Jamie Wong

Founder, advisor, writer, mediocre soccer player | alum @ycombinator, @columbiajourn, @thedailyshow

[Jamie Wong @JamieJWong]

"There must be more to life than having everything." -Maurice Sendak via @instigating

[Antler @AntlerGlobal]

Beyond this year’s Olympics, how can France build on its post-Brexit success? 🇫🇷💪

Antler in France’s @JamieJWong shares opportunities and challenges for founders in Paris with @business’s @LionelRALaurent.

https://t.co/WfPqJJhm0G

[☔🔥☔ @kirbywinfield]

it’s always the female founders in our portfolio who are getting term sheets pulled, having exits disrupted, suffering 11th hour investor backouts…i wouldn’t believe it unless i’d seen it firsthand.

[Jamie Wong @JamieJWong]

“It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but … I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises."
~ Josephine Baker https://t.co/9qiUF0lBwD

[Jamie Wong @JamieJWong]

ChatGPT is the best thing to happen to extroverted single people since the invention of dinner parties.

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened

[Danielle Baskin @djbaskin]

Coming out of the Holmes trial, I think one of my biggest pieces of advice to startup founders is to have friends. You need people in your life you enjoy hanging out with that say things like 'lol what are you talking about' or 'that's a bad idea' when you say weird shit

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Underappreciated factor in the startup gender gap: the platforms that are used for product validation skew very male (90% of ProductHunt voters, 75% of Kickstarter users, 79% of HackerNews) making it hard for female-focused products to find vital traction. https://t.co/RFtTekN73J

[Jamie Wong @JamieJWong]

Exceptional reporting and writing … I highly recommend this read. Thank you ⁦@caseysjournal⁩ for this amazing work. @NYTimes https://t.co/Xwb8SLo0O3

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

An enormous review—105 studies; over 70k people—found that valuing external validation and outcomes over internal rewards and satisfaction was associated with negative wellbeing.

Seeking fame or money (above a certain threshold) makes you worse off.

Here’s what makes you well:

[Jamie Wong @JamieJWong]

Hey @LearnWorlds - we are on your highest plan that is supposed to include 24/7 premium support yet we haven’t heard back on our issues in more than two weeks. Are you guys still alive?

[layla noor ♡ @bylaylanoor]

absolutely devastated to announce that plotting & outlining your book before writing, does in fact make writing it easier

[Tyler Bowyer @tylerbowyer]

This is what we will have if you let Ranked Choice Voting and Independent Redistricting Commissions into your state.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Joe Biden praising Jon Stewart's advocacy for veterans: "Jon, I want to thank you again... You refused to let anybody forget..."

[Jamie Wong @JamieJWong]

@kimmytaylor America only seems interested in normalizing unhealthy relationships with food. The culture wars haven’t helped: “if we are going to normalize anorexia, then we should also include obesity!” What happened to normalizing healthy?

[Jamie Wong @JamieJWong]

Thanks for being an inspiration and support to so many of us @rebeccawalker !

[bryonn bain @bryonnbain]

-Shaka Senghor, LETTERS TO THE SONS OF SOCIETY

[Jamie Wong @JamieJWong]

The most common fundraising mistake I see with first-time founders is mistaking anything they hear other than “no” as “yes.”

Founders:

1) “No” is not in an investor’s vocabulary
2) The absence of “yes” is default “no”
3) The only certain commitment is money in the bank.

[Jamie Wong @JamieJWong]

Secrets are designed to prevent suffering, but most often they are the greatest cause of it.