Mercedes Bent

Monetization channels are changing [from my blog Data Annotation is the new AI consumer gold rush] https://t.co/C8rOQfYgvp

the adage "first time founders think about product, repeat founders obsess about distribution" is officially dead

congrats to Janitor on reaching #1 on the App Store in Books!! Tens of millions of women are creating romantasy stories on Janitor https://t.co/lC45jZXOQV

i really haven't seen this level of fluency for distribution at the earliest preseed/seed stages from so many founders before

one of the unintended benefits of AI: every founder i speak with is now spending SO much more energy planning out distribution, and much earlier

last week: 4 badges 3 conferences 3 cities 2 coasts 1 realization that the ability to be in 2 places at 1x should exist https://t.co/5a2fPBsLjY

practicing my Bad Bunny lyrics for tomorrow be like .....Genius Lyrics....Spotify......"oh that's what that means??".....repeat

what a San Francisco beauty!! https://t.co/zkgwU8ztdU

Huge congrats Kindred on $125M raised!! Kindred is reinventing Travel @JustinePalefsky @tasamina1 "That clarity of vision is what drew our partners. As Vanessa Larco, Board Partner at New Enterpr...

more than 50% of founders forget to include customer journeys in their pitch decks. 2 directions i see founders take with decks: 1. describe the journey of a user through your product, how the w...

Ben Nye is a legend (frmr BCV co-head) and very funny! 📸 pics from the HBS panel i actually really had fun at

HMB day https://t.co/id6mRKy9C7

great time speaking at HBS VC conference last weekend. Minus the fact that it was 12 degrees! Some of the fun topics we covered: - continuation funds - shift in assets & usage over time - sourcin...

Brazil is living in 2046 when it comes to Fintech. TIL betting platforms can automatically pause accounts if a user is gambling with funds sourced from credit or loans. https://t.co/4w83ufaj2g

1 of my favorite parts of the VC job are the whiteboarding sessions with founders where you're sitting on the living room floor because there's no furniture

someone created a model to forecast likelihood of conspiracy theories being true!! "the results of this model suggest that large conspiracies (≥1000 agents) quickly become untenable and prone to f...

Favorite slide from our SciFi Tech Club on Interstellar. Thank you Daniel Carney, PhD for breaking down how much liberty the directors took with science!! https://t.co/1Ipxhuphgd

scenes from Art Week last weekend. Beautiful art show at Minnesota Street Projects in SF! I love Dogpatch https://t.co/D3ic8OrDhP

Fundraising is all about capital matching. Figure out who you are "Top 1%" to with a line like "I will be raising later" outbound. Segment into: - "Can we chat right now?" - highest interest - ...

TIL there was a 4 year period in the mid 2010s when housing prices nearly doubled in SF https://t.co/W34SMCHWsE