build your data room before you start raising. not during what to pre-build: cap table with full conversion math 3 year financial model or token economic model 5 customer references with contact info tokenomics one pager technical architecture deck competitive landscape hiring plan the VCs who move fastest are the ones who never have to ask for anything. founders who send the data room link unprompted after meeting 2 close in half the time of founders who send it on request speed of information transfer is the real variable in your raise timeline, not interest level bring your data room link to Founder x VC Summit | Oct 6 & 9 | @token2049

Today, we're launching shift. We're starting by cleaning your apartment in New York City, for free. Here's how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to your home wearing one of our devices. They clean. They leave. You pay nothing. In exchange, we record the cleaning. Robotics is being built on data about how people do daily tasks, and the value of that recording is what funds the service. Anything personal in it is anonymized before the recording is processed. By now, you have heard about the shift to AI more times than you can count. About the shift toward you, the part where you actually feel it, you have heard almost nothing. Shift is what starts to make it concrete, in specific cities, with specific services. Today, cleaning in New York. Soon, handymen, repairs, and errands across the globe. And this is just one side of shift, with more on the way. Comment “shift” and we’ll send you an early access link.

72 hours after YC demo day, I moved to Shenzhen for 8 weeks 🤠 I'm headed back to SF with new hardware in hand (sharing more soon), but some takeaways documented below: > If you have even the slightest ambition to found a hardware company, visit SZ. Pre-raise, pre-team, pre-idea, pre-job departure, it doesn't matter. Just go. > Plan your visit according to a major conference that interests you. Use that conference as a supplier meeting springboard - that's your ticket to any factory under the sun. > At the factories, ask about lead times, don't ask about cost (wait on this). Your iteration rate is driven by the lead time on the longest lead time item in your assembly. It pays to identify these parts early to build project timelines. > Visit Huaqiangbei (read: this is a mini-city, not a building). Robotic subassemblies, batteries, chassis's, electronic parts. They all have buildings where vendors are tightly clustered. Plan to spend 4-6 hours walking around before you find exactly what you're interested in. > Business relationships are valuable commodities. Treat them as such. Pay attention to people, learn about them. Bring thoughtful gifts. Wait for them to sit first. With Baiju, fill the glass but with tea leave some room. Cultural customs are fun to learn, but also convey a seriousness towards the working relationship. > Suppliers fit cleanly into discrete buckets. Level of complexity and execution on past projects indicates what is in scope for them. Trivial, but important to level your build expectations. It is easy to design a part with 12 subsequent manufacturing processes, exceptionally hard to find a supplier to fill this order. If you need coffeeshop recs, food recs, or hotel recs I have a few. Move to Shenzhen! Get to building!

A+ for creativity. Founders always find a way. But please don’t send me money to pitch me!!

Looking for people who will change history

If investing in you would be like investing in Bitcoin in 2009, pitch us. $250-500k checks into early teams. 🔗 in bio.

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The real reason founders move to SF isn’t the capital. It’s the hallway conversations. So we built a hallway. Launching @superherohotel: 6 floors in a historic 1920 Nob Hill building. 10-min walk from @frontiertower. Members have raised $150M. Events have pulled 70K. Sleep at the hotel. Build at the Tower. Come for 4 weeks. Ship, raise, break through 👇

if you're a VC, you have an important responsibility to founders this is probably the most stressful time of their entire career losing sleep over AI, the economy, and what the future holds if you're not sending them messages like: - "so what's your AI strategy?" - "what if Anthropic copies you?" - "did you see your competitor just raised a huge round?" - "hey, i'm trying to put a down payment on a second ski home, i could really use some cash, do you think you're going to IPO or return my fund soon" then you're not taking your job as a VC seriously.

you dropped out of yc. I dropped the prod db. we are not the same.