Dawit Heck @HeckDawit
Investor @BainCapVC | formerly @Lazard | @Penn Grad linkedin.com/in/dawit-heck-… New York, USA Joined October 2018-
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Honored to be included amongst so many friends and investors whom I admire. Excited to see what comes of this group in 2023!
Honored to be included amongst so many friends and investors whom I admire. Excited to see what comes of this group in 2023!
Using semantic search to make sense of complex data inside a data warehouse for e-commerce brands is difficult today. But @zenlytic is solving this! Pumped to partner with them as they look to rearchitect the future of BI tooling.
Using semantic search to make sense of complex data inside a data warehouse for e-commerce brands is difficult today. But @zenlytic is solving this! Pumped to partner with them as they look to rearchitect the future of BI tooling.
In you are free at 10am tomorrow go listen to @JoshAGoldstein break down what’s actually happening with LLMs and Gen AI!
In you are free at 10am tomorrow go listen to @JoshAGoldstein break down what’s actually happening with LLMs and Gen AI!
When they say “dw it will be product led growth”
When they say “dw it will be product led growth”
BeReal ain’t working if people are reposting their BeReals on Instagram 🤯🤯🤯
Watching Q2 profits drop of big name retailers like Target from heavy discounting in effort to unload excess inventory is a reminder of how hard it is to do accurate inventory forecasting and merchandise planning. Psyched to see how next gen tools like @cogsyapp reinvent the 🛞!
Whenever you are in a rush Ubers take forever and when you’re still getting ready it’s 1 min away
Big time new startup idea: make trash chutes and trash bags the same size!
Shopify is pushing certain product capabilities to serve their merchants effectively given changing market dynamics in e-comm. Checkout a few notes from my review of their earnings report here. If you're building in e-comm infra, give me a shout! baincapitalventures.com/insight/whats-…
Warren Buffet caps spending at Micky Ds based on stock market “down days”. Like bruh just buy the whole family meal at least 🤦🏽♂️
Me to Other VCs: "Idk how you use a Mac I will never stop using my thinkpad" Also me when everything freezes daily: gph.is/1OQaIn4?tc=1 via @GIPHY
College kid asked me today “what’s my definition of success?” I said success is Justin’s almond butter selling for $15 a jar and people still buying that shit
you know you're so far from technical when that side bar of code shows up on my web browser accidentally and my head goes🤯...fml
I genuinely love when I see an expert call on my calendar b/c it means I can get comfy, put my hood up/feet up, and ask simple questions I’m scared to ask others lol.
Gen-Z probably out here asking “what are these songs?” during this halftime show.
skimmed through the 40 under 40 growth list here: growthcapadvisory.com/the-top-40-und… and I saw no brothers on it!!! @TheValuesVC @jamisonh @allancjb lets change that
Liz Giorgi @lizgiorgi
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85X ARR growth rounds? we’re back baby
Sigh....Kansas gonna get bounced in the 2nd round anyway but Samford should have had a chance down 1 only.
We did it, mom. $RDDT IPO.
I want to continue learning how startups have sparked and sustained growth overtime. To aid in my learning, I wanted to start sharing quick threads detailing examples of clever growth strategies. The first is one that doesn’t get a whole lot of coverage: p*rnhub
My top all time dopamine hits (in ascending order) - Sending a risky text as a 15 yo to a girl you like and getting a response - When the boys are buzzing - Hitting 225 for reps - Getting a reply from a cold email from a series A founder w/ 15% MoM growth
Unbelievably well deserved - so proud of you @emily__man ✨
We’re thrilled to officially welcome @emily__man today as Primary’s newest investing Partner! Emily is returning to her professional roots here in NYC, joining us after a few years with Redpoint’s SF office. 1/
wow, i would've done disgusting things to have these during August two-a-days in the new orleans heat
The LSU Tigers will be cool and comfortable this season with these new helmets 🥶 (via tigeraire/TT)
Congratulations to the entire @Paytrix_ team on their $18.3M Series A 🎉 We’re thrilled to continue our partnership as they address critical needs for businesses operating in the international marketplace: techcrunch.com/2023/03/29/pay…
The cost of inference for LLMs scales linearly with # of parameters. And for lots of specific use cases larger models aren’t better, just more expensive. With these incredible 7 OS models, @CerebrasSystems is giving ppl insane flexibility across the price/perf curve.
🎉 Exciting news! Today we are releasing Cerebras-GPT, a family of 7 GPT models from 111M to 13B parameters trained using the Chinchilla formula. These are the highest accuracy models for a compute budget and are available today open-source! (1/5) Press: businesswire.com/news/home/2023…
Most brands we see aren’t getting enough out of their UGC. I pulled together the most effective strategies brands are using to get more money and mileage out of their content Comment “UGC” below and I’ll send it your way 🫡
Never thought I would get a mullet… and certainly never thought that me getting a mullet would be work-related 😂
Looking forward to the tweets from the VCs who sparked this bank run congratulating themselves on their prescience.
Has there been a bank run in the US over the last 50 years where depositors actually lost money? Fed can't let it happen. Would trigger more runs. Bank equity to 0? Sure. Funds tied up for a few days? Maybe. Lost money? Can't find an example.
It's #internationalwomensday - and I feel it is impossible to talk about this day without acknowledging that it is the first year in my lifetime where Roe was not law of the land. This should be a day of mourning for all of us.
(1/2) A few months ago I had an abortion when I learned that the baby I was carrying had Trisomy 13, meaning he wouldn't survive. I'm lucky to live in a state where I could make that choice. In honor of International Women's Day and the women in Texas fighting for their lives,
Pumped doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about joining @GVteam! Looking forward to partnering with such inspiring folks, both internally and externally. And a warm thank you to my family at @ForerunnerVC! Grateful for the learnings, memories, and fun :)
GV launched its NYC office in 2010, and we're delighted to announce NY-based @KJSidz joins us as a principal on our investing team, focusing on early-stage consumer startups and building our community of innovative founders. Welcome to the team, KJ! 🎉 bit.ly/3kLzxd9
Lord, give me the confidence of a founder who just raised a $2m seed round from a tier 2 VC