Gemma Busoni

games, xr, & startups 🎮 | Thiel Fellow | Forbes 30 Under 30 Board | Salvadoreña 🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

So honored to share @Seventeen cover with @FLOTUS! It hits stands next week! #BetterMakeRoom https://t.co/2qOQwOeRJP

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

felicidades Dylan 🥳

[Dylan Field @zoink]

Design is going public today.

I feel immense gratitude to Evan, Figmates (past and present) and the design community. THANK YOU!

https://t.co/zyD5PdObUo

[Pokémon @Pokemon]

Mega Dragonite just dropped 🙌

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

Incredible opportunity for the extremely extraordinary youth in my network. ✨️

[Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 @DStrachman]

2E Teen Camp is Back! October 9 - 13 in the Bay Area!

We’re excited to invite teens aged 14 - 18 to apply to 2E by August 3rd.

Application link 👇

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

Congratulations Dylan! @thielfellowship W 🔥

[Dylan Field @zoink]

Sharing an update on @figma: we publicly filed our S-1 with the SEC today, and have applied to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FIG.”

https://t.co/cagsA51to4

[Joshua Browder @Joshuabrowder]

Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen and top institutions back New $30m Browder Capital Fund Four:

Today, I’m excited to announce that I’ve raised Browder Capital Fund Four, a $30,000,000 fund backed by Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Arthur Patterson (founder of Accel), Walter Kortschak (founder of SignalFire) and some of the world’s top institutional investors, including Cendana Capital, General Endowment Management, Level Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures (Nomads), and Slipstream.

I’m an accidental investor.

In 2018, I stopped out of Stanford to take the Thiel Fellowship. One in ten Fellows goes on to build a billion dollar company.

That’s how I met Adam Guild.

I didn’t have a fund. I didn’t have any real savings. But my Thiel Fellowship payment had just hit my bank account. So I decided to invest it into Adam’s company as his first investor.

Yesterday, that company, Owner, announced their Series C at a $1 billion valuation.

Since then, I’ve been lucky to back many of the best young founders across previous funds (Whop, Wander, Assured, Pilgrim, Yuzu Health, Micro1, among many others), including other unannounced pre-seeds to unicorns. Indeed, Browder Capital is an investor in more Thiel Fellows than any other person or fund, including 50% from last year’s class (2023).

While many funds back dozens of startups at once, often chasing hype, I prefer to go all in on one overlooked technical founder at a time. I’ve hosted 19 year old strangers at my apartment, put their visas on my personal credit card, co-signed their first leases. Whatever it takes to get them to start their company.

Fund Four will double down on that mission: becoming the first believer to rare individuals who build billion dollar companies from scratch.

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

Palmer on why science fiction is important

[Dave Font @davefontenot]

This election is going to change our country forever.

Life will get complicated, noise will be everywhere. 

But HF0 will be quiet. It’s where ten teams will be shutting out the world to build generational companies. 

Applications open today:
https://t.co/3OprYLgMSC (1/5)

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

Couldn’t let #HispanicHeritageMonth close out without celebrating being listed as one of Central America’s Most Powerful Women 2024 by @Forbes ! It fills my heart with so much pride to be joined on this list by SIX inspiring Salvadoran woman. 🇸🇻 The cover of the next issue? Our president @nayibbukele . 👀 El Salvador is on the rise, and our women as #cachimbona as ever!

¡No podía dejar que el #MesDeLaHerenciaHispana terminara sin celebrar que me incluyeron en la lista de las Mujeres Más Poderosas de Centroamérica 2024 de Forbes! Me llena de orgullo que en esta lista se unan SEIS inspiradoras mujeres salvadoreñas. 🇸🇻 ¿La portada del próximo número? Nuestro presidente Nayib Bukele. 👀 ¡El Salvador está en ascenso y nuestras mujeres tan #cachimbonas como siempre!

#ElSalvador #CentralAmerica #Centroamérica

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

🎂🥳🎉🎈

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

any Thiel Fellows in LA? 🤔 @thielfellowship

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

@conradev @trishaepan lol gonna hit you up

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

A very Happy Mother’s Day to the very best mami in the whole wide world 🥰 My #1 cheerleader. I’d be nowhere without you. Te amo <3

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Frame this

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

@DStrachman That’s awesome! I’d love to be there.

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

The folks who are shitting on Zuck re Oculus should shut up. He is trying to invent something new. Just give him some time to try. Why tear down someone who is actually trying hard?

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

Lovely day at the @WhiteHouse for a @HHFoundation briefing. 🇸🇻🇺🇸

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

Thank you @instagram for featuring me & my education work! Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! 🎉

[Instagram @instagram]

“Skating connects me to my city and local community.” 🛼🌐 —Education activist @GemmaBusoni

This #LatinxHeritageMonth, we’re featuring young activists who are changing the world and doing it #PaMiGente.

Hear more from Gemma on our story ❤️

https://t.co/O9p4AjWrc2

[Jim O’Neill @regardthefrost]

10 years ago, we started giving teens $100k to drop out of college and create new things.

Today, @zoink’s @figma sold to @adobe for $20 billion and @vitalik’s $180 billion @ethereum merged, reducing the world’s electricity consumption by .2%.

A proud day for @thielfellowship

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

@verge Garmin's products go so beyond submersible watches though. Apple would have to start making fish finders plus more to truly take over their market. @Garmin is an incredibly trusted name in the world of boating, and not just for your wrist.

[Gemma Busoni @GemmaBusoni]

The first rollout of my latest project (re-writing/filming the new APCS curriculum with @codeorg ) just came out; the rest will be rolled out in Advanced Placement Computer Science classrooms this year! Send to your hs students & educators! 😃 https://t.co/LBlF9LQ28F