Tai Renwei

Startups x Storytelling | Crazy Creative Asians 🎭 Attorney, Culture, DEI, & Tech

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

anticipating a year full of wonders and challenge, things happening fast, but tons of potential if we focus on what matters most. happy new year folks.

2024, let’s do this.

[Khe Hy @khemaridh]

The post achievement professional

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

In the end, only three things matter:

[Tiffany Fong @TiffanyFong]

SBF’s second trial was canceled, but i already booked accommodation in NYC in march, so hmu if you’ll be around (only if you are not a murderer) 🤙

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself." — Seneca

[Amy Chua @amychua]

“My dad came up with a plan. He booked the cheapest room the Ritz offered, still a massive splurge for us. He and my mom would go up first with the bags, while my three sisters and I waited outside. My dad would then come back down and bring us up with him, one at a time. ‘They'll think you're all the same person,’ he told us.
‘But Dad, I'm 16, and Cindy's six,’ I pointed out. Cindy also has Down syndrome. ‘They won't notice the difference,’ my dad assured me. And he was right.”

[House of SpeakEasy @SpeakEasy_House]

Kick off #NewYear2024 with us on Jan. 9 at 7PM @JoesPub for our first #SeriouslyEntertaining of the season! Featuring Ed Park, @JaneFerguson5, @amychua, and @NRothbaum sharing stories on #ALongStoryShort. Tickets at the link in our bio!

[Amy Chua @amychua]

Honored to have been selected by the @WSJ to write about “my worst ever New Year's Eve!” This is a totally true story! https://t.co/qXDx5PDjbc

[Above the Law @atlblog]

Levy welcomed Smith to Texas Monthly 30 years ago with the warm salutation: 'Welcome to Texas Monthly, don’t f*ck up.' https://t.co/lHSZAwggKO

[Chia Jeng Yang @chiajy2000]

Founder to me: "VCs don't work."
Me: *shares screen* "This is my calendar, look at what I need to do this week"
Founder: "Wtf is 'BQQ and Beers' at Consensus?"

[dharmesh @dharmesh]

"A Founder's job is injecting risk into the business. It's flooding it with new ideas, stuff that seems hard to do, ideas that no one else would dare try, placing the kinds of bets that only someone who started the damn thing would be willing to wager."

~ @jasonfried

I do my very best to do my job as a HubSpot founder.

[adriane schwager @aschwags3]

2 years ago, I co-founded my first business

Today, we crossed $9,000,000 in revenue with only 8 US full-time employees. Totally bootstrapped

I’m a mom, wife, and now a first-time founder/CEO

Here are my top 11 learnings on leadership, entrepreneurship, and startups 👇🧵

[Dee Phunk @DeePhunk]

I know this has been said on here before but it's one of my favorite things ever: Ke Huy Quan's entertainment lawyer is Jeff Cohen, his costar in The Goonies. #Oscars

[Nishat Kurwa @nishatjaan]

ICYMI last week--⁦@karaswisher⁩'s conversation with *Oscar winner* Jamie Lee Curtis 🎧 https://t.co/vBFmC5YtFo

[Kelly Lyons @kellylions]

🧵 Even if you weren't banking with SVB, your company should be going through this SVB fallout checklist right now, covering Accounts Payable, Vendors, Customers, Accounts Receivable, Financings
...👇

[Emily Siegel @EmilyRSiegel]

A bit of news: Today is my first day as a senior reporter covering litigation finance at @BLaw! I’m really excited to get started.

Say hi or send tips: [email protected]

[Jamie Lee Melzer @jleeku]

Always inspired by the humanity of this team ❤️

[Paul Griffiths @paul_griffiths]

Met with 1st time founder, just incorporating, asking what's commercial for pre-seed inception

I said:
- Raise 12m+ of runway
- Sell ~10% of company to do so
- Don't bother priced round, offer SAFE with a cap OR discount, whichever is more preferable to the investor

Thoughts?

[Geri Kirilova (she/her) @geri_kirilova]

Big shout-out to everyone who came to this today. If you attended + want the slides, email me: geri [at] laconia [dot] vc

There were a few questions that we didn't have time for, so I am going to share them below and let everyone else weigh in 👇

[Joe Regalia @writedotlaw]

What does a brief look like when a dozen legal writing superstars (from @wilsonsonsini, Williams & Connolly LLP, and others) team up to write it?

Google's brief in Gonzalez.

We read a ton of legal writing, and Lisa Blatt and her team created magic here.

Let's see how. 1/x