Sahil Mansuri

#GoNiners

If James Harden ever shot 82.6% from the field, he'd score approximately 142 points. #MambaMentality #kyrie

This is the definition of privilegehttps://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1215111440140390400 …

I'm not crying, you're crying FYI - Dates and flowers are traditionally placed on graves.https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1210944335346311169 …

6. Know where people learn to be scrappy? To be agile? To think on their feet? To be humble? To build great teams? Sales.

5. And lastly ... VC is a sales job. This entire survey and presentation is for the purpose of marketing. Yet sales/marketing get no love in the actual survey

cc: @jennylefcourt @alexbard @akad @chudson

4. I'd be willing to bet that having a brilliant marketer/sales professional as part of a founding team is FAR more predictive of success than having a brilliant technical founder. Tech is getting fast/cheap. Distribution slow/expensive. Act accordingly. #basisforsuccess

3. Why does nobody ask whether having a brilliant business founder (marketing/growth/sales) predict success? Steve Jobs was a brilliant marketer Elon Musk is a brilliant marketer Sheryl Sandberg was a top sales rep

2. This survey dives into whether having a "technical founder" leads to success. But the cost/complexity of shipping code is declining rapidly (ie - no code). On the other hand, the cost/complexity of sales is INCREASING. Way harder to sell now, ask your CEOs...

7. We have a long way to go in the US on race and discrimination, no doubt. But Europe is like 50 years behind us. It's really disheartening to experience. We must do better. We must.

6. Because I have the privilege of being born in the US, I was accepted as "one of them". But based on appearance alone, I was a symbol of all that was wrong with Europe. It is so sickening.

5. But nothing was more shocking than what happened after I interacted with someone who was making microaggressions: They realized I am an Who speaks perfect English. And they were IMMEDIATELY friendly! "Oh we love America! San Francisco is LOVELY!" etc.

4. - The couple who tried to get me to serve them coffee at breakfast, assuming I worked at the hotel. - The 3 guys who made monkey noises at a group of black women gathered near the subway.

3. There was at least one incident per day: - The British woman who scowled when she saw me enter a restaurant and loudly whisper to her husband "Immigration is a real problem, no doubt about it." - The hostess who refused to seat / acknowledge me.

2. The @Bravado eng team met for a 2020 summit in Marbella. Picturesque town filled mostly with British tourists and locals. Almost immediately I knew something was wrong when a random person shouted "Guantanamo Bay!" at me the first night.