David Cohen

[WHOOP @WHOOP]

170,000 WHOOP members
13 months
7.9 million days of physiological data

The pattern was clear:

Better sleep + higher HRV + lower resting heart rate were all associated with lower reported stress, anxiety, and depression. (1/2)

[David Cohen @CoCoBWare01]

@PimDeWitte The weekend Central Park roller disco and drum circle have THE BEST people watching!

[Pim de Witte @PimDeWitte]

Had a great chat with one of my favorite investors, @generalcatalyst

General Intuition x General Catalyst - The Next Phase of Pre-training

[mark pincus @markpinc]

Too many founders waste time trying to build their products the right way before they even make sure they’re building the right product. Build it wrong and fast since it will probably fail anyway. Once we get signal then we can take the time to build it right.

At Zynga this was standard operating procedure. To grow Poker on MySpace we put up a link on the Mafia Wars home page that said ‘rob them at the poker table’. 22.8 pct of players clicked! That’s heat. So we took 24 hrs to turn on dedicated tables for Mafia players. This drove 1m installs in a week. So then we took two weeks to build this riggt.

Other companies do this too. DoorDash. DropBox. Airbnb. Product Hunt.

I write about the mvp "trap" and how to avoid it in my new book, out june 23: https://t.co/a6OgyOHSCT

[David Cohen @CoCoBWare01]

Go Ben & Margaret! 🤖

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

A YouTuber Turned Tech Exec Is Making a Big Bet On AI-Powered Interactive Entertainment (Exclusive) https://t.co/N2JoslQXRm

[David Cohen @CoCoBWare01]

@mattkaufman41 $$$ quote:

"The right question is not 'what is the highest number I can get today' but 'what is the highest number I can get today that I am confident I can clear in the next round.' Those are 2 very different questions.

[David Cohen @CoCoBWare01]

@cshapiro @collabfund @collabholdings @Collab_Currency Parker is THE MAN. Such a great addition to Collaborative.

[Zack Rosenblatt 🍜 @zackrosenblatt_]

@Collab_Currency's run club is back in action for this beautiful NY weather. 🌞🏃

Monday (4/18), East Village @ 7:30am sharp.

Coffee, snacks and bandit socks in the Collab office afterwards.

https://t.co/KykclcdRNF

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

https://t.co/QLXU6ZOTrj

[Nicole Ripka @nicole_ripka]

Lets go @EasonTang23 !!!!! @AIResidency

[Sergei Sorokin @sergeisorokin]

Aside from YAC (Yet Another Claw), one interesting thing about all these "personal" assistants and intelligences is that the actual usecases that really resonate aren't personal at all. They are mostly work problems that teams deal with on the regular.

We saw the same patterns: Capturing your own meetings and remembering things about you is useful, but what you actually want is for your AI to tell you something your team knows that you don't.

[Celine Halioua @celinehalioua]

dog longevity research in the NYTimes Mag this morning

https://t.co/2cRGdK5GII

[mark pincus @markpinc]

This fall I’ll ask myself, what will Mark 2030 thank Mark 2026 for doing?

I started this practice at 28. I was broke, washed up, and living in a jr one bedroom in DC. At the time what I hated most about my life was that I smoked cigarettes. So I told myself I would do a lifetime quit.

The next year I got more ambitious. I quit my job and started my first co freeloader which sold in seven months.

That notebook became a practice I call my Book of Life. 30 years later I still write it in during the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

I owe a lot of my success to this practice and wanted to share it. I laid it out in my book which is out June 23 https://t.co/a6OgyOIqsr

[Joby Aviation @jobyaviation]

Hello, New York City. 🗽

Over the next week, our electric air taxi will showcase a quieter, cleaner, faster way to move through New York, in partnership with the @PANYNJ, @NYCEDC, and @FAANews.

The first ever point-to-point eVTOL flights in New York's history, connecting JFK to Manhattan's heliport network in minutes, demonstrate how we intend to integrate with the region's existing infrastructure.

Our vision for New York is simple: make getting to the airport — one of the city's most daunting experiences — one of its best, through partnerships with @Delta and @Uber that connect ground transportation and air travel in a single, seamless journey.

Full release + additional photos & videos ⬇️

[Drew Fallon @drewfallon12]

COLLABORATIVE FUND DEBUTS $250M COLLAB HOLDINGS

Collaborative Fund has raised $250M for the launch of Collab Holdings, a private equity vehicle designed as a long term home for consumer brands.

Since its inception in 2010, the firm has built a reputation for backing names such as Olipop, Blue Bottle Coffee, Lyft, and Whoop.

Led by founder Craig Shapiro, the vehicle targets profitable brands with fanatical customers and healthy margins that aren't chasing an IPO or a major exit.

Collaborative Fund aims to provide liquidity for founders while buying out venture investors, prioritizing long term durability over a growth at all costs mentality.

The new vehicle received strong support from a diverse group, including industry veterans such as Walter Robb (former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market) and Tristan Walker (founder of Walker & Company).

Collaborative Fund plans to use this capital to make substantial minority investments over the next 12 months.

[Alao Heritage @alaomoguls]

This is a really amazing website owned by @jobyaviation.

The color usage, the parallex effect, Microinteractions adds depth and a sense of flight

Amazing work to the team behind this. Check it out: https://t.co/JU3JC57X89

[David Cohen @CoCoBWare01]

Our new private equity strategy, purpose-built to be a long-term home for extraordinary consumer brands. No forced exits. No ten-year clock. Success measured by cash flow and customer devotion, not by how quickly we can engineer an exit.

[Craig Shapiro ⚽️ @cshapiro]

Today we’re announcing Collab Holdings, a different approach to private equity for extraordinary consumer brands. As the world gets faster, more synthetic, more algorithmically optimized, people reach for things that feel slow, crafted, and real. The companies that serve this instinct represent one of the most interesting opportunities in consumer investing.

[David Cohen @CoCoBWare01]

@cshapiro @Inc @collabfund I’m really jazzed about our new PE strategy for stickiest consumer forever brands.

[Matt Kaufman @mattkaufman41]

Congrats to the @sygaldry_tech team on announcing $139M in funding. We invested at the seed (led by @Initialized), and @Breakthrough led the $105M Series A.

They're building quantum-accelerated servers for AI data centers. AI's compute and energy demands are on an unsustainable trajectory. Quantum can bend that curve.

Hiring across the board in Ann Arbor and SF: https://t.co/EWh9hN82YV