Marja Verbon

👋 Founder @jumpworkuk 🎓 Venture Capital, @Mckinsey and @UniofOxford 💃 You can usually find me dressing up and dancing to good tunes

[Marja Verbon @marjaverbon]

Finally met someone IRL after months of Zoom and first thing they said was “oh you’re the one who always asks the difficult questions” 😂🥲

[Romeen Sheth @RomeenSheth]

Here’s a simple definition and formula for manifested luck.

Definition: The surface area of your serendipity.

Formula: (Focus) * (Intention) * (Effort) * (Skill) * (Relationships)

What do each of these components mean?

[Romeen Sheth @RomeenSheth]

I think there are 2 kinds of luck:

1. Pure Luck - This is the lottery. Your ticket is selected for no rhyme or reason.

2. Manifested Luck: This is formulaic. You individually can increase the probability of a positive outcome.

Focus on manifested luck.

[Hannah Murphy @MsHannahMurphy]

Extremely useful chart as covid runs rampant in the UK and we all plan for Christmas

It shows how long after exposure to covid you will be detectable by a lateral flow test vs a PCR test if you do have it
And at what stages you are likely infectious

[Marja Verbon @marjaverbon]

@amyrlewin @pinksaltvc @SaloniBhojwani @i_woodford Super congrats 🥳

[Mosaic @Mosaic_VC]

You don't want to be late for the (Crypto) party! 🥳 Our very own @tcoppel, who has been investing in crypto since 2014, speaks with Sifted on the crypto landscape amongst European VCs #FutureOfMoney #Crypto #fintech
https://t.co/ao3j6dHN4l

[Alan Furley @AlanFurley]

Starting out in your career?

Build 4 lists:

Things I love doing

Things I am exceptional at

Things I hate doing

Things I’m bad at

And review your career journey - which way is it taking you?

Plenty more career planning advice from @firstround

https://t.co/Zpz5fmQwWY

[Hrishikesh Pardeshi @hrishiptweets]

Early stages of startups are about 2 things:
1. Making something work
2. Finding the next thing that works

[Ed Suh @edsuh]

Perhaps the best life hack: Surround yourself with people who lift you up. Cut out people who keep you down

[Gabby Cazeau @gabbycazeau]

🧵How I fell for a NFT scam and what I learned from it

So it happened. I fell for an NFT scam. It wasn't for much money, but still stings. I feel like I should have been smart enough to avoid it.

TL;DR - if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is 👇🏿

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

I’ve met so many people who’ve told me they want to do a startup but don’t feel ready.

Well, you’ll never be ready - startups are crazy and wild, and nothing can prepare you for them.

The right way to decide if you’re ready is to assess your risk-reward ratio, not readiness.

[Fahd Ananta @fahdananta]

Web3 is great but not every company has to pivot to web3

Still tremendous opportunity in boring old SaaS, marketplaces, etc.

[fintechjunkie @fintechjunkie]

It didn’t take me long in the crypto world to realize that it’s an ecosystem being fueled by the “House Money Effect”.

Having spent countless hours in the world of high stakes poker I recognized it instantly and now can’t stop seeing it everywhere I look. A short 🧵👇

[Marja Verbon @marjaverbon]

so true lol

[Ankur💻🎧💪 @TheAnkurTyagi]

You think you're unique until you have to buy a domain for your startup.

[Marja Verbon @marjaverbon]

Looking forward to following this one
@rex_woodbury 👀 https://t.co/c0LiUUMZ2m via
@revue

[Rex Woodbury @rex_woodbury]

Creators are key to Web3.

Web1 was about making information searchable & exchangeable. Google was the big winner.

Web2 was about platforms and gave us Facebook. But value flowed through platforms.

Web3 is about ownership: creators and communities capturing value *themselves*

[delia @delia_cai]

spotify the only tech company to figure out how to successfully rebrand "we've been tracking you" to "isn't this FUN"

[Amy Wu Martin @amywumartin]

9/ Just as many funds dominant in the 90s are irrelevant today, crypto may cause another restacking. Crypto-native funds will need to adapt. General funds have faced paradigm shifts - internet, mobile, cloud, Tiger, now crypto.

[Marja Verbon @marjaverbon]

@laserlikemike Given risk aversion was very helpful for us evolutionary it’s not surprising to get a negative response to change most times. Maybe that’s why a concentration of risk loving individuals living in proximity in startup ecosystems are so powerful 😉

[Marja Verbon @marjaverbon]

Is anyone doing PhD on this?

[Li Jin @ljin18]

DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) represent the next step forward in the labor movement.

A thread 🧵

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

"When Elon Musk tweets about something, the value of that asset goes up, how can that be an asset?"

Well:

- The price of an asset is decided by the intersection of demand and supply.
- Elon has 65M followers on Twitter.
- It increases demand and the price goes up.

Duh?