Venture capital firm where Yoni Rechtman is a partner.
“I'm a partner at Slow Ventures, where I lead pre/seed rounds from a ≈$325M fund.”
“In venture capital you can't really build a brand or reputation on performance. You can't advertise competence via returns. It just takes too long... Instead, VCs have to cultivate brands for themselves and their firms through omnipresence: they and their takes have to be everywhere always... Venture capitalists need to look smart because it's impossible to prove they're smart. Perception, not returns, is reality.”
“We are witnessing the total takeover of already-concentrated financial markets by a single story.”
“Partner at Slow Ventures, leading pre/seed rounds from a ~$325M fund”
“Sydecar (our friends and thought partners)”
“JP Morgan (a very deep partner to the firm)”
“Cooley (Slow's law firm)”
“I lead pre/seed rounds from a ≈$325M fund.”
“We're in the installation period of the AI supercycle where hype, speculative capital, and technological progress are rampant. The deployment period, where it becomes usefully integrated into our productive base, is just beginning and will last generation(s).”
“Tech founders are flocking to etiquette classes hosted by VC firm Slow Ventures, where aspiring startup CEOs learn wine pairings, cologne etiquette, hosting skills, and 'charisma and grace' amid a growing belief that soft skills matter more in an AI era where coding itself is becoming commoditized.”
“Sublime Security — Email/cybersecurity — Addresses AI-driven increase in sophisticated, hard-to-detect threats”
“I'm extremely bullish on and interested in the second order effects of AI... the most interesting questions are what happens after we've done it.”
“I lead pre/seed rounds from a ≈$325M fund.”
“Applications are free to send. Volume explodes. Recruiters can't distinguish candidates. Resume screening stops working.”
“Git was built for scarce, human-written code. Whatever replaces it will be built for abundance.”
“Everything on the internet is fake. Content, identities, credentials. Systems that assumed human-scale production and human-verifiable authenticity stop working.”
“Sophisticated campaigns available to everyone, flooding channels. The well gets poisoned and new GTMs replace it.”
“MeritFirst — Hiring/recruiting tech — Same thesis as Phoebe — rebuilding the hiring funnel”
“Tofu — Hiring/recruiting tech — Portfolio company in the hiring infrastructure rebuild space”
“I'm a partner at Slow Ventures, where I lead pre/seed rounds from a ≈$325M fund.”
“I only care about terminal value.”
“I'm a generalist investor looking for weird takes on important stories: N-of-1 companies taking non-obvious approaches to markets that matter.”
AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.