taylor

fractional CFO for venture funds & founder of Hemrock/Foresight (ex-VC, ex-consultant, ex-product, ex-PE, ex-photographer)

[taylor @tdavidson]

to check out the model, start with https://t.co/ODdWWspzxz , pay-what-you-want. more features to come, of course.

[taylor @tdavidson]

newest product, a model for venture funds in your browser (not in a spreadsheet :) a quick thread on why I built this

[taylor @tdavidson]

AI is also making it easier to write code to build models. download the code behind this on Github and run the model locally. install the npm package into your own models. built for builders.

[taylor @tdavidson]

v1 of an mcp server for financial modeling, now out

[taylor @tdavidson]

@cfo_mm you ever evolve this more?

[taylor @tdavidson]

who do I know that loves fantasy and simulation sports? have something for people to try out.

[taylor @tdavidson]

why I built a fund operating platform https://t.co/nxX0QyhJvu

[taylor @tdavidson]

when I spend 100 hours writing code to automate 2 hours of manual work

[taylor @tdavidson]

where it ended up

[taylor @tdavidson]

@andrewchen even I'm spending more time writing code than building spreadsheets

[taylor @tdavidson]

agreed https://t.co/4iiy9IpFKf

[taylor @tdavidson]

@cfo_mm two hours is wild

[taylor @tdavidson]

another day, another AI model building company downloading all of my models as training data

[taylor @tdavidson]

same goes with financial forecasts. beware of models created by AI that leverage business logic you don't fully understand, as the unknown unknowns could get you.

https://t.co/ZTKC4QYBFV

[taylor @tdavidson]

I should write a series of posts of all the things your favorite AI gets wrong in cap table calculations and structures. (and then would AI get stop making those mistakes?)

[taylor @tdavidson]

here's the first: don't trust your AI with your cap table math: https://t.co/4s4JGWFPQw

[taylor @tdavidson]

i'd love to see the financial model for this

[Siqi Chen @blader]

so we raised a new round, but haven't told anyone yet

our investors are like, hey put our money to use how come burn isn't going up

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[taylor @tdavidson]

one of the odder photo publication credits I've ever received https://t.co/Uajj5XPqSw

[taylor @tdavidson]

opportunity overhead