Shernaz Daver

Operating partner+CMO @khoslaventures. Former @GVteam, @10xgenomics, @netflix, @kittyhawk, @walmart, @khanacademy...coffee + crossword = daily obsession

[Shernaz Daver @shernazdaver]

@alexeheath 🤣🤣

[Michele Catasta @pirroh]

Some call it narrative reversal.
I call it foresight.

That’s why we never stopped hiring at Replit: https://t.co/oMb9a1S28i

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Gemini Omni is a major leap in world understanding & multimodal editing! It can take photos, video & audio and build entirely new scenes. Over time it’ll be able to handle any input & any output - starting w/ video

You can even give it your own videos & iterate on your ideas:

[Holger Zschaepitz @Schuldensuehner]

The birth-rate collapse isn’t just about money, housing, or women choosing careers. The sharper diagnosis: fewer couples. Across the world, young people still say they want kids. But they socialize less, partner less, commit less – and become parents less. Smartphones didn’t make us infertile. They may have made us lonelier. The fertility crisis is really a bonding crisis. https://t.co/DSi1emv0HU

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

We worked things out with Apple, and just published our app for the first time in 4 months.

Thanks to all our customers and creators who helped out.

It’s been a journey, but we never give up and stay winning!

Enjoy the updates! Lots of new things coming.

[Ben Marmarelli بن مرمريلي בן מרמרלי @mrmrly44557]

A very serious investigation has been published in @nytimes about rape and sexual violence carried out by the authorities in Israel. I am also quoted in this article as one of many, many people who provided accounts to this newspaper, which is considered extremely pro-Israeli.
In response, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote that these are antisemitic “blood libels.” It is clear that the reports already published by Al Jazeera in 2024, and by me in 2025 when the BBC censored and deleted the interview with me, are true.
People simply need to listen to Palestinians. But the world does not listen to Palestinians. It only listens when it is written in The New York Times — and now it is written there.

[Vidit Agarwal @vidags10]

Ep #256 of The High Flyers Podcast is now live!

Shernaz Daver has worked alongside Steve Jobs, Reed Hastings, Vinod Khosla and Sebastian Thrun across Silicon Valley’s most influential companies and leaders.

In this conversation with me, she unpacks:
▪️ Growing up Indian-American and rejected by Sesame Street
▪️ Standing up to Steve Jobs in a meeting (true story!)
▪️ Hype vs reality in Silicon Valley
▪️ How VC's should help founder narratives
▪️ AI, storytelling and the future of media

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🎧 Listen or watch here: https://t.co/Ulczw1O8Am

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@vkhosla @SebastianThrun @reedhastings @khoslaventures @GVteam @EthanChoi7 @venky13 @amasad @shernazdaver

[Elad Gil @eladgil]

People at major AI labs (using internal models) 3-4 months ahead of startup silicon valley engineers

SV founders/eng 3-6 months ahead of NY

NY founders/eng 6-12 months ahead of rest of world

Most people have no idea how fast AI shifting as 1-2 years behind SOTA

"The future is here, just not equally distributed" - Robert Heinlein

[Shernaz Daver @shernazdaver]

@celinehalioua Prime time!!

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Congratulations to Westminster Council for their acceptance of Banksy’s brilliant statue near Pall Mall. Let’s hope it stays — a welcome note of calmness and humour at a time of growing extremism.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Replit, turned 10 🎂

To celebrate we’re making it totally free for 24 hours starting at 5am PT.

But our work—to make coding accessible for all—goes back to 2011.

Watch the highlights from the journey:

It’s been an honor to help millions learn & ship. Here is to the next 10!

[Shernaz Daver @shernazdaver]

@paraga @sequoia @andrew__reed @kleinerperkins @IndexVentures @khoslaventures @firstround @sparkcapital @AbstractVC @terraincap Awesome!! Congrats to you and the team!

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Shooting oneself in the foot?
Nope.
Shooting oneself in the prefrontal cortex.

[Shernaz Daver @shernazdaver]

@lishali88 @stuffyokodraws Congrats!!

[Shernaz Daver @shernazdaver]

Give it a spin!!

[Rohit Padmakumar @rohitpadmakumar]

I LOVE Jitter! So happy they did a little story on us and how we use it at Gamma.

[Shernaz Daver @shernazdaver]

The model gets better and better every time! @odysseyml

[Odyssey @odysseyml]

It’s time to go beyond language models.

Introducing Odyssey-2 Max, our most powerful world model yet. It materially advances the SOTA in physical accuracy.

This is a big step toward models that simulate and interact with the world in real time.

A new intelligence entirely!

[James Kirchick @jkirchick]

Very proud of my husband for forgoing his severance package to speak out about the desecration he witnessed of the “Trump” Kennedy Center. @theatlantic

https://t.co/la2j7yxkmF

[Shernaz Daver @shernazdaver]

So true! Wish more companies followed this!

[Tony Fadell @tfadell]

Most tech companies break out product management and product marketing into two separate roles: Product management defines the product and gets it built. Product marketing wires the messaging- the facts you want to communicate to customers- and gets the product sold. But from my experience that's a grievous mistake. Those are, and should aways be, one job.

There should be no separation between what the product will be and how it will be explained- the story has to be utterly cohesive from the beginning. Your messaging is your product. The story you're telling shapes the thing you're making.

I learned story telling from Steve Jobs. I learned product management from Greg Joswiak. Joz, a fellow Wolverine, Michigander, and overall great person, has been at Apple since he left Ann Arbor in 1986 and has run product marketing for decades. And his superpower- the superpower of every truly great product manager- is empathy. He doesn't just understand the customer. He becomes the customer.

So when Joz stepped into the world with his next-gen iPod to test it out, he fiddled with it like a beginner. He set aside all the tech specs- except one: battery life.

The numbers were empty without customers, the facts meaningless without context.

And, that's why product management has to own the messaging. The spec shows the features, the details of how a product will work, but the messaging predicts people's concerns and finds way to mitigate them.

- #BUILD Chapter 5.5 The Point of PMs

[Shernaz Daver @shernazdaver]

@GeorgeNHammond @FT @sjhmorris Congrats! So well deserved!

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

From the founder: “Replit is one of my absolute favorite tools to build with”