Bond

Vivamus, moriendum est

[Bond @lvsbnd]

Tomorrow comes early for some.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

If you must be a slave to anything, let it be beauty, and if you must be ruthless, then ensure you are so in the pursuit and protection of said beauty, rather than in the desecration of it. Orient yourself in this way, and you will live a life true to your deepest being.

[Cousin Stizz @CousinStizz]

Everyday I become a man of fewer words

[Yapper. @0xDeFi419]

Again Nigerian Americans are a very impressive lot

Less than a 700K in USA , 7 Unicorn founders

And again a very recent immigrant group

Median age for second gen Nigerian Americans == 18 years

~75% of first gen Nigerian Americans immigrated after 2000

~55% of first gen immigrating after 2010.

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i hope the next global trend will be empathy and critical thinking.

[Vikram Pai @vikpai]

Running a business is just realizing how dumb you were 6 months ago every 6 months

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

The long game is less crowded. Play the long game.

[𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚝 @rawatthekiid]

the artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist

[𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚝 @rawatthekiid]

in phaedrus (Φαῖδρος), plato described the sight of beauty as causing the soul to “grow wings” (πτεροῦσθαι).

[Fran Silvestre Arquitectos @FranSilvestreAr]

NEW PROJECT IN WASHINGTON
The house is thus integrated into the hillside, merged with its surroundings, as if it had always belonged to that place.

#fransilvestrearquitectos

[Mingu @lowgradef]

In fiction evil is often written to have depth and complexity while good is written to be simple and boring. But in real life evil is boring and predictable while good is complex and unique every single time.

[Kush @kush_147]

"they used you" Nah. They had access to a love most people spend their lives looking for. What they did with it is their story. I still have more to give

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

"In practice...technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise it, finance it, regulate it, and use it."

—Leo XIV

[Aristo @aristomarinetti]

"A complete man must be an artist, a warrior, and a philosopher.”

— Cellini

[Bond @lvsbnd]

@evisdrenova @joshstarr But ideas are the substrate that teams form around. Shared belief assembles people.

“Change ideas” also implies a prior idea.

[JoshStarr @joshstarr]

@evisdrenova I tend to disagree with this. I think it’s
1. Market
2. Idea
3. Team

[Bond @lvsbnd]

Prosperity is an orientation.

[Bond @lvsbnd]

Love is the center of the earth.

[Bond @lvsbnd]

It's about Ideas that push toward prosperity, embedded in products we create.

[Bond @lvsbnd]

The future rewards coherence.

[Dan Gray @credistick]

On one side, you have the VC, with a network.

On the other, the founder, without.

Just to get the attention of the VC, the founder must navigate a network of strangers to find someone who believes in their idea enough to agree to pass it on.

And then they hope the VC, hearing this idea from a second-hand source, also sees the potential.

Who does this nonsense work well for?

It works reasonably well for founders with "obvious" ideas that have some recognisable "pedigree", who are perhaps gifted with charisma.

However, none of these attributes are positively correlated with returns.

They are positively correlated with generating faster markups, so it also works well as a filter for the scaled venture platforms who sell allocation to LPs.

But, for most founders, it's a massive waste of time and a painful distraction to be forced to play this ridiculous ego-driven relationship game.

The first thing any new VC should pledge is to not waste founders' time, because it is infinitely more precious than any VC's time.

The arrogance of making founders jump through hoops for a chance at raising money is insane. Unless you believe your customers are LPs, rather than founders.