Jake Jolis

gp @ zeno
investor in the 1st rounds of incredible products including applied intuition, steadily, salient, sieve, outset, and many others

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

@travisk ca 2016. vc shows up for the meeting at the hotel bar, starts drinking heavily. so much that their handler afterwards apologizes on their behalf, to us. no worries, it happens. they send us a term sheet. they break the term sheet.

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

@IanRountree 😂

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@samdblond i want to invest in the plane-flying company

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

Ca 2014 an investor signed final investment docs, then wrote they were out of money and unfortunately couldn’t wire, then apparently FORGOT they hadn’t ever wired, then months later wrote asking for a company progress update, completely unaware they weren’t investors in the company

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

@MikeyShulman @bondcap @IVP @usv @ForerunnerVC @matrixvc @lightspeedvp @MenloVentures huge congrats mikey! well-deserved! 🎷 🎸 🎺

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

the four horsemen of the apocalypse

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@tszzl https://t.co/qoPY2wUxEy

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@briannekimmel @sgrove

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

i built a company in the prior generation of this space. like vitamins, the rewards to the language learning process are far off in the future and, for most hobbyists learning a language other than english, too low in the maslovian sense.

duolingo was asked how they decide between making a lesson more engaging or more effective. they said engagement every single time. effectiveness doesn't matter if the user is gone.

at my company, we found that learners having a specific, recurring (human) teacher did wonders for retention. there is accountability to a human being that is difficult for software (ai or not) to replace.

if you lower the effort or increase the reward, more people succeed.

lowering effort: moving to a foreign country and osmosing the language
increasing reward: non-english speakers learning english

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

the effort : reward ratio for english speakers learning another language makes it so *very* few who start get all the way through to proficiency.

to get through, you must either lower the effort or raise the reward.
lowering effort: living in the foreign country and osmosing into it.
raising reward: non-english speakers learning english. only lingua franca of the global economic elite

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

@jo_byden @JaredSleeper https://t.co/dyp61VmGp3

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

@bosmeny @PerseusDefense @9Mothers @surtrdefense milliray quietly cooking with no account on this platform 🤫

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

@ivanburazin priority boarding? so you can wait inside the airplane longer than everyone else? :)

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@SethGRosenberg @immad @MattRHeiman @mercury well put

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

@immad massive congrats @immad and @mercury . couldn't be more excited as a user and investor

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

@mercury 🧢 🚚 📫 🙏

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

@paulg cairn terrier? 😍

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@AnjneyMidha @michaeljburry what would make you change your mind? you're smart & surely open to changing your views when presented with new data

[Jake Jolis @jakejolis]

@mercury I did! That was my terminal- it freaking worked!