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Cory Levy
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Cory Levy
@cory
entrepreneur and early stage investor | Z Fellows @zfellows
- "The thing you do obsessively between age 13 and 18, that's the thing you have the most chance of being world-class at." - Bill Gates
- From a recent Harvard CS grad working "full-time" at Google: "I purposely chose to work at Google because the work life balance is very good. I spend two hours per day working at Google and the rest working on my startup." **from a Z Fellows interview earlier today ^^^
- kinda crazy you can hire Stanford and MIT CS students for $19 per hour
- Replying to @Taylor_Fritz97haha we all wore it backwards as well. thought it was intentional! 😂
- cold email i sent when I was 12 years-old to the #1 tennis player in the world's.... mother tried to set up a play date lol. it worked.
- some of my notes from the Art of Hiring event earlier today: @rabois - don't hire anyone over the age of 30 - recruiters are probably ineffective but still important b/c they drive hiring momentum - it takes 3-30 mins to evaluate someone (probably 3 though) - undiscovered
- spotted a z fellow at the US Open incomprehensible levels of locked in
- here is my convo with @naval at Internapalooza we talk about: - curating who you work with (life as a search function) - the leverage explosion from code → AI → agents - what deep tech founders should do early in their careers - how to think about taste, design, and building
00:00 - 620 days later!!
We’ve raised over $400M at a $10.2B post-money valuation to advance the frontier of AI coding agents. The round was led by Founders Fund with other existing investors including Lux, 8VC, Neo, Elad Gil, Definition Capital, and Swish VC all doubling down. We’re also joined by new - I'm launching a new experiment: ZFellows.com I’ll give you $10K + mentorship from founders of Netflix, Tinder, Figma & more You just have to... skip class or work for ONE week :).
- have two friends in VC who are hiring if u like finding people and things before anyone else @ reply or DM me
- Today I was introd to a 16 year-old founder for Z Fellows. The 16 year-old looped me in with his EA to schedule. AMA
