Ben Metcalfe

@dotBen

Founder + Partner • Co-Founder • Ex-, , & • 23 • Husband + Soon-To-Be Dad • Proud Brit

San Francisco, CA
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Joined December 2006
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    14 Oct 2020

    Dusting off something new! So, so stoked to be announcing AND our first investment into ! (Don't tell anyone but I'm buzzing with excitement! ☺️)

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Why is this digital art worth $2500 to own a limited run of 303 editions? I can watch it here, why do I need to own it? I fundamentally can't get my head around owning anything that is digital but clearly I'm the one missing something. Please explain if you get this, EIL5

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    Case study on how someone made $4 million in 9 minutes: • Creator broke an NFT record of $4M sales in 9 min • Sold tokenized animations of his Tokyo artwork • 249K IG followers You don't have to have a million followers to make $1m.
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  3. Retweeted
    15 hours ago

    Currently listening to and talk about their vision for . Fortunate to have gone through the first cohort and saw firsthand the incredible program they built and the value they added to so many of us. Thank you for what you are doing for the ecosystem

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    Love that and are building the YC for emerging fund managers - much needed as we grow. Listen to our conversation on what inspired this and their tips for new managers!
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  4. 11 hours ago

    Recurring theme the Committee members are saying is "we must protect our precious financial market" not "we must protect citizens participating in the financial market" 🤔

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  5. 11 hours ago

    Why does Australia get it so lucky? For the collective good of the nation, what can we do collectively to encourage Zuck to follow through and please ban the sharing of news on FB in USA as well? 😂

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  6. 14 hours ago

    I'm really worried for my Austinite and TX friends. This account shows how terrible things are becoming there. I hope some good comes out of this and TX changes it's ideological stance (or voters change the gov) on matters like regulation, community investment etc

    For my non-Texans, it’s hard to convey how f’d our state is. It’s barely broken freezing since Sunday. Half of Austin has been almost entirely w/out heat or power for 2.5 days. Water pressure is dropping and there’s a boil notice but half the city has no power to boil. Thread🧵⤵️
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  7. Feb 16

    Makers of B2B software need to consider the generational make up of their user base. Older users may prefer consistent experiences but younger ones may want to see constant change. If you have a low switching cost (like Zoom) you really can't stop innovating.

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  8. Feb 16

    Reports of teams switching from to for private company meetings demonstrate, if anything, people crave novelty and get restless with the same old experience ongoing. You could just hold your Zoom meetings without video, and it would be more secure.

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  9. Feb 15

    Yo how's that Texas blackout treating you? 🥶

    California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity. Biden/Harris/AOC want to make CA’s failed energy policy the standard nationwide. Hope you don’t like air conditioning!
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  10. Feb 15

    Wtf? 🤔 (Note blue ticked official account)

    Chk it out a friend just told me real history on part time History Channel. I’m in car Something abt Washington
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  11. Retweeted
    Feb 15

    dear : this is not what VCs look like

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  12. Feb 13

    Good list from Pim

    Random thread on things I've learned while running Medal the last few years. In no particular order. 👇
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    Feb 12

    How to build a target investor list using Crunchbase. 👇 First, you’ll need Crunchbase Pro. At $25/mo, not bad. Then, I use Airtable, specifically the Linked Table feature.

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  14. Feb 11

    OH: "We have everything you need in the ecosystem: investors, money, entrepreneurs... er, we don't have any engineers though". Hmmm 🤔

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  15. Feb 10

    BTW can I just paypal you some dosh, save me signing up to Patreon.... :/

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  16. Feb 10

    Finally got to watch this incredible indie documentary by about the early UK scene - a huge part of my personal music identity. It probably won't mean much to you if you're not an old hed like me but if you love music give it a go!

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  17. Feb 10

    No one on has noticed yet that I always participate with my cute cat filter on at all times. I'm here live, but I'm not a cat.

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  18. Feb 9

    Tip for founders: post a teaser pitch of your startup on Superchargers, esp in parking lots of VC offices such as LDAC in Presidio, SF. what about it?

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    Feb 9

    A lawyer using Zoom had to let a judge know that he wasn’t a cat after inadvertently activating a face filter

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  20. Feb 9

    Super interesting (and chilling)... Cop plays copyrighted music during an encounter he knows is being live streamed to trigger a censor to collapse the stream. "Listen to the music" he says a couple of times - it is intentional what he is doing.

    Beverly Hills Cop-yright: Multiple cops in Beverly Hills have started playing music while citizens are filming them, seemingly in an attempt to trigger Instagram's copyright filters
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  21. Feb 9

    I guess this is 's replacement for the (I 🖤'd my TT so much). Super uninspiring, bland and based on Porsche Taycan (why not just buy a Taycan?). I'm glad I've moved on and enjoy our Model 3 Performance so much.

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