April Underwood

Managing Director and Cofounder, @adverbvc @hashtagangels. First CPO @slackhq; ex @twitter @google. BOD @zillow. Junkie for where culture and tech intersect.

[April Underwood @aunder]

When @Jess & I were launching @Adverbvc, we were eager for a day we could proudly display the humans we’d backed on our website.

This month, we’re celebrating our two-year anniversary as a firm. We've backed 22 incredible companies, added 2 new team members (@LizaGurtin & @gary_pesola) & have a new website to boot. Check out the companies we’ve backed, and subscribe to our Substack for updates.

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[April Underwood @aunder]

Once upon a time, children, many systems had character limits for usernames, and aunderwood was 2 too many for the technology of the time. So then, forever, aunder.

[fyra @fyristic]

explain your username.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Clear eyes, full hearts, spicy ketchup.

[April Underwood @aunder]

Welcome to the world @warpsciences! Inspired to see @kevinweil @dpatil each keep tackling important and massive problems — now together!

[Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 @kevinweil]

💥 Introducing Warp Sciences, a new company applying AI and robotics to help the world develop new medicines faster.

We’ve raised a $215M Series A led by @lightspeedvp to bring frontier AI out of the browser and into the lab, and build scientific capacity here in America.

I co-founded Warp with my long-time friend @dpatil, FAIR co-founder @manohar_paluri, and drug hunter Sol Reisberg. The early team is full of incredible people like @bkspears9, who helped achieve Q>1 fusion at LLNL.

[April Underwood @aunder]

@kevinweil @lightspeedvp So excited to see you and @dpatil team up!! Go get em 💪

[Sri Kosuri @srikosuri]

First RP patient dosed in our Phase 1B/2 w/ OCT-980 Rho corrector for retinitis pigmentosa. Really thankful to the clinicians, staff, CRO partners & Octonauts for helping get this drug to patients w/ no other approved treatments. Exciting times! https://t.co/OZU0YQIkLg

[April Underwood @aunder]

@yoda They’re so fun and their fans are a hoot

[April Underwood @aunder]

@heathwblack Saving it for after I’m done with tennis or when tennis is done with my body. But only a matter of time!!

[April Underwood @aunder]

I… I think I need to work on my bowling form.

[April Underwood @aunder]

@Adverbvc after hours with @jess 📸 @chanian

[⁵⁄₉ @fiveoutofnine]

So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and https://t.co/QlOXb3COq3 went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

[April Underwood @aunder]

@mchlhess Evergreen goal

[April Underwood @aunder]

3rd summit in the books 💚

[Jessica Verrilli @jess]

Adverb Founder Summit 💚

[Miya Shay @miyashay]

Neil Bush, brother of one President Bush & son of another President Bush, just posted that he voted for @JamesTalarico. Neil still lives in the same neighborhood as father did for decades here in Houston.

[April Underwood @aunder]

@glovedirk YES GO

[April Underwood @aunder]

Truly, the fastest 2:54 I’ve ever watched. Would have watched 5 hours.

[April Underwood @aunder]

@Claire @dickc Sick! 2004 me would be so stoked about this

[molly taft @mollytaft]

keeping footage of billy in watching 2x speed of ai-narrated intro bio videos before he pitches investors on theranos 2.0 was just genius. founderslop on full display

[April Underwood @aunder]

Lost sleep over this 👇👇👇

[molly taft @mollytaft]

you can see everything pulling off a brilliant second act by showing a large portion of the tech world how insane they seem to normal people

[April Underwood @aunder]

@goldman @matthh @kristakdoyle Hahaha I think Matt really loves it when he hears the same thing from you and me in stereo. But hey, who IS on first

[April Underwood @aunder]

@kristakdoyle I’m worried I never will, like my husband who never fully stops thinking about Tolkien and Dune.

[April Underwood @aunder]

@DanielleFong This is the most interesting thing I leaned on Twitter this week.