Jovian Chen

Customer Success Manager | | Angel Investor @HustleFundVC | Excited about all things SaaS, dystopian, and traveling to faraway places 🚀

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

@Hansenq @chongz We do 👉🏻 even they have their off days but their commitment to tea quality is 🫡

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

@Hansenq @chongz @Hansenq and I have historically differed in boba tastes - Chun Shui Tang is a chain & an OG staple. Unfortunately, chains do not have great consistency as they scale. My favorite way to consume CST is in-person, @ their sit-down locations w/ the premium Jasmine milk tea🧋

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

@chongz @cartesia Absolute genius 🧠

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

Highlights:
🧠 Significant uptick in growth rates in early stage AI startups
👀 Later-stage companies are seeing a hiring rebound
🏃 Headcount reduction and lean growth is still the theme for early stage companies

[John Melas-Kyriazi @jmelaskyriazi]

Want to see how dramatically startup burn rates changed post-ZIRP? 👀

Using aggregated+anonymized benchmarking data from @metrics_co (report in comments)...

Median co's with $100M+ revenue went from ~$11M/quarter burn in Q1 2022 to <$2M/quarter in Q3 2024.

Wild, wild swing!

[John Melas-Kyriazi @jmelaskyriazi]

Want to see how dramatically startup burn rates changed post-ZIRP? 👀

Using aggregated+anonymized benchmarking data from @metrics_co (report in comments)...

Median co's with $100M+ revenue went from ~$11M/quarter burn in Q1 2022 to <$2M/quarter in Q3 2024.

Wild, wild swing!

[Cartesia @cartesia]

Today, we’re excited to release the first step in our mission to build real time multimodal intelligence for every device: Sonic, a blazing fast  (🚀 135ms model latency), lifelike generative voice model and API.

Read https://t.co/kmqpKoR1NA and try Sonic https://t.co/rMnegk14Jl

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

@maxwellriesberg Saving you that gas $$ to Salvation Army 🥲 glad everything else was fine!

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

When #ChatGPT just wrote your 2023 narrative 🫡

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

@mkobach - Branding strategies w/ 100-yr timelines
- Passport power
- Spaciousness of bathrooms (except for NY)
- Creating more SaaS to help SaaS companies use SaaS efficiently

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

@emilyherrera Sí! Go people watching @ Pergamino Cafe in Medellín, take a weekend trip to Guatapé, and work from the Quokka Coworking space (Medellín) for the 🇨🇴 tech vibes :)

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

@b_nicks11 Ofc! Will be sending out an invite by EOW :)

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

Why I joined Angel Squad @HustleFundVC and how it’s helped me discover a community of diverse investors and great deals 🦄:

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

I personally can’t wait to host a local meetup in LA to meet all the SoCal Angel Squad members. If you’ve ever thought about angel investing, want to dive in headfirst, and meet cool people along the way, check it out here - https://t.co/XZxz7yuuyR 😇

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

Whether you’re a first time investor or a beginning investor looking to access more deals, the team who runs Angel Squad has created a culture of knowledge sharing, where members ask questions directly to founders during pitch events and participate in the post-pitch debriefs! 💡

[Elizabeth Yin 💛 @dunkhippo33]

With the stock markets crashing, a lot of Twitter has focused on VCs and whether they'll still be actively investing.

But what about angel investors? Or aspiring angels? Should they still invest?

Read on >>

[Elizabeth Yin 💛 @dunkhippo33]

Today, I'm excited to announce we’re opening up applications for Angel Squad 6. We’ve deployed ~$12m of capital into ~30 companies, and we are just getting started.

A quick thread on a few thoughts about the Angel Squad community and angel investing.

Read on >>

[Jovian Chen @joviichen]

Today, @Affinity launches their #relationshipintelligence report, #unicorn edition. Discover the top trends in #VC unicorn investing over the last 5 years (and in the firms that invest in them) via Affinity’s #data here ⬇️ https://t.co/PtAQNCdbgN