Josh Felser

ClimateTech Investor. Co-Founder of @ClimacticVC with @Rajil. Co-Founder of @FreestyleVC, Spinner, @Crackle_TV and @hashtagclimate. #efficiency #resilience

[Josh Felser @Joshmedia]

FMK AI. I veer from one to the other, from fear to elation, from idea to product in the blink of an eye. And from fighting to keep up with Joneses. So I wrote about it. https://t.co/utBeDTp6Pe

[Josh Felser @Joshmedia]

@naveen I love you Om!

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@ItsSnibby Also true

[Josh Felser @Joshmedia]

I agree with every ounce of what Tony says with every ounce of my being. This is exactly how I seek to live my life every single day. some days I nail it and other days I pay attention what to do next time.

[Tony Robbins @TonyRobbins]

Reminder: class is in session. It's called LIFE. Don’t waste a minute.

— from Saint-Tropez, with love

[Josh Felser @Joshmedia]

@CollinRugg I would love to see where he is getting his numbers from re: there being enough homes for the homeless in LA. grok strongly disputes his claim!

[Josh Felser @Joshmedia]

@newstart_2024 what about oat bran? Much healtheir than the other oat variants

[Josh Felser @Joshmedia]

@pitdesi Ugh that sounds terrible!

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The Cornell President just obliterated the extremist students who surrounded his car.

Rather than surrendering to them and apologizing, he directly called out their unlawful behavior.

This is what true leadership looks like.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

WATCH: Pete Hegseth reads a fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon prayer service

[Josh Felser @Joshmedia]

MAGA 💚 AI AND THE LEFT 🫡https://t.co/vmpuAly9if

[Josh Felser @Joshmedia]

I cannot stop laughing!!!!

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This Indian woman is totally Roasting the living hell out of Kash Patel and it’s amazing! 😂😂😂😂

[Josh Felser @Joshmedia]

@tferriss Love this Tim but I would avoid using the word “why”. Why is more of an interrogation but what and how are more inviting of inquiry. What’s underneath this or how did I get here.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

I’m so fucking sick of snark from people on here because I talk about Jew hatred a lot.

First, those who have followed me for a while know this has been a focus of mine for more than 10 years — it’s not something I suddenly picked up post–October 7.

My focus is largely on extremism, particularly in America, not on Israel, although I fully understand there’s crossover.

Second, people who say my focus on this is cringe, annoying, or stupid either don’t understand how serious this problem is — or they’re Jew haters themselves.

This is an urgent matter.

I wouldn’t spend this much time on it if it weren’t.

And despite what some people online seem to believe, it certainly isn’t lucrative or helpful to my career.

We know from decades of research that once someone adopts a fully developed antisemitic worldview, it becomes very, very difficult to deradicalize them — though not impossible.

I don’t want to lose more people to the abyss of Jew hatred.

As far as I’m concerned, this is existential.

When hatred of Jews becomes part of someone’s identity and worldview, it shapes how they understand everything: politics, morality, and even their sense of belonging.

Antisemitism operates differently from many other forms of hatred because it is conspiratorial in nature rather than simply prejudicial.

Conspiracy beliefs are self-sealing: evidence against them is interpreted as proof of the conspiracy itself.

People who adopt strong antisemitic views often move into social ecosystems that reinforce those beliefs: online communities, ideological networks, and political movements.

Antisemites also see their hatred as morally justified.

In their minds, they are defending civilization, fighting corruption, exposing hidden evil, and, as many of you learned recently, exposing child-killing pedophiles.

Once hatred becomes framed as a moral duty, deradicalization becomes far more difficult.

Antisemitism also “explains” everything to the Jew hater.

Because Jews are falsely framed as the hidden cause behind many unrelated problems, Jews become the grand explanatory theory for the world’s failures and for the failures and challenges people have personally.

People who criticize me or mock me ultimately don’t bother me.

But it is deeply annoying and concerning — particularly because they cannot even claim that I spend my time advocating for Israel or defending the decisions of the Israeli government.

So their issue is with Jews.

Ultimately, if you have a problem with me talking about this, you can kiss my Iranian ass.

[Josh Felser @Joshmedia]

Companies that don't make evolutionary moves to shed a chunk of their workforces and replace them with AI will just become targets for acquirers who will do what they cannot. Devastating reality.

https://t.co/60oDzhQPV0

[Éros Brousson @erosbrousson]

THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA 🤠🤣🛢️

[Josh Felser @Joshmedia]

I just asked grok and got a different answer

“In summary, while not every acre was "stolen" in a simplistic sense—some transfers involved negotiation—the overall process by foreign powers and later the U.S. involved widespread dispossession that fits definitions of theft from indigenous viewpoints and much scholarly consensus.”

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https://t.co/cwwLx9Y0cx

[Chris Barber (in SF and at AIE) @chrisbarber]

m&a resources i've seen:

- The Founder’s Guide To Selling Your Company by @justinkan
- @jasonlk has various good posts on m&a
- The Toughest Sell by Derek Yan (new one)
- Magic Box Paradigm by @roizen
- Companies Are Sold Not Bought by @Joshmedia
- For founders considering selling their company: key factors & a timeline for M&A by @VishalLugani
- How to Sell Your Startup: The Complete Guide to Running an M&A Process as a Founder by @ddebow plus the companion podcast episode

what else?

tips from friends:
- bankers might not get you any new buyers. good chance the buyers will only be people you've already met. bankers may be less helpful than expected.
- tax firms with m&a expertise (for corporate and personal) may be more helpful than expected
- 12+ months before you'd like to sell, find excuses to have casual meetings (dinners, etc) with the ceos/senior people who'd be most likely to want to buy you and have the authority to buy you in the future. figure out who you'd want to be working with
- smaller partnerships and collaborations are often the things that lead to acquisition offers. kind of like a way to test working together. a "work sample" for m&a.
- do you really want to sell? anecdotally seen a few instances of regretting selling