Nicholas Chirls @nchirls
in the asylum with early-stage founders @asylumventures @notationcapital nickchirls.com Brooklyn, NY Joined February 2009-
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But “we’re still early” 😂
people are now talking themselves into why it’s actually rational for venture investors to yeet money into frothy, exuberant sectors because historically “you can make a lot of money at the end of parabolic curves” ok except that is true for hedge funds with immediate liquidity
@thePalenimbus Good for them. Even more reason not to be fee / mememaxing
subtext --> we were wrong about crypto, so now we believe the future is...uh...anything? who funds this?
1/ Today in @FortuneMagazine: Framework Ventures has raised $400 Million for our 4th fund, FVIV. We believe the future is being built at the intersection of blockchain, AI, robotics, energy, and fintech. 🧵👇
It saddens me to see so many folks getting tossed around the waves of the industry right now But the anxiety and lack of trust is palpable — these are just the symptoms of an overly mercenary culture, latching on to any narrative that can provide a capital tailwind In a storm it’s hard to know what’s a tailwind and what’s capsizing crosswind Steadfast values, begetting durable vision, is the only way to not be consumed by this environment
Sadly this is highly accurate. Very difficult to navigate incentives in venture while remaining true to self
From @chudson on why it's potentially more dangerous to sit out of a bubble than to participate: "That's my lesson from 2021. Because it’s not as if the people who were sober and restrained during 2021 have gotten a lot of credit from their LPs for having not participated in the
@mdudas i mean my guy...is the "intersection of blockchain, AI, robotics, energy, and fintech" an actual strategy? Happy to wear "niche fund" as a badge of honor my man
So so excited to be back in London next week with @nchirls and @kenzieregent 🇬🇧💙 Say hi!
Love Karri’s perspective here
The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something. And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you
The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something. And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy. Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output. This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work. I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution. Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook. With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it. My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day. There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed. Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work. I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things. I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master. Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.
"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose". Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups. - The company works 7 days per week. - Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office. - He built a cafe in the office because there was
1/ Venture investing is often framed as a strategy game, but it’s just as much an exercise in emotional calibration. And who you have behind you matters. @nchirls & I unpack a new framing “cynical optimism” in the new Origins minisode. My🔑Takeaway 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=B3RczQ…
@FinnMurphy12 this is a trade. Not an investment
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