Nicholas Richards

BizDev @cartainc via Big4, PE & VC • 😇 Investor • Working for luck. Views my own.

[The Sopranos Guy™ @uncle_june]

"Ay, Tone. It's me. Go ahead and put 10 grand on Portugal. Let's just say, the referee is gonna play ball if any VAR decision comes up."

[Gil Dibner @gdibner]

Memo to everyone: your posts are all too long and boring because you are relying on AI to do your writing. Everyone sees this. No one likes it. And no one is reading any of it.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

BREAKING: Harry Kane has joined Anthropic.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Azteca. 7,000 feet. One hand.

[Sabba Keynejad @sab8a]

https://t.co/Xk8Scx6mLe

[Elad Verbin @verbine]

So people generate these texts, don't have the patience to iterate on them in any way, and just send them as-is. They lose ownership of their own outputs.

It's a slippery slope: as soon as you get used to sending outputs you don't feel any responsibility for, quality degrades:

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

The scheduling for the World Cup is annoying, but at least everyone here gets to watch it at a convenient time.

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

The hardest part of sales is creating urgency

The rest is hard too, don't get me wrong

But really, 95 times out of 100, no one really needs to buy your product right now.

Especially if it involves business process change.

[Kyle Harrison @kwharrison13]

"Claude, why did the global economy just shut down?"

"...Claude?..."

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Trees. Trees. Trees. They matter. Plant them. Protect them.

[High Yield Harry @HighyieldHarry]

Edward Norton should’ve invited a friend instead of showing up by himself

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Olympic swimming tickets for LA 2028 going for $4500 each. Where do people get this kind of money? I didn’t even know swimming was popular.

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

claude is down

writing quality across the internet is up

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

One of the very best VC firms in AI is ... 50 years old

It's never easy

But if you have incredible folks on the team, that really want it ... you can reinvent yourself, too

[VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 @VCBrags]

VC's when they discover the word "taste":

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I asked Claude about the air conditioning debate in Europe, and it really didn’t pull any punches.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Absolute joke.. Players coming off for an unneeded hydration break. It's 20C, it's the hydration BRAKE, the break for US TV, the commercial break. Fans booing as players go off having just been off while 2 players had medical attention. Kills the game. #ENG #ENGGHA #FIFAWorldCup

[Nicholas Richards @nj_richards]

@krishnanrohit @HarryStebbings @typesfast 😂😂😂

[Nicholas Richards @nj_richards]

@julianlehr 💯

[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

He’s the 3rd or 4th investor in Uber