Colin Whelan

Venture Capital @TheHelenaGroup 🇺🇸

[Graham Grieve @grahamgrieve]

remember when Steve job used to review every piece of marketing before it got greenlit?

Anyway I miss those days

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

@JasonrShuman Agreed

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

@paulg @garrytan Summary: strives to write efficiently.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Live look at western university campuses after they learned that over 12,000 unarmed Iranian civilians have been massacred by the Islamic Republic.

[Cabot Phillips @cabot_phillips]

How CNN frames 6% inflation under Joe Biden vs. 2.7% inflation under Donald Trump.

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

ii) the net benefit of AI | what are the right KPIs to evaluate harm-benefit analysis of AI proliferation? How might those KPIs change over a 1-, 5-, and 10-year horizon?

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

One of the few things AI experts can agree on today is that the future of AI remains uncertain. We are in the midst of a platform shift in productivity, the early results of which are promising and clear. As AI adoption rises, society will come to understand:

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

i) the scope of change, day-by-day, month-by-month, and year-over-year | how will people most use AI? What structural economic shifts will occur?

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

@bryan_johnson @MatthewBerman You must have missed the “non-douchey” clause up front

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

The arena of venture capital is rife with TVPI. Secondary markets (a la Yale, Harvard) will continue to proliferate. The end-state of private market secondaries growth will be a set of private markets exchanges (like NASDAQ secondaries) and then .. a repeat of the past 150 years of events from public markets?

[litquidity @litcapital]

No, just make money for LPs. That’s literally the job

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

Hospital systems nationwide suffer from low margins, complex staffing models, and slow growth, which ultimately lead to worse patient outcomes and a less healthy population. Happy to see PE/VC firms moving into hospital management. https://t.co/1LIsZuf9nC

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

The “golden share” construct (Preferred Stock Class G) in the Nippon Steel / U.S Steel pro forma entity will benefit American labor, jobs, and economic growth. Completing this transaction - while protecting American interests in steel manufacturing for decades to come - is a creative approach to regulated M&A and a great outcome for Nippon & U.S. Steel.

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

@JackRuhl Sounds like more of an internet cafe

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

@JackRuhl Tattoos about capitalism, heralded properly, can put in perspective the true meaning of life

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

Socialism allocates scarcity. Capitalism incentivizes abundance.
An abundance mindset drives prosperity.

Capitalism, heralded properly, is key for prosperity.

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

@JackRuhl Shareholder value*.

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

@JackRuhl This is beyond critical.

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@JasonrShuman How many adjustments?

[Colin Whelan @ColinsTwittter]

Climate change won’t cause behavior change. Superior products at lower cost will cause behavior change; it’s essential that the products of our future account for the environmental externalities affecting our natural ecosystem. Impact investing means investing in these products, exclusively.