Child care as workforce infrastructure. State, county, & city execution, provider economics. Founder & CEO @Wonderschool | @a16z backed

Joined December 2008
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Congrats to Alex, Ben, and @hubble_network (YC W22) on their $200M Series C at a $1.6B valuation! Hubble's satellite network lets any Bluetooth device connect directly to orbit with just a software update. Cellular covers about 15% of Earth's landmass, and tracking anything beyond that has meant satellite hardware costing $25 or more per device. Hubble brings connectivity under 50 cents per device, which changes the math for billions of pallets, shipping containers, water pumps, and farm equipment that were never worth connecting before.
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Proud of the team that got SHx live on BitTrade. First APAC listing, done right.
Japan, meet SHx. 🇯🇵 @strongholdjapan SHx is officially listed on @BitTrade_jp. Learn more: sghd.co/bittrade
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After years of testing, Zoox is taking the next step and getting ready to launch paid robotaxi rides. CEO Aicha Evans discusses the company's expansion plans across the US, and why it is focused on building a long-term transportation business bloom.bg/4fGihzF
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Jaylen Brown says meeting 21-year-old founders making $2–3 million in revenue changed how he views money and business “When I was at Cal, I met this dude Eric Moore. He had his own venture capital firm.” “I just kept hitting him up until he let me intern at his VC firm.” “He started teaching me about money, how rich people make money, and how they stay rich.” “At 18 or 19, I got to see companies being run successfully.” “Some of the founders were 21 or 22, had dropped out of college, and were making $2–3 million in revenue.” “My body is my company.” “Why is it a bad thing that I’m putting myself in a position to make a lot of money at an early age?” “I really got to see how the world works.” “I started to understand the similarities between companies and the business of basketball.”
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Zara opening up a flagship store in union Square 4 floors are they try to bring shopping back to San Francisco bape just opened let's make San Francisco shopping great again
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I wrote about 4 observations on SF since moving from NYC a couple months ago: 1. The people are shaking 2. There is one (1) status game 3. The city that cried wolf 4. The fetishization of the math savant and in case you don't trust reading blocks of text anymore, I present to you my images and memes:
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The world is getting warmer while our infrastructure gets older: a recipe for disasters. We’re excited to announce Fund II: $85M for early stage investments in disaster resilience.
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Big congrats to @MarlonCNichols on being named to the 2026 LA500 by the @LABJnews. Well deserved recognition for a leader continuing to back some of the most exciting founders & companies shaping the future through MaC Venture Capital. 🚀 labusinessjournal.com/la500-…
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wife of a yc founder - vacation edition: 7am - babe wtf pls take your calls in another room 9am - coffee 🫶 11am - babe we’re literally in hawaii pls finish 1p - babe I’m literally going to kill you, get off your computer 3p - yay beautiful hike 5p - get off x we need quality time is vacation just them working in a different location?!
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“Obsession paired with self-belief is often what people label as ‘delusion.’ But that self-belief is essential...because no one starts out as the greatest." Proud to be interviewed by the great Karin Eldor at @Forbes , and hope you enjoy it as well. forbes.com/sites/karineldor/…
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My wife is looking for a chief of staff for her growing fashion startup, personal brand and our philanthropic endeavors. Want to join or know someone who would be good. Full JD: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Barstool Pizza Review - Flour + Water Pizzeria (San Francisco, CA)
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We used to hunt the bug down in the codebase with our bare eyes
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"Your job is to manufacture success with the resources given to you." - Satya Nadella
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You can find him here, @BenSwann_
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1/ @Mercury Personal launching publicly today! Its been my primary account for a while and changed my financial life: Joint account with my wife, cards+controls for my nanny. Auto transfer money between high-yield-savings + Invest* + checking. Easy+free wires
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Today, we’re pulling the curtain back to unveil SuperMe 1.0: the AI-native professional network, launch Perspective Search, and announce that we’ve raised a $6.8M seed round. How @SuperMeAI works: - Ask a question. - SuperMe finds the right professionals. - Their AI profiles answer instantly, grounded in their real work. It’s how advice really works in business. We’ve just built it into the network. Search is changing. But it has gaps. AI assistants answer without revealing the humans behind the knowledge. Perspectives are lost as blue links turn into one-size-fits-all answers. Perspective Search is our answer to that. We show multiple answers to your questions, from people who have solved your problem before. You can also go deeper by engaging with individual profiles. We’re also excited to share that we’ve raised a $6.8M seed round led by @mduboe at @GreylockVC , joined by some of the most thoughtful builders and operators in tech (see list below). Read the full story in Alex Konrad’s Upstarts and our full launch post in the comment below. We’ve brought on a large group of amazing angels to help bootstrap the network with fantastic insights: Product Leaders: @aparnacd , CPO for AI Experiences at Microsoft @nikhyl , Founder of the Skip and Former VP Product at Meta @archieabrams , VP Product at Shopify @omarseyal , Head of Product, AI Search at Instagram @ngavini , former CPO at Pinterest @makavy , former CPO at Lyft @ShaunMClowes , CPO at Confluent @eugenewei , former CPO at Oculus, Hulu, Flipboard @jasoncosta , Sr. Director Product at Reddit Founders: @shishirmehrotra , CEO of Superhuman @bbalfour , Founder/CEO of Reforge @VanjaJosifovski , Founder/CEO of KumoAI, former CTO at Pinterest @catleecatlee & @smallchou , former bosses of mine at Pinterest and co-founders of Pace @rob, Co-founder of Ro @PameVls , Founder/CEO of Musa @IAmBrandonTerry Founder/CEO of Village @dmccartney Co-founder of ScoutFM Growth Leaders: @ElenaVerna , Growth at Lovable @brianhale, Chief Growth Officer at Doordash @fishmanaf , Growth and Product Advisor Darius Contractor, Chief Growth Officer at Otter @luclevesque , former Chief Growth Officer at Shopify @dannieb , Head of Growth Engineering at Coinbase @micahmoreau , SVP Growth at Hims & Hers @sri_batchu , former CMO at The Real Real @HilaQu , Former VP Growth at Gitlab @eusden , formerly Growth at Pinterest, Alto, Faire Operators: @danhockenmaier , Chief Strategy Officer at Faire @jluan , Head of AGI SF Lab at Amazon @lieber, former COO Postmates, CBO Shippo Morgan Hughes, former CFO at Cambly, VP Finance at Airbnb and Grubhub @mckenzielock , GM Content Platform at Netflix Ali Behnam and Michael Morell at Riviera Eddie Hsu, Head of TPM, Android at Google Jeffrey Chang, Product at Adobe Benjamin Huh, Assistant General Counsel at Crowdstrike Investors: @lennysan , Author of Lenny’s Newsletter & Lenny’s Podcast @HarryStebbings and @Kieranleehill at20VC @kevinakwok , Partner at Sutter Hill @mercebent , Co-founder at Premise @Chengdavid923 , GP at Coreline Ventures @tkendall, founder at Common Metal and former President at Pinterest @NikkiFarb , Founder at Power of N @ngoel & Amr Al-Shihabi at Karman Ventures Mei Z. @ikirigin , Founder at Tango VC We’re just getting started.
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Uniqlo is coming back to downtown SF, opening a flagship in the former Old Navy site. My administration is focused on clean and safe streets, cutting red tape, and attracting businesses like @UniqloUSA back to the heart of our city. Their return is another sign SF is on the rise.
The Japanese retailer is rolling out an upsized fleet that includes new locations in seven cities, including "flagship" stores in Chicago and San Francisco. f-st.co/u9cIM0O
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