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Excited to officially announce the launch of Pax Fund I, a $50M early stage vehicle dedicated to founders transforming the foundational categories of society. 🇺🇸🚀
Wrote a bit about my journey and the thinking behind Pax below:
Michelle Volz 🇺🇸🚀
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Michelle Volz 🇺🇸🚀
@MichelleVolz
Investing in founders transforming the foundational categories of society at @pax_ventures
- This is the most wholesome thing I’ve seen on Reddit in a long time 🥹
- Just ended a founder zoom call with “bye, love you” so if you need me I’ll be jumping off a bridge
- Who says VCs can’t do deals over the summer? 🤝💍🙃 Most important deal of my life — got to marry my best friend yesterday! Feeling so full of love and gratitude! 🥰
- After an incredible 2.5 years at @a16z, my time at the firm has come to an end. It’s been an absolute honor to help build and grow the American Dynamism practice and see it flourish into a true venture category. 1/
- Last marathon complete!! ✅✅✅ My time was fast enough to get the Guinness World Record for “fastest aggregate time to complete a marathon on all 7 continents” 🏆🏃♀️🌎 This is a very obscure and ridiculous record but one I’ve been after for a long time. Thanks to everyone for
- I got this living stipend at palantir and it was awesome and built a real community in Palo Alto. We worked late because we liked working together and cared about the mission.Peter Thiel paid staff an extra $1,000 a month if they lived close to the office so they were more likely to work late, book says trib.al/PfDyzmQ
- Three things that took me until my 30's to learn: 1 - if you want something, REALLY go after it, and tell people you want it. Telling people makes it real (and often people will root for you & help you!) 2 - don't be afraid of failure or rejection, be afraid of not putting in
- The feminine urge to buy a bunch of land in the desert and build a defense tech testing compound
- Come visit me in soho!!
- One day before boarding the plane to run the 2020 Tokyo marathon, they closed off the country to international travelers. 3 years later, finally heading to the start line 🏃♀️
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