Vedika Jain
@vedikaja_in
Investing at @weekendfund, writing @ https://publish.obsidian.md/vedika, https://builds.substack.com/, http://signatureblock.co
It’s official—I’m now a GP at Weekend Fund! I believe “career” is just a construct. What we really have is time—and the projects and people we choose to spend it on. I’m very happy to have spent the last 5+ years working with @rrhoover , and alongside our founders, LPs, and…
Introducing Weekend Fund’s new GP: @vedikaja_in Nearly 6 years ago, I sent this email inviting her to join me “nights and weekends”. Her impact was pronounced and her part-time role quickly shifted to full-time. Since then, we’ve invested $37M into 103 startups, returned our…
It’s been over a year since I’ve done a podcast. Going on @TurnerNovak’s later this week. What topics should we chat about?
Upcoming guests on @ThePeelPod: - @GarrettLord, Co-founder of @joinHandshake - Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover), Founder of @ProductHunt and @weekendfund - Michael Dempsey (@mhdempsey), Managing Partner at @CompoundVC - Isaac Medeiros (@theisaacmed), Founder of Mini Katana and…
What does it feel like inside an AI-native org? Doing AI ops at @every, I get to: → Build tools as a non-dev → Turn editorial instincts into reusable prompts → Help teammates automate their workflows @danshipper broke it all down with @lennysan. Extremely worth a listen.
Inside @Every: The AI-native startup with 5 products, 7-figure revenue, and 100% AI-written code With just 15 people, @Every publishes a daily AI newsletter, ships AI products, and operates a million-dollar-a-year consulting arm—all while their engineers write virtually zero…
Good blueprint to read (and improve) our *own* characters
How to read anyone’s character instantly:
Travel planning went from Lonely Planet PDFs to single prompts. I’m working on the next Builds & Breakthroughs issue on Travel AI. Who should I talk to? If you’re building in this space, or using AI for travel in an inventive way, DM me.
Vedika articulated something we're all feeling: A collapse of traditional gatekeepers
Whenever I’m prompting with models, I long for code; whenever I’m writing code, I long for models.
Great read coming up. I’d subscribe if I were you.
Silicon Valley's new status symbols. Sharing in my little newsletter shortly (link below).
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Large language models grow by relentlessly ingesting diverse data. True for our mind too. It’s best to keep sampling new disciplines and trends to keep evolving our mental algorithms. When success makes curiosity shrink, our personal “LLM” stops learning and starts coasting.
Agree BUT: even if this is untrue, feels helpful to believe it is true.
We are in a generational seed market.
Stress-testing a few pre-Series A startups with my 10-min “AGI-proof” rubric. Think you're building something that survives the next model drop? DM me—we’ll score it together and I’ll share the take-aways (only with your sign-off).
Every investor is asking: "How is this defensible?" @vedikaja_in created a rubric to stress test a startups AGI-proof moat.
most fun project I did at opendoor in 2017? was being responsible to get the largest real estate brokerage in AZ (od brokerage) compliant in 45? days - having basically no useful compliance, legal, real estate, experience. I was 22 and I really wanted to a be a pm at this point…
Share a piece of lore about yourself
"Nice to have, but waaaay too expensive" -> "obvious ROI"
The biggest AI Agent opportunities are going to be in categories of work where there could be a 10X or 100X increase in demand if the cost of executing certain tasks went down dramatically. The key is to find categories of work where there’s a significant amount of…
We love backing startups pulling offline industries online. AirGarage is doing this for parking parking. 10x growth since the Series A, 234 % NRR, cash-flow positive. Congrats on your Series B, @airgarageinc!
We’re excited to share that @airgarageinc raised a $23M Series B led by @HeadlineVC with participation from our existing investors and customers. AirGarage is the operating system for parking real estate. We replace broken parking machines, fragmented software, and manual,…