Jared Hecht
@jaredhecht
venture partner @usv | previously founder @groupme and @fundera
In 2023 I took a 12-month hiatus to recharge after building startups nonstop since graduating college. During that period of time, I had a rule that I would only commit to something if its gravitational force was completely inescapable. The opportunity to join USV was that thing…
Happy Thanksgiving, and please don't die of heart disease! myticker.com
Heart disease is the #1 killer. Tracking cholesterol does NOT reduce your risk. Make the Calcium CT Scan the standard of care for everyone over 35. $150 & 15 mins. We started the Center for Heart Attack Prevention as a Calcium CT moonshot that can save 100k lives per year! 🤍
I advocate for Calcium CT as a widespread heart screening tool bc it has the lowest hurdle to adoption - $150, 15 mins, no doc referral and catches 80-90% of heart issues. However, the angiogram w dye is a more comprehensive look inside the arteries and thus more accurate in…
I think you likely mean the ‘coronary calcium scan’ – that’s the one that @altcap recommends. The CCTA is a different test that uses contrast dye – it’s far superior but more expensive.
literally people have been asking this question since the MBA was invented
The great educational reckoning in the age of AI is here. Stanford MBAs are questioning why they spend two years and $300k and emerge with none of the skills that are most relevant in today's workforce. Top schools can no longer coast off their brands.
all i want for christmas this year is for @AnthropicAI to turn on memory for claude ideally today
great to see @neilparikh back at it
3/ our story in Forbes: forbes.com/sites/zoyahasa…
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Sequoia Wants It Hard (or What Not to do When Fundraising)
will it just be sinner and alcaraz for this new era or will there be another Big 3? and if so who joins them?
i've been a @Kasparov63 fan since i picked up a rook and saw him crush a simul when i was 10 years old heed his wise words: "we need to grow the pie for everyone, not dismantle the bakery."
Nobody talks about politics on this platform so I decided to be the first person to share my feelings
this product is badass
Introducing: Consensus Deep Search 🔬 Deep Search is a research agent that conducts literature reviews across 200M academic papers in two minutes.
seems like a pretty terrific mayor so far hopefully an inspiration to others
Today marks six months since I took office as Mayor of San Francisco. We still have a lot of work to do—but we’re showing what a new era of collaboration and action looks like. Since our 100-Day mark in April, we have passed a budget that closes an $800 million deficit and…