Chief Operating Officer @7WeeksCoffee 239th/5000 inc fastest growing companies // former principal @frictionlessVC | former vc investor @invescous ($4.5b FoF)
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Joined June 2021
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I'm joining @7WeeksCoffee as COO and equity partner to lead operations and growth efforts.
Over 6 years, I've led or co-led $125M+ into venture capital investments. Hundreds of founder conversations.
What I realized is that the most needed thing in business right now isn't more capital. It's operators willing to put their skills behind something that actually matters.
I started my career at @InvescoUS working on AI, virtual assistants, and fintech — then moved on to their $4.5B VC/PE fund of funds, deploying capital across some of the best venture funds and startups in the world. Generational franchises. Emerging managers. E-commerce, fintech, healthcare, AI, and crypto.
From there I went deeper into the stack. I joined Frictionless Capital as a Senior Associate, then Principal, and spent nearly two years sourcing and investing in founders building category-defining companies across AI, high-throughput, trading, and infrastructure.
And across every single seat, the lesson was the same:
the best founders are the ones with a singular, almost dogmatic conviction about the world they're building.
I saw that in @AntonKrecic the first time we met in 2022.
He had one idea: fund every PRC in America through his company.
Today, Seven Weeks Coffee has served hundreds of thousands of customers, donated $1.8M to PRCs across all 50 states, and helped save nearly 18,000 lives.
Growing up, I watched my dad @mattpinto build @AscensionPress into the leader in Catholic publishing. Over 23 years, he's produced The Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz — the #1 religion podcast in the world, now past 1 billion downloads.
Along the way, he's nurtured the faith of tens of millions of Catholics, popularized the Theology of the Body, led initiatives around The Passion of Christ, created the Chosen Confirmation program and so much more.
What he taught me was that faith and business aren't in tension.
Built right, they compound each other.
I've had a front-row seat to what world-class operators and investors look like.
Now it's time to build.
sevenweekscoffee.com/
Wow.
Hats off to @alexathallow & the @HallowApp team
Max👀
This Claude email marketing skill I built is OP.
It’s built on all of our internal systems that have generated $250M+ in email revenue, and it runs the exact AI workflows we use inside my 100-person agency.
Just had it EFFECTIVELY plan out my whole November for me and it whipped up all of my campaigns, BFCM offers mapped across each period, the send schedule, and a checklist of what to look out for.
It can also:
- Build a full brand profile from scratch covering positioning, customer, offer and competitors
- Pull your brand voice rules straight from your existing sends
- Write campaign briefs and flow briefs, node by node
- Write final email and SMS copy in your brand’s voice
- Run competitor scans, market reads and account audits
And so much more...
In fact it won’t even write for you until you’ve properly onboarded your brand with the information it actually needs.
Then it quality checks everything against my trainings, so you can be sure you’re not getting hallucinated slop that doesn’t convert.
If you want it, it’s free inside my community, plus the 30+ module course, 300+ templates with new ones every month, the BFCM vault, and two live calls a week with me.
Check it out below 👇
bullish @7WeeksCoffee we've been onboarding hundreds of creators per month and have scaled massively because of it.
TLDR: find killers and incentivize them to scale with the brand.
Michael Pinto retweeted
since 2020, one of my north stars
is that the best and most robust networks will be built around:
- openness
- credible neutrality
- user sovereignty
by many metrics, @nousresearch hermes agent is now the most widely used open source AI agent in the world
and notably
the value of hermes agent is not just that it is growing incredibly fast
it is that it is growing incredibly fast in the right ways
devs are cloning it
contributors are improving it
model providers can route any/all intelligence through it
and more recently
enterprises now feel safe to build on top of it
in a world where synthetic intelligence is one of the most important inputs into labor, software, hardware, creativity, decision making
it is more important than ever
that our infrastructure of the future should not be a black box
gatekept by a few to create distribution, pricing, or performance advantages
at the expense of the rest of us
it should be open, auditable, extensible
and it should be controlled and operated by the people and organizations that use it
proud friend and long time investor of this mission driven crew at @collab_currency
keep up the people's work @dillonrolnick @karan4d @Teknium @theemozilla @SHL0MS @yeahfortommy @gradyacc and the rest of the killer squad at @NousResearch ♥️
sharing my thoughts on our recent fundraise.
we did alright for a couple of goofballs
nousresearch.com/a-note-on-o…
I've known @theemozilla for quite some time and let me say this team is something special. onwards.
congrats to @dillonrolnick @NousResearch on the raise
sharing my thoughts on our recent fundraise.
we did alright for a couple of goofballs
nousresearch.com/a-note-on-o…
Congrats man bullish on @masonnystrom
Some news!
I’m thrilled to share that I’m joining @Multicoin as an Investment Partner.
I’m excited about the opportunity to work alongside @tushar_jain, @shayonsengupta, @SpencerApplebau, @0x_Lucas, and the rest of the Multicoin team.
Michael Pinto retweeted
1/ We’ve closed Breed VC Fund II, a $15M early-stage fund.
We back the founders bold enough to rebuild the world we see today and return sovereignty to users.
@breed_vc
This needs a listen.
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Dropping a podcast with the one and only @bubbleboi
Mr. Bubble is world class at explaining very technical concepts in layman terms. In this episode I wanted to chat through the 0 to 1 of the chips, racks, packaging, the memory hierarchy, scaling up and scaling out.
We spend a lot of time mapping computer-architecture primitives directly onto data centers and examining where value is actually going to accrue as packaging, HBM, and the next memory tier.
At the center of the conversation is the belief that the bottleneck is no longer designing a faster chip, it is the physical stack from silicon to rack. While the frontier labs settle into a more mature “closed demand” phase focused on their own silicon, their own scale-up domains, and capturing the value themselves.
We also get into his view on AI alignment and the future of Labs.
We discuss:
- The 0 to 1 of chips: what actually has to be true before a die is useful
- Why packaging is the new Moore’s law
- Racks as the real unit of compute
- The memory hierarchy after HBM
- Scaling up vs scaling out, and why they get confused
- What the labs actually want from the supply chain
- AI alignment, and whether the labs are aligning the world or just themselves
- The future of Labs: closed frontier, custom silicon, and who gets the model
Timestamps:
0:00 – Introduction & Why Hardware Is the Real AI Conversation
8:00 – 0 to 1 of the Chip
18:00 – Packaging as the New Moore’s Law
28:00 – Racks, Trays, and the Unit of Compute
38:00 – Memory Hierarchy: HBM, DRAM, and the Next Tier
50:00 – Scaling Up vs Scaling Out
1:02:00 – AI Alignment
1:10:00 – The Future of Labs
1:17:00 – Closing Thoughts and Where Value Accrues Next
Enjoy!
Michael Pinto retweeted
IRELAND 🇮🇪
Far Left political party People Before Profit have ESCALATED their attacks on Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan and Ave Maria University
PB4P are now saying: 'Every single cent generated by leasing Mount Melleray Abbey to Ave Maria University should be immediately seized by the state'
The party was left HUMILIATED yesterday after huge numbers turned up to the opening Mass of Ave Maria University at Mount Melleray, despite efforts by the party's Waterford branch to deter people with BIZARRE conspiracy theories
Michael Pinto retweeted
DAWN started with connectivity.
This gives the USD.infra Vault a strong foundation for deploying networks across digital infrastructure powering AI, compute, data delivery, and edge systems.
DAWN’s CEO, @neilc_dawn, walks you through what this looks like in practice 🎥
Dawn 👀👀
Connectivity is where @dawninternet began.
Check out some real examples of how it fits into the USD.Infra Vault with @neilc_dawn
Backpack 🎒
.@Backpack Securities are about to go vertical
And Backpack is about to release what I think is the most important product launch of the year in crypto
Higher
Huge
I've had the pleasure of working with @armaniferrante over the last 6 years. Excited to work much more closely with him over the coming 6
Backpack has some *huge* things coming soon. This will reshape the nature of trading, both on and off chain
Users don't want to bridge, swap chains, and move capital around they want infrastructure that's obfuscated away to the point that they can just trade (w/out thinking to hard).
great example in @fomo
lets see on @RobinhoodApp
Michael Pinto retweeted
Today is a good day to be a solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 bull
SGP-0002 Double Disinflation proposal JUST PASSED
Thank you @mert for stepping up late to help push this through. Shoutout to @krakenfx for the late vote change and @galaxyhq for helping push this over the line in the last few minutes. 🙏
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SCOOP: Treasury Secretary @SecScottBessent will do whatever it takes to "put the fear of God" into the bond vigilantes, shorting the long end of the curve in an attempt to drive the 10 year yield to 5%, Wall Street executives with direct knowledge of his thinking say. That would include buy backs, selling short-term debt, possible elimination of long-dated bonds like the 20 year etc. It's a short-term solution to keep yields from soaring further, strangling growth as the midterms approach, they say, and doesn't address the real problem: Debt now at the $40 trillion level, and competition for capital from AI buildout. Longer term, don't look for austerity coming out of the Trump White House in its remaining years, they say. The plan remains top possibly "grow" out of the debt level through increased tax revs because the cure for such high debt levels would be recession inducing taxes or austerity. Story developing