Drake Pooley

Chief of Staff @generalcatalyst 🇱🇹🇺🇸🇪🇺

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

@Nim_Ravid1 @sequoia @8vc @NotionHQ @DecagonAI Congrats! This is awesome

[Hemant Taneja @htaneja]

https://t.co/ph8aAveAgq

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

So are we going to pretend this chart is just like....not a problem?

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

As a physician working in Germany: this lunacy will have catastrophic consequences for all sides: patients and doctors -and businesses:
A) This will force patients to go to work when they should be staying home and resting, ultimately endangering themselves and others and prolonging recovery times - because it’s actually insane to demand from people with fever or diarrhea to actually physically go and see a doctor on the first day of their symptoms.
B) This is going to be an absolute nightmare for doctors and emergency departments.
There’s absolutely no capacity whatsoever in the German healthcare system for this utterly absurd legislation.

[General Catalyst @generalcatalyst]

Meet GC

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

Um wow

[NASA's Kennedy Space Center @NASAKennedy]

The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍

This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: https://t.co/kcP12dhsI2

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

@RTylerCrown Literally who has time to consume any of this content

[Hemant Taneja @htaneja]

I've been posting less and writing more. I've found it helpful to slow everything down and take the time for proper reflection.
Today I'm putting out a review of the last quarter:

Growing AI Anxiety
Turning LLMs into Computers
Anthropic and the Department of War
Iranian Conflict
The Incoming Techlash

It's easy to feel like the response to this is for tech to "get tough"
But I want to encourage the next generation to do something simple: keep your soul

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

@RTylerCrown So UVA coded

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

@robinsonmeyer Westin was going for this pre-Covid as the Wellness hotel and totally abandoned it. Feels like the mantle belongs to an Andaz type property. Four Seasons typically have amazing gyms. Insurance a big issue.

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

@oanaolt @generalcatalyst Yay

[Cameron McCord @CameronLMcCord]

Ambition is timeless. And global. But our tools are not (resilient).

Proud to share more about @Nominal_io's global ambition and how @generalcatalyst is partnering with us on the mission. An additional $80M of capital and $1B valuation helps us achieve that goal. The resiliency problem is truly global — supply chains, sovereignty, defense readiness, speed and scale of capability — and one that our allies share with equal urgency. It requires building one of the greatest companies in the world to solve it.

Nominal opened an office London last year because the demand from European customers is real and growing rapidly. These new technologies demand software tools built for for the modern era. And building resilience across our critical industries — defense and government, industrials and manufacturing, energy and infrastructure — makes the world safer, more sustainable, and more productive.

I have deep respect for Paul Kwan. He is someone who shows care and attention to everyone he meets, is wildly successful in a second career that he doesn’t need, and, near to me, he pays special attention to supporting veterans. Since the moment I met him, I’ve known that he was someone I wanted in Nominal’s orbit and in our board room. He makes us better.

Paul has also helped take many of the most successful technology companies public over the last two decades at Morgan Stanley. He knows what it takes to build a generational company, and we discuss some of that here, along with the “messy middle” of company-building: holding an unreasonably high talent bar when it's painful, making hard cultural decisions every single week, and building the kind of discipline that compounds over decades, not just quarters.

Thanks to Hemant, Paul Kwan, and @AlexaLiautaud, and the entire GC team for your support.

All systems Nominal. 🚀

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

I am so sorry Mayor Mamdani what is this chat gpt statement for amex's new hq building at wtc

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

Most infrastructure posts are <Look at X new thing emerging market just built compared to our Y thing built 50 years ago nearing the end of its useful life and actively getting replaced>

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Just landed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for a first time visit in the country and I'm absolutely wowed by the airport.

It's not just China: bit by bit the whole of Asia is getting world-class infrastructure.

[Bloomberg @business]

Jeannette zu Fürstenberg invests in Europe’s most geopolitically important startups—and throws legendary soirees in her family’s castle https://t.co/kBWlyUVDVq

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

This is Auburn erasure

[Ben Casnocha @bencasnocha]

Apple lists 17 executives on their "Leadership" page. Where they went to college:

Miami University
Luiss University
Simon Fraser University
Occidental College
Furman University
Boston College
Duke
Brown
Duke
Berkeley
Michigan
Tufts
Michigan State
Michigan
Technion
Penn
West Point

[Hemant Taneja @htaneja]

This is not politics as usual. As investors, innovators, leaders, and citizens, we need to come together to preserve our democracy, the rights set forth in our country's Constitution, and our shared humanity. All of these serve as the foundation for our modern society, human progress, and innovation.

What we are seeing in Minnesota is a threat to those core tenets and to the promise of America. Without confidence in the fundamentals -- human rights, the legal process, and the privilege and responsibility of our government and its leaders to protect all people -- the future is at stake. That impacts all of us here in the U.S., and globally.

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

Regardless of your politics, the food actually IS pretty bad in Davos lol

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Secretary Scott Bessent in Davos:

"After a few days of Swiss-German food here, I may switch to bugs and insects. I'm gonna bring some Pop-Tarts next year.”

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

@ChairliftCap If you want a real answer, it’s because we can squeeze a few months’ worth of meetings in a week.

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

More relevant than AP credit is that these technical classes were treated as on-level and thus on a 6-pt GPA scale versus AP/Honors classes on a 7-pt GPA scale at my HS. All things like student council, music classes, technical classes dinged in this manner.

[Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez @RepMGP]

There's no AP credit available for shop classes, so lots of kids have to give up something they're really good at to keep their college applications competitive.

I got an amendment included in the LHHSE Appropriations bill to expand options for college credit for technical classes like welding and woodworking, and I'll continue engaging with the Dept. of Education to keep the ball rolling.

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

@rrhoover @eladgil Link to more: https://t.co/M3Am0SGxB1

[Drake Pooley @DPoolAU]

@rrhoover @eladgil It’s because it’s an open secret among undergrads that having accommodations gets you preference in the housing lottery. Get the accommodation = get better housing for the year, it’s logical.