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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 13/07/2026

New episode of This Is Not Advice 🎤 I want you to be able to learn from people who are great at what they do, so you can feel more empowered in what you do. In this episode I speak with Rabbi Noa Kushner, founder of The Kitchen and author of Pretend You Believe.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 15/06/2026

New episode of This Is Not Advice 🎤 The job that this episode is all about: how to be an author, from the first page to the last. Welcome @ericries.bsky.social, author of the new Incorruptible (and some other things of which you may have heard).

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 30/05/2026

Labor organizing happening outside Zuck's yacht, or is it...

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 18/05/2026

Everyone has limited resources. How does a litigator decide which cases to pick? I asked based on my extensive knowledge, drawn from the TV show Billions. In the latest This Is Not Advice episode, (🎤!) @dohamekki.bsky.social tells us how they did it at the DOJ.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 23/03/2026

Before @jodikantor.bsky.social became a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, she got kicked off her college newspaper. So she knows it's not a straight line. And we're hosting Jodi on Wednesday, April 1 at 10am PT to talk about her new book... How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 08/07/2025

In a world with AI, what will it take for people to thrive in their jobs? The only way to find out is to try. The first step: unveiling the National Academy for AI Instruction, a teacher training center led by the American Federation of Teachers, with support from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 30/06/2025

We love serving founders like Kevin, Erin, and Jay — through all the gruel and delight of building a startup. Congrats, Kevin and Mike, and to the whole Charter and SF Standard teams. This picture is a few minutes before we just met in San Francisco...

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 20/06/2025

Typically, when a VC says they’re being transparent, it’s right before they admit they’re investing in your competitor. “Just to be honest…” TBPN asked me what it means to run the “most transparent venture fund”, and it comes back to who our customers are. (Founders!) To us, transparency means:

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 18/06/2025

“Meet your founders where they are” took me to TBPN, to announce our new fund. While Fund 5 is the first fund we rang in with a gong, it’s also the same as Funds 4, and 3, and 2 and 1… fresh capital in service of our customers, the founders. 1/2

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 10/06/2025

Yes, Bloomberg Beta has a new fund to invest – our fifth. Radical change.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 05/06/2025

I usually skip making a big deal of anniversaries. (I’m… terrible at celebrating?) Bloomberg Beta turns 12 today. (Teenage overconfidence will come next year.) Does that mean anything? Well, yes and no.

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 06/05/2025

Tomorrow, I’ll be talking with Nobel winner Daron Acemoglu about how we can make better AI, at Stanford’s Data on Purpose event — and our conversation’s open to anyone to register at the link below. 1/4

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 04/05/2025

Most people think VC stands for “Venture Capitalist” -- nope! It stands for Vibe Coder. Showing off a project I made in 15 minutes, on a plane, on my mobile -- thank you Replit. 1/

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 03/04/2025

I’ve been waiting almost 10 years for the billion dollar, one-person startup. Okay, okay. No one wants to hear the VC who says “I was talking about <that concept> 10 years ago!!!” 1/

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 02/04/2025

Every year, we hold our firm’s day of service. We bus founders and friends to the country's first high school for entrepreneurship -- the Phillip J. Patiño School of Entrepreneurship in Fresno. It’s one of my favorite days of the year. 1/

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 19/03/2025

I’m not spending much time thinking about which jobs AI will replace, and it’s because of studies like this. AI might impact work the same way self-driving cars will impact traffic. 1/

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 13/03/2025

More stories about VC bad behavior every day. Will share as I get permission to share. As for me, let me tell you about the most “evil” thing I do as a VC. Has anyone here noticed I have my middle initial listed on LinkedIn? There’s a reason. 1/

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 04/03/2025

Each of the AI lab spinoffs trying a new approach means we might have some great unboxings ahead of us... @jamescham.bsky.social in WSJ. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-s...

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 14/02/2025

Well, @jamescham.bsky.social had a more glamorous week than many of us -- and brought this sentiment home from the AI event in Paris. In @ericnewcomer.bsky.social's recap... www.newcomer.co/p/safety-thi...

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com · 29/01/2025

👀 Provost of a major research university sent this to all faculty, apparently. As a result of Trump funding announcement... "do not... start new experiments." Apparently among other big awfuls, this might mean a massacre of mice. (Costs money to keep them alive.)

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