Love California. Founder & former CEO @usekojo, angel investor, board @orascomdevelop. Formerly @8vc, @oxfordunion president
San Francisco, CA
Joined December 2012
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Leisuremaxxing is an art.
And @FDavidsonT is an artiste 👨🎨
SF finally gets its own call her daddy.
@vivianmshen and @MilksandMatcha are cooking 👩🍳
“Do you think that getting married young has made you less ambitious?”
Welcome to the first episode of SOTA Wives with Sarah Chieng (Head of DevX at Cerebras, @MilksandMatcha) x Vivian Midha Shen (General Partner at Y Combinator, @vivianmshen).
In episode 1: finding your person before getting rich, turning down startup funding to finish MIT, what a YC partner sees in founders, and how a birthday post became “psychological violence.”
4:08 Finding your husband before the exit
8:48 Did we marry away our ambition?
18:04 The internet called Sarah's birthday “psychological violence”
20:47 Does your YC partner secretly think you’re doomed?
23:47 Building a startup with your ex-boyfriend
28:54 SF cat parties
Visiting @ghostai’s factory was incredible.
Building beautifully designed consumer hardware is notoriously hard.
But, a few minutes into seeing production at work, it was clear this team was building something special.
Congrats @zainmfj, I’m grateful to be an investor!
Introducing Core, The Personal Al Computer
The most powerful technology humanity has built should belong to you
Order today: ghost.ai
Convincing future founders from the UK to move to San Francisco with @finbarr and @ycombinator.
California’s not perfect, but it’s by far the best place in the world to build a tech company.
I spent 8 years helping contractors across the US adopt technology.
Sales cycles in construction can feel endless. There’s a huge amount of complexity to navigate - especially when you consider how many types of trades and projects there are.
I’m so excited for Aidan to actually finally help cut through these.
Congratulations @Nim_Ravid1 and @sablehq team!! I’m pumped to be on board
Introducing Aidan, your newest AI employee
Aidan is the first computer-using AI built for realtime conversation
We’ve raised $45M from @sequoia and @8VC to bring Aidan to the world
@NotionHQ and @DecagonAI already use Aidan to run customer interactions. This is how @sablehq works:
It's crazy that booking travel still requires opening 15 different tabs.
I want one place that remembers all my preferences where I can easily book flights, hotels, plan itineraries, and optimize points.
Now it's finally here! @OdessiaTravel @FDavidsonT
Maria Davidson retweeted
At the interaction of hospitality and technology, @FDavidsonT with his new startup.
I've spent my entire adult life thinking about travel. Built Sonder from the ground up as a college student to a $600M a year business in under 10 years.
For the last six months I've been obsessing over how AI will change travel. TLDR: it will change everything.
I've put together a stellar team and next week we're launching a preview of what we've built.
It's been a game changer for early testers.
Comment below for early access.
How we travel is about to change
I've spent my entire adult life thinking about travel. Built Sonder from the ground up as a college student to a $600M a year business in under 10 years.
For the last six months I've been obsessing over how AI will change travel. TLDR: it will change everything.
I've put together a stellar team and next week we're launching a preview of what we've built.
It's been a game changer for early testers.
Comment below for early access.
SF spends $102k a year per homeless person.
It spends $20k a year per resident.
SF spends more per homeless person than the 10 largest US cities combined spend per resident.
5 of the 10 cities that spend the most per homeless person are in California.
SF alone spends more per homeless person than NY and Portland combined.
College tuition has grown 4× faster than wages since 1980.
The cost of public college tuition is up 1,351%.
Median weekly earnings are up just 342%.
Only 4 states have fully funded public pension liabilities in the US.
Tennessee is doing the best at 104%.
Illinois is doing the worst at only 52%.
Where will the money to pay these promised pensions come from?
Where did all the money go?
7/10 states that spend the most per capita lost people to other states since 2020.
10/10 states that spend the least gained people from other states.
Wrote an op-ed for @thehill on where the money is actually going
If the increased spending hasn’t led residents to stay, something isn’t adding up.
Link to the article: thehill.com/opinion/finance/…
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