Monique Barbanson

Founder, Entelechy Ventures. Data Strategy, CTO Global Program + Digital Transformation @BerkeleyExecEd. Interim VP of Engineering/CTO.

[Monique Barbanson @mbarbanson]

Thrilled to announce that the first episode of Women in Tech At Work aka WIT At Work is out! My friend Cathy and I chat about what it takes for women to be tech leaders, when women will make half the money in the world, and our favorite quote from RBG 👩‍⚖️ #podcast #womenintech

[WitAtWork @wit_at_work]

Episode 1 of WIT At Work is out: https://t.co/3Z5Mli4tzS
My guest is Cathy, who attended Stanford as the first generation in her family to go to college. She led Cisco's Core Router software team for many years as a Senior Director of Engineering. #podcast #womenintech #career

[Usman Gul @usmangul]

💥 New Product Launch 💥

After two years of development, @metalraise is launching Autopilot -- our automation platform that draws on proprietary intelligence to run the round process for founders.

Our thesis is simple -- in the future, founders that are best positioned to raise will not run the round process themselves. Instead, they will use the right tools to automate in ways that create unique advantages.

From research, round collateral and pipeline formation to building calendar density, Metal Autopilot brings precision via proprietary intelligence and speed via AI-driven automation.

Link to join the waitlist below.

[Monique Barbanson @mbarbanson]

@brexton @cursor_ai @AmpCode @FactoryAI Love it!

[Ollie Forsyth @ollieforsyth]

Meet @ycombinator 's latest batch of startups (S25)

Ahead of YC's demo day tomorrow, we’ve just published the full market map of 160+ new startups building across 👇

1. B2B infrastructure & dev tools

2. B2B engineering, product & design tools

3. B2B productivity & ops tools

4. Healthcare

5. B2B sales & marketing

6. Consumer

7. Supply chain & logistics

8. FinTech

9. Industrial

10. B2B operations

11. Real estate & construction

12. B2B legal

13. B2B recruiting

14. Government

15. Education

16. B2B accounting & finance

17. B2B security

What do we know so far about the startups?

1. 30% are building for developers.

2. Notable sectors include B2B productivity, healthcare, industrials, and fintech.

3. 60% mention ‘AI’ in their tagline.

Best of luck tomorrow YC Founders!

Discover the latest YC companies in full!

--> https://t.co/fBE3OFwv0f

[Michelle Fang 🌁 @michelleefang]

If you're new or looking to get more connected to SF tech: bookmark these 50+ irl events 🗓️

A list of what's happening this week (Sept 8 - Sept 15) ⬇️

[Monique Barbanson @mbarbanson]

@NWischoff Congratulations!

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

This is sexy but wrong:
Hire great people and get out of their way

This is sexy but wrong:
Hire great people and get in their way

This is unsexy but correct:
Hire great people, show them the way, correct them if they veer off the way, and where there isn’t a way, build the way.

[Monique Barbanson @mbarbanson]

Great list. Thanks @FreedVC!

[ranchos ventures 🤠 @ranchosvc]

10 years ago, I'd see 3 - 5 early stage deals a year

This year I'll see over 3000 🤯

Angels, here's a thread on sourcing deal flow 🧵👇

[Monique Barbanson @mbarbanson]

Overview of how LLMs work by the folks @full_stack_dl https://t.co/WQpakurhFz
in just 47 mins. Explains why open source LLMs are catching up (among others: based on Chinchilla, can leverage reinforcement learning for a fraction of the investment as Stanford Alpaca did)

[Monique Barbanson @mbarbanson]

Srsly? Worst customer experience imaginable.

[Monique Barbanson @mbarbanson]

Your credit will become inactive in 7 days
You don't seem to have used any of your Skype Credit in a while. It becomes inactive if you haven't used it in 180 days. But don't worry - once it becomes inactive, you can reactivate it whenever you're ready to use it.

[Monique Barbanson @mbarbanson]

- Call any phone (landline or mobile) - even if the call lasts for just one second.
- Send an SMS message direct from Skype.
- Purchase a personal Skype Number, subscription or voice messaging using your Skype Credit.

Skype

[David C. Baker @davidcbaker]

This "no code" or "low code" stuff amuses me. It allows you to scale [the first 10%] quickly, but w/ a huge tech debt. Like building your own PM software with FileMaker Pro.

[Danielle Baskin @djbaskin]

Women will make $245k/year as FAANG software engineers and their apartments will still look like this

[Cal Basketball @CalWBBall]

Archer Olson leaves a legacy of support and selflessness after four years at Cal. Read the graduation feature on our very own @archerolson!
🗞️: https://t.co/MoOygkETgc
#Willing | #GoBears

[Cal Athletics @CalAthletics]

Congrats to Ben Harper and Archer Olson on winning the Neufeld Scholar-Athlete Awards for graduating male and female student-athletes with the highest cumulative grade-point averages!

[Monique Barbanson @mbarbanson]

Couldn’t be more thankful for the family @archerolson found at Cal. Thank you @CalWBBall, @21charmin, @coachkai, @DellyWEN, @Coach_Aphil, @CoachLindsayG! 💙💛 Go Bears!

[Cal Basketball @CalWBBall]

The Neufeld Scholar-Athlete Awards are given to the graduating male and female student-athletes with the highest cumulative GPAs. You KNOW who won it this year! Congrats, @archerolson!!
#Willing | #GoBears

[Monique Barbanson @mbarbanson]

💙💛

[Cal Basketball @CalWBBall]

In response to the murder of George Floyd, @caicrocker22 and @richeysierra created the racial justice council. Thanks to them, there will always be a place within @CalAthletics which pushes the agenda of social/racial justice. We are so proud of these two!
#Willing

[Monique Barbanson @mbarbanson]

Congratulations @archerolson @richeysierra @_naannna @alaysia____ ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Cal Basketball @CalWBBall]

Today's the day!! Join us in wishing to our two graduates @archerolson and @richeysierra a massive congratulations for graduating today!
#Willing | #CalGrad

[Monique Barbanson @mbarbanson]

Go Bears! Proud of our young women!

[Cal Basketball @CalWBBall]

Talk about #Willing! Cal women's basketball earned the highest team GPA at Cal and the Big C Most Improved GPA...all in a year where everything was a challenge. Way to go Bears!📚