Clara Zou @claraspoke
Building @ArkenSolutions 💸 angel investor 👩🍳 family style meals with friends 🍽️ Come ready to serve hot takes in exchange for food! arken.ai New York, NY Joined April 2020-
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Changed my bio after retiring my sunlamp! It’s the real thing now 🎊 Lizard sunning on a rock with a side of @Supergoop
Wild thought about startup culture 🙃 Tech founders know more about term sheets and negotiating with VCs THAN mortgages and first homeowner incentives for buying a property
The life of an entrepreneur can be brutally difficult. But nobody talks about it. Time for a stiff drink and a few words on some of the most stressful periods in my life. A thread.
I went out asking for advice this week and appreciated the support from other founders (thank you everyone!) Whiplash from a pivot isn’t about sitting on the sidelines and second guessing yourself! It’s learning how to take a “punch” and learning how to throw one too 🥊
What fills your cup? 😎 Me: working in the sun at an empty restaurant in NYC
I love negotiating with myself Decisions get a tad easier with each one and mistakes are made 😅 it’s okay, life is just a practice
My angel investments are more than capital💸 It’s a commitment that I’ll SHOW UP for them, make warm intros, workshop tough situations, and back them It’s a vote for the founding team to keep going and keep asking their support system for help🫶 We don’t build companies alone
Back in New York and enjoying the coffee shops that have puzzles and delightful buttered toast on the menu 💌 hello again my inbox
My brain when trying to fall asleep
1/ it’s super unprofessional to roll your eyes 2/ it’s a test to identify founders’ thought process and sound judgment for later business decisions. You either got it or you don’t and it’s not the investor’s job to give you money because you don’t feel like demonstrating a skill
1/ it’s super unprofessional to roll your eyes 2/ it’s a test to identify founders’ thought process and sound judgment for later business decisions. You either got it or you don’t and it’s not the investor’s job to give you money because you don’t feel like demonstrating a skill
Started angel investing as a product manager then moved to startup founder to carry out my love for the “problem” and honestly? I’m excited for the stage in my journey where I go back to operating after I learn what I am capable of
Started angel investing as a product manager then moved to startup founder to carry out my love for the “problem” and honestly? I’m excited for the stage in my journey where I go back to operating after I learn what I am capable of
It’s been a year since I left my product management position and started a solar software company - @ArkenSolutions Not my first act of entrepreneurship and not my last either! Thankful for everything that I’ve learned and the opportunity to be creative wearing multiple hats ✨
Friends! Have a house in upstate NY? Want a cup of coffee? Can you log in and share your utility data with me? If you include a screen recording or screenshots, I’ll buy you a croissant 🥐 utilityapi.com/authorize/clar…
Today was really hard Building an early stage company’s means the to-do list is never ending, I had a few false starts and made a mess in my Notion Tomorrow is a new day
My first remote job was in 2016 for a hedge fund’s APAC desk 8+ yrs of remote work and I recognize that remote is effective if the team cadence and company stage fits the mold Co-Founder dating and my first hires took place in-person - transfer of knowledge, whiteboarding, etc
This is SO important for founders!! Advisors can be paid in cash or equity. We say equity is given for future help, cash is given for past help. Advisor Equity by Round: Preseed 0.23% Seed 0.10% Series A 0.07% 💥
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“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.” Kurt Cobain
(1/2)🏙️New York City's startup ecosystem is strong but has some weaknesses: - Culture: The average conversation is not about tech/startups - Connectivity: It's harder to "bump into" fellow founders, VCs, operators - History: Fewer household name startups originated in NYC vs SF
@vincentzhuu The culture part is a feature not a bug.
Explain How a Virtual Power Plant Works like I'm a 5 Year Old Making this piece for @Sunrun was so much fun!
The life of an entrepreneur can be brutally difficult. But nobody talks about it. Time for a stiff drink and a few words on some of the most stressful periods in my life. A thread.
If you’ve ever had to fire your best friend or push your body to its physical and mental limits you know what I mean. Nothing fun about 99% of this stuff.
who has a good Twitter list of Angel investors?
Looking for someone to read through my curriculum for my Climate Art 101 Course and share feedback/edit before it goes live next month! You'll get free access when it launches. Shoot me a DM if you're interested 😃 nicolekelner.com/pages/course
I'm hosting a dinner for pre-seed AI founders in NYC on May 2. If you're an AI founder who hasn't taken a VC check yet – comment or DM me for info.
I’ve referred 100+ female founders to @ycombinator 🧡 And I will refer more! YC applications are due TOMORROW. If you’re a female founder, please DM me 🙌 ycombinator.com/apply
the irony of building AI agent products this year is actually that really strong backend engineering - not necessarily agent architectures - are the bottleneck
Career update - I joined @natfriedman and @danielgross investing in startups. I want to meet one-on-one with 1000s of founders this year, so please reach out if you are working on something great! We lead rounds from seed to growth, investing between $1M and $100M at a time.
If you’re in lower Manhattan come by the Build For Your Friends Hackathon!
The number way I’ve grown more confident is repeatedly doing hard things I couldn’t think I could do.
I want to buy more 99th percentile NYC founders coffee ☕️ Tag folks you think are killing it @andruyeung @dj @jordihays @srcasm @BenSharf who ya got?
Exciting news for the NYC tech ecosystem tomorrow ❤️🗽
5 days until the application deadline to apply to @ycombinator ! Claire and I started building our company Paradigm ~1 week before applying to yc, applied on the exact minute the application was due, and got in. Here’s how we did it:
People need to add LLM to their How did you find out about us form. Told a rep that’s how I found out about their company and they were shook
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