Allison Barr Allen

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Investor at Operator Collective - helper to founders solving very hard problems (Seed+A) / Prev. early Uber / Ohio native / Small but mighty Marathoner

Bay Area, CA operatorcollective.com Joined November 2012

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Allison Barr Allen @abarrallen 16h

Often times, the market discounts second movers but there is a long history of them being successful. Many passed on Ramp because Brex was so successful at the time and thought it would be hard to compete. Anthropic was behind OpenAI but has since surpassed them. Who will be next?

Allison Barr Allen @abarrallen 2d

Let's go 🏙️

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle 2d

The project would replace the decades-old Marina grocery store with a large mixed-use complex featuring two towers reaching 22 and 18 stories, a new Safeway store and 848 homes. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mar…
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Allison Barr Allen @abarrallen 5d

Very good convo with Trae about the current state of the world. Startups will always be very hard. You need a bigger mission / purpose. Try to find your people. Outcome expectations are larger than ever (how does this become $100B?). The bar for what is ‘great’ is incredibly high.

Aditya Agarwal Verified account @adityaag 6d

Full conversation at SPC with Trae out now: youtube.com/watch?v=wlH0lf…
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Allison Barr Allen @abarrallen Nov 3

Some companies are now accomplishing in ~3 months what took the prior generation of companies 3-5 years to do.

Allison Barr Allen @abarrallen Nov 1

Marathons are good for the soul. Andreas won the NYC Marathon in his debut. Wild! Jess McClain @JessTonn was second - the first American to podium since Shalane Flanagan. She passed the third place finisher in the last few steps.

CITIUS MAG Verified account @CitiusMag Nov 1

ONE AND DONE 🔥

Andreas Almgren 🇸🇪 SMASHES his debut over 26.2, winning the 2026 NYC Marathon in 2:06:01 with a 4:25 26th mile to pull away from runner-up Yemaneberhan Crippa 🇮🇹, who takes second in 2:06:14.

Americans put three in the top ten with Zouhair Talbi 6th, Ahmed Muhumed 7th, and Ryan Ford 10th.

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