Leeor Mushin
@lmushin
GP @Formation_VC | 🇺🇸🇮🇱 | cofounder of @qdayclock | low TAM™️ | ex @floodgatefund @stanfordgsb @utaustin
Does anyone else get confused when someone says “my partner,” and you’re not sure whether it’s their life partner or their partner in venture capital
History repeats itself
In 1943, the President of IBM said the world might need 5 computers Today, there are more in your living room Even the smartest people miss the future
The keys to cold outbound: 1. Use whatever you have at your disposal 2. Talk shit
When I was 11 years old, wrote this poem as if I were an adult thinking about my childhood after my parents had a fight The poem won an award and was hung up at the Houston Children’s Museum in English and Spanish. I got free entry to the museum for a year
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Calm. Cool. Collected. Named everyone else on his crew. Said “anyone else would have done the same,” and then saved close to 200 people. A truly humble professional and hero. I hope this man gets every good thing he deserves.
We need a hand sign for the greatest country in the world PROPOSAL: commandeer “The U” from U Miami by the time we hit our 250th Happy birthday, USA
Everything I needed to learn about business as a kid I learned from: - Rollercoaster Tycoon (pricing) - Civilization (long-term planning) - Football Manager (talent scouting) - SimCity (tradeoffs) - Baseball Mogul (data-driven decisions) - The Sims (motivations)
Rollercoaster Tycoon taught my brother and I the importance of interest rates. When we first played, we’d max out our loans because it felt good to see a flush bank account. Then we noticed “interest” payments that varied from level to level. Soon, we started only taking out…