Audrey Pe

@stanford alum | founder @witechorg | prev head of ops at sunset holdings

[Babita Sharma @BabitaTV]

In our final episode of Whose Truth?: Online Women Haters - The Documentary podcast

Nobel Prize laureate @mariaressa on battling online attacks and @LucinaDiMeco @audreyisabelpe join me to discuss digital threats against women.

Listen now on @BBCSounds https://t.co/vX4vW8sgQi

[Eoghan McCabe @eoghan]

Young builders of the world: Really want to come to SF? But can't afford to come to SF? Please read on. I'm going to sponsor two of you to visit this summer.

I've been promoting San Francisco as THE place that those who wish to build the future should be. But I've got a couple sad replies from people saying it's financially out of reach. I get it. I could barely afford to come here in 2011—I bought my flights and initial accommodation with a €2k bank loan.

So to pay off my guilt for pumping SF, and to support those younger versions of me who can't even get a loan, I'm going to sponsor two young builders to come here for 90 days starting 1 June. They'll get:

- CHEAP return flights from your home and back
- CHEAP Bay Area accommodation
- A $50 daily stipend… you'll need to like cooking :)
- One meeting with an immigration attorney to advise on your options
- One meeting with me for a high five and a pep talk :)

This will be hard. It's NOT a holiday. It's definitely not meant to be. But you'll get an exposure to the greatest city for builders on earth and what you do from there will be up to you.

To apply:

- mail: [email protected]
- include your name, your age, your location, and ONE line on why you want to come here
- confirm that there's no way you could afford to come here by your own means

Please don't mail more than once. We may request a short interview. We'll choose people who we think can make the most of it + somewhat at random.

The deadline for applications is this Friday :)

To everyone not applying, I'd appreciate a retweet or otherwise a share of this message. I'll announce the winners next week and send some updates through the summer on how it all goes.

[Simba 🇺🇸 @simbajonga2]

We hosted the best consumer investor of all time, the one and only @kirstenagreen, for an @sv_icons dinner. Kirsten is the true definition of an icon and is an absolute badass.

Consumer is very much alive, and we couldn't be more fortunate to hear from the best of the best.

[Audrey Pe @audreyisabelpe]

@ankurnagpal @LoganUllyot ✈️

[Rex Woodbury @rex_woodbury]

A startup lesson from Taylor Swift: market size doesn't really matter.

RCA Records had the chance to sign a young Taylor Swift, but they didn’t think there was a big enough market for a teenage country singer. After all, country music was on the decline with young listeners.

So RCA made a critical mistake: they underestimated Swift and her market. It turns out, of course, that Swift *expanded* the country market before further expanding her empire to mainstream pop.

The lesson: great products & great founders expand markets.

Startup history is littered with market sizing mistakes that caused early investors to miss the train.

Uber is a classic example. A lot of people made the mistake of sizing Uber's opportunity as the yellow cab market. What they missed was that a 10x product expands the market, and Uber offered a 10x better product than taxis:

✅ Coverage density was higher, which drove down average wait times to under five minutes

✅ Geolocation on mobile devices enabled anyone to call a car, nearly from anywhere

✅ Payment was done via mobile, meaning customers didn’t need to carry cash

✅ The dual rating system ensured quality

✅ Digital record of each ride meant that Ubers were safer than cabs

Same goes for Airbnb in home-sharing, Benchling in life sciences, or even Red Bull in energy drinks (which effectively created that $53B market).

I always liked how Box's @levie put it: "Sizing the market for a disruptor based on an incumbent's market is like sizing the car industry off how many horses there were in 1910."

Market sizing analyses are overrated. Great products expand markets.

[Linda Tong @lktong_]

i'm running a hackathon, life --upgrade, sunday 10/1 with @gju__

we'll have folks from @anthropicai, @openai, @langchain & prizes like 🥗 lunch with @replit ceo @amasad, 🔥 compute credits for making the GPUs go brrr, 🔍 @brilliantlabsAR monocles, etc.

come hack with us!

[Nik Sharma @mrsharma]

In 2010, investors laughed at her business idea.

By 2015, she turned it into a $100M empire.

And 4 years later, she sold her haircare product business for $255M

The story of how Alli Webb made millions out of nothing but hot air 🧵

[Kyber Knight Capital @KyberKnightVC]

@KyberKnightVC has officially launched! Our founding partners @liang_linus and @SunDhillon recently spoke with @FortuneMagazine to talk about what technologies we are excited about and how we work with our founders.
#VentureCapital #AI

https://t.co/gWQBH3eFtj

[David Bloom @daveybloom]

After a year of investing in stealth, I am excited to finally reveal what @SunDhillon @liang_linus @AryVaidya and I have been working on. With @KyberKnightVC, we are doubling down on our business development efforts inside our portfolio by bringing on a world-class set of LPs. We have actively been investing for over a year and have already partnered with 10+ early-stage companies.

A deeper look:
https://t.co/KvQ931XhlK

[zehra ✨ @zehranaqvi]

intersectionality needs to be talked about more within the vc ecosystem

yes 2% of funding went to women - can you imagine just how low that percentage is for women of color?

[Audrey Pe @audreyisabelpe]

London run clubs? 👀

[Brendan Hodges @metaplexmovies]

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE is Wachowski-infused hero's journey psychedelia, bending movement, color, and texture in dazzling directions I've never seen animation, all while unmasking what heroism should truly be in the most emotional of ways. It's incredible.

[Audrey Pe @audreyisabelpe]

soul cycle is to sororities what barry’s is to tech bros (dinner thoughts with @lktong_)

[Audrey Pe @audreyisabelpe]

@safara_travels @michelleefang London!

[David Bloom @daveybloom]

Last night we were lucky enough to host @MichaelMente and @RaissaGerona from @revolveclothing at @Stanford. Invaluable lessons on e-commerce, GenAI, and entrepreneurship

[Audrey Pe @audreyisabelpe]

@lktong_ @emilyherrera Would love to help!!

[Audrey Pe @audreyisabelpe]

@graceleaf_ @DsgnBuddies Yes please!!

[Audrey Pe @audreyisabelpe]

@jackyhuang SEE U THERE

[Meagan Loyst 🧚‍♀️ @meaganloyst]

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👭

The stats below show that women have a long ways to go to achieving true parity in VC...

Today, let's celebrate the women changing the industry & helping to elevate other women as they go!

Tag a woman in VC who inspires you ⬇️💫✨💁‍♀️

[Audrey Pe @audreyisabelpe]

In the morning I went to sf for my @SigniaVC internship then in the afternoon I went back to campus for a history class on newton and the scientific revolution oh how I love college