Nicholas Chirls ✓
@nchirls · Brooklyn, NY · joined 23 Feb 2009
in the asylum with early-stage founders @asylumventures @notationcapital
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@nchirls So sorry you carry this loss, Nick. Thank you for sharing. Beautiful tribute.
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25 years ago, I hugged my mom for the last time.
I wrote a short essay a few months ago for a book that Cantor families put together to share memories. Miss my mom still but feel her presence with me daily and my family ❤️
Link below 👇 https://t.co/bld22BVUAw
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Amanda quietly bout to crush agents x payments category 👀
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Pool has been live for 2ish months, and seeing the demand for "delegated spend accounts" for human-only relationships has been incredible to watch.
Consumers are starved for business-banking type tools, and it's hard to overstate how much there is to build here
Adding agents
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Early innings still for Clay and team...
Most importantly, it's become a truly critical product for @asylumventures and so many of our portfolio companies.
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Today we're announcing our Series D: $115M raised, led by @Wellington_mgmt, at a $7.1B valuation.
Our mission is to grow every company to its full potential.
To do that, we need to do 3 things ⬇️ https://t.co/VgS7ZMiobu
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👀 @ourpools multi-user accounts + humans + agents...
Amanda has spent years in the payments infra trenches, an incredibly thoughtful approach for what's on the horizon
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If we're all going to have an always-on assistant, they’ll need more seamless ways to pay. This is the dream, especially for me. I started with Fancy Hands in 2010 and have used nearly every new assistant product since (and loved all of them). But the payments experience has been
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@nchirls @asylumventures Congrats to you. Not an easy accomplishment to raise in this market. Speaks to you as a person.
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Finally, we are looking to hire an analyst or associate who is obsessive about supporting founders.
If you would like to join a small team dedicated to the art of venture rather than the business of banking, contact us at hiring@asylum.vc.
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The fund is raised and we're actively meeting founders. We're not a bank, but we have money :)
If our approach sounds appealing to you, please reach out at hello@asylum.vc or from our website https://t.co/hO5LYdunM6.
If you're in between things, come work out of our studio in
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A source of calm, trust, and support for founders who are manifesting beauty through one of the hardest things you can do: starting a company.
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A place where true craftspeople can tune out the noise and focus on making something truly great.
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A small team of partners moving mountains to help when asked and otherwise getting out of the way.
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A firm that’s small by design, that makes a handful of investments per year, and that eschews board seats and administrative control.
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We plan to spend the next decade trying to answer this question.
We think it means:
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When my partners @jonwu_, @kenzieregent and I sat down to think about what we stood for, we we tried to answer the question:
What if we treated founders like artists rather than assets on a balance sheet?
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Our belief is that building businesses is its own form of creation–its own form of art.
We look for founders that are building the unique, the misunderstood, and the courageous.
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I’ve always believed the best founders have more in common with artists than executives.
They’re obsessive about new and beautiful things, they're compelled to bring creation into the world, and they're often misunderstood for very long periods of time–even lifetimes.
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The environment today feels eerily similar to the one I left on Wall Street so many years ago.
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Simultaneously, the creative act of making startups has turned into a credentialing factory:
Accelerators churn out 1,000s of startups and giant rounds are the new must-have bullets for LinkedIn resumes.
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The startup ecosystem has gone from cottage industry outsider to institutional insider.
The result has been a lot more capital and the subsequent industrialization–and bankerization–of venture, a process by which large multi-stage firms have become truly massive institutions.
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For the next 15 years, I dedicated my life to founders in New York, first at betaworks, and then with three funds at @notationcapital with my partner @alexlines.
We did well serving founders. But a lot has changed since then.
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A year later, I was fortunate to stumble upon a young, passionate group of creative misfits that folks were calling “founders.”
Founders felt more like artists than assets, more obsessives than executives.
I was in love with their fringe eccentricity, extraordinary
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In 2007, I was a trader at Lehman Brothers.
It sucked.
I hated the dehumanizing culture, the lack of creativity, and the singular focus on transactions and money.
I didn’t know it then, but Lehman’s bankruptcy in ‘08 was a gift, and I left in search of a calling.
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@eringriffith of the @nytimes graciously covered our story here: https://t.co/35JgF4WS2k
As to why I'm doing this for the next 10 years, read on...
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Today I'm launching @asylumventures, a new venture firm dedicated to the creative act of building companies.
Asylum's first $55 million fund is an embodiment of my belief that founders are artists, not assets:
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Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione
9 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 10K–100K follower. arriva a molti, ma pochi di loro reagiscono.
Visualizzazioni mediane4 278questo account959mediana per 10K–100K
Copertura, %42.04%questo account3.75%mediana per 10K–100K
Interazione, %0.76%questo account1.52%mediana per 10K–100K
| Metrica | Questo account | Mediana per 10K–100K | Rapporto |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visualizzazioni mediane per post | 4 278 | 959 | 4.46× |
| Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower) | 42.04% | 3.75% | 11.2× |
| Tasso di interazione | 0.76% | 1.52% | 0.50× |
Altri account di questa fascia → Confronta con un altro account → Come sono costruiti questi parametri →
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.
Views per post
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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
0.81%5 Sep
0.88%
0.54%
1.22%
3.64%
0.76%1 Sep
0.56%2 Sep
0.57%9 Sep
1.12%
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0.33%
5.54%11 Sep
3.82%
1.15%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes79.8%5 512 in total
Reposts3.4%233 in total
Replies5.3%366 in total
Quotes1.8%121 in total
Bookmarks9.7%673 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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