Jacques Benkoski

Entrepreneur-VC, dad x 3, competitive sailor, invests in US and Israel, passionate about building companies and working with non-assholes

[Jacques Benkoski @JacBenko]

@lyft if you are going to arbitrarily charge a wait fee because I took 20 secs to check the house door was closed, I am going to charge you for every time you make me wait longer than the announced wait time. Want to see who wins at that ???

[Jacques Benkoski @JacBenko]

@united who authorized you to store my picture and do a biometric-only boarding process? Did you copy it over from my passport? You certainly didn’t have permission for that either.

[Jacques Benkoski @JacBenko]

@avpbeach @KristinaRevay Is there an updated schedule ? Will you compensate those that couldn’t make it ?

[Jacques Benkoski @JacBenko]

@avpbeach @LPHAMEL Sam here. Don’t see anything on Facebook. Will you communicate what happens to paid tickets ?

[Jacques Benkoski @JacBenko]

@avpbeach Agree. So what’s the plan for today ? We bought expensive tickets and got zero information as to an updated schedule.

[BΞN / Ben Narasin @BNarasin]

Real VCs don’t always know SAFEs and they don’t offer adequate protections. I strongly discourage founders from using SAFEs in most case (there are exceptions) and standardize on NVCA standard docs (also available on the web). The middle ground is https://t.co/f2qoRsRSmg docs.

[Jacques Benkoski @JacBenko]

@nitzanshapira Net new is new minus churned. So not the same as new, right ?

[Jacques Benkoski @JacBenko]

@Jason Gameboy

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@Jason PlayStation 1

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@Jason Atari

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@Jason Sun ?

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@Jason Amazon and Amazon AWS ?

[Jacques Benkoski @JacBenko]

@Jason Waze ?

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@Jason GoPro ?

[Gil Dibner @gdibner]

Fascinated by the phenomenon of late stage funds reaching out to early stage managers. We know you only do two things: (1) chase "obvious" late stage deals and (2) ruin early stage companies by coming in too early and breaking everything with too much capital and bad advice.

[Brian Brackeen @BrianBrackeen]

I spend WAY too much time helping founders to unlearn what they get from "brand name" accelerators who are giving them horrible advice.

[Jacques Benkoski @JacBenko]

@ttunguz Where is the data coming from ?

[Jacques Benkoski @JacBenko]

Agreed !

[Shuly Galili @shulygalili]

I came to same conclusion 👇

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

2008 was chaotic…there were new crises, rules, etc nearly daily. I can’t imagine what that would have been like with a juiced-up rumor mill of assholes looking for attention layered on top of it.

[Jacques Benkoski @JacBenko]

Welcome aboard @mdgarratt ! Proud to call you my partner and to be working with you and your amazing experience and network to invest in great companies.

[U.S. Venture Partners @USVP_]

USVP Doubles Down on Enterprise Franchise with Addition of Matt Garratt
https://t.co/1FSFlYCjaF