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Audacious Ventures

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Audacious Ventures

@AudaciousHQ

Seed stage VC leading $1-10M rounds. We focus on two jobs: 1/ Invest in force of nature founders; 2/ Help them recruit an A+ team. Then we get out of the way.

San Francisco

Joined October 2019

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Muzzammil Zaveri (MZ)
@mzaveri
Jun 23
"I love change. I live for change. Change is the main thing I want in life" - @immad
Nakul Mandan
@nakul
Jun 23
"I've tried to make it so that the pressure goes down as success goes up. If you're more successful, why are you more stressed about it?" - @immad. Immad Akhund. Founder and CEO of Mercury. $650M annualized revenue. $5.2B valuation. 300K customers. Immad has achieved all of
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Nakul Mandan
@nakul
Jun 24
How does one scale the founder's taste in product and other things when you get to 1000+ people? @immad's answer: "Complaining is a pretty good skill set..." "I go pretty deep on the things we ship, and I just wanna have an amazing experience and when it doesn't feel like
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Nakul Mandan
@nakul
Jun 23
"I've tried to make it so that the pressure goes down as success goes up. If you're more successful, why are you more stressed about it?" - @immad. Immad Akhund. Founder and CEO of Mercury. $650M annualized revenue. $5.2B valuation. 300K customers. Immad has achieved all of
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Francesca Gnuva
@francescagnuva
Jun 24
Edition #3 of Women in Tech x @AudaciousHQ wine night with a great line up and a fantastic group of ladies who are part of the sf tech ecosystem💐 Already excited for the next wine tasting🍷 (+ 10/10 recommend the appetizers from a16 in the marina!)
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Nakul Mandan
@nakul
Jun 23
I steelmanned 996 to @immad. His counter: "Was that (extra 2 hours) really 20% more productive? I'll be shocked if it was 20% more productive... maybe 5% more productive. Hiring a 6th person on a 5-person team is 20% more productive."
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Nakul Mandan
@nakul
Jun 23
"I've tried to make it so that the pressure goes down as success goes up. If you're more successful, why are you more stressed about it?" - @immad. Immad Akhund. Founder and CEO of Mercury. $650M annualized revenue. $5.2B valuation. 300K customers. Immad has achieved all of
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Nakul Mandan
@nakul
Jun 23
"I've tried to make it so that the pressure goes down as success goes up. If you're more successful, why are you more stressed about it?" - @immad. Immad Akhund. Founder and CEO of Mercury. $650M annualized revenue. $5.2B valuation. 300K customers. Immad has achieved all of
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Knuckle Up with Nakul
@KnuckleUpHQ
Jun 14
10 takes from our conversation w/ @CameronLMcCord, who went from 484 days underwater as a submarine officer --> founder of @Nominal_io, a physical AI unicorn: 1/ Earnestness in leadership. A submarine is too small for performative people. Your colleagues see you 24/7. Most
Nakul Mandan
@nakul
Jun 9
"You earn the right to stand the night watch." - @CameronLMcCord Cameron McCord. Founder and CEO of @Nominal_io. Submarine officer turned founder building the software stack for the physical AI era. New episode of @KnuckleUpHQ is live ↓ 00:00 Who is Cameron McCord? 01:34
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Nakul Mandan
@nakul
Jun 9
"You earn the right to stand the night watch." - @CameronLMcCord Cameron McCord. Founder and CEO of @Nominal_io. Submarine officer turned founder building the software stack for the physical AI era. New episode of @KnuckleUpHQ is live ↓ 00:00 Who is Cameron McCord? 01:34
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Muzzammil Zaveri (MZ)
@mzaveri
Jun 9
“stress is preparing the body for greatness” great listen with @CameronLMcCord
Nakul Mandan
@nakul
Jun 9
"You earn the right to stand the night watch." - @CameronLMcCord Cameron McCord. Founder and CEO of @Nominal_io. Submarine officer turned founder building the software stack for the physical AI era. New episode of @KnuckleUpHQ is live ↓ 00:00 Who is Cameron McCord? 01:34
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Nakul Mandan
@nakul
May 27
When was it that @akothari and the @NotionHQ team knew that AI wasn't just a feature to add to the platform, they had to rethink the entire product?
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Nakul Mandan
@nakul
May 27
"We were go-karting and doing quite well. Now we've moved to Formula 1, and we're in the middle of the pack. We have a shot at the podium but we have to rewire for the race we're in." Akshay Kothari (@akothari). Cofounder and COO of @NotionHQ. Three years from now, most pre-AI
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Nakul Mandan
@nakul
May 28
The way @akothari describes @NotionHQ, it feels like a craftsmen at work kinda place, built with a lot of thought and care. My question back to him was: does the craftsmanship come at the cost of sheer operational intensity?
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Nakul Mandan
@nakul
May 27
"We were go-karting and doing quite well. Now we've moved to Formula 1, and we're in the middle of the pack. We have a shot at the podium but we have to rewire for the race we're in." Akshay Kothari (@akothari). Cofounder and COO of @NotionHQ. Three years from now, most pre-AI
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Will Genesen
@wgenesen
May 28
Most seed founders think they have a channel problem. It's almost always a messaging problem. Wrote up my playbook based on time at Ramp and OneSchema:
substack.com
Most founders think they have a channel problem. It’s almost always a messaging problem
Every seed founder I talk to has a version of the same question.
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Max Zang
@maxzang305
May 28
growth for dummies. 🔥 from @wgenesen
Will Genesen
@wgenesen
May 28
Most seed founders think they have a channel problem. It's almost always a messaging problem. Wrote up my playbook based on time at Ramp and OneSchema: substack.com/@willgenesen/p…
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Muzzammil Zaveri (MZ)
@mzaveri
May 27
hear @akothari give a masterclass on reinvention and rewiring in this AI era. a must-listen episode of knuckle up 🎧
Nakul Mandan
@nakul
May 27
"We were go-karting and doing quite well. Now we've moved to Formula 1, and we're in the middle of the pack. We have a shot at the podium but we have to rewire for the race we're in." Akshay Kothari (@akothari). Cofounder and COO of @NotionHQ. Three years from now, most pre-AI
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