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Love this. The biggest lever for growth and efficiency is ownership and aligned incentives.
guyvidra retweeted
I will never forget when Craig Shapiro first told me he was meeting his ultimate man-crush, Tom Wilson.
I still can't believe that he's an LP now. It's a really special day here at collaborative.
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Thanks for the kind words, Craig! Already a fan and customer of several of these companies. Excited to support what’s next with you and the Collab Fund team!
I’m proud to announce that Washington Capitals forward, Tom Wilson, has invested in Collaborative Fund.
Our team spends a lot of time thinking about the companies we back, but we’re also deliberate about who backs us. In the same way a successful startup can be choosy about what checks to accept, we think our limited partners say as much about us, and what we care about, as our investments do. The source of capital matters.
One of the things I am most proud of is the eclectic group of backers we’ve attracted over the years – including the likes of Nicholas Negroponte, Chad Hurley, Pharrell Williams, Shepard Fairey, and even Sesame Street. Technologists, entrepreneurs, artists, and people who see the world differently. I look at that group and feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude that they’ve trusted us.
Today, I’m excited to officially welcome Tom as an investor in our fund.
If you didn’t grow up going to Caps games with your dad like I did, allow me a brief primer on why for 13 brilliant seasons I’ve been watching Tom establish himself as one of the best hockey players in the world.
Tom came into the league at age 19 as a first-round pick who mostly hit people, a job he was extremely good at. Plenty of players make a fine career out of it. Instead, somewhere in his twenties, he decided to become a different kind of player, so he put in the work and brought back the receipts: back-to-back 30-goal seasons, a Stanley Cup in 2018, and a spot on the top line of the 2026 Canadian Olympic team.
Our industry likes to write lists about what founders should be: relentless, coachable, obsessed. The lists aren't wrong, they're just not that useful, because no one has ever become relentless by reading about it. You learn it by doing it.
Tom is doing it. He is the definition of grit, hardwork, and resilience. Those are qualities I value in entrepreneurs and in anyone I want to build something with.
Tom is already a fan and customer of several of our portfolio companies. I’m excited to build on that connection as we continue backing companies pushing the world forward, especially in sports, health, and wellness (and dogs!).
Let’s go, #43!
"Tom is... the definition of grit, hardwork, and resilience. Those are qualities I value in entrepreneurs and in anyone I want to build something with."
Excited to have Tom join our amazing group of limited partners.
I’m proud to announce that Washington Capitals forward, Tom Wilson, has invested in Collaborative Fund.
Our team spends a lot of time thinking about the companies we back, but we’re also deliberate about who backs us. In the same way a successful startup can be choosy about what checks to accept, we think our limited partners say as much about us, and what we care about, as our investments do. The source of capital matters.
One of the things I am most proud of is the eclectic group of backers we’ve attracted over the years – including the likes of Nicholas Negroponte, Chad Hurley, Pharrell Williams, Shepard Fairey, and even Sesame Street. Technologists, entrepreneurs, artists, and people who see the world differently. I look at that group and feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude that they’ve trusted us.
Today, I’m excited to officially welcome Tom as an investor in our fund.
If you didn’t grow up going to Caps games with your dad like I did, allow me a brief primer on why for 13 brilliant seasons I’ve been watching Tom establish himself as one of the best hockey players in the world.
Tom came into the league at age 19 as a first-round pick who mostly hit people, a job he was extremely good at. Plenty of players make a fine career out of it. Instead, somewhere in his twenties, he decided to become a different kind of player, so he put in the work and brought back the receipts: back-to-back 30-goal seasons, a Stanley Cup in 2018, and a spot on the top line of the 2026 Canadian Olympic team.
Our industry likes to write lists about what founders should be: relentless, coachable, obsessed. The lists aren't wrong, they're just not that useful, because no one has ever become relentless by reading about it. You learn it by doing it.
Tom is doing it. He is the definition of grit, hardwork, and resilience. Those are qualities I value in entrepreneurs and in anyone I want to build something with.
Tom is already a fan and customer of several of our portfolio companies. I’m excited to build on that connection as we continue backing companies pushing the world forward, especially in sports, health, and wellness (and dogs!).
Let’s go, #43!
guyvidra retweeted
Collab Fund: proud investors since June 2023 -- before any of this existed.
Congrats Kyle and the @MarathonFusion team. Just getting started. 🚀
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
We were fortunate to back @dojideon when he built Forethought. Couldn’t be more thrilled to be at it again together!
Espa is now generally available! Personal AI agents are here, and I sat down with @BloombergTV @RomaineBostick to discuss what will decide which ones people actually let into their lives.
Our goal is to be the most trusted AI assistant for life and work.
This is wonderful, @hamzachoudery
guyvidra retweeted
Eight Collab portfolio companies made TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
A landline for kids (Tin Can), a smartphone that does less (Dumbphone 2) and a bookmark that remembers (Mark II) among other gems.
Proud of the founders and amazing products.
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Matt Sonsini is a real one.
In a world of loud, he is such a breath of fresh air. A great listener and filled with wisdom.
Such a treat to chat with him alongside my good friend Morgan, no less! 🤎
Craig and I talked to Matt Sonsini about philanthropy, raising capital, and how Silicon Valley has changed over the years.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0vN…
Finding our new Associates is such a fun process. It gives me so much hope after we run this search and I get to meet endless bright, talented, ambitious folks from all corners.
We’re hiring an Investment Associate at @collabfund!
Looking for someone endlessly curious who loves talking to founders, has 37 tabs of new products open, and something always half-built in the terminal.
collabfund.com/blog/join-col…
This is excellent.
Very few folks can context switch from years spent in large, resourced, less nimble orgs to a smaller scale and succeed.
I think too many startup founders confuse hiring experienced executives with building a better company.
You raise $15M, and suddenly everyone tells you to hire a CRO, CMO, CFO, and VP of Everything.
So you bring in executives from companies doing $500M in revenue.
Great resumes. Impressive LinkedIn profiles. Expensive salaries.
One small problem.
They’ve spent the last decade managing teams of 100 people, not building something from zero.
Now your 15-person startup has six executives, four layers of meetings, and nobody actually doing the work.
Experience matters. But the stage matters more.
The person who can scale a company from $50M to $500M isn’t necessarily the person who can get you from $500K to $5M.
Hire for the company you actually have.
Not the company you hope to brag about in your next fundraising deck.
Just back from dropping kids at college + had privilege of speaking to a group of student. Was asked for advice from my days operating and this was a key takeaway: find a company that’s achieving escape velocity and take any job they offer you. You will learn and achieve so much
Generating proprietary and novel data will be a tremendous moat.
Most AI learns from the internet. The internet is running out of things to teach it.
@LiamFedus and the Periodic Labs team built something different: robotic labs that run experiments around the clock, generating brand-new data no one has ever seen and models that learn from it, then decide what to try next.
AI that does science, not just reads about it. 👇
“boiling defatted soy meal in hydrochloric acid, neutralizing it, then adding color and corn syrup.”
🤤
The soy sauce packet in your takeout bag isn't soy sauce. The biggest maker, Kari-Out in New Jersey, lists water, salt, hydrolyzed soy and corn protein, caramel color and sodium benzoate. No fermentation, no brewing. It's made in a couple of days by boiling defatted soy meal in hydrochloric acid, neutralizing it, then adding color and corn syrup so it looks and tastes close enough.
A lot of the bottles on the grocery shelf are the same thing. Kikkoman and the Japanese government went to the UN food standards body years ago and asked that the chemical version not be allowed to use the name soy sauce. The hydrolyzed protein industry and the USDA pushed back and it stayed. The brewed ones say naturally brewed on the label. If the bottle doesn't say it, it isn't.