Investor & startup supporter. Cofounder @rampersand_fund ; proud supporter of 2017, 2019 and 2020 premiers @richmond_fc

Australia
Joined March 2008
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After years of dreading using Carta, I switched Tabella's cap-table to @CakeEquity. Startup friendly pricing, and an incredible customer success team. Highly recommend 🚀
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paul naphtali retweeted
this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
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Cursor for Slides is finally here Watch the first 47 seconds. Then try going back to your old deck tool Reply "Chronicle" + RT to get two months of Pro for free. Make sure you follow so I can DM you asap.
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paul naphtali retweeted
Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time SaaS bear. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Dario on Dwarkesh, probably. Now you think it’s the end of white collar work and seat-based pricing is screwed. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when you get to “Something Big is Happening”. Then you’ll install ClawdBot on a Mac Mini, vibe code a dashboard on top of a postgres database and say we’re all just a couple ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. That’s gonna last until next week when you discover context graphs, and then you're gonna be talking about how the systems of record will be disintermediated by an agentic layer and reposting OAI marketing graphics. “Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because ultimately the application layer is just ….” The application layer is just business logic on top a CRUD database. You got that from Satya’s appearance on the BG2 pod, December 2024, right? Yeah, I saw that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or...is that your thing? You get into the replies of anyone posting a SaaS ticker. You watch some podcast and then pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some VCs and embarrass some anon who’s long SaaS? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in a couple years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped thirty grand on Mac Minis and LLM API calls to come to the same conclusion you could’ve got for free by following a handful of VC accounts.
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NEW Episode of The High Flyers Podcast is now live! #193 Paul Naphtali: From PR to VC—Silicon Valley Lessons, Building Rampersand & How great founders win (in a rare public interview) curiositycenter.xyz/the-high…
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Replying to @QuantumBrillia1
@QuantumBrillia1 has secured US$20M in strategic funding as part of its Series A round! 🚀 This funding will drive the establishment of a Quantum Diamond Foundry in Melbourne, marking a major leap forward in making Quantum Brilliance’s technology scalable and deployable—paving the way for breakthroughs in quantum sensing and computing. #QuantumComputing #DeepTech #Innovation
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It’s that time again, folks! Come hang with Napper and I and the internet randos! 🌲 🍺
Hey @mattallen 👋🏼. Want to have a drink at the Cherry Tree on 19th Dec?
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If you want some quality time with high quality VCs come join us in UTS building 8 now #SXSWSydney
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🙌 We are thrilled to announce that we have led Restoke.ai's $5.1m seed round to revolutionise how restaurants are run globally.👨‍🍳 🚀 forbes.com.au/news/innovatio… @poetential #startupaus #VCAustralia
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💥 Tickets are already 50% exhausted! 💥 We've partnered with @CakeEquity and Hatch as part of @sparkfestivalau to bring you a fantastic part panel/part debate on whether to disrupt your market category or create a new one. This event WILL sell out: eventbrite.com.au/e/market-c…
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"We've had 30 years of PowerPoint. The next 30 years could be @JigSpace” - @poetential 👏 👏 👏 It's hard to miss the applause for Jig! 🙌 @breakthroughvic @investible Vulpes Ventures Hugh Bickerstaff theaustralian.com.au/busines… #startupnews #VCnews
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Food waste startup @GoterraAus is getting into the aquaculture food supply business: bit.ly/4aKwBBp
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paul naphtali retweeted
Great peek into the future of technical training. Not really the future to be fair—this is all possible, right now.
With @JigSpace for Vision Pro, you can deliver complex, hands-on technical training, in person(a), from anywhere in the world. No travel costs, better outcomes in a fraction of the time. What’s that worth to your org? #spatialcomputing #visionpro #training #augmentedreality
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Cake Equity is nominated for Finnies 2024 @ausfintech under the "Excellence in Establishing Global Market Presence" category! 🏆
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Relevant info for builders right when they need it, in situ, hands-free. Vision Pro and @JigSpace are going to unlock some incredible efficiencies in construction. #VisionPro #SpatialComputing #construction #FutureOfWork #AugmentedReality #GenAI
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Huge!! Love that I get to work on Jig every day🔥🚀
We're thrilled to announce @JigSpace has been named to @FastCompany's Most Innovative Companies of 2024🔥 It's an honour to be recognised, you can read about the impact we're having: fastcompany.com/91033778/jig… Now to get back to it! #FCMostInnovative #VisionPro #AugmentedReality
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Who’s excited for @_southstart ? Bubs and I have matching @rampersand_fund shirts for the occasion
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JigSpace on Apple Vision Pro - spatial computing for business. Take full advantage of Apple Vision Pro to supercharge your communication, and radically enhance the impact and efficiency of training, sales and marketing. bit.ly/get-jig #AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing
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