JD Ross

I take the side of people who build. Started WithCoverage to modernize insurance. Co-founded Opendoor $OPEN

[JD Ross @justindross]

@Leland2222 Thanks will fix

[JD Ross @justindross]

Not exaggerating: WithCoverage's growth team's calendar is booked back-to-back until mid July... but old school AEs won't succeed here.

I'm hiring if you are:
- IQ + EQ
- Curious + Kind: every client is a puzzle to solve
- HUSTLE

Great comp + equity. DM me

[JD Ross @justindross]

@StevenSimoni congratulations, really excited for you guys

[JD Ross @justindross]

You'll be working side-by-side with the founders and trained directly by us to win.

It will not be easy but you'll learn a lot very quickly.

Don't apply if you think sales is a dirty word.

[JD Ross @justindross]

For different verticals (e.g. PE, real estate, tech & defense) I would love to talk to...

- Networking-oriented VC/PE associates
- 1-2 year out of school consulting
- Underappreciated insurance nerds
- NYC commercial real estate brokers
- Attorneys who regret going into law

[JD Ross @justindross]

Incredible concept. Cannot wait for more of these

Our local “friend game” involves a few of these people including legend @Liv_Boeree — highly recommend hosting your own game!

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

I’m launching a new show today for Founders Fund, which I’ve dreamt about creating for twenty years, and I’d love for all of you to check it out.

Long story short, I sat 12 tech industry legends down around a table for a night of Mafia — a game of deception, and deduction, in which three secret liars attempt to eliminate the rest of the group, one by one, while the rest of the group attempts to figure out who’s lying to them before they’re all eliminated.

Players:
Sam Altman, Founder, OpenAI
Palmer Luckey, Co-founder, Anduril
Josie Zayner, Biohacker / Founder Embryo Corporation
Bryan Johnson, Founder, Don’t Die
Tim Urban, Writer, Wait Buy Why
Liv Boeree, Pro Poker Player / Win-Win Pod
Ryan Beiermeister, AI Policy Expert
Dylan Field, Founder, Figma
Moxie Marlinspike, Founder, Signal
Cyan Banister, Partner, Long Journey Ventures
Ryan Petersen, Founder, Flexport
Trae Stephens, Partner, Founders Fund / Co-founder, Anduril

I’ve been playing Mafia since college, and back in 2011, when I first moved to San Francisco to work for Peter Thiel, I brought it to Founders Fund. I’ve hosted games at retreats of ours and random weekend gatherings ever since, and as I’ve crossed paths with players from other lineages (“Werewolf,” the lesser mortals call it), I’ve come to realize… almost everyone in tech is into some version of this game.

It’s my favorite game in the world, and not only because of how chaotic and exciting truly every round inevitably becomes, but because of how much Mafia has taught me not only about other people, and people in general, but about myself. Everyone believes they’re an incredible judge of character. But how good are you, really, at discerning the truth when you’re facing someone fully committed to manipulating you?
Do you think you could figure out who’s lying? If you really had to? If your life depended on it?

We filmed our first three episodes at San Francisco’s beloved Tosca Cafe, where the PayPal Mafia famously sat for their now iconic photo.

For the next two weeks, we’ll release a new episode every Thursday.

Let me know what you think. This one was a labor of love.

[JD Ross @justindross]

@eglyman 😮

[JD Ross @justindross]

Ex-VCs and PE associates like Anshu have been awesome for us on growth team. The skills translate really well for our business — consultative closing with a winning platform behind you that you help shape.

Would love to meet people looking to transition.

[Anshu @anshu__mohan]

Come work with @justindross and me.

We're building a GTM Team at WithCoverage to partner with the most interesting companies and funds being built right now.

Series B from Sequoia + Khosla. NYC, in person. DMs open.

[JD Ross @justindross]

@hthieblot Neopets

[JD Ross @justindross]

@nejatian This is absolutely insane.

I’m going to see what I can learn about this and find out how to push back against whoever did this ridiculous flawed analysis at these firms

[JD Ross @justindross]

@gizakdag this is excellent

[JD Ross @justindross]

@jfbrly I don’t see evidence on their LinkedIn team that they have that skillset internally. The CEO is very charismatic though

[JD Ross @justindross]

Every few years a fintech launches and scales SO FAST and it's SO IMPRESSIVE and it turns out they were just selling dollars for pennies until they went bankrupt

Like Ampla, and Parker.
If your company bears risk, beware "hypergrowth"

[JD Ross @justindross]

@jfbrly Mostly inorganic acquisition or through property managers and paid leads in the highest churn low ACV segments of insurance

often won over by pricing below market rates, while bearing risk

[JD Ross @justindross]

@lasagna_silent @pitdesi We don’t even compete for clients so this is really not even about that! I just don’t want another insuretech contagion

[JD Ross @justindross]

@Austen Google is 11x trailing revenue
Anthropic is <20x forward revenue, growing way faster

Not that crazy

[JD Ross @justindross]

@ApolloAtomics American ingenuity!

[JD Ross @justindross]

@deedydas take notes kids

[JD Ross @justindross]

@ericwu01 Congratulations!