Cortney Woodruff

Co-Founder of @assemblefyi. Building curriculum infrastructure for universities.

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@AndrewSteinwold The gag. Is these are real people . lol

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@katsuxbt 🧢 😂

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This is really insane 🤯

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A former chess prodigy co-founded Palantir at 22, cashed almost nothing for years, and turned that into an empire - 8VC, Addepar, Anduril, a whole university.

- Peter Thiel's protege who became a company-building machine

56-min unfiltered on defense tech, AI, and where the next $100B companies come from

bookmark - this rewires how you think about building anything

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@typesfast Sent ✅🎯🎯🎯✅✅✅🎯🎯🎯

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@MattatechS @MarioNawfal 😂😂😂😂😂 yea he’s on the France team by accident too

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@thatguybg It actually stands out and got us talking though 🤔 also it’s not realistic to see a bunch of nerdy engineers trying to look cool with a bunch of vfx all the time either lol.

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Over the last decade, I’ve watched countless “diversity funds” make headlines only to disappear once founders started asking about actual capital.

Founders: do diligence on investors.

A press release is not a fund.

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@romanbuildsaas LK

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@josshh25 @chriiswavy He not an IG guy. That’s all

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Enrollment. Revenue. Relevance.

What if universities could improve all three by launching new programs as fast as industry changes? They can with @AssembleFYi

Built this explainer with @laminalabs.

Shout out to @sudip and team for building an incredible product.

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@Rasmic @KaiCenat Come to @AssembleFYi we can make it happen

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@mchlhess 😂😂😂

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@alaxic @RovaneDurso

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One thing I’ve learned from being both a founder and an investor:

Access compounds.

Access to capital.
Access to networks.
Access to expertise.

Appreciate @MaryAnnAzevedo for including me in this piece.

[Mary Ann Azevedo @bayareawriter]

Only around $942M — or just 0.32% of total U.S. venture funding — went to startups with a Black founder or co-founder last year, per @crunchbase data. That’s one of the lowest shares in years, and down more than two-thirds from just three years prior.

This year has started off on a slightly rosier note, with $643M raised by U.S.-based startups with a Black founder or co-founder as of May 20. The majority of that was raised in the first quarter, marking the most raised in a single quarter since Q2 2022, when $653M was raised by Black founders or co-founders.

The consistently low numbers have led some Black founders to turn to investing in an effort to help level the playing field. I talked with two such founders to hear more about their experiences in raising capital and what they’ve learned from investing.

Read more in the @crunchbasenews article in the link in the comments.

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@mdjshin What u trying to do? Dm
Or what

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@boardyai I’m
In ✌🏾

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I love this tool! And will definitely take some credits Sudip! 🤣🚀🏁

[Sudip @sudiprokaya]

We're introducing Simi, the fastest way to generate whiteboard-style explainer video with just a prompt or docs.

On the fastest tier, we can generate the video in 20 seconds.

300 Credits(~5 minutes) free for each QT & comment

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@DamienWayne Love family offices. Would love to meet more

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@TheRealDanSaedi Higher Education