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Derrick Li
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- just found my old altimeter capital business cards... which had a compound interest table on the back 😂
- 🚨 pumped to join @AforeVC as an investor! excited to work with @anamitra @gjain @jackmcclelland @kaylakav @ekaurghar @steevevakees and partner with founders who are building generational companies 🚀 if you are building or thinking of building a startup, please reach out
- when does the hedge fund turned late stage growth fund turned vc fund (tiger, altimeter, coatue, dragoneer, etc.) trend turn? as in vc funds start investing in the public markets? vcs just have so much private data on individual company cohorts, competitors, pipeline, etc.
- when I joined Altimeter in 2014, @altcap said he wanted to help me "demystify the world" I think back to those words often - having the curiosity to explore, the courage to question norms, dig deeper, and demystify the world around us
- all my best investments were dismissed or laughed at by “experts” naivete is a hell of a weapon
- had the privilege of sitting next to @_ram_ for 3+ years @ altimeter he's been dropping knowledge bombs since day 1 i should've paid more attention back then but i guess it's not too late thanks to podcasts :)My conversation with @_ram_, the founder of Octahedron - scope of the coming internet opportunity - key levers in 8 internet business models 🤯 - the Carvana playbook As a friend said “this morning’s pod is NOT a 1.5x listen.” Ram’s passion is palpable joincolossus.com/episodes/22392…
- what continues to baffle me about excel + sheets (and much of microsoft office + gsuite) middle schools and high schools acquire customers for them + onboards those customers for life free of charge
- I had an amazing conversation with @juliadewahl, one of the best operators in the world @Opendoor @SpaceXStarlink 🚀 - creating and scaling processes @Opendoor 🏡 - communicating processes - ops as a moat - internal tools 🔥 usemacro.com/episodes/julia…🚨 We’re launching a podcast called Trust the Process where we’ll be chatting with ops leaders behind the world’s most operationally brilliant companies 🚨 First up, @juliadewahl on how @Opendoor created the iBuyer category and built a $5bn+ business usemacro.com/episodes/julia…
00:00 - so pumped to be launching @usemacro! big shout out to the team for all the hard work ps - we are hiring :)Very excited to share @usemacro with the world today! Our mission is to change the way that teams handle their recurring work by giving process-builders a dedicated tool to build and manage processes. producthunt.com/posts/macro-3
- Replying to @_sonith!! fun story - @altcap and @kevinjwang gave me a case study before I joined for years, I thought I aced the case study and that’s why I got the internship I looked at my responses maybe a year ago - got all 3 questions wrong guess I didn’t get hired for my excel skills
- why doesn’t Spotify organize and manage tours for the long tail of emerging new artists? book venues and manage ticket processing for these artists and maybe take on Live Nation // TicketMaster as these artists develop in prominence Spotify has data to predict ticket demand
- accel was considered a fund past its prime in 2005 harvard, mit, princeton no longer believed in the fund and so all backed out as lps wanted to invest in tickle and flickr but both got bought instead, invested in facebook rest is history
- QR code adoption in the us is going to go mainstream because of covid19 dine in menu -> ordering -> paying from phone
