Victoria

building with good taste | partnerships & community @AngelList @Founders_cafe | ex @ey_parthenon, former architect @georgiatech, fellow @joinodf @draper_u

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

Launching a $60M fund seems hard enough, but that may be the easy part #underpressure with Mandy Wen

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

"VC's are just like Startups raising from LPs, except they have no product"
A few weeks ago I sat down with Mandy Wen who just raised a $60M fund and she told me what it's really like fundraising and how much harder VC's have it than founders.

She is a former Partner at GSR Ventures. She led early investment in unicorns and 30+ $100M+ companies in both US and Asia markets with successful exits. Portfolio include DeepMap (acq by Nvidia), Phigent (acq by NavInfo), Flexiv Robotics, Lovart, ShadowBot RPA, Infinite Uptime, Blacklake, https://t.co/b0yygUsqhG and more

[Founders Cafe @founders_cafe]

Next week we will have Kate McAndrew and Tyler Mincey, GP's at @_baukunst with us for Under Pressure https://t.co/bqxqFQMj4f

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

Tech Media is boring 🥱
with Under Pressure, I'm asking the real questions people want to know and having fun while doing it. (While stressing my guests out)
next one is next week https://t.co/M87UCdDCiC
@founders_cafe

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

@jxnlco We’ve been doing this with @founders_cafe! UnderPressure - the first live Vibe coding Game Show
The Next guests are @katepmcandrew and @tmincey from @_baukunst
Dm me for an invite!

[Andrii Mazur @mazur_designs]

Last week I watched a company demo an agent that could control your computer - genuinely powerful.
The problem: UI was a sexualized anime girlfriend.

I sat there thinking: why?

Tech people are building the future, but they're also defining the aesthetics of it. And most of them shouldn't be. (Sorry)

All I heard at that event was metrics. Faster. Cheaper. More tokens. Look, it can generate dance videos now.

Okay, but what does that actually unlock? What becomes possible that wasn't before?

I remember when I first used Framer and realized I could build a website without code. When Spline let me embed 3D in the browser. When I made my first voice agent with Vapi.

Those moments felt like magic because someone approached the tech from a creative lens. They weren't selling specs. They werent abusing your brain chemistry. They were showing you what you could make.

Now? It's just performance for the sake of performance.

People used to get hyped about the iPhone. The MacBook. Not because of gigahertz or RAM. Because of what it felt like to use them.

Somewhere along the way we stopped asking what this tech should mean and started just asking what it can do.

Creatives are watching from the sidelines while the aesthetic of the future gets decided by people optimizing for metrics.

Maybe that's the wake-up call.

We should roll up our sleeves. Stop watching. Build something that actually means something instead of just adding to the pile of AI slop.

Because if we don't define what it's like, someone else will.

And based on what I saw last week, I really don't want that.

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

@ahmeddzeeshan Pretty cool idea

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

@Wellgraf People fail to understand how important and complicated design is. It doesn’t just get “generated”, it’s a complex collection of thought, research and iteration

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

@TimSweeneyEpic It’s definitely surprising especially because it’s what you’d imagine shortcuts is supposed to do. But maybe that’s the reason

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

@BrettFromDJ Great article! Recently I’ve been speaking to so many people outside the tech bubble. More people need to do that.

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

@Yuchenj_UW @founders_cafe

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

Such a nice message ♥️

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

@juliomagoga @founders_cafe Im sure alot of people can, not everyone obviously. Or maybe just haven't found the time yet? What do you think

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

I wonder what the turn out would be for SF? Might do this @founders_cafe. Would people come?

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

China is adopting tech at an absolute breakneck pace.

A ridiculous amount of people turned up into a public event in Shenzhen today to install the OpenClaw.

Some devs who work at Chinese big tech companies threw a free public event right outside the Tencent Building in Shenzhen.

To help regular people get OpenClaw running on their system.

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reddit. com/r/moltiverse/comments/1rncd7v/the_scale_of_tech_adoption_in_china_is_wild/

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

@asharoraa its so bizarre

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

@realbasilchatha without it we just get ai slop

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

https://t.co/729Sqs9aTi

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

@chris_j_paxton I wonder if people would care as much if it was a huge humanoid

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

Is it bad if I send a @meetgranola link when I get home and my partner asks how my day was?

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

The companies that understand this will build the next century

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

https://t.co/729Sqs9aTi

[Victoria @V4Victoria__]

Which products make you feel like you belong to a club you never officially joined?