Threadguy on VC motion vs money
Threadguy argues that in today's venture capital landscape, motion has become more important than money. He says, "The new meta is everybody has money and so the sick founders don't care about your marginal dollar, they care about how much motion you have. The celebrity VC thing is gonna go up only, this is the new new." The full discussion can be found at and the original thread at
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New meta is everybody has money. And so the sick founders don't care about your marginal dollar. They care about how much motion you have. The celebrity VC thing is going to go up only. This is the new new. Everyone has money. Everybody has money in the venture round in Silicon Valley. And so they don't really care for your marginal dollar. And so now it becomes access is how much motion you have. Look at this. Bro, imagine this is your investor lineup. $35 million Series A. This is your lineup. Chloe Kardashian, Alex Earl, Jessica Alba, Paris Hilton, Ice Spice, Carly Klaus, I don't know who that is. Mindy Colling, don't know who that is. Halsey, I don't know who that is. Ghana, Ashley Graham, never heard of him. Winnie Harlow, never heard of him. Olivia Colpo, never heard of him. Eileen Gu, Dudo, Vlad Tenev. Imagine Ice Spice. Brother, imagine on an investor lineup, Ice Spice has bigger font than Vlad Tenev. Imagine that. Imagine that's 2026. In 2026, Ice Spice and Khloe Kardashian is ahead of Vlad Tenev.
