Monica L
@mon__lim
investor @M12vc - microsoft's venture fund // supporting founders who have found their purpose 🌱
Excited to share that I moved to SF & joined the investment team at @M12vc, Microsoft's VC Fund! Thrilled to continue supporting founders who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI. Grateful to be working with some of the most humble, intellectually curious, and…
This is unironically what it feels like to run a startup
fascinating talk on the termination of war featuring Prof. Sarah Paine x @dwarkesh_sp. was fun to peer into the mind of a brilliant historian - Prof. Paine makes the frameworks to assess war strategies accessible & fun. appreciated her nuanced take on the importance of truly…
ANNOUNCEMENT: ENFORCED RATIO Join me & @CatOrman1 on August 16th for a San Francisco first - an event where there WILL be more women than men. Ft. cybertruck FSD demos, fruity drinks, & a surprise DJ set.
I’m Shawn, founder of Memories.ai, former researcher at Meta and CS PhD at University of Cambridge. Today we’re launching : we built the world’s first Large Visual Memory Model - to give AI human-like visual memories. Why visual memory? AI to…
Victor is, by far, the person who shaped me the most into who I am today. He’s an n‑of‑1 founder turned investor. I’ve known him for 12+ years, and I never met anyone else remotely similar to him. 🧵 Here’s what I learned from Victor...
After 2 great years at benchmark, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave the firm in order to pursue a new adventure. Benchmark simply excels in the craft of early stage investing and forming deep partnerships with founders. I’ll always be grateful to have had the opportunity…
I’ve joined Cognition to continue to work on the future of software engineering. I was employee #2 at Windsurf and have worked on AI+code for years. There’s never been a more exciting time and place for it than now at Cognition. I had a place at Google DeepMind as part of the…
I’d argue founder growth rate is the number one predictor of success The best founders feel like entirely different people a few years in The ones who don’t make it often seem like the same person, just more tired
Excited to share our first public profile in a decade - joining Ramtin to help build Abstract 2.5 years ago was the best career decision I could've made. And we're just getting started, hope you enjoy the article!
Ramtin Naimi started a successful hedge fund at 19, went bankrupt at 24, and then built a $1.8 billion venture firm backed by investing icons like Stanley Druckenmiller, @pmarca, and @BillAckman. Michael Ovitz calls Naimi his “non-biological son.” Founders say he’s “the most…
One of the coolest parts of doing this podcast is the ability to get specific advice from amazing people about how to do my job. Peter's advice for me about how to be a better VC was basically to cultivate the ability to know a special person when you meet them. Which may sound…
Aaron @levie is one of the clearest thinkers on AI agents in the enterprise. Some takeaways from his podcast with @martin_casado: • AI agents are making unstructured data useful, opening up verticals like legal, healthcare and consulting to software for the first time. • Most…
This is happening! August 16th, more details soon. Hosted by myself and @CatOrman1. We have 1 more sponsor slot, DM me if you’re interested!
Got 40+ DMs from women in SF. 😂 Now I want to host an event and invite them all. A party where there’s more women than men, maybe a first in SF. DM me if you want to sponsor us.
One of the simplest sources of alpha in VC is to consistently do the mundane: market research, screening companies, doing the diligence work, writing the memos, showing up in working sessions, sending follow ups. 99.9% of investing, even in VC, is boring; it's muck and grunt…
I find the best investors are those who understand very clearly what they need to know is and are happy to move forward with a bunch of things they don't need to know. Related to this: I would guess that many venture investment committees are 10x more detail oriented and 50%…
Tonight's lecture is on the history of Russo-Chinese relations. Few tickets still available at the link below. It's insane to look at a map of Russia and China around 1850. The two countries are just absolutely massive. They're still huge today, but at the turn of the 19th…
On a viewer-minute adjusted basis, I host the Sarah Paine podcast, where I sometimes also talk about AI. I'm very excited to announce a new 6-part in-person lecture series with her in San Francisco in July. We're giving the tickets away for free. Links below.
labor is priced like capital when it is the final bottleneck to the thing that will permanently substitute capital for labor
Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’ nature.com/articles/s4422…