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VC as an industry, needs disruption. Ex- @shefiorg, @careem, @talabat. Currently spreading chaos at @lvlupvc, @e7banat, @strategytoolsio & @joinpond.

Dubai
Joined May 2022
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Hi! Welcome to my profile. I am someone who stands by those who have the understanding to speak and act on things that don’t hurt, or harm others. If you seem threatened by that statement, perhaps it’s best if you don’t click my follow button.
I repeat my call for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Middle East, the unconditional release of all hostages, and the delivery of life-saving supplies at the scale needed. Everyone must assume their responsibilities. This is a moment of truth. History will judge us all.
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the most successful people i know seemingly have endless energy to express raw effort in every aspect of their lives- they live intensely, joyfully, and equally effortlessly in all aspects of life and work. bay area freaks have cargo culted this into souless automo-elon golems
this stuff is so tiresome. jp morgan lead new york city yacht club to two successive cup victories, rockefeller raced trotters through central park, ellison made sailboats fly you all are falling victim to the pastiche of martyrdom without any of the glory. get over yourselves
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I know I have to teach but I just do not wanna go to uni at 7am. Why do kids wake up so early
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I thought she had a different criteria
Best founders I backed had no hobbies. Only one obsession — the company.
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X posts really over exaggerate building. It’s not that easy to not fall into the “get a job” trap. Here are some tips to follow: 1. Yes, go crazy building but start with working on your financial “cushion”. 2. Get onto a liveable perpetual amount that gives you the $ to live and the time to build &test, and network. 3. Aura farm the heck out of yourself because it helps you test your market (and expand your cushion). 4. When you’re ready to go full time into building your product, adjust your financial cushion. This allows you to incorporate risk.
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There’s a reason why “stakeholder relationships” is a thing.
Sales is everyone’s job once you reach a certain point
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Best ones we’ve backed had like 37… crazy intellectual curiosity that knows no bounds and often those interests feed back into the company… eg @patrickc, @finkd, etc…
Best founders I backed had no hobbies. Only one obsession — the company.
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The best founders I’ve backed have 2 instances, where they almost always quote 1 (or both) variations of: 1. “This person just hit me up and next thing you know, I’m on a flight” and this person is the VP of a bank or a tech wildhouse like AMD. 2. “I’m just curious” and they build a fucking spaceship out of their bag of trivial knowledge in the next 20 days.
Best founders I backed had no hobbies. Only one obsession — the company.
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It is never vocal obsession about the company.
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I am cohosting a paid angel investing event for those who are still stuck in the cave about them needing to be rich to invest in startups. You don’t. It’s paid because I bring value, and I don’t want another episode of 60+ signups with 12 actually showing up. DM
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I thought it would be fun to apply for a role that I found very interesting. If I actually got a callback, I’d have rejected it (or atleast negotiated it to a consultant cause no way this should be a FT role) Here’s the response:
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Please don’t beat yourself up over a rejection, ever. 90% of the time it’s marketing for something that they’re doing. When I did some research, there is indeed an event coming up. And voila, my spam email now has DF week event highlights 🤷‍♀️
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I hate that you’ve highlighted this but you are so right.
Your parent's home is not designed for ambition and productivity. It is designed for eating, sitting, talking, watching entertainment, sleeping, or lazing around. It works for them. It doesn't work for you. They didn't have to open 37 tabs and push buttons on a screen to earn their bread. That kind of knowledge work where you make stuff happen on a computer needs to be done somewhere else. I've tried for 15 years now. Working at home just doesn't work.
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The judge who passed the groundbreaking quote in R v Russel Brand is a genius because not only did he send RB to 10 years of jail, but he changed the way all future global SA cases will be handled by courts in the future. Or atleast across Eng & Wales, Oceania, HK, Singapore.
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In the US, it does get an upgrade to a strong rhetoric statement that can be leveraged, but things still remain corrupted because you know why 😀
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Some people need to get their foot in the door at the right place and rise up by doing great work rather than be overly precious re: scope and title at the outset. What’s most important is where you finish, not where you start. Prove yourself.
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Using Notion as a “brain” for Grok Bot has been an incredible productivity hack, and how I built my fleet. All my rules, skills, and routines are written back to Notion. Bots are also responsible for maintaining task boards in Notion (what’s waiting on me, waiting on others, or blocked) This is easier for me to visually scan and decide where to jump in at any given moment. Enables me to maintain clarity across 100s of customer, prospect, and internal conversations I didnt have to design my @NotionHQ setup either - I just pointed @bot to Notion’s docs and told it to figure it out.
New: Give all your agents one shared brain in Notion. Now, ChatGPT, Claude, Muse, and Bot can save what they learn to the same memory and use the same skills in Notion. Learn how to Notion-pill your agents:
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My big takeaway from this Jensen scandal is that we need to start including infidelity assumptions into our DCF models.
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I am genuinely going to invest in cosmetology and beauty after reading this. I genuinely need to look hot to get secrets as insane as this
The US government spent billions building a chip embargo and cyber fortress around Nvidia. Her name was Alice Huang (Huang Le). She walked into a Taipei whiskey bar, got close to CEO Jensen Huang, and routed $4.8 billion of Nvidia AI hardware through a Singapore firm in 20 months. This is the story of Alice Huang and how a 5,000-year-old human exploit bypassed a $3.5 trillion tech giant that's guarded like a military base. 2023 - June 2024 - Chinese mobile gaming firm 7Road spins out a new data center startup in Singapore called Megaspeed - Alice Huang, a former TV reporter in China with no family relation to Jensen Huang, steps in as managing director - during the June 2024 Computex conference in Taipei, she bets tech executives at a whiskey bar that she can get the Nvidia CEO to show up - shortly after 12:00 AM midnight, 63-year-old Jensen Huang walks in wearing his black leather jacket and sits right beside her for the rest of the night June 2024 - February 2026 - while Washington blocks H100 and B200 chip exports and bans ASML EUV lithography machines from China, Megaspeed becomes a massive buyer - trade records tracked by The New York Times show Megaspeed and its Malaysian sister firm buy $4.8 billion worth of Nvidia AI hardware - at least $2 billion in advanced chips flow through Malaysia into Indonesian data centers where Chinese tech giant Alibaba rents the compute capacity May 2025 - Jensen Huang and Alice Huang are photographed leaving the San Liu Shi Fu restaurant in Taipei on May 23, with Alice walking right behind him in a pink dress holding a glass of red wine - after monitoring Alice Huang for over 1 year, US intelligence agencies circulate a classified assessment concluding she was recruited by China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) - when intelligence officers unmask the American citizen on her intercepted phone calls, the name comes back as Jensen Huang October 2026 - Today - Nvidia initially dismisses federal probes in the US, Singapore, and Taiwan by calling the meetings "completely normal and not unusual" - on November 8, 2026, after The New York Times and Financial Times expose the romantic relationship, Jensen Huang emails 30,000+ employees admitting he was unfaithful to his wife of 43 years: "I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry." To this day, Nvidia's Board of Directors is investigating whether its own CEO was compromised by a foreign spy operation, while Kalshi prices a 20% chance he steps down before 2029. You can spend billions locking down silicon wafers, export controls, and enterprise firewalls. Across 5,000 years of espionage, when encryption becomes unbreakable, the biggest zero-day vulnerability on the planet is still human biology.
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JENSEN! THATS NOT WHAT WE MEANT BY CHINESE MODELS!!!!!!!
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We're pleased to share that LvlUp Ventures is an Ecosystem Partner of Doers Summit Dubai 2026. On November 25–26 at Dubai Silicon Oasis, under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Doers Summit brings together founders, investors, operators and corporate leaders from Europe, the GCC, Asia and beyond. Our MENA team will be on site at the LvlUp booth, and we'll also be hosting a workshop during the summit. If you're a founder building in the region, come find us. As part of the partnership, we're offering our community complimentary passes, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Use code DS26LVLUP or claim yours here: luma.com/r4oed190?coupon=DS2… #LvlUpVentures #DoersSummit #Dubai #MENA #Startups
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