👉 What Happened on Tech Twitter Last Week - Nov 17 (via Zak Kukoff)
Elon has gone mad, the billion-dollar chrome extension, scouts everywhere, and more!
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Really excited to have Zak Kukoff curating this week’s newsletter.
✨A word on the curator✨
Zak is an enterprise investor at Emergence Capital. A lot of VCs rely on Twitter to stay current and even generate deal flow, but Zak is a pro at it. We named him Tweeter of the Month in September but he has hilarious, insightful, and random things to share every month. Here are a few of his most recent tweets:
And now, Zak:
Hey everyone, Zak here. Excited to take the reins of the newsletter this week.
What kind of week has it been! Cybertruck, Honey, scouts… but mostly I’m thankful that SF’s long, city-wide nightmare — Dreamforce — is finally over.
Cybertruck, eta 10 years
Was cybertruck the biggest story of the week? Let me put it this way: I don’t drive, have a parking spot, or know how to pump gas, but my wallet is $100 lighter. To put it mildly, its design was divisive:
Memes aside, there was an emerging narrative about the iconoclastic design choices Elon & co made in the Cybertruck. Would any other carmaker produce this? Probably not -- at least, not beyond a concept car (which is all we have from Tesla today). To everyone who pre-ordered: enjoy your car in 10 years!
Here’s hoping I don’t get screamed at too aggressively for mentioning Tesla here.
Show me the Honey
My colleague Hari makes a great point about Honey legitimizing a new generation of LA-based fund managers:
And Sam also points out the long careers of each of the Honey co-founders:
Pour one out for all the associates roped into scrumming Chrome extensions…
…and all the GPs who passed on a $B payday;
Scouts… everywhere
Really interesting discussion this week of scouts and scout programs, kicked-off in part by Indie VC’s announcement of their scout class:
Are scouts continuing the trend of diversifying cap tables? A16z GP Andrew Chen thinks so:
But Jill Carlson of Slow thinks otherwise -- and I’m inclined to agree. Scouts can be an appealing panacea for funds who’ve been historically reluctant to add diverse investors to their partnerships:
Doug leaves us with the only good take on scouts:
Other good tweets
And finally, there was yet another flareup of the personal CRM forever war. Despite this happening in tech twitter this week, there were no good tweets about it, so I refuse to link to any.
Happy thanksgiving!
Thanks for reading y’all! - Brett