@Kjer

Buying and transforming businesses at Arising Ventures. On the quest to figure out what I believe in. Never met a mountain I didn’t want to climb or ride 🏂🚵‍

 San Francisco, CA
arisingventures.com
Joined January 2009
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Dhaval Makwana
@heyDhavall6 Oct 2025
RIP web developers. In 90 seconds, AI can generate a fully functional website. Here's how it works (no programming required):
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Frederik Gieschen
@FrederikNeckar24 Nov 2022
Buffett in 2003: "When you get to be my age, you will be successful if the people that you would hope to have love you, do love you. Charlie and I know a few people that have a lot of money. They get their names on buildings. And the truth is nobody loves them."
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Nathaniel Whittemore
@nlw15 Nov 2022
Sam Bankman Fraud: Inside the Collapse of FTX's Hollow Empire coindesk.com/podcasts/the-br…
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Phil Bak
@philbak112 Nov 2022
The most remarkable two paragraphs ever written in human history
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Nikhil Krishnan
@nikillinit17 Aug 2021
this is why you don’t let private equity buy brands
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Justin Kan
@justinkan11 Aug 2021
My friends @Kjer and Paul Drobot are cutting out the fat out of legal at Upcounsel. Now on Wefunder if you want to get behind the mission. wefunder.com/upcounsel/

Invest in UpCounsel | Leading legal services marketplace cutting the fat out of the old law firm...

Leading legal services marketplace cutting the fat out of the old law firm model

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UpCounsel@UpCounsel4 Aug 2021
Last week UpCounsel opened our equity crowdfunding campaign to the public. Thanks to the power of community, we’ve raised almost $2M and are trending on @Wefunder! Invest today to bring Legal to the People. #legaltech #crowdfunding #retailinvesting wefunder.com/upcounsel

Invest in UpCounsel | Leading legal services marketplace cutting the fat out of the old law firm...

Leading legal services marketplace cutting the fat out of the old law firm model

wefunder.com
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Simon Sinek
@simonsinek4 Aug 2021
To get on a path to success we need a plan. To reach success we need to be flexible when the path is blocked.
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Packy McCormick
@packyM28 Jul 2021
This is cool. upcounsel announced it was shutting down in 2020, @SievaKozinsky & Enduring Ventures bought it, and now the business has bounced back and is raising via a crowdfund (463 investors, $1.47M raised). *Not an investor, not investment advice. wefunder.com/upcounsel

Invest in UpCounsel | Leading legal services marketplace cutting the fat out of the old law firm...

Leading legal services marketplace cutting the fat out of the old law firm model

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Tobias
@TobiasRose31 Mar 2021
In this new piece for @Wired, @NoUpside and I put the history of misinformation in context, and share how we might fix it. Thread: wired.com/preview/story/6058…
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zerohedge
@zerohedge28 Jan 2021
Did Robinhood just short their own IPO
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Nadja Drost@nadjadrost23 Jan 2021
I just had an incredible encounter. Our doorbell rang, so I opened the window to look below to the front stoop. When I saw a man delivering food, I called out to him, letting him know it must be for our neighbors downstairs. This, so far, is normal.
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We keep us safe@thequeengeek6 Jan 2021
A friend just said to me "Are we supposed to be working during the coup?" and honestly it was the most American thing I've ever heard.
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Nathaniel Whittemore
@nlw3 Jun 2020
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but... The military and the police being the same thing is really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really bad.
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Kanyi Maqubela
@km1 Jun 2020
George Floyd died of asphyxiation. Why does that keep happening? Thread time. This one is a doozy. xitter.cf/kylegriffin1/status/12…
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin11 Jun 2020
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd's family found that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd's neck for several minutes and ignored cries of distress, the family's attorneys said.
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Nathaniel Whittemore
@nlw4 Jun 2020
TL;DR: you are being used; channeled into a funnel of narrative warfare that has nothing to do with change and everything to do with reinforcing the division that reinforces the status quo. Reject those too easy narratives with everything you’ve got.
Ben Hunt
@EpsilonTheory3 Jun 2020
We analyzed the media coverage of George Floyd's murder and its aftermath. These media narratives channel your anger into self-serving Dem and GOP archetypes that do not represent YOU. George Floyd's death was no accident. Neither are these narratives. epsilontheory.com/no-acciden…

No Accident

Our bi-modal political environment doesn't just impact our politics. It shapes our social and cultural narratives and channels our responses to every event. Yet Americans are large. They contain...

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
@nntaleb22 Mar 2020
Explain to me why we should spent taxpayer money to bailout companies (airlines) who spent their cash buying their own stock so the CEO gets optionality, instead of having a crisis buffer. We should bail out individuals based on needs, not corporations. #Moralhazard
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Andrew Lawrence@ndrew_lawrence9 Apr 2020
I have watched the first 12 seconds of this at least 100 times, its better than porn

Chamath Palihapitiya on the U.S. coronavirus response

Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and CEO of investment firm Social Capital, said that the U.S. shouldn’t be bailing out billionaires and hedge funds during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Nathaniel Whittemore
@nlw9 Mar 2020
Some friends of mine @XavierHelgesen and @kjer put together a presentation separating myth from reality around Coronavirus. Really handy if you have skeptical friends or family you're worried about. docs.google.com/presentation…
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That time Trump said if Dow drops more than 1OOO points in 2 days President should be impeached. There's always a tweet. #COVID19 #TrumpSlump #TrumpCrash #Trumpdemic
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