Living in the parts of the internet that make you feel old. Investing and incubating companies @NightVentures_ @nightmedia_ nyc 🌃

New York, NY
Joined January 2014
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The AI bubble is getting outperformed by cheesecakes, bras, air fryers and biscuits & gravy
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More Americans believe we’ll colonize the moon before we fix K-12 education. This is a policy problem. We have been building a solution that’s already trusted by many of the Fortune 500 as well as 1/3 of federal and state elected officials in the United States. Organizations are more impacted by policy than by financial markets. Yet financial markets have been real-time for decades, and policy markets are still nearly impossible to follow. @StateAffairsUS has raised over $70M from @rabois, @khoslaventures, @foundersfund and others to fix that. We are creating the world’s first real-time knowledge graph for policy and regulatory markets. This platform is foundationally built on non-partisan journalism and the collection of on-the-ground data that isn’t digitally accessible. In the future, we believe every executive will watch policy markets the way they watch financial markets. Instead of reacting to regulation, they’ll navigate it proactively. Policy should iterate at the speed of our most innovative industries.
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BREAKING: Victor Wembanyama has joined Anthropic.
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Attention.
Vibe coders after realizing they'll still have to dance on TikTok to market their SaaS.
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Ben Mathews retweeted
new cold email template just dropped
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do you want the davos house tour?
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Completely co-sign this. Am doing it right now.
The fastest way to build a $100M company is to buy a great agency. Productize it. And turn it into a vertical SaaS business. There is a real opportunity here. Agencies look uninteresting to venture investors. That is exactly the point. They trade at low EBITDA multiples, while vertical SaaS businesses trade at double-digit revenue multiples. But the best agencies sit on two assets most startups spend years trying to acquire: deep vertical expertise and embedded distribution through real industry relationships. They also have something far more valuable than your AI wrapper tool. They have recurring relationships with the exact customers a vertical SaaS company wants, but usually cannot reach cheaply. This is where the arbitrage is. You buy the agency on a services multiple. You extract the repeatable parts of the work. You turn process into software, workflows, guardrails... and AI. Over time, revenue shifts from hours to recurring fees. The best version of this strategy does not try to eliminate the agency. It uses the agency as the lab. Services stay close to the edge cases and software absorbs the common paths/workflows. The mistake is thinking of this as “services to software.” The opportunity is thinking of it as “expertise to infrastructure.” When you get it right, you are not starting a SaaS company from zero. You are upgrading a business that already understands its customer, its economics, and its distribution, with multiple layers of arbitrage working in your favor.
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JD and Max are the two best operators building right now. @NightVentures_ wrote an early stage check to back these incredible founders.
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This is incredibly well researched.
Fuckboy Migration: JANUARY – St. Barts (New Year’s Reset) - Starts the year on a yacht he was invited onto by someone wealthier. - Claims he’s “detoxing” while holding a piña colada at 11am. FEBRUARY – Aspen - Skis for the Instagram story - Wears a Moncler jacket he financed MARCH – NYC (Pretending to Work) - Back in the city claiming he’s “heads down.” - He is not. He’s drinking martinis at Casa Cipriani and telling girls he’s “raising a round” APRIL – LA / Coachella - Suddenly becomes a music expert - Pretends he loves indie DJs he’s never heard of - Buys VIP passes to feel important MAY – F1 Miami - Has a paddock pass he absolutely did not pay for - Talks about cars like he’s an engineer. He is not. JUNE – Pre-Hamptons Positioning - Starts saying “heading out East” like he owns property. - Spends three weeks trying to get invited to the right houses JULY – The Hamptons - Tennis, rosé, repeat. - Pretends to be low-key but is at Surf Lodge every weekend. - Has “a room” in a share house that is actually a mattress on the floor. AUGUST – Europe - St. Tropez → Mykonos → Ibiza. - Leaves for “five days” and returns three weeks later. Has no explanation. Has no job that supports this. SEPTEMBER – New York Fashion Week - Suddenly front-row. - Claims he’s “consulting” for a brand. He is not. OCTOBER – Autumn Rebrand - Pretends he’s ready for a girlfriend. - Starts cooking once. Posts more wholesome stories. This is a trap. NOVEMBER – Quiet Luxury Cuffing Season - Texts you more. - Pretends to be useful. Will disappear the moment you get attached. DECEMBER – Art Basel Miami - The migration begins again. - Pretends he’s “here for the art,” leaves with three party wristbands and zero dignity.
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Ben Mathews retweeted
I hate it here
After 18 months in stealth, dozens of prototypes, millions of real-home demonstrations, and one final all-nighter, we’re thrilled for you to say hello to Memo
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CEO of scaled VC backed co. recently said if he just wanted to get rich he’d raise as little as possible, find early signs of PMF in a niche and sell to the leading VC backed company in that niche. They’re paying top dollar for this profile in their niche w/ very few options.
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spot on.
imo entire ai field switched from explore to exploit 2 yrs early
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Ben Mathews retweeted
imo entire ai field switched from explore to exploit 2 yrs early
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The @function new ad campaign is gorgeous - @swerdlin give those kids a raise :)
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Next 3 months it's "pump your public stock with a ChatGPT partnership" quarter. Strap in. "Etsy pops 16% as OpenAI announces ChatGPT Instant Checkout for the shopping site" cnbc.com/2025/09/29/chatgpt-…
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Othership and Robbie have made magic. Check it out now in Williamsburg.
This is the best piece of content ever done - it’s raw and captures the Othership experience. The haters say it’s culty, but its a masterpiece and will make you feel something. --- (use headphones, full screen, and MAX VOOLLLUMMMMEEE) Tag your NYC friends in the comments for a complimentary journey at our new Williamsburg location live today - or retweet your favorite Othership moment in a repost for a complimentary journey for you. I'll DM everybody that shares.
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I choose violence.
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Looking back.. how did harvey dent not know it was the Joker till he took off the mask 😭
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Ben Mathews retweeted
none of these words appear in the bible
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