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jim goetz
@jimgoetz
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Miami Beach, FLJoined June 2009

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worth a listen, musings from my favorite south african.
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I had a wonderful conversation with @tferriss about growing up in South Africa, my path to entrepreneurship, and the @Sequoia approach to thinking long-term and building enduring companies. Listen here: tim.blog/2022/08/31/roe
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Lots of volatility and uncertainty in crypto right now. Please be safe out there. 1) Paradigm is here for the long term and excited to fund new companies through ups and downs. 2) If you are a crypto company in crisis, we are happy to help if we can. Please reach out.
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Another Aussie making an impact!
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Over 60M Americans have credit scores under 700, and 45M are literally credit invisible: they have no score. Access to credit is a key, so this is a big problem. I sat down with @warrenhogarth to talk about how his startup @EmpowerHQ fixes this. youtu.be/6liuF7faPaM
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Underway for years and well deserved . Props to for decades of selfless leadership.
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Big news in venture capital: Sequoia has named Midas List investor and PayPal veteran Roelof Botha as its new global leader, effective July 5. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr
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мир is "peace" in ukrainian. let's make this call to action happen. #postforpeace
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.@zelenskyyua speech was powerful. Imagine if this was happening in your home. You wouldn’t stand for it. We have to rally the world for PEACE. Recognizing we are all part of one human family, let us open our hearts to love and #postforpeace. #standforukraine
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News sources have become polarizing, time consuming and difficult to access. Since early January I found joy in digesting news through "cf" (a term meaning to compare between sources). A game changer for news. cf publicly launched on the iPhone today:
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Welcome and . Revenue is arguably the most important business process, and yet, the last to be transformed—until Clari. Props to .
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We’re excited to announce our $225M Series F led by @blackstone, more than quadrupling our valuation to $2.6B in two years. A special thanks to our remarkable investors, board, customers, and Clarians. clari.com/blog/series-f-
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insights and a path forward from one of the leading minds in social.
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The word “algorithm” has become distorted over the decades. But social algorithms aren't to blame. It's engagement features that weaponize them. Here's how manipulating people's attention has become a product design decision (and why it's a slippery slope) 🧵👇
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A joy to be back face to face without masks.
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The most interesting conversations at board meetings happen outside the room - which is why it’s so great to be back in person with @jimgoetz @venkatrangan01 @malay_desai @kleaf @00byrne & the gang at @clarihq
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Props to for spearheading what will become a historic reinvention of "venture capital".
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Patience is a virtue. We believe it’s also smart business. The traditional 10-year VC fund cycle no longer makes sense for today’s world, or tomorrow’s founders. Introducing The Sequoia Fund. seq.vc/sequoia_fund (1/2)
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A nice recognition of the teams that I’ve had the honor of being on at and now at ! Thanks to them!
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Congratulations ⁦@Joseph_DeSimone⁩ ⁦@StanfordEng⁩ on receiving the E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry ⁦@AmerChemSociety⁩ ACS 2022 national award winners cen.acs.org/people/awards/
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If you are even contemplating entrepreneurship…listen in to some unconventional thoughts on “day 1” in category design.
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The most anticipated #SiliconValley #startup launch of 2021. Learn why two builders of #WhatsApp (@neerajarora @michaeldonohue) are creating the first "real-relationship app" @halloapp Exclusively: apple.co/3ip8JtZ #SocialMedia #messaging #smartphone #realrelationship
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