arian ghashghai

@arian_ghashghai

investing pre-seed in weird stuff and founders on the fringe @EarthlingVC | ex-ai/ml engineer @Meta @RealityLabs

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arian ghashghai
@arian_ghashghai
Apr 30, 2025
In what is the least spectacular fundraising announcement you'll read this month — I'm amped to finally share the close of @EarthlingVC Fund I, a $4.5M vehicle investing first round/first check in next-generation computing surfaces and mediums.
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@arian_ghashghai
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I’d have much more respect for Kalshi if they just called a spade a spade by owning the fact that they create shareholder value by monetizing degenerate financial inclinations (and just rationalized it as entertainment) vs the sanctimonious mission slop they routinely broadcast
Americans For Fair Markets
@FairMarkets_US
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.@luanalopeslara on one huge difference between prediction markets and sportsbooks: Sportsbooks profit when their customers lose. Prediction markets bring buyers and sellers together — and make money on the transaction, not the outcome.
arian ghashghai
@arian_ghashghai
Aug 30
$ deployed at seed up 37.1%, # of seed rounds down 20.1% since Q1 2025 the entire messaging to founders from VCs has functionally been advice on how to succeed in raising capital in a highly capital-concentrated environment (which they themselves are responsible for creating),
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arian ghashghai
@arian_ghashghai
Aug 28
a lot of (good) fundraising advice on the timeline rn, so here is my simple tip for pre-seed/seed raises: if someone offers you money, figure out a way to take it and don't mess about. everyone talks about momentum and fomo in rounds, and the only functional way to create either
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@arian_ghashghai
Aug 27
the entire problem with kingmaking (i.e. endowing a new company with a boatload of capital) is that it’s an attempt to compress the entire venture timeline based on the fact that many of biggest venture outcomes also raised a lot of money (so in simple terms, more funding =
José Maria Macedo
@ZeMariaMacedo
Aug 27
The consensus in venture rn is that you should buy winners even when they're expensive, because winners keep winning and this cycle's winners will be bigger than ever. While this is arguably true at growth, @mhdempsey argues it definitely doesn't work at seed At growth, the data
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