Marni Blake

VP of Production at Lightspeed. From TV to VC.

[Third @thirdmetax]

Mr Beast says he could start a faceless channel tomorrow and hit 20 million subscribers in six months

“I could start a new channel tomorrow not using my face or my voice without ever promoting it and in six months have 20 million subscribers”

“It’s purely knowledge if you knew what I knew you could get 10 million views a video and 10 million subscribers no matter where you are right now within 6 months”

“It really is just knowledge”

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

@pranav_ae @cyberfund unreal.....

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

Thoughts on a fashion tech competition show hosted by Jensen? @anuatluru

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

"In this moment in AI in Silicon Valley, you need to be documenting the history of your company." @Machiz
I started in unscripted and have shifted to #newmedia There is always room for storytelling in every field.

[Alli @alli_gooch]

talked with @BusinessInsider about making documentaries in Silicon Valley

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

We are ready to launch at full speed ahead!

[Claire Zau @clairejyz]

I'm beyond excited to announce that I’m joining @Lightspeed as a Partner on the early-stage investing team and helping to build everything they're doing in new media.

I've spent the last six years investing in early-stage companies, and the last year building a media platform in parallel. What started as a side quest has reached 350,000+ followers and millions of viewers a month.

For me, investing and storytelling have always been two halves of the same job. This work has put me in rooms with incredible founders, researchers, and operators - many of whom have become close friends, collaborators, and early stage bets. There's so much happening at the frontier right now, and the media platform has given me a way to be in those conversations early (and to bring the people I admire most into a wider audience).

When Lightspeed reached out, we saw the same opportunity. Venture and media are converging, and the next generation of great firms will need to show up differently: reaching founders and builders before they've even started a company, and being the place where people first get excited about what's happening in tech.

With more than $50 billion in AUM, Lightspeed has been building alongside founders at the frontier of technology for decades. It's a firm I've admired for years since I started investing - for its intellectual rigor, its long-term conviction, and the way it approaches company building. I’m excited to join a team that brings real depth and substance to its work, and I hope to bring that same ethos to everything I put out.

Thank you to @ravi_lsvp, @bsomaia , and @Machiz for believing in this vision and trusting me to help build it. I’m so excited to see what we do together.

If you're an early-stage founder, building or thinking about starting something, or just curious about this ecosystem - please reach out. My DMs are open and I’d love to chat!

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

@anuatluru Sign me up

[Rishabh @Rixhabh__]

This guy used AI to put himself in Game of Thrones and fix everything

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

I love this and @diplo Clubbing is so 20+ years ago. Bring on the experienced

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

The music selection here makes this super dramatic!

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Eric Weinstein: Tsunami of disruption is coming for the average person

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

Last month was lucky enough to produce content for @lightspeedvp Growth Retreat. All of these founders were awesome. Wasn’t intimidated at all 😃

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

I hope someone filmed these students during the game

[Cory Levy @cory]

this is pretty cool

some MIT students turned a building into a giant playable game of Tetris on Saturday at midnight

rigged each window with LEDs

MIT students are on a diff level

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

The healthcare system wasn't built for the patient. Doctronic is. Free, peer-reviewed, personalized health information. This is what AI in healthcare should look like. Excited to share this conversation with @doctronic

[Lightspeed @lightspeedvp]

“Most people don’t know how to reach out and touch the healthcare system when they have a problem” - @doctronic Co-Founder Dr. Adam Oskowitz

Adam and Co-Founder @mattpavelle joined Lightspeed Partners @f_fatemi21 and Brenton Fargnoli, M.D. on The Investment Memo this week to discuss the AI health platform they’re building. Doctronic was created to bridge the accessibility gap in healthcare with a free-to-use platform that uses peer-reviewed medical sources to provide personalized health information. Check out the video below to hear more about Doctronic.

0:00 – The Healthcare Access Crisis
1:00 – Introducing Doctronic’s Co-Founders
2:07 – How Adam and Matt Met
4:17 – The “Front Door” to Healthcare
5:59 – Early Days and Product-Market Fit
8:27 – Tackling the Three Barriers of Consumer Health
10:59 – Technology Under the Hood
16:55 – The Regulatory Breakthrough
22:21 – Early Results and Human Doctor Infrastructure
28:36 – Hypergrowth from Series A to Series B
32:45 – Why Patients Keep Coming Back
37:59 – The Co-CEO Dynamic and Founder Fit
45:39 – The Future of AI Native Care

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

@kevinroose wow..real glad i did not waste my team reading..thanks for the cliff notes

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

My one pre-pro memory from this episode? Maxime's dog had to be there. Non-negotiable. Bring on the love

[Lightspeed @lightspeedvp]

Naboo Founder & CEO on scaling internationally:

“Honestly, it’s good that we didn’t know about this… otherwise we would probably have not done it.”

“We started with the UK. Everybody was telling us not the UK.”

“For the first six months we were just growing and not seeing any problem.”

“Then suddenly you realize that you're managing bookings in a different currency… you're not hedging this currency… you need to be compliant with all the regulation.”

“Every single time we have opened a country… Spain, Germany, the Benelux, the US, Canada… it has become more and more easy for us as we learn from the past experience.”

—Maxime Eduardo on The Investment Memo with @antoine_moyroud

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

@davidsenra where is your list of top books that we all need right now for inspo....

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

Working behind the scenes at this event was thrilling. So grateful to be part of @lightspeedvp

[Lightspeed @lightspeedvp]

The best ideas move fast. The right environments help them move even faster.

Last week, we welcomed founders and leaders to reconnect with nature in beautiful Park City, Utah, for the Ideas Move at Lightspeed Retreat: two days of conversations, connection, and reflection.

One highlight of the weekend came from a very special guest, legendary Duke Basketball Coach Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski, who shared powerful insights about leadership and teamwork.

Thanks to everyone who joined us for an inspiring few days of collaboration!

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

I love this - curiosity is everything

[David Senra @davidsenra]

"Knowledge is power." —@MichaelOvitz

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

Unreasonable Hospitality @wguidara

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Forks episode from The Bear is Richie’s arc distilled into movement, music, and meaning. Quietly one of the most beautiful episodes of television ever made.

[Marni Blake @marniblake]

@sach_pat @tryramp @claudeai @tryprofound @AdamSandler @uncutgems @thebigshort @usrowing @dbabbs @thejamescad @Machiz @lightspeedvp Let's go!!