Common Magic

Investing in the next wave of companies with community at their core across Europe + the US.

[Common Magic @_CommonMagic]

To save you the listen. The best way to get hold of Common Magic is:

🔵 send an email (cold or warm - reading them all)
🔵max 3-4 lines
🔵 include; what this is, why you, why me
🔵deck attached and (god tier bonus points) Calendly

[email protected]

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

So fun to join @Kieranleehill #20Angel pod for frank chat on angel investing + my new fund @_CommonMagic

If there's one thing I've put my 10k hours into, it's answering; "what IS community?"

Listen + tell me what you think of my current definition 🔥

https://t.co/wnA74sQyYq

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

Excellent first day

7k site views, 100+ good different applications including people sending their hand prompted websites in response

One guy jumped on eurostar + we're having coffee in 15

Effort is always worth it. Death to job specs, long live weird little microsites

[Londonmaxxing @Londonmaxxing]

Apparently you have to leave London to build something big.

@_baretto didn't get the memo. He built a £1M ARR web hosting tool from London, solo and fully bootstrapped.

Introducing our new interview series: London Legends ☀️👇

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

News

@_CommonMagic (population: 1) is doubling in size

I'm hiring a London based operating partner to run the machine behind the fund, systems to events to network

Come join: https://t.co/RBJDgxxjri

Bonus points if you find the microsite's easter egg

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

"I believe hard work puts you in a privileged place. It changes you.

If you believe you are capable of such things, then you have an obligation to society to go and do them"

WATCH. THIS. SPACE.

[Common Magic @_CommonMagic]

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[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

Strongly believe you can only play venture capital your way; back what you believe in + be willing to look stupid

At @SlushHQ me + fellow believers @AnkeHuiskes @stefanobernardi @andreasklinger are running side chat on winning in this wild market

DM to join the rebel alliance

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

love how deeply @ellipsus_writes understand their community + online writing behaviours

scribble fonts; write fast without getting in your head (plus write 🌶️ at the coffee shop with privacy?).

20m words a day now - so many more billions to come

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

Old media playbooks; one channel, one format, limited biz models

New media realities; creators as studios, IP from/for everywhere, audiences as distributors, new biz models incoming

As a media obsessive, excited to interview Julia Whitney who led iconic BBC iPlayer @meetgranola

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

congrats to @_CommonMagic portfolio company @trailML on joining @collibra

trail treated governance as a technical problem.

Collibra sit at the centre of data governance; with trail, they can extend that logic into AI systems in production for faster, better, safer deployments

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

Every day 20 million words are written on @ellipsus_writes. Both -

AI will power the world

And

Generational companies will exist as AI-free zones

Writing is thinking, creation is collaborative.

Ellipsus is the very best at both 🔥

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

love this @lukas_m_ziegler

@_auar ship robotic microfactories to site. Systems smart enough to sense + adapt, rethinking where factories live and making industrialised production flexible, local, on demand. First up; fix housing. Super technical team, customer obsessed, HIRING!

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

Small funds back what large funds can't or won't

We're risk takers + a core part of the scene

And UK needs smarter regs for smaller alt investments funds.

Thanks @credistick for working out a better path - signed this open letter via @_CommonMagic alongside many smart friends

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

Compute constraint #1 issue across @_CommonMagic portfolio

Existential issue for startups, especially in Europe

If I ran a huge AUM fund I would literally buy a bunch of GPUs for my portfolio

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

Hello! I'm looking for someone extremely online to help two frontier @_CommonMagic portfolio companies share what they do on socials. UK/UK timezone, ideally solo or small agency, content to video

DMs open!

[Charlie 'Ramen Space’ Ward 🍜 (ramenspace.com) @charlierward]

Picnic.

Saturday.

Hyde Park.

12pm-5.30pm.

I'm feeling optimistic.

That we'll see you there.

#Londonmaxxing #Picnicmaxxing

[Common Magic @_CommonMagic]

overwhelmed right now (20+ emails / daily) w third party introducers. Ranking of ways to reach CM:

via portfolio founder (they always know the best founders)
direct email / message (my email is public)
via someone else in network
via third party introducer (total anti signal)

[Common Magic @_CommonMagic]

To save you the listen. The best way to get hold of Common Magic is:

🔵 send an email (cold or warm - reading them all)
🔵max 3-4 lines
🔵 include; what this is, why you, why me
🔵deck attached and (god tier bonus points) Calendly

[email protected]

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

So fun to join @Kieranleehill #20Angel pod for frank chat on angel investing + my new fund @_CommonMagic

If there's one thing I've put my 10k hours into, it's answering; "what IS community?"

Listen + tell me what you think of my current definition 🔥

https://t.co/wnA74sQyYq

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

Whatever your persuasion, you’re going to be more honest in conversation held in confession booths.

A conversation with @aishdoingthings at Stella on where AI wealth goes and what we can learn from last waves of tech philanthropy

[Superteam UK @SuperteamUK]

Britain is full of optimists

We're just terrible at admitting it.

Join hundreds of fellow optimists for a giant picnic in Hyde Park as we co-host with some great company.

Bring a picnic blanket & prep for a good chat! 🧺🍓

https://t.co/ihzh1Vl8Bk

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

Trust = eternal @_CommonMagic investing theme

We pay for products + companies that give us the security we need or space to escape

Fascinating scams rose just as botox/GLP-1 meant you couldn't trust yr friends would look the same

On the tax on trust:
https://t.co/PMBIoCVVFF

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

I love helping exceptional founders + operators. Often they ask:

How do I raise for this?

Can you give me feedback on this idea?

Scaleup, frontier lab or founder?

Using #londonmaxxing ~VC summer~ to open up office hours. Book here:

https://t.co/xv8siHLqNY