Buddy Foster

Investor @MuditaVenture | Seed to Series A | Prev. barista | Opinions my own

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

This was awesome! Thank you to @Cboe for giving us the opportunity. Super fun day.

[Cboe @Cboe]

Mudita Venture Partners joined us to close the markets! 🔔

A Venture Fund with a Soul, @MuditaVp is a human-centered early-stage fund and studio backing bold, principled entrepreneurs building AI-first B2B solutions that elevate how we live and lead.

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

Traveling with my pregnant wife right now and was turning around to help her lift her bag to the overhead bins. The man in the seat in front of us immediately jumped up and did it for her. Chivalry is not dead folks.

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

Was cold called today and man, the level of effort was dismal. Was trying to “sell” the full product on the first call as opposed to selling interest in learning more. Your job is to get to the disco call, not get a contract.

[Mudita Venture Partners @MuditaVp]

In Episode 2 of Escape Velocity, @i_Genie_ai CEO @trevorsumner shares lessons from taking companies public, exiting to Blackstone, and now scaling one of enterprise AI's fastest-growing companies.

Full episode here 👇
https://t.co/Vun5eTSa9A

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

@HeyGarrison Dude this is so cool. What a great idea

[Mudita Venture Partners @MuditaVp]

What if a company drove growth and scale by helping other businesses and its community thrive?

@honeycombcredit did just that.

The results:
- $55M deployed nationwide across 600 businesses and projects!

Read the full case study here ->https://t.co/dXe77zZkRO

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

@martymadrid Going to use this from now on - gotta make people guess what my sentiment is. Keeps the people on their toes!

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

Money is not money.

The moment you take venture capital, you're choosing who will be in the room when things get hard.

Don't optimize for valuation.

Optimize for alignment, velocity, and partnership.

New Founder Playbook from @joshlinkner

https://t.co/KTpm0Bikjg

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

How can you not be romantic about College Baseball?

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

Whoa.

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

There's this quadrant of people in my mind. On left side is the spectrum of ambitious people (top) and non-ambitious people (bottom). On top is rule followers (left) and rule breakers/benders (right). We over-index to the top right. @madebyblack is top right.

[Mudita Venture Partners @MuditaVp]

Listen to the Full Episode Here: https://t.co/ldTONlGi0S

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

@madebyblack spitting some wisdom over here

[Mav @hiremav]

Our Founder & CEO @madebyblack joined @joshlinkner on @muditavp Escape Velocity podcast to share the origins of Mav, why we bet everything on vertical AI in insurance, what puts Mav ahead of a human-based call center + what it means to be a cockroach in a world of thoroughbreds.

[Screencastify 🎬 @Screencastify]

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[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

@washuolin’s newest Alumni! Super proud of my wife and what she’s done.

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

PAC-12 after dark comin back! We love to see it. Big get for the ACU Wildcats too

[Pac-12 Conference @pac12]

There has been an awakening...

Coming soon.

#maythe4thbewithyou

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

It’s here. Shout out @awwstn for finally bringing Howie to where I am most - iMessage. Excited to try this out next couple weeks.

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

This is screenplay type material. I mean damn.

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨 Musk vs OpenAI's lawyer — the cross-examination exchanges

William Savitt — Wachtell Lipton's lead defense lawyer, Supreme Court clerk, trained to break witnesses.

Savitt opens with a misleading premise.
Musk: "You're being misleading. What you're saying is false."

Savitt tries again with a different loaded frame.
Musk: "Your questions are not simple. They are designed to trick me."

Savitt demands a yes or no answer to a complicated question.
Musk: "If you ask a question where there is no possible simple answer, I must give a longer answer because any simple answer would be misleading the jury."

Musk reaches for an analogy: "The classic answer to a yes or no question is not so simple. For example, if you ask the question 'will you stop beating your wife?'..."

Judge Gonzalez Rogers cuts him off: "No, we're not gonna go there."

The courtroom laughs.

Savitt apologizes for the question.
Musk: "I find it funny you saying it wasn't an unfair question since you're only asking unfair questions."

Savitt: "I'm doing my best."
Musk: "That is not true."

OpenAI's lawyer came to break Musk.
Musk wasn't having it.

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

Honestly… not a bad idea to reuse Stadium Armory…

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

This would actually be the most American thing ever. Stadium of the Republic. Democracy manifest.

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

@skooookum @Vinny_Daniel0 We need more briefcases with water bottle holders really

[Buddy Foster @Buddy__Foster]

Granted that LinkedIn’s algorithm promotes non-company branded profiles as opposed to X’s tendency to be a bit more open. So Blackstone posting versus Jon posting are two different metrics. But point made sure.

[Restructuring__ @Restructuring__]

Two things crack me up:

1) Blackstone spends tens of millions on marketing, and their post on X gets 14 likes and 1k views

2) LinkedIn loves the same dumb content that X does not want to see, tells you everything you need to know about where the smart folks are