Liz Wessel
@lizwessel
Partner at @FirstRound. Formerly: Co-founder/CEO at WayUp, Visiting Partner at @ycombinator, and Angel Investor (Ramp, Scale, Ro, etc). Wife & Mom.
TIL that every single day, ~$2B is spent on digital ads globally. Insane.
If you refuse to condemn Hamas for the murder, maiming, mutilation, rape, torture, and abduction of thousands of Jews and Israelis on October 7, then you have no business calling yourself a humanitarian. A humanitarianism that devalues Jewish life is no humanitarianism at all,…
One of my favorite kinds of case studies is when two companies I love work together. And here it is!! Love this.
🚀 New video case study: @YCombinator hit 90% end-to-end test coverage on its mission-critical applications portal in just 14 days with only 2 engineers, powered by Spur's AI agents! 📊 90% coverage in 2 weeks ⏱️ 100+ QA hrs saved per batch 🐞 Critical bug caught the night…
Why aren’t more founders talking to customers on a weekly basis? Gusto’s co-founder and CPO @tomerlondon says it’s about fear of rejection — which he says, actually helps him learn. Listen to the whole conversation by following the link below:
In our second essay on Applied Intelligence, we break down how @cartainc built an internal agent that saves their team 3,500+ hours per month. CPO @artshali and Director of Machine Learning @JayantTikmani share the exact details of turning an 11-minute task into one that could…
We taught our 2 y/o daughter what the American flag was this past July 4th… and since then, any time she sees one, she stops what she’s doing and shouts “USA! USA!” … ngl I love it.
This X exchange is just pure gold. And horrifying.
you're right. how about we disclose this reality to people by all wearing these on our clothes?
Question for the @Waymo team: why do you use Celsius for temperature control for people sitting in the back seat?
I recently hosted a dinner w some awesome DevRel leaders and walked away with so many learnings: we discussed measuring DevRel ROI, where DevRel should sit, content trends, whether DR is a dying art, and more. Thx @adelwu_ @mattppal @dan_goosewin @philip_kiely @coneill_dev!
