Hadley
@Hadley
Cofounder @EniacVC | Seed investor | PMF whisperer | Built & sold AI startups before it was cool
As a startup investor you work for the company’s CEO Your job is to do what you can to make her or him successful Too often VC’s get confused and think it’s the other way around
Email inboxes should be conversational. Less a to-do list and more a daily standup. You spend 15 minutes aligning on how it plans to handle everything, then let it take over. It only pings you if something truly needs your attention.
🚨 Rare opportunity to join a breakout startup⬇️ One of our fastest growing vertical AI companies is looking to grow their team: 👩💻 Hiring across eng, legal ops and customer success 🗺️ Preferably in Austin or NYC You’d be getting in at the ground floor (<25 FTE) of a rocket…
Today @EniacVC is proud to lead the $6.3M seed round for @call_hyper, now out of stealth with a voice AI platform built for non-emergency response. Co-founders Ben and Damian are tackling one of the most essential and overburdened systems in the country: 9-1-1. Hyper’s voice…
A lot of founders seem confused about what best-in-class growth actually looks like for their company. There’s plenty of hype around PLG and viral consumer products, for good reason. But many great startups have to sell top-down. Self-serve just isn’t viable given the industry…
Absolutely not hypocritical about it. I would not work with the WeWork founder either! Working without trust is sure way to be unhappy. And is this founder able to get the best teams to come join him? A 100X isn't worth it to me at the cost of my values, especially since I have…
@vkhosla - you’re right about Windsurf, and hard to disagree with the moral framework. Still, you’re hypocritical about “wouldn’t work with them again.” If a founder delivers 100x on their next project, everyone will forget the abandoned team. Capitalism forgives everything…
Mildly spicy take: Seed investors should almost never be on the board. If you need to invoke board governance at the seed stage, you’ve already lost the game. Why this matters for founders: Series A and B investors usually require board seats. I’ve seen too many cases where seed…
Venture traditionally primarily tracks performance with TVPI (Total Value to Paid-In) and DPI (Distributions to Paid-In), but neither accounts for how long returns take. As the asset class matures and markets grow more liquid, IRR—realized and unrealized—should become the…
Seed investors demanding board seats without experience is a red flag. Bad board members are hard to remove. The vast majority of seed investors shouldn’t be on boards.
Hosted a dinner with about 15 IT leaders around the future of AI Agents in the enterprise. Here are a few updates on the state of the world at least at some large enterprises: * For many organizations, the demand from the business for AI is continuing outstrip the ability to…
Back in my day, when a company got acquired, the acquirer bought the whole damn thing, and the proceeds went to the cap table
As a VC, you work for the company’s CEO. Your job is to do what you can to make them successful. Too often VCs get confused and think it’s the other way around. Yes, you have a fiduciary duty to LPs, but if there’s misalignment, it’s on you to flag it and work through it openly
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We’re seeing young, inexperienced founders build fast-growing companies like Cursor for the same reason Facebook and Snap had young founders: we’re in the steep part of a platform shift. Back then it was social & mobile. Now it’s AI Fresh eyes and tenacity > experience
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