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Willem

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Willem

@vanlancker

Investing and design · @terraincap · terrain.com

Joined October 2009

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Willem
@vanlancker
May 26
Following rapid growth, a $100M Series B, and a slate of new launches, I sat down with Parallel co-founder @travers00. @p0 is building core search infrastructure for the agentic web: systems that enable AI to retrieve, structure, and reason over information across the internet
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Parag Agrawal
@paraga
Apr 29
We raised a Series B led by @sequoia at a $2 billion valuation and I’m excited to welcome @andrew__reed to our board. All our existing investors doubled down: @kleinerperkins, @IndexVentures, @khoslaventures, @firstround, @sparkcapital, @AbstractVC, and @terraincap.
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Willem
@vanlancker
Mar 9, 2024
Feels like we are re-entering an era of quirky, personality-rich design languages. It is most apparent in hardware — though we are starting to see it more in software too.
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Willem
@vanlancker
Jul 17, 2020
 WFH, 1987
Willem
@vanlancker
Mar 13, 2025
it's time to build
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Willem
@vanlancker
Jul 27, 2020
What pains me about the “NYC is done” & “leaving SF forever” crowd isn’t that they’re leaving (I get it) but the attitude that the city was something to take & now that it faces adversity, they’re gone. Cities are not products you consume—they require participation & investment.
Willem
@vanlancker
Dec 21, 2024
You can just build things.
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Willem
@vanlancker
Sep 19, 2025
While the film grain and music are great, the number of people in this ad not looking at screens is key to its resonance... Amid a sea of AI companies showing people disintermediating real life with chatbots or demonstrating the frightful scale of some superintelligence, Claude
Claude
@claudeai
Sep 18, 2025
Keep thinking.
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Willem
@vanlancker
Oct 15, 2025
In addition to @untitleddotnew, I wrote a comprehensive “how-to” guide that covers the art and act of naming. With this process, you can name anything in an afternoon. It is incredibly thorough but can be moved through efficiently. How to Name Anything in an Afternoon
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Willem
@vanlancker
Feb 21, 2025
> Fear of commitment is our generation’s worst trait. > Optionality overwhelms us. > The best things in life compound once you commit — love, relationships, hobbies, work, wealth. You don't have forever. Don’t let your options rot.
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Willem
@vanlancker
Jan 31, 2025
Our children will romanticize and fetishize the last era of pure human creation in ways we can’t imagine.
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Willem
@vanlancker
Dec 20, 2024
Design literacy will become as important as verbal literacy, not only in understanding culture and aesthetics but also in forming and expressing new ideas.
Garry Tan
@garrytan
Dec 20, 2024
UX, design, actual dedication to the craft will take center stage in this next moment Actually make something people want. Software and coding won't be the gating factor. It is the ability to be a polymath and smart/effective in many domains together that creates great software.
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Willem
@vanlancker
Mar 4, 2025
Make for yourself. The right people will follow.
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Willem
@vanlancker
Oct 14, 2025
Naming a startup is hard. Usually it's chaos: throw words on a whiteboard, argue, and as fatigue hits, settle on good enough. @untitleddotnew offers another way. I turned the method I used to name dozens of startups into an app. It's free to try and uses the latest AI models.
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Willem
@vanlancker
Mar 9, 2024
Replying to @vanlancker
When I say re-entering, this is what comes to mind
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