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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
As insane as it sounds, many "pre-seed" rounds (formerly just friends & family, if a founder did one at all) now require a lead To make that process a little bit easier, we compiled 49 funds that lead the most pre-seed rounds (usually $500K+ checks)
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
One of the hardest parts of raising your first round of funding is knowing who to pitch. To make the process easier for founders just starting out, @kanjun and I put together a list of 18 funds that seem to consistently invest at the very earliest stage.
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
Took the Series 65 last week to become an accredited investor, and just wired my first angel investment today. You can too. AMA.
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
🤝One of my favorite things is connecting founders to incredible female VCs they hadn't heard of but could be the perfect fit. 🚀To make these connections at scale, I'm compiling a list of female-founded early-stage US VC funds. ✨List dropping this week--who should I include?
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
For many founders, NYC (not SF) is the best place to build something new. The founders are there, the engineers are there, the energy is there, and the money is there, too. Here are 50 early-stage investors focused on backing builders in NYC 👇✨🍎💸
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
Founders want diversity on their cap tables, but don't always know where to look. That's why we compiled an Airtable of 71 incredible Black-founded funds. Featuring VCs like @chudson @MacConwell @sarahkunst @hpierrejacques , plus fund/investor info
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
VC Sheet helps early-stage founders find their VCs 🔍🎯🤝 currently at #2 Product of the Day! @Julian @matvogels and I built a HUGE database of early-stage investors and funds, PLUS dozens of targeted lists. Founders fundraising, start here:
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
If you’re building in fields like robotics or biotech, you have fewer options for funding than your peers building in enterprise SaaS. To help you find VCs that could actually get to yes, @kanjun and I identified 85 funds that consistently invest in deeptech at pre-seed & seed.
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Ali Rohde
2 years
Founders want more diversity on their cap tables, but don't always know where to look Fortunately, there are resources by @HarlemCapital @amanda_robs & others Today, I'm excited to add 1 more: an Airtable of 180+ female-founded early-stage VC funds 💫
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
We talked Notion AI, LLMs, and the future of human-AI collaboration with @thesephist @NotionHQ . Some top takeaways... 🧵 On the shortcomings of chat interfaces for AI: "We're building the face of God, and we're going to interact with it by texting it? Doesn't seem right... "In
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, as Steve Ballmer would say. For founders building for this user base, we compiled 5️⃣1️⃣ top VCs focused on DevTools, cloud infra & APIs. Airtable: h/t @xuezhao @edsim @etdurbin Cat Wu @rak_garg for their feedback 😊
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
@AnalyticsPierce Signed up w Prometric . They had a virtual option but I went in-person. $187. Tons of available dates Prepared w the @securitiesexams video class. $99 Watched at 2x speed w Video Speed Controller That's it!
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
Amazing event. Thank you, @jefrankle , we loved having you.
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
Our Airtable includes: 1. Specifically pre-seed funds like @CountdownVC , @1517fund , @cantos 2. Bigger seed funds like @refactor , @NFX , @fiftyyears , @SciFiVC , @pillar_vc 3. Big multi-stage funds like @Lux_Capital , @foundersfund , @khoslaventures Full list:
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
HUGE congrats to my partners @kanjun and @joshalbrecht on their $200M Series B Grateful to work with you both on Outset Capital & our fireside chat series (both covered in the Forbes' piece on the raise!) Huge thanks to our fireside chat partner @NotionHQ , more to come soon✨
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
3 years
Excited to join @shriyanevatia & @beondeck Catalyst in 10 to talk unconventional paths into tech!👩‍💻💃 For those looking to get into early-stage startups: Engineers👇 BizOps people👇
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
9 months
Deeply grateful for all the well wishes on being named to Business Insider's Rising Stars of VC — in incredible company with good friends like @f_fatemi21 , @christinkers , @JustinAWexler , and many more.
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
Convincing a VC to give you money is hard enough — founders shouldn't also have to spend hours scraping Crunchbase/LinkedIn/Twitter just to figure out who to pitch. Looking for a "lead" for your seed round? Start here instead:
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
Less than a year ago, @jerryjliu0 posted his first tweet about @llama_index (then called GPT Tree Index) Today, it's at 21K+ GitHub stars, 200K+ monthly downloads, and 11K+ active Discord users. Join me and @joshalbrecht tonight as we interview Jerry on what's next in store
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Jerry Liu
2 years
Excited to introduce GPT Tree Index (🌲🗂️)! It’s a tree-based index containing text data that is created using GPT-3 and can be traversed using GPT-3 in order to answer queries. More details on the pain point and proposal below:
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
3 years
@TaylorLorenz 12 under 12
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
3 years
Congrats @shriyanevatia @eriktorenberg on launching On Deck Catalyst! Excited to be a part of the adventure w @kanjun . In great company w @rabois / @zebulgar , @jmj / @gaby_goldberg , @aileenlee / @jomayra_herrera , @wolfejosh / @rrana03_
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
@RMac18 “It emerged”
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
5 months
Did I pose for a few photos with Theo at the San Francisco Business Times 40 under 40 photoshoot? Yes. And is that the photo they chose to go with for the profile? Also yes. Proud to be named to the San Francisco Business Times' 40 under 40 with my partner in crime! 🧡
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
11 months
ringing in 29 the only way I know how: with a new headshot
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
3 years
@lolitataub Lots of free resources from @ycombinator eg SAFE financing docs: whole startup library
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
What’s it like to be an AI founder in 2023? Josh and I sat down with @perplexity_ai founder @aravsrinivas for a wide-ranging conversation on Perplexity’s origins, deciding whether to build on top of OpenAI, staying focused despite the chaos around you
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
Overall VC funding has skyrocketed in recent years, but dollars to diverse founders hasn't kept pace. These 34 VCs are working to create change, backing women, immigrants, people of color, veterans, and LGBTQIA+ founders.
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
3 years
Newest obsession: @memdotai Thanks for the tip, @thehelenmayer
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
Great meeting @davidhoang and hearing lessons learned from leading design at @onemedical then @webflow and now @Replit
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
plus highly recommend checking out other resources like: @harlemcapital 's report on Black & Latina VCs: @modelvc ' Black & Latinx Emerging Fund Managers to Know: Crunchbase: BI:
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
8 months
Check out @_Brian_Raymond 's demo of @UnstructuredIO from last week’s Thursday Nights in AI! Unstructured makes it easy for enterprises to utilize their natural language data in conjunction with large language models (LLMs), regardless of file type, document layout, or location.
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
to learn more about Imbue — join us Thurs, Sept 28 at @NotionHQ , as I interview @kanjun about the company's work training their own foundation models, prototyping agents, and developing a deeper theoretical understanding of why deep learning works
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
6 months
sure he can podcast, but did you know @swyx can model?!
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
@lennysan Started this for just Chief of Staff and BizOps roles at startups 2 weeks ago, and at 600 subs already. Pretty sure yours would break the internet.
@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
🎉 2 weeks in & just hit my 500th subscriber for 🎉
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
7 months
at last night's "Founders You Should Know" — @JustinePalefsky sharing about @livekindred 's mission, insane growth📈, and open roles in design, product, ops 10/10 would recommend and if you're not a Kindred user yet, DM for a referral code! h/t @nifferkin for a great event
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
2/10 lighting, 10/10 company. Huge thanks to @drewhouston for joining to talk @Dropbox AI
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
Join us this Thursday, as @kanjun and I interview @drewhouston abt bringing personalized AI to Dropbox's 700M+ users We'll cover: - Dropbox Dash - Dropbox AI - Dropbox Ventures' $50M fund - Dropbox's AI Principles Register: #ThursdayNightsinAI #TNIA
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
If you are planning an event in SF, I cannot recommend this space more highly. Feels like a cross between a college dorm, a meditation studio, and a magical underground library. Little bit of magic, right here in SF ✨
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The Commons
2 years
🍕🚀 Founder dinner yesterday hosted by @RohdeAli @kanjun @joshalbrecht – great to see so many faces, industries, and problem spaces represented at the event ✨
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
@Austen @Suhail Also check out Stable (YC W20) by @SarahAhmad120 and @collinjpham
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
+ enormous thank you to @abhijeetpatra88 , who took an hour out of his day to walk me through the VC landscape for early-stage deeptech, as he's done for so many deeptech founders in @beondeck + beyond
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
My friend @HankKronick shares his heartbreaking and terrifying story of losing a family member to depression and getting stuck in the Capitol during the riots, all in one week. Please read.
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
Recording of last night’s fireside chat with @kanjun and Anyscale CEO @robertnishihara up now on our YouTube channel! Cannot say thank you to Robert enough, who on just a few hours’ notice agreed to move up his fireside chat by several weeks after
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
@TrungTPhan This is v good and also, despite how much he tweets, I don't think @WillManidis is a VC
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
11 months
Low quality photo, high quality 29th
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
5 months
@swyx on the rise of the AI Engineer: Watch our entire conversation here:
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
All this tweeting is really cutting into my Instagram time
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
3 years
@abarrallen Cmd-Shift-i with @Superhuman :)
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
Late-stage funding to digital health startups is far below 2021's record highs, but early-stage funding is still going strong. We compiled info on 48 VCs actively backing early-stage digital health co's—including check size, location & investor LinkedIns
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
My first-ever podcast, and first-ever episode of "How I'm Building This," is up! Featuring the inimitable @cdkeil and his journey giving those outside of Silicon Valley at peek behind the curtain, through his
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
for months, @swyx has been putting out stellar podcasts with top AI co's like @LangChainAI @cursor_ai @Modular_AI @databricks (now at 250K+ downloads) this Thursday, we turn the tables and interview HIM what should we ask him?! come join Thurs in SF:
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI)
1 year
🔥 Congrats to my friends @swyx and @FanaHOVA for this milestone! 250K+ downloads on @latentspacepod 🤯 Let's get them to 500K, if you aren't subscribed yet, you're missing out!
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
6 months
Love this piece and its transparency — @datologyai and its mission, values, team, and interviewing process
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
No better way to start the day than hearing @thehelenmayer explain her journey building Otter's MVP to @thisiskp_ and the @beondeck fellows
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
3 years
"The fact that an 'in network' founder who could easily raise $1M pre-product ten years ago could probably raise $10M pre-product now [...] does not necessarily mean that an 'out of network' founder who struggled to raise $500K ten years ago would have any easier of a time now."
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Geri Kirilova (she/her)
3 years
added some more nuance to my tweet on the two worlds of venture tl;dr: this disconnect isn't new but it's getting more extreme some thoughts on why & what it means for founders and investors
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
6 months
personality pic @swyx @FanaHOVA
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
8 months
Photos from last week’s incredible live demos and Q&A with oss leaders @hwchase17 , @atroyn , and @_Brian_Raymond . Topics covered: each company's north star metric, the importance of growth versus revenue when building a company around an open-source project, working weekends, the
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
@jmj Observation: most people who love WFH don't have kids.
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
This Thurs: join me @kanjun @joshalbrecht for a fireside chat with @llama_index 's @jerryjliu0 !
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
11 months
Full house for last week's fireside with @DrJimFan !
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
11 months
Are my eyes 95% shut in this photo? Yes. Do I still love it? Also yes. Had a wonderful time convening early-stage AI investors at Flores last week, co-hosting with friends @davidkwon @urvashibarooah @svb , joined by friends new and old Until next time!
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
5 months
Can't wait for this week's Thursday Nights in AI, featuring @StanfordAILab roboticist @michellearning ! In addition to our usual Q&A, Michelle will give a quick talk on where the field of robotics & computer vision is today, and where we go from here Join live or via livestream!
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
5 months
What happens when mom's folding laundry but you keep stealing socks
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
8 months
In the year and change since it first got started, @LangChainAI has been constantly evolving Last week, @hwchase17 demo'd what LangChain looks like today, incl LangChain v0.1.0, OpenGPTs (open-source version of OpenAI's GPTs), LangGraph, and LangSmith Full 7-min demo:
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
10 months
Celebrating our 15th and FINAL Thursday Nights in AI event of the year in style — with my friends @atroyn @jeffreyhuber @joshalbrecht Hope you'll join us, either tomorrow, or when we're back next year!
@atroyn
anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)
10 months
this thursday! @jeffreyhuber and i are speaking at thursday nights in ai, hosted by @imbue_ai and @RohdeAli join us in person in sf, or via livestream!
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Ali Rohde
4 months
Growing up! Outset Capital "Chief Happiness Officer" Theo at 5 months!🧡
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
6 months
I sat down with @theinformation to discuss learnings from being a 2x Chief of Staff and 2+ years of helping founders hire for the role via @alirohdejobs take a read and let me know your thoughts...
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
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Ali Rohde
1 year
Dropbox CEO @drewhouston on how to build when things are changing so fast: "We use a portfolio approach. Singles, doubles, home runs. More speculative ideas, more predictable ideas. More disruptive ideas, more sustaining ideas... We've also built our own internal @ycombinator :
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
Woke up to 10K subscribers for @alirohdejobs !!!!
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
Interestingly, switching to @arcinternet has reinvigorated my love of Google Docs Main downside to GDocs has always been the lack of organization (vs tools like Notion) But Arc solves this, enabling Notion-like organization over anything I use in my browser Highly recommend
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
@jmj you following me on Twitter
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
3 years
VC funding nearly 2x what is was this time last year. Jesus.
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
who, me?
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
Business travel hasn't fully bounced back, but "bleisure" travel, combining work and fun, is on the rise. Now, if only there were a company making longer, work and travel stays affordable... cc @livekindred
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
This Thurs: @kanjun and I interview @waseem on - his mental models for assessing where generative AI can generate real business value - building Pilot AI-first - lessons learned from prior booms & busts in AI livestream: attend:
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
10 months
just 9 months after launch, @atroyn and @jeffreyhuber grew @trychroma to 1M users tonight, we'll talk all about that journey, and what's next coming next
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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)
10 months
chroma has reached an important milestone over 1,000,000 computers ran chroma in the month of october.
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
style by @lailachima
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
1 year
Stoked to get to interview @jefrankle at tmrw night's Thursday Nights in AI, alongside @joshalbrecht @kanjun We'll talk Databricks acquisition, MPT-30B, the future of open-source, his work in AI policy & more Join us in SoMa tmrw eve:
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
8 months
We're doing live demos and Q&A with open-source leaders @_Brian_Raymond @hwchase17 @atroyn tomorrow in Hayes Valley! few spots left to join in person: or join via livestream: doors open at 6 PM, demos start at 6:30!
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
@AnalyticsPierce @securitiesexams Series 65 exam: $187. Prep course: $99. Being able to support early-stage startups financially: Priceless. PSYCH! That sh*t is EXPENSIVE.
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
This list is intended to help founders with fundraising, but also -- because diverse investors tend to know more diverse candidates -- to help founders build more diverse teams 🚀
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
4 years
@merci Double opt in email intros !
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@RohdeAli
Ali Rohde
2 years
speaking of female-led funds... congrats to @LeshikaSam on the launch of Twine Ventures, announced just yesterday 🔥
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