Roy E. Bahat
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Plays a mean game of Werewolf, also a VC who believes in worker power. Host a (very long) podcast: https://thisisnotadvice.work/
New episode of This Is Not Advice 🎤 I want you to be able to learn from people who are great at what they do, so you can feel more empowered in what you do. In this episode I speak with Rabbi Noa Kushner, founder of The Kitchen and author of Pretend You Believe.
New episode of This Is Not Advice 🎤 The job that this episode is all about: how to be an author, from the first page to the last. Welcome @ericries.bsky.social, author of the new Incorruptible (and some other things of which you may have heard).
Everyone has limited resources. How does a litigator decide which cases to pick? I asked based on my extensive knowledge, drawn from the TV show Billions. In the latest This Is Not Advice episode, (🎤!) @dohamekki.bsky.social tells us how they did it at the DOJ.
If you want to hear Theo Baker, @tab-delete.bsky.social , who has exposed many a truth about Stanford, lay some of the big ones bare... we're hosting him next week in SF, and you can request to join... a week from Wednesday. luma.com/q9etleuv
How to Rule the World: Theo Baker pre-release book lunch · Luma
Join us for an in-person conversation and lunch with journalist Theo Baker on his new book, How to Rule the World—named a book “everyone will be talking about”…
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New episode of This Is Not Advice 🎤 I wanted to learn about being a litigator.
How to be a Litigator, with Doha Mekki
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This should be fun, and important -- Eric Ries, as you may have heard, has a new book coming out. Around how to design companies so that they resist the corrosive underside of success -- and stay true to the founder's intent. Incorruptible!
Incorruptible: a conversation with Eric Ries and Roy Bahat · Zoom · Luma
Join us for a private conversation with author Eric Ries and Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta. In Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great…
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New episode of the This Is Not Advice podcast... and this one surprised me. Kelsey Shwetz is a painter, and professor at Columbia and Pratt. I know her through teaching (to be specific, she teaches me to draw!). I thought I understood what she did. I did not.
Book talk next week... about how people, throughout history, have claimed to use technology to predict the future. From oracles to AI, if you will. And how we can understand this, to assert our own power. With Oxford philosopher of technology, @carissaveliz.bsky.social luma.com/8nefmidq
Prophecy: a conversation with Carissa Véliz and Roy Bahat · Zoom · Luma
Join us for a private conversation with author Carissa Véliz, in conversation with Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta. What if the future isn't something that happens…
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Before @jodikantor.bsky.social became a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, she got kicked off her college newspaper. So she knows it's not a straight line. And we're hosting Jodi on Wednesday, April 1 at 10am PT to talk about her new book... How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work.
If you want to understand a whole occupation from snout to tail, a how-to that you can apply to your work, whatever it may be... that's what we do on the This Is Not Advice podcast. The episodes are... long. Prepare yourself :) open.spotify.com/episode/2eu4...
How to be a Doctor, with Dr. Graham Walker
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I need to tell you something, and please hold your eyerolls. A venture capitalist started a podcast. I know, I know… hear me out. open.spotify.com/episode/2nk8...
How to be a Scientist, with Bobby Kasthuri
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Heard this term for the first time today on a call -- Waymo redlining. How self-driving cars avoid low-income areas, or the companies avoid offering services in those areas, which tend to of course be communities of color. www.reddit.com/r/waymo/comm...
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What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow? Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it) resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
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All of you are deliberately mischaracterizing what Sarah Hurwitz was saying about Holocaust education. Do better.
Is your startup too small / young / cash-strapped to throw a holiday party? We're throwing one for you... Startup Festivus on Fri 12/5 in SF, now in its 11th year. 🎉 Ask to join, or share it with your favorite founder: bit.ly/StartupFesti...
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Is your startup too small to throw its own party this holiday? Join us for Startup Festivus on Friday, December 5 in San Francisco! Because cash is precious and holidays are best spent together, we ar...
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Founders are our customers. Our North Star metric, by definition, can’t be “capital returned to our LP.” So what is it? (🧵)
In a world with AI, what will it take for people to thrive in their jobs? The only way to find out is to try. The first step: unveiling the National Academy for AI Instruction, a teacher training center led by the American Federation of Teachers, with support from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Another announcement: Mike Moritz’s SF Standard makes their first acquisition (and Mike’s first personal acquisition ever?), Charter — where the future of news meets the future of work. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/b... (🧵)
He Made Billions on Google and PayPal. Now, He’s Betting on News.
Michael Moritz co-founded The San Francisco Standard, a local news organization. It is acquiring Charter, a start-up focused on the future of work.
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Typically, when a VC says they’re being transparent, it’s right before they admit they’re investing in your competitor. “Just to be honest…” TBPN asked me what it means to run the “most transparent venture fund”, and it comes back to who our customers are. (Founders!) To us, transparency means:
“Meet your founders where they are” took me to TBPN, to announce our new fund. While Fund 5 is the first fund we rang in with a gong, it’s also the same as Funds 4, and 3, and 2 and 1… fresh capital in service of our customers, the founders. 1/2
Special place in not-quite-hell-but-close for people who add an extra space after the Zoom link in the Google Calendar location IYKYK
Yes, Bloomberg Beta has a new fund to invest – our fifth. Radical change.
Unsure who needs to hear this but the new season of Ginny & Georgia is almost as good as Andor
I usually skip making a big deal of anniversaries. (I’m… terrible at celebrating?) Bloomberg Beta turns 12 today. (Teenage overconfidence will come next year.) Does that mean anything? Well, yes and no.
"Startups selling their product to startups" often ends in a phenomenon I call the customer cul-de-sac. 1/
The new Pope’s two things seem to be AI and labor unions. Seems like he’d make the perfect VC — and we’d be happy to make space for him as a GP. I bet he’d do well on TBPN.
“Which AI model should I use?” is like asking “What will my child be good at when they grow up?” Let me explain… because somebody asked me that question at an AWS event recently, and it’s a fair question. 1/
