When I went on the @twentyminutevc podcast, @HarryStebbings asked me about VCs behaving badly. I wish I could amend the episode with a new behavior, VCs who have GenAI fomo and invest in a competitor without telling their portfolio founder. My solve for this is connect the two

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

See you today at 6pm, Spin for the AI Mixer ✨500✨ builders registered we @SignalFire promise to host another event for those on the waitlist Let’s play ping pong and talk AI, I’m practicing with Raya till then

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Oana Olteanu

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6 months

@gokulr @garrytan yup. And the ones who get promoted often game the system by making friends at Coatue and other firms that mark up deals so they find deals that will get them markups, or friends they can influence. this is a "hot deal" not necessarily the best deal or that one can articulate

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

2 years

✨start a company✨ Brilliant technical founder, head of engineering at cool co you have heard of, looking for business co-founder DM for details

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Oana Olteanu

@oanaolt

3 months

At a party in SF, a guy got offended at the description of his startup as a “ChatGPT wrapper” - wrapper should not carry the negative connotation that it has rn though. Your startup is an OpenAl wrapper OpenAl is a Nvidia wrapper Nvidia is a TSMC wrapper TSMC is an ASML wrapper

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