CVC @Shopify prior VC @relayventures Master of Engineering @Penn Mentor @techstars @foundingTO Guest Lecturer @schulichschool
Toronto, Canada
Joined December 2014
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chevy retweeted
dear lord, please give me the confidence of a 25 year old “venture capitalist” with Twitter Blue & zero exits who just released “23 unstoppable trends that will change your world forever, a 🧵”
chevy retweeted
experience and competence are not the same thing, and it’s wild how much many industries value the first over the second.
chevy retweeted
I was let go by Sequoia Capital today. Buck had to stop somewhere. I was the 27 year old associate responsible for copying and pasting revenue and profit numbers from a spreadsheet in the FTX data room into a PowerPoint slide in an investment memo as diligence
chevy retweeted
★ The @remix_run team has joined Shopify!
Win-win as we put the power of Shopify behind #Remix allowing them to accelerate their roadmap & focus on pushing the web forward & they will help deliver next-generation web experiences for our merchants & devs.
shopify.engineering/remix-jo…
chevy retweeted
I'm part of my university's startup competition and they asked me for a 5 year financial projection.
I think I should just drop out.
chevy retweeted
The main reason late-stage funds like Tiger and Coatue are eating traditional VCs' lunch is that they're faster.
Speed is probably the number one difference between what founders think is important in VCs, and what VCs think is important in VCs.
chevy retweeted
Remember when VCs would invest outside Silicon Valley only if startups agreed to move to the Bay Area?
Remember when US VCs would invest in European and Israeli startups only if they “flipped” to a Delaware corporation?
How times have changed
chevy retweeted
want to build a better product?
play more games.
game devs are years ahead on product design than your favorite SV unicorn.
chevy retweeted
Google Calendar has trained me to think that a Google Meet link on the invite is probably a mistake.
That one decision has completely ruined the GMeet brand.
Doing bad/dark UI patterns to pump up usage numbers might be good short term but an awful long term decision.
chevy retweeted
Excited to announce @GreenlightCard's Series D led by @a16z, doubling its value to $2.3B, along with a behind the scenes peek of why we backed Tim and Johnson at the seed stage 👏 Congratulations to the entire team!
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chevy retweeted
Pictured: a Series B founder with moderate product-market fit opens an unsolicited envelope from Tiger Global
chevy retweeted
One of my portfolio companies was struggling
I knew it
The founder knew it
The market knew it
It was time to dig in. I rolled up my sleeves.
I gave him one tip - just one:
Growth
That was years ago
Today? That company is the largest cloud computing provider in the world.
Demo days are basically drops. How far off are we from turning pre seed/seed investment into a lottery system? Imagine the reseller market secondaries 🥶🤭 sheeesh
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chevy retweeted
how depressing
our society has failed to provide ambitious role models to our founders
chevy retweeted
Netflix waiting 10 years to clamp down on password sharing might just be the most epic growth hack of all time
chevy retweeted
Jay Z works at Square, Dr Dre works at Apple, Nas is one of the best VCs in the world
