arian ghashghai ✓
@arian_ghashghai · ☁️ · joined 28 May 2017
investing pre-seed in weird stuff and founders on the fringe @EarthlingVC | ex-ai/ml engineer @Meta @RealityLabs
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@arian_ghashghai This is solved by having actual former operators be one's VCs rather than ppl hired to be VCs
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@arian_ghashghai @saranormous's response here on differentiation is spot-on here. "Work hard and be helpful" doesn't seem differentiated to LPs, but it is exactly what founders want from their GPs.
https://t.co/vC5JWBIlkg
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@arian_ghashghai the “do not hurt” rule is so true
but I am personally a huge fan of VCs that already have a big unfair advantage and can offer it to their portfolio companies, like @gtmfund
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Once again, I think this kind of behavior is also driven by LPs down onto VCs:
A guaranteed question almost every net new prospective LP will ask a GP is some flavor of “why do founders pick you/how do you add value to companies you invest in”
Realistically, the best case for
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Travis Kalanick says the incentive is structural: VCs are trying to make a mark on the world
so they make it on the thing in front of them, which is your roadmap https://t.co/OYnmExPq2F
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I loved how Pat Grady (@gradypb) described Sarah's fundraising strategy:
"I don't have a strategy, I'm just going to go win.
If you're an LP, that's not a good pitch. But there are only so many people in our business who can just go execute, and she's one of those." https://t.
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Hearing a lot of founders talking about raising on uncapped SAFE + MFNs again. In simple terms, why it’s a bad idea imo:
> For VCs, you basically have no idea what you’re buying (should be self-explanatory why this bad for people whose job it is to compound capital). The counter
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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
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$ 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), h
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@arian_ghashghai @EarthlingVC Congrats Arian!
There’s very few in the space that are truly first believer, thoughtful about their theses, and as helpful to portcos as you are.
Looking forward to everything else Earthling does 🔥
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I started raising this fund in a historically brutal market for new funds, pitching a weird thesis that invests in unpopular things.
It took a village of early believers to make this real. A big thank you to my early believers: our invaluable LPs, founders, and friends
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Fund I has already invested very early in awesome teams like: @YeepsVR, @nunudotai, @TalusRobotics, @MecAgent, @loki_robotics, @NiloTechInc, @FidLabs (just to name a few)
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Here are some of the themes we currently care about and are actively investing in:
- VR-native IP.
- Non-humanoid robots solving human-like tasks (with blue ocean market opportunities).
- Things making hardware development cheaper, faster, and more accessible (we need more
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And we're launching with awesome support to invest in this future: we're backed by legendary LPs like @pmarca, @cdixon, @andrewchen, @AdamDraper, and our awesome anchor Allocator One (@mstroeck)
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It’s never been easier to build these kinds of startups rapidly and profitably than ever before. I believe we're seeing a paradigm shift in the VC industry, which will see many minted winners raise capital only once (and early) and opt out of the VC treadmill entirely.
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This fund is mainly focused on investing in VR, robotics, and AI — which I believe to be the (necessary) UI of the next generation of technology.
https://t.co/58YDco4RLL
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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. https://t.co/tbT3AXgGWn
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"Meta ditched VR and pivoted to AI"
I hear this assertion a lot, but it's off-target. These are symbiotic developments and Meta knows that.
Given the understood impact of AI, a very brief AI-centric deduction of why new (i.e. 3D) hardware is a necessity for AI advancement:
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Dibandingkan akun berukuran sama
9 postingan dari 90 hari terakhir, dibandingkan dengan rentang 10K–100K pengikut. tampil luas, tetapi sedikit penonton yang merespons.
Median tayangan12 981akun ini924median untuk 10K–100K
Jangkauan, %107.77%akun ini3.62%median untuk 10K–100K
Interaksi, %1.05%akun ini1.52%median untuk 10K–100K
| Metrik | Akun ini | Median untuk 10K–100K | Rasio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median tayangan per postingan | 12 981 | 924 | 14.1× |
| Jangkauan (tayangan ÷ pengikut) | 107.77% | 3.62% | 29.8× |
| Tingkat interaksi | 1.05% | 1.52% | 0.69× |
Akun lain pada rentang ini → Bandingkan dengan akun lain → Bagaimana tolok ukur ini disusun →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes71.0%1 487 in total
Reposts3.0%63 in total
Replies7.7%161 in total
Quotes1.3%27 in total
Bookmarks17.0%355 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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