Rick Heitzmann @rick
Venture capitalist - Founder and Managing Director at @FirstMarkcap, Entrepreneur, avid Philly sports fan firstmark.com New York City Joined October 2009-
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With the infrastructure built out we are moving into the era of AI powered applications
Top consumer VCs are betting on AI apps that make the internet more social. They told us the trends they are watching. bit.ly/45RQBlr
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Rick Heitzmann on Bending Spoons buying Airtable at an 80% discount to its 2021 peak. @rick compares it to Constellation’s model: buy stagnant software at low valuations, cut the staff, and jack up prices 100-200%. So is Airtable getting a second life here, or just getting squeezed for parts?
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🚨 We're live in 20 minutes, joined by @rick, Founder & Partner of @FirstMarkCap. Five straight years on the Forbes Midas List, and a portfolio that includes Pinterest, Airbnb, and Discord. Most VCs get one iconic winner in a career. Rick's built an entire collection! See you at 12 PM central!
There has always been. 1 Make the Magic 2 Sell the Magic 3 Get out of the way
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Something I never understood until I was in venture... VC is first and foremost a relationships business. You can do 100 things wrong, but if you have the right relationships, and you focus on being helpful to others, you'll get access to the best founders, the best deals, and the best opportunities.
@rick's firm can tap a network of over 80,000 people for advice on demand. It started as a Google Groups experiment with a couple hundred people in his portfolio. Rick Heitzmann, Founder and Managing Director of @FirstMarkCap, on why relationships have compounded harder than
💯 Having agency is the secret to success and happiness
the more you believe in meritocracy vs victimhood, the more the world works in your favor
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EXCLUSIVE: Henry AI has raised a $16.5M Series A led by FirstMark. Used by 150 commercial real estate brokerages to generate decks, the NYC startup is launching a new product, Henry Deal, to automate underwriting. "We're at the forefront of what I call the hard part of AI."
It is a super power ... thoughtful personalized gifts that people remember for years
For me, the most striking part of Michael Ovitz biography was learning about how high the upper limits of corporate gift giving go. His gifts office spent ~$500,000 per year in total. One of his five assistants was solely responsible for gifts, and kept track of all his
@packyM Awesome … maybe another chapter this week …
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Every platform shift, the infrastructure gets all the early attention. But the lasting companies are the ones that figure out what people actually need and build the product around that. That's the bet we have been investing in for 15+ years @ForerunnerVC. The founders we're
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Let's do it!
@rick Thank you and I would love this! You are one of the great steadfast supporter of consumer all these years. Would he amazing to team up
@joshelman Congrats! Look forward to more consumer deals with you!
This is great. Congrats
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Grit ≠ Talent. After two decades of research, we know that the correlation between grit and any measure of talent is about zero. It's passion and perseverance that make super achievers.
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