David Litwak

Building the next generation of our city's social campuses @maxwellsocial. Built @letsmozio @thehighpodcast.

[David Litwak @dlitwak]

Agreed. We’re rebuilding the hyper local social club, think our generations version of the Italian American men’s club, and our thesis is similar to yours. We have plenty of opportunity for interactions with people in our city every day, the problem is curation and you don’t solve that through coloring spaces with no application process

[David Litwak @dlitwak]

@WillManidis @garrytan Not @maxwellsocial but I totally agree this is every other club.

[David Litwak @dlitwak]

While I love the analytical way you thought about it maybe your way of engaging in the world is the real factor in your expected ROI here. What if you went into new interactions with vulnerability, more of a YOLO attitude, skipped the small talk completely. While I agree you need repeated interaction and time invested to build friendships there is a reason groups, from church groups to fraternities to business school to fellowships and retreats start by jumping straight to vulnerability in some form and short circuiting your process.

[David Litwak @dlitwak]

We’re starting to assemble spvs at Maxwell for our members and considered starting a fund but we realized we dint have the track record for LPs. So in all likelihood we’ll have to do more consensus deals than I would otherwise like because raising small checks on AngelList only works if it is an obvious yes. That there is the problem — if LPs aren’t willing to take risks on emerging managers they won’t be able to take risks on riskier ideas, feel like the origin of the problem is with them.

[David Litwak @dlitwak]

@cb_doge Bannon is far from a democrat . . . Could be because Elon musk is incredibly famous and outside political wonks (bannon) and tech twitter (Hoffman) the other two are largely unknown to the average person.

[David Litwak @dlitwak]

Republicans benefit massively from senate votes that give rural states (that had those slave owning populations) more power. If there is a disparity in electoral power that is unfair it’s probably slanted towards the party that has won multiple elections while losing the popular vote . . .

[David Litwak @dlitwak]

I think his point is that there are a lot of non complex SaaS software that is borderline rent seeking — I don’t really know what maintenance zendesk does to rationalize their costs — I’d imagine it supports a sales team and profit and the margin is earned partially off the legacy software built that is hard to rebuild. If it’s easy to rebuild you can argue well you’ll still need a sales team but you could also argue that a solution at a fraction of the price will sell itself . . .

[David Litwak @dlitwak]

@auren Probably correlated to what industries make less money so the only thing to trade is social capital and status, so people fight over that and stab eachother in the back

[David Litwak @dlitwak]

@crosbylegal @IndexVentures @BainCapVC @eladgil @sequoia @CooleyLLP @patrickc congrats dude!

[Edward Chiu @edwardchiu]

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[David Litwak @dlitwak]

@garrytan Only works if they play by the same rules. Real leadership isn’t just rolling over and standing on principal while your rights get taken away.

[David Litwak @dlitwak]

@pitdesi If you understand burning man as a conspicuous consumption status symbol this is kind of like saying 4/10 of the largest founders own Rolex watches. Really doubt these guys are going to the desert to engage in barter exchange and leave no trace camping lol.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

The Associated Press chose not to highlight the suffering of hostages like Evyatar David—who is deliberately being starved and forced to dig his own grave—but instead to focus on the “struggles” of Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization that has fired over 10,000 rockets at Israel since 10/7.

The media narrative suggests that Hezbollah, which has murdered hundreds of Americans, deserves our empathy.

Here’s a radical thought: empathy should be reserved for the victims of terror rather than the terrorists themselves.

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

Some VCs will fight to the death for your right to stare at TikTok all day, but won’t lift a finger for mRNA tech that saved millions.

[David Litwak @dlitwak]

@yrechtman Would love to host your next one @maxwellsocial

[David Litwak @dlitwak]

@JohnathanBi I mean, my honor technically ;)

[JeremyUnplugged @JeremyUnplugged]

This scene from The Dictator isn’t even satire anymore 😂

[Edward Chiu @edwardchiu]

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[David Litwak @dlitwak]

@APompliano You’re starting to be a mockery of yourself. If you can’t even call a tax a tax and just say “some will agree, some will disagree” you’re a wuss. Tariffs are an import tax, period, hard stop. Jesus.