Wife. Mom. Head of Marketing @Everybanking. Champion of tech startups. Empathic human-centered marketer. PNW native. Horse, dog, chocolate & #data nerd.
Seattle
Joined July 2008
- Tweets36.7K
- Following6.6K
- Followers5.9K
- Likes25.1K
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
Tomorrow morning we're opening the doors to the @AntlerGlobal x @EveryBanking Founder Lounge during #SFTechWeek. It's a half-day built for early-stage founders, and we'd be glad to have you.
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
I'll write your a16z Speedrun application for you.
@a16z is putting $1M into early-stage founders building across tech, Al, and games.
I have a cool advantage here:
I've talked one-on-one with founders backed by al6z.
I've heard them work through ideas in real time, change their minds halfway through an answer, and light up when we hit the thing they understand better than anyone else.
That's what I want to find in your application.
Bring me a finished draft, half-written answers, or an idea you can't quite explain yet. We'll have one call. I'll keep asking questions until we get to the good stuff, then send you a complete draft built from your answers.
If I love the idea, I'll introduce you to an a16z-backed founder who understands what you're building. I know enough of them to find the right person.
Not promising that though, otherwise it wouldn't mean anything.
Comment "Speedrun" and I'll walk you through the process.
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
good morning, san francisco! ☀️
it’s day 1 of SF Tech Week, kicking off two weeks across SF and LA, with 2,600+ event submissions across both cities and 1,500+ events in SF alone.
Some events lined up for today, monday, october 5:
coffee, brunch & resets
• 8am - Rabbits on the Run (CodeRabbit)
• 8am - Coffee (BrewBird, Flex)
• 8:30am - TokenTechWalk (Vonage, Lovable)
• 8:30am - Women Brunch (Rho, Pivot North)
• 9am - Bfast (Deel, Ramp, AWS, SOMA)
• 10am - Padel (Deel, Human Interest, Sterling)
ai, agents & infra
• 8:30am - Open Weights (Bria, fal, LTX)
• 4pm - Video AI (Naver Ventures, Cooley)
• 4:30pm - Codex Meetup (OpenAI)
• 5pm - Production Agents (SurrealDB)
• 5pm - Agent Social (Manus, BuildClub)
• 5:30pm - Agents & APIs (Baseten, Postman, Rootly, Supabase, Prompting Co.)
hackathons, pitches & demos
• 3pm - Robotics & AI Pitches (AWS)
• 4pm - AI Build (Mem0, SVAI Hub, Gen Aca.)
• 4:30pm - Banking Hack Kickoff (Airwallex)
• 5pm - Hack Alcatraz (Cloudflare, Kling AI)
• 6pm - Demos After Dark (Fin, Clay)
founders & company building
• 9am - AI & Law (SimpleClosure, Carta)
• 10am - What’s Next (Techstars, Zendesk)
• 11am - Women’s Brunch (AWS)
• 2pm - AI Pitch (Auth0, Deel, Okta Ventures)
• 6pm - Early Hires (HigherPeople, Afore)
health & biotech
• 2pm - AI Health (SVB, Intelligence VC, Deel)
• 4pm - Preventive Health (Fenwick, a16z)
• 6:30pm - Women in Bio & Health (Fenwick)
vcs & fundraising
• 12pm - Lunch (Precursor, Stripe, BCV)
• 4pm - Down Under HH (Galileo, Relevance)
• 5pm - Shaun Maguire Fireside (Eon)
• 5:30pm - Chess Night (M13)
• 6pm - Dinner (JPMorgan, DealMaker)
• 6pm - Continual Learning (Fusion Fund)
art, games & nights out
• 5:30pm - Family Movie Night (Gigascale)
• 6pm - Giants Field Dinner (Airwallex)
• 6:30pm - Smash Bros & Agents (Dosu)
and more...
• 1pm - Why Pick the Boring (Valon)
• 2:30pm - Creativity & Play (GH, a16z)
• 4pm - Watts & Wisdom (a16z, Rillet)
• 6pm - Official Kickoff (Fireworks x a16z)
• 6:15pm - Cruise (MotherDuck)
follow @Techweek_ for updates and tag your photos #SFTechWeek
see you out there!
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
looking for free food at SF Tech Week?
i built a list of 1,000+ events with free food or drinks
share it so you're the reason your friends don't go hungry this week 🍕
im-hungry-tech-week.vercel.a…
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
Today: @StartupGrind's Funded Female Founders VII. Seven editions of real access to capital.
We're sponsoring, and @lyndit moderates the founder panel with @bnicholehopkins, @KristinCahojova, and @AmandaLevay.
partiful.com/e/iqS40evZNpl7T…
Blue skies for #sftechweek. Excited to be in town with a few of the @EveryBanking folks.
Join us for funded female founders event this evening with @StartupGrind. Thursday, get your professional headshot done at @AntlerGlobal.
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
I've been talking to a YC founder who's 15 years in and still doing big new things. One of the biggest popular misconceptions about startups is that founders have a brilliant idea, then implement it. In fact more often than not the biggest idea comes later.
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
FOUNDERS‼️: @Google will cover up to $350K in cloud costs for AI startups (if funded), and the entry tier doesn't even require funding.
This is the @GoogleStartups Cloud Program, one of the largest startup credit programs in tech
What you get:
- start tier: up to $2,000 in credits, no equity funding required
- scale tier, first year covered up to $100K + 20% of year two costs up to another $100K (equity funding needed)
- AI-first startups: <$350K in cloud cost
- dedicated success manager, technical support, and Google Cloud engineers
Eligibility: publicly available company website, company email domain matching your site, founded within 5 years (10 years for Scale tier).
🔗Apply → cloud.google.com/startup/app…
P.S. Fundraising and want to stand out? @ThePageform agent creates spaces investors love from your materials in less than 5 minutes.
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
"I can't be bothered to read a whole book about this! Just tell me what Zero Click Marketing is in 60 seconds"
I got you, fam.
Via the @EcommCowboy podcast
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
A CS undergrad asked me where he could have most effect in the AI age. I said probably at either extreme: either close to the technology, actually making LLMs, or close to the customer, using AI to give them exactly what they want. Or maybe both if you can stretch that far.
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
Replit CEO Amjad Masad and a16z's Erik Torenberg on the young talent formula: go really deep, stay authentically likable.
Amjad: "If you're able to tell a story about some project you've done and you've gone really, really deep in it, that's always impressive because that's what most people lack."
"Most people get bored easily. Most people do the traditional thing. But did you actually follow a thread all the way through?"
"That shows all sorts of good personality traits: persistence, intrinsic motivation. You might be doing something where you're following your curiosity, and maybe it doesn't have an immediate reward."
Erik: "I think it's both not being afraid to spike in something. A lot of people just show up too broad in everything, but not really amazing at anything. And just follow that to its conclusion. See how good you can get at it."
"While also having a baseline of interpersonal skills. Be likable in a way that's not contrived or fake. Be truly authentic, because people want to support people who are good people."
@amasad @eriktorenberg
Amjad Masad with Gagan Biyani and Erik Torenberg on HAA: The Horowitz Andreessen Academy
The ideal education today is a place with room to meander, a space to go heads-down when you’re obsessed, alongside unconventional peers.
Gagan sees it in every student he meets: the interesting thing they're building is happening outside class, unsupported. Amjad got really into chess and it evolved into a whole product line. The thesis behind HAA is side quests shouldn't be on the side.
No grades, no tests. Trust is the design principle - Silicon Valley runs on it, so why not apply it to students? Empower ambitious young people to run with the ideas that have real gravity they can’t avoid.
"Young people should be heretics… We respect the past, but we're unapologetically going to change it."
1:03 Why young people should be heretics
5:35 Amjad designs his ideal college
8:45 Side quests deserve more resources
10:55 Don't take a Python class
14:30 College vs. raising money at 18
17:15 Most teen startups are premature optimization
18:30 "I tried not to start Replit"
19:40 How a chess hobby became a Replit product
24:25 The self-driving company
26:30 Respect the past, change it anyway
28:50 What Oakland politics taught Gagan about trust
31:50 Why trust works better than rules
36:35 The positive-sum culture HAA wants to pass on
39:20 Speaking to the world vs. speaking to the in-group
41:05 How Amjad found his moral compass
44:00 What Amjad looks for in young talent
YouTube: youtu.be/Q8yFrGwIftE
@amasad @gaganbiyani @eriktorenberg
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
Every Benefits scales with you, from your first hire to your two-hundredth. Lower premiums, same coverage, no vendor juggling as you grow.
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
We're sponsoring @founding's FounderX 2026 conference — live today in Oakland at @STAKVentures!
200+ founders. 100+ VCs. 40+ countries. 3 days of connections and insights from the best operators in the space.
Tomorrow, our CEO and Founder, @RajeevBehera leads a session on how AI is supercharging GTM for founders. Don't miss it!
(Looks like there are a few late-bird tickets available)
fi.co/insight/every-is-spons…
🤖 Made with AI
Are your hiring and HR processes set up to scale? This guide breaks down the fundamentals founders need to avoid expensive mistakes. bit.ly/3SdFvEf
I’m optimistic about what AI unlocks, but the systems nerd in me never stops building contingencies for when the playing field shifts. That instinct shapes how I think about automation.
19 people.
That’s how many external folks I talked to today. It’s both energizing and validating that what we’ve built (and continue to build) with @EveryBanking is a genuine painkiller for so many areas founders AND small business owners wrestle with daily.
Lyndi Thompson retweeted
Most incorporation products weren't built for tech startups. Missing docs. No 83(b) filings. No bank account. Every gives founders everything they need to be funded on day one, for $0. every.io/incorporation
ALT Every.io offers free Delaware C-corp, bank account, EIN, certificate of incorporation, SAFE docs and 83b elections