This new voting group to abolish ICE is blowing up (from 0 to 3000+ verified voters in half a day). Sway.co/abolishICE Voters across America are joining it to get election alerts with a personalized list of every candidate who has pledged to abolish ICE.

Here’s another release today. @flutterby.blue helps you make ATProto widgets for your iOS device. Goosetopher’s latest is looking pretty sweet! Available on TestFlight now testflight.apple.com/join/DDDtbtMr

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I’m starting the most ambitious project of my life: Sway, a tech platform to reimagine democracy. I know you've probably got opinions on this – please give feedback and maybe join us! open.substack.com/pub/neo/p/sw...

I love this. 😍

In venture investing, identifying great entrepreneurs early is the most critical step; @alip.bsky.social and Neo have nailed it. Equally important is how well they nurture and mentor young future-entrepreneurs, connecting them to opportunities. techcrunch.com/2025/04/27/f...

Great profile on Neo.

We’re introducing a new layer of verification on Bluesky — a user-friendly, easily recognizable blue check. In addition to account verification issued by Bluesky, we're also introducing Trusted Verifiers. Select independent organizations can verify accounts directly.

This is a terrific profile of Bluesky and Jay Graber. 💙 Is it just me, or does the cover pic evoke The Matrix vibes? What a wild coincidence that Jay's given name is Lantian, or Mandarin for "blue sky." 🤯 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... @jay.bsky.team @rose.bsky.team

Are you in NY next week? Join me at the first commercial production of "Siblings"! This moving play by 21yo Soli Partovi is an intense story about children growing up against the backdrop of a divorce. Buy tickets now: SiblingsPlay.com. ❤️ I'll be at all 7 showings!

Thank you to Michael Truell (Cursor cofounder) -- we loved hosting you at the Neo office-warming party. 🤩❤️

The wait is over for thousands of software engineers!

Running a startup means learning to live with a certain background level of uncertainty all the time. (From mentor session with Britton O'Daly of Treater, a Neo-backed startup).

I was 20yo the first time I hired someone older than myself. It was intimidating! I shared my advice with 20yo Ron Nachum, CEO of Sapien, backed by Neo.

Last night I started making the pizza dough from scratch for hosting 25-30 Neo Scholars and founders this weekend. 🍕

Mentor session: how long should you wait before nudging a prospective customer to reply? (With Gavin Lifrieri of Koi, a Neo-backed startup) #startups #vc

BOMBSHELL: "He first told Joint Chiefs of Staff about a lab leak in China in Oct 2019." 🤯 www.thesun.co.uk/news/3225752...

I loved visiting Penn today to speak with so many inspiring students interested in startups! Thanks to Connor Ling and Neo Scholar Angela Zhang for hosting and interviewing me! I can't wait till my next visit! 💙

Interesting interview by @siliconcurtain.bsky.social #NAFO #Fellas #Bluesky

Two of the people I admire most in one article. 🤩🤩🤩 @hadip.bsky.social and Alfred Lin. www.wsj.com/tech/sequoia...

We loved hosting Sam Altman for an intimate gathering with Neo Scholars. Thank you Alfred Lin for offering your home! ❤️

Mentor session: what to consider when bringing on a board member. With Edward Ge of Aethero, backed by Neo #startups #vc

TELO Trucks pre-orders are "EV-ailable"! 😂 www.fastcompany.com/91236969/thi...

Time to give @bluesky props. As I write this, there are 560 quotes and replies to the post below. Of those only 4 call me names and give me shit. About 15 do the same towards Trump. The remaining 541 are on topic and add value. 👏👏👏👏👏

Wow.

NEW video series: Watch short clips from my mentor sessions with Neo startup founders. In this 44-sec episode, Lillie and I debate whether to pivot after her latest push had mixed results.

A whiteboard from our Jan 2023 team retreat where I wrote down our goals, and the top one was “10k user signups.” We’re growing by 10k users every 10-15 minutes right now.

Check out Neo-backed startups hitting #1 on the App Store both last week and this week.

Check it out: Bluesky is #1 on the App Store. 🔥🔥🔥

We led Bluesky's $15M Series A 🦋 We’re excited to support @bsky.app in their mission to build an open foundation for the social internet and give power back to users. More on our thesis ↓ www.blockchaincapital.com/blog/bluesky...

Bluesky now has 13M+ users, the @atproto.com developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped features like DMs and video! We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15M Series A to continue growing the community, investing in Trust and Safety, and supporting the dev ecosystem.

Apply now to become a Neo Scholar! Some existing new info in here: neo.substack.com/p/future-tec...

SF friends, join a fireside chat with me and Rose 🌹 from Bluesky (@Rose.bsky.team) on June 26th evening at CANOPY. www.canopy.space/events/a-str...

I'm proud of this profile of Neo and me. "We hope to invest throughout a person's life cycle and regardless of directions that they take," he said. "You miss a lot if you're focused transactionally and treat a person as just serving one purpose." www.businessinsider.com/ali-partovi-...

I ❤️ Treehacks lol www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8w4PDHj/

Welcome world! ❤️

Goodbye Sunriver, Oregon. Final night of Neo Accelerator startup bootcamp was amazing, complete with casino night and meteor shower.

Joe Biden’s China strategy (continuation of Trump's) is not working. It's time for fresh thinking. Thank you to the Economist for daring to say the obvious. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/08/10/joe-bidens-china-strategy-is-not-working

Congratulations to Saturn for hitting #4 on the App Store (#2 in social media) -- an incredible feat! I'm proud that we at Neo invested in this company Saturn is a social app for connecting in the real world. It helps gets students off their screens and spending time together.

I enjoyed interviewing ⁦‪Alfred Lin‬⁩ and Sumaiya Balbale of Sequoia for tonight's Neo Scholar event. I particularly love Alfred's stories about his mischievous childhood money-making schemes. 😍

I had a blast at the Neo Scholar Finalist meetup for students and startups tonight in SF. It was wonderful to meet so many fresh faces and brilliant minds.

Lola's first day of school!

Why are the words "tweet" and "retweet" registered trademarks? There's a clear argument that these have been generic words all along and not corporate brands -- doubly so now that Twitter is changing its name to "X" and there are many alternative places to tweet and retweet.

These scientists intentionally misled the world. Read their newly-exposed messages, plotting how to mislead. https://open.substack.com/pub/public/p/top-scientists-misled-congress-about

It's great to see Neo being committed providing great opportunities to founders while being equitable!

I'm excited to share that we at Neo have backed Bluesky and led their $8M seed round! https://neo.substack.com/p/neo-backs-bluesky?utm_medium=email

Six years after starting Neo, we've raised $235 million and revealed some of our backers for the first time. https://open.substack.com/pub/neo/p/neo-has-raised-235m-in-new-funds

At Neo we've invested $100M (almost half our capital) in women and underrepresented CEOs, while beating the VC industry's target returns. neo.substack.com/p/neo-has-inve…

Six years after starting Neo, I'm proud to say we've invested $100M (almost half our capital) into women and underrepresented CEOs, while beating industry target returns. This shares the effort we put into this: https://neo.substack.com/p/neo-has-invested-100m-in-women-and

Excited to be here, and I look forward to all that's to come from @jay.bsky.team! 👀