Shervin

My Fox Interview this morning with @MariaBartiromo. Please share. The time is act is now.

foxbusiness.com/video/63876611…

Huge congrats to @GametoGen and @drdinaturner. @DPishevar and I led this seed investment for Sofreh at $21m pre. Now Ferring is acquiring for $1.4ab. More important then the venture return has been the human return of the first Gameto babies being born. A return of a different kind. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“Last month the company used a team of 10,000 autonomous AI agents working in parallel to solve the Navier-Stokes equation, one of the most famous and difficult unsolved problems in mathematics and physics, in just 88 hours. 

“Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen,” said Drake, adding that elliptic curves could be especially vulnerable to superintelligence.”

cointelegraph.com/news/justin-dr…

Get on the Plane isn’t just a slogan, it’s ethos and operating system. It has made all the difference in the world for this son of a taxi driver and a maid. Work ethic and showing up matters.

In the last 8 years since moving to Miami and building Sofreh the metrics are below:

1,071,793 million miles flown
2,223 hours in the air (or 93 days)
470 flights
425 days in transit
43x around the earth
4.5 times around the moon
Flight every 6.7 days
21,650 meetings
6.78 meetings per day, 7 days a week
47.8 meetings per week
206 meetings per month
One meeting every 3.5 hours, day and night, for 8+ years straight

I did a similar analysis during my time at Menlo when I closed deals like Uber and came up with the Get on the Plane Mantra. When Travis said can you meet me in Dublin I got on the next plane out of Africa to close the deal.

Back then between June 2011 when. Started at Menlo Ventures and Jan 2013, I did 10,000 meetings or about 10 meetings per day 7 days a week.

There is signal you can’t close on Zoom, there are bonds and deals that can only be closed in person.

Get on Plane! Get in the Room!

Luckily Sofreh did not pass when @zebulgar offered a a slot in the seed round of @varda because my rule is simple:

NEVER PASS ON ANYTHING DELIAN STARTS