In 20+ years of building @firstround, I’ve never hired for this specific role before.
I’m kicking off a search to hire an Investor who will work directly alongside me. They will share my obsession to meet with the highest potential founders as early as possible, often before they even have a clear “imagine if” yet.
Although the role itself is still being defined, my commitment is to work closely with this person to help them build the foundation of their investing career.
Here’s what’s probably true about you if you’re the right fit:
- You’re enthusiastic and obsessive. Following your curiosity has taken you down often weird and winding paths.
- You already know a lot of brilliant builders — and more importantly, they enjoy spending time with you. You have a unique ability to generate followership, likely because you give more than you take.
- You actually enjoy the work of building relationships from scratch: the cold emails, the endless events, the persistent follow-ups, the months of coffee chats. It requires relentless execution, and that excites you. You go about this work in an authentic way that isn’t conventional “networking.” If you’re looking for a role where the title does all the heavy lifting for you, this isn’t it.
- You don’t find it difficult to put unreasonable hours into your work because it doesn’t feel like work to you. You’d call yourself a “work enthusiast.”
- You’ve been immersed in the startup world long enough to have real context. What matters most is you’ve been close enough to startups to understand how they actually work and what great looks like.
- You obsess over markets, customers, and why some businesses work while others don’t, but you can also hang when a conversation goes deep into technical choices.
- You’re an exceptional communicator who tends to be more of a “simplifier” than a “complexifier.”
- We’ll work together incredibly closely, but you aren’t someone who needs to be managed. You learn best by watching, by doing, by asking well-calibrated questions — preferring to “take the wheel” instead of being a passenger. You’d rather shape a role than fill one.
If you want to spend your time with builders at the very beginning — and learn this craft of early-stage investing alongside someone who’s been at it for two decades and still thinks it’s the best job in the world — I’d love to meet you.
SF or NYC only, with long days and lots of travel in both directions. Apply below.
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The stronger the miners, the smarter the network, and the better products get built. @Old_Samster@bloomberg_seth@dlawee dig into what's working in Bittensor today.
We’ve been tracking what the most successful subnets are doing. They tend to:
1 - Keep miner costs low → high miner margins mean lower sell pressure and greater odds of survival
2 - Coordinate human intelligence → miners focus on things like writing code & refining models
1/ Your TAO. Your strategy. Now, your Ledger. Crucible — the only TAO-native wallet with Ledger support. Built for conviction. Built for security. Now Live.
Coming Soon: Customizable Allocation!
Your TAO, your strategy. Stay concentrated in the top 20, tighten to the top 10 or even expand to the top 50. All inside Crucible. Launching next week!
New from our security teams: Our AI agent Big Sleep helped us detect and foil an imminent exploit. We believe this is a first for an AI agent - definitely not the last - giving cybersecurity defenders new tools to stop threats before they’re widespread.
Listen to this Podcast from Crucible Labs own @Dlawee and Unsupervised Labs @Old_Samster and @bloomberg_seth, as they breakdown:
Problem: Root Staking Yields are declining
Opportunity: High APY in Subnet Tokens
Solution: Smart Allocator, A Strategic Bittensor Tool from Crucible Labs
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The Crucible Smart Allocator monitors your Root rewards and dynamically re-stakes them into top-performing subnets, optimizing for yield and network health.
Fully automated. Non-custodial. No guesswork. No micromanaging.
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our Smart Allocator, a powerful new tool designed specifically to simplify staking TAO in the Bittensor ecosystem.
Check it out here: https://t.co/BpQpbjNVCX.
With Smart Allocator, all the TAO you earn from staking to root will be automatically staked into the top 20 subnets ranked by price. We believe this is a powerful solution for passive TAO holders wanting some exposure to higher network yields while managing subnet volatility risk. We created a simulator on our website to help you better understand how the Smart Allocator works.
Why did we build this? Crucible Labs was founded to make Bittensor more accessible and useful. We believe simple, consumer-friendly staking products will encourage participation, ensuring the most promising subnets receive the strongest support from the network.
Ready to simplify staking your TAO? Get started with Smart Allocator today and experience a smarter, easier and more powerful way to engage with the future of decentralized AI.
We have created a user guide to help walk you through how to set up, stake, and make the most of Crucible's powerful features, including Smart Allocation with Core Alpha and direct subnet control.
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Ala and David