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So fun to have some @StanfordGSB classmates at @MadronaVentures 5th annual IA40 Summit!
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'When you're playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world, and it is. But when it's behind you, it's behind you.'
Can confirm SF is a small town. Ran into two GSB classmates on the street every single day this week. Already feels like home. 🏠
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A great workplace doesn't happen by accident.
When you give talented people the freedom to think outside the box, innovation follows.
Thank you to @SFNet_National for including us in the 2026 Great Places to Work issue. Read the full feature here: bit.ly/4wzXFyN
I moved to SF this week, and while unpacking boxes that had been in storage for the past two years, I found my original Stanford University Graduate School of Business acceptance letter, which arrived in the mail almost three years ago. It made me smile and got me thinking about all the valuable experiences I was fortunate to have over the past two years. I knew I’d learn in great classes and meet incredible people, but I didn’t realize how much self-reflection business school would bring, or how much I’d learn about working with others. Ultimately, I gained frameworks for life.
I’ve been journaling over the past two years and writing blog posts to process my thoughts and learn, but I haven’t been sharing them publicly. I’ve decided now is the time, so I’m relaunching my Substack, Maria’s Musings, with a first post on the life frameworks I'm taking with me from the GSB.
open.substack.com/pub/mgilfo…
Subscribe for more posts, and I hope you enjoy! If you’re in SF, let me know!
Join Reid Hoffman and VCs for Kamala for the great VCs + friends phone banking session! Saturday November 2nd, 9am-11am, on zoom. Everyone is welcome, no experience necessary. Sign up at tinyurl.com/vcphonebank
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top “community” people in seattle startup ecosystem:
@jacoblaes youngtech
@jheitzeb ai tinkerers
@jnickhughes founders live
@robert_green1 startup grind
@MariaGilfoyle seattle tech week
@iammarkmonroe from the culture
@johnhcook geekwire
@LeslieFeinzaig ready set raise
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🎙️Had a blast chatting with @may_habib, founder and CEO of @Get_Writer, one of the fastest-growing enterprise AI companies!
✨We discussed her journey founding a GenAI company before the ChatGPT craze, building an enterprise-grade product and GTM motion with 200%+ net retention (!), what role RAG and vectorDBs have in the enterprise, and much more! May is a second-time founder and dropped a bunch of gems for anyone out there building in #AI.
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Madrona site (includes transcript): bit.ly/3Vb3VNT
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It is with immense pride in the @RoverDotCom team and all that they have accomplished that we celebrate the closing of Blackstone's acquisition of the company. Read about our Rover journey — from Day 1!
madrona.com/celebrating-the-…
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Our collaborative blog with the Amazon S3 team is live! Discover how Visual Layer's cloud users enhance the quality of their massive image and video datasets using AWS infrastructure, especially S3. 🚀
#AWS
aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage…
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Arc 🤝 Perplexity
Head to Settings > Profiles > Choose Perplexity > Ask anything about everything.
Not me! Sounds like this may be the best time to build and invest in the next big consumer company.
Other factors are encouraging some VCs to shift their strategy, but "VCs giving up on the idea of investing in consumer" is wrong.
Venture capitalists have given up on the idea that they’ll make their career finding the next hit consumer marketplace, retail brand or media company.
theinformation.com/articles/…
Dealmaker by @KateClarkTweets
Consumers aren't going anywhere and will continually have new interests that can be filled by startups. Also, consumer sentiment climbed 29% over the last two months (sca.isr.umich.edu/).
Congratulations @tweetsbycolin, Braden Sidoti, and the entire @clerk team on their Series B! 🎉 It's been exciting to work with this company and see the number of developers that continually choose Clerk to authenticate and manage users.
We have some exciting news to share… We’ve raised a Series B led by @CRV, with participation from @stripe, @a16z & @MadronaVentures!
We can’t wait to continue this journey with all of you, and show you what we are building next! 🚀
clerk.com/blog/series-b
Clerk now manages over 16 million end-users across verticals like SaaS, fintech, and e-commerce. The company constantly provides a simple, intuitive, high-quality user experience.
Now in partnership with @stripe, Clerk can offer not only authentication but authorization to determine the permissions each user in an app has.