Nabeel Hyatt

@nabeel

investor, entrepreneur, hardware & software geek - partner . investing time and $ at the fringes.

Berkeley, CA
Joined July 2006

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    14 Nov 2016

    So lucky to work w/the crew here & thankful to the Founders in the family who really make it happen.

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  2. 7 hours ago

    Thread: There’s a case to be made that great cities are defined by their arts. Those arts are only sustainable by them being viable economically (film-la, theatre-ny). It’s possible the best case for SF as global city with deep artistic culture is in immersive & interactive art.

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    I think Nabeel's (2) has more depth to it. Old money (inherited) tends to assert social status through sponsorship of the arts, non-profit events, etc. New money does this largely to get accepted by old money. SV swamped by new money, doesn't have the same social structure.

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  4. Jan 31

    Think I’m going to try writing one thing each weekday morning, post one photo each evening, skip social in between.

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  5. Jan 31

    But civic projects here generally still crib the language and approaches of other cities. I’ve got brochures from DC and SF non profits with virtually the same language. Perhaps the approach just needs to be different.

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  6. Jan 31

    SF culture is not one of incremental status upgrades like NY. It is driven off big plans, the raw power to try and change the status quo even if chances are slim. It’s one of the reasons I think SB50 has gotten so much conversation.

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  7. Jan 31

    But maybe there is a key there. New York uses status as a driver for giving (gala parties, names on plaques). But as says, different cities send different messages on how to be successful there. ()

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  8. Jan 31

    His point is that this thinking works well for startups maybe not so well for rebuilding/strengthening a society. It’s similar to this point by Sarah & Phil:

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  9. Jan 31

    . has an insight related to SF that sticks out w/ me reading the replies. He says the intellectual culture here is unlike other places, it’s venture-like in problem solving — “here are 20 ideas, 19 are quite wrong, not even a little wrong, 1 could change everything.”

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  10. Jan 31

    1) Angel investing replaces the social utilitarian value of giving in SF. 2) Age- the wealth is recent, the founders are young. 3) SF core is anti-establishment, builder mentality, so we don’t want the name on a gold plaque at the MET, we want to build our own solution. Others?

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  11. Jan 31

    cc w/ & on this. First question feels like diagnosing why folks don’t give back as much in SF. Going theories:

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  12. Jan 31

    Why isn’t Silicon Valley more engaged civically? For those that have done well, you don’t see folks engaging in local non-profits (the arts, homelessness, etc) the way people do in NY or LA. And given that we are nothing if not systems designers, can we design a solution? ##

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  13. Jan 30

    In the end I’m going to try Twitter for this, for now. It feels suboptimal to the way I want to write but will work for now. Tagging the posts ## - just ‘cause.

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  14. Jan 30

    Change is hard. I’ve seen founders get very fear based & possessive about their team during moments of change. But an “alumni mentality” is what you want. If it’s not fitting, sometimes you can fix it, but sometimes it is time to move on and celebrate the time you had together.

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  15. Jan 30

    At Spark we’ve said goodbye to some dear friends over the years who I still love. I’m reminded of that as they comment on today’s announcements and cheer on their former colleagues. They are off on their own adventures, and I’m rooting for all the Spark alumni.

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  16. Jan 30

    When I left Zynga, was gracious, and at our studio made sure the team celebrated as he kept his probable slight sense of betrayal in check (sorry man!). The gifts they gave my last day sit in my office now.

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  17. Jan 30

    They lost three employees. It gave them a chance to be positive about the transition, for their friends to root for what was next for them instead of worried who was next. Then the team gets to congeal back together and move on.

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  18. Jan 30

    They offered for folks to quit now and take advanced severance. “If your new years resolution was to quit the company, let me help you.” It takes bravery to do that, but it means everyone knows the folks around them are in for the journey ahead.

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  19. Jan 30

    Spoke to a founder who just had an “opt out” event for their team. Company is doing well, but a lot of pivots, changes and new execs in the last 90 days. ##

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  20. Jan 30

    New funds, new partners, and excited for the new founders we’ll journey with. Feels like we are just getting started. 🚀

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  21. Jan 29

    Need an equivalent to Snapchat/Tiktok for writing. Medium feels like The Atlantic, newsletters feel like marketing, every platform trends to calcification. I want a tumblr.

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