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Karin Klein shared thisWhat a fantastic opportunity for bright minds and such an exciting win for Campus and its students!Karin Klein shared thisLast week, NYU SPS Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies launched a powerful partnership with Campus to create seamless pathways for degree completion for online learners. I'm looking forward to what this collaboration will do and become as we grow together. https://lnkd.in/gebi-MdpCampus, Two-Year Online College, Adds NYU SPS to Growing National Transfer NetworkCampus, Two-Year Online College, Adds NYU SPS to Growing National Transfer Network
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Karin Klein shared thisGloria changed our work and our world. She opened doors for generations of women and spent her life championing equality, dignity, and freedom for others. I once asked Gloria who would carry the torch for her work. She told me she was grateful to know that I was already one of her torches. Over the last few years, Erin Grau and I had the extraordinary gift of spending time with Gloria, exploring AI together, learning from her, and learning alongside her. At 90+, she was still one of the most curious people I’ve ever known. We taught her how to use AI, and together we created talking circles that brought more than 100 leaders into conversation with one another. Those leaders extend her influence into their organizations that collectively employ more than 3 million people. Gloria kept learning, asking questions, and lifting others up through Gloria's Foundation. She showed me what lifelong learning really looks like, and her curiosity and generosity are an example I hope to carry forward. I’m so grateful for her, for her example, and for those words. 💔
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Karin Klein reposted thisKarin Klein reposted this"You've created a whole universe here that didn't exist before." Gloria Steinem said that to me and Karin Klein the first time we sat in her living room. She'd just spent the afternoon learning to use AI. At 90. That afternoon with Gloria led to our inaugural residency with Gloria's Foundation, and over the next year and a half we filled her living room with more than a hundred women who build, buy, govern, teach, use, and fund AI, leading organizations that employ over 3 million people. People ask me all the time why AI mattered to Gloria, and it's because AI is the new language of power. I have so much to say about what I learned from Gloria, but today I'm just thinking about these incredible women who came together with her and with us. Gloria never wanted to pass her torch, she wanted to keep it, and use it to light everyone else's. She lit mine, Karin's, and every woman who ever sat in that room with us. We'll keep them burning. Rest in power, Gloria. And thank you. 📸 grateful for these photos by Nina Wurtzel
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Karin Klein shared thisA glimpse into the tenacity it takes to build something enduring. I remember those days and love that Amjad shared thisKarin Klein shared thisYC rejected me 4 times. So on my fifth application, I Rick Rolled them. From 2016, I applied to Y Combinator every batch. Rejected every time. Most times we didn't even get a call. Then in December 2017, I woke up to a DM from Sam Altman: "We're interested in what you're doing." Paul Graham had told him Replit was important. After four rejections, they were recruiting us. Then Sam said: apply anyway. The batch starts tomorrow. Fill out that form. A fifth time. I was annoyed. So I did basic answers. And where it asked for a video, I pasted a YouTube link. Rick Astley. Never Gonna Give You Up. I walked into the interview the next day feeling like it was a formality. Michael Seibel shook my hand a little too hard. I sat down. First words out of his mouth: "Why did you Rick Roll us?" He was furious. The partners had been fuming while we waited outside. The next 10 minutes were brutal. Every question sharper than the last. And all I could think was: they have no idea who I am. They see an entitled tech guy, not an immigrant who spent years scraping his way here. I walked out and told my wife it was over. Called an Uber. Back to work. Before it arrived, my phone rang. "You got in. Come back - kickoff is about to start." Would not recommend this method for getting into YC though.
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Karin Klein shared thisEvery real estate operator is sitting on years of data they've never really used. Antares Labs is what finally puts it to work. Proud to back Noaman Ahmad, Max Simkoff, Brendan Wallace, and the Antares team.Karin Klein shared thisVenture capital has always had a quiet assumption built into it: the right companies will show up and pitch you. AI broke that assumption. I sat down with Diana Olick at CNBC to talk about what that means—and to announce the clearest expression of it: Antares Labs, the first company Fifth Wall has fully incubated, launching today with a $7.25M seed round joined by Base10 Partners, Bloomberg Beta, and Sandwith Ventures. Here's the logic. AI has collapsed the cost of building technology. We've seen this pattern before: when the cost of creation collapses, value migrates from picking winners to creating them. That changes the job of a venture capitalist. Waiting for pitches is no longer a strategy—it's a shrinking share of where value gets created. The job is forming theories about how the world will change, backing the companies prosecuting them, and when those companies don't exist, building them. For years, I've been looking for a Palantir for real estate: forward-deployed engineers, data scientists, and engagement managers embedded inside real estate organizations, building AI infrastructure those companies own. Nearly every one of our strategic LPs has asked us for some version of this. It didn't exist. So we built it. We partnered with Noaman Ahmad, whose deep industry experience made him the obvious person to lead it. Antares Labs is already deployed with operators including Quarterra. Fifth Wall sits between 115 of the world's largest real estate owner-operators and the technology ecosystem. We don't have to guess what the market wants. We hear it—daily, from the largest owners of physical space on earth. Sometimes the right move is to stop waiting for the company they're asking for and build it. Always great catching up with Diana Olick about where things are headed. And thanks to Emily Davis at Commercial Observer for covering the launch. Congratulations to Noaman and the entire Antares Labs team. Antares Labs is the first. It won't be the last. 🎥 bit.ly/4x7IH38 🗞️ bit.ly/3Tg0KFJ 🔗 antareslabs.ai
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Karin Klein shared thisHuge congrats to Phillip and the entire Air Space Intelligence team. We've seen firsthand how exceptional this team is and are excited that the skies are about to get a lot SMARTer and safer.Karin Klein shared thisToday, the U.S. Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration have awarded ASI a 12-year, $875 Million software and AI contract to deploy two programs: the Flow Management Data & Services (FMDS) and Strategic Management of Airspace, Routing, and Trajectories (SMART). We are truly honored by this opportunity to modernize America's skies!
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Karin Klein shared thisFounders: worth a look. Great opportunity to get thoughtful perspectiveKarin Klein shared thisFriends - I am excited to announce that we've closed a $75M Gutter Capital Fund III and TODAY we are opening up applications for Elbow Grease II, the second iteration of our small-batch, founder-led accelerator in the heart of New York City. We started this firm out of a love for founders, and we're doubling down on Elbow Grease for the same reason. There has never been a more exciting time to build a company, and I can't think of better people to build with than my partners James Gettinger, Richard Hughes, Vince Li and Carli Casteel. Check out the full announcement and *stunning* new Elbow Grease website here. We worked with a group of NYC based artists to give you a break from the AI slop. https://lnkd.in/eiHfqWU8 DT p.s. thank you to our partners at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Mercury for backing an accelerator that puts quality over quantity 💪
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Karin Klein shared thisI keep thinking education isn't K-12 anymore. It's K-100. Loved our main stage discussion at Fortune #BrainstormTech with Tade Oyerinde, Hadi Partovi, David Kirkpatrick, and me. It highlighted that we're living longer, changing jobs more often, and the tools we use are reinventing faster than any curriculum can track. The only real answer: keep experimenting and learning.
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Karin Klein reposted thisKarin Klein reposted thisFor decades, Gloria Steinem has brought women together to wrestle with the biggest questions of their time. She understands something powerful: when women gather - not just to talk, but to listen, question, and imagine - we expand what's possible. So when I was invited to host a conversation on Raising Kids in the Age of AI at Gloria Steinem's home, in partnership with Erin Grau, Karin Klein and the Gloria Steinem Foundation, I was genuinely awestruck. Parents are navigating something entirely new. We're raising kids alongside technology that didn't exist when we were growing up, and we're making decisions in real time about tools that are already shaping how our children learn, create, communicate, and understand the world. We gathered women from policy, technology, labor, research, media, and advocacy to ask a simple question: What kind of future do we want for our kids? The conversation was thoughtful, emotional, hopeful, and deeply human. And maybe that's what stayed with me most. In a moment when so much attention is on what technology can do, we spent our time, gathered together in Gloria Steinem’s living room, talking about people, our values, our relationships, and our responsibility to the next generation.
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From the field all the way through the financial statements... this is huge 🚀
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Karin Klein reacted on thisKarin Klein reacted on thisWelcome to the world, Ethan Asher Eidelbaum (��יתן אשר איידלבאום)! Our son was born on the most sacred day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur. (But he has nothing to apologize for so far.) We are deeply grateful to our wonderful surrogate Cat - who's recovering well - and to everyone who made Ethan's journey possible. Ethan is healthy, curious, and vocal. He amazes us already. We are overcome with joy and awe.
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Karin Klein reacted on thisKarin Klein reacted on thisTen years ago, our team at Hinge asked ourselves a hard question: Are we helping people find relationships, or just giving them superficial interactions? That question led to an overhaul of the app, and changed what we’ve built since. I think a lot about how we have so many ways to connect with each other, but that doesn't necessarily mean we feel closer. Why? Next month, we are hosting a one day gathering called Heads Up. We’re bringing founders, researchers, designers, creators, and community leaders together to ask what technology could do differently. I’m especially excited to hear from people whose lived experiences and work can challenge what those of us in tech *think* we know. I believe the next era of technology should give us more time and space for the people who matter to us. One gathering won’t solve this crisis of closeness, but I hope the conversations lead to new partnerships and work that carries on well beyond the day. 💜 I shared more about what’s behind Heads Up, and where I think we should start: https://lnkd.in/grSHEw8Q
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Karin Klein reacted on thisKarin Klein reacted on thisAfter two weeks of orientation at AAAS headquarters and an intense week of interviews on Capitol Hill, I’ve officially accepted a congressional placement! I received offers across the House and Senate, and am excited to address a range of issues covering the economic and sociopolitical impacts of AI and emerging technologies within the office of a Senator I deeply admire. I look forward to what I’m sure will be an exciting year working in one of the world’s most complex regulatory environments, especially during a period when scientifically grounded, balanced perspectives informing AI legislation are needed now more than ever.
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Karin Klein reacted on thisKarin Klein reacted on thisI landed in America 14 years ago with nothing but credit card debt. Since then, I've had one startup exit, one big tech job and one unicorn. But also a family, a house, and a life I genuinely believe I couldn't have built anywhere else. I still remember crossing the bridge into Manhattan from JFK in Jan 2012, and seeing the skyline in the distance. I'd dreamed about this country since my dad bought me a computer at 6, back in Jordan. Seeing it for real felt almost spiritual. Could I have built Replit somewhere else? Honestly, probably not. The first thing I noticed here was the work ethic. Everyone, regardless of occupation, took pride in doing a top tier job -- even when no one was looking. I asked people: why pour everything into a job when nobody's watching? Most of them didn't understand the question. It was just how you did things. Then I noticed how open this country is to weirdos. Nobody knows where the next big innovation will come from, so weird people thrive here instead of getting crushed. At Replit, we hire people with the most interesting backgrounds, from dropouts to artists. And this country forgives failure. Put yourself out there, fail in public, and something surprising happens. Nobody holds it against you. If you're honest about your failures here, you get a second chance. And a third. The credit card debt is long paid off, but the gratitude isn't.
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Karin Klein reacted on thisKarin Klein reacted on thisAfter four years at NextView, I'm stepping into a new chapter and reflecting on what really matters in this work. "The texture of how you go about this job is very unique and appreciated." A founder I work with paid me that compliment earlier this year. That word, texture, stuck with me. It captures something I've long believed about early-stage investing but rarely hear named: the way an investor shows up speaks louder than words, spoken or written. It's in the way I listen. The questions I ask. The insights I gain and the empathy I develop as an early user of the products I back. The vulnerability I'm willing to model. Whether I'm still engaged in the hard conversations eighteen months after the wire, when things don’t go according to plan. And whether a founder chooses to confide in me in those moments of uncertainty and change. I'm in a moment of change myself. This summer, I moved from full-time partner to Venture Partner at NextView. I'll continue supporting portfolio companies as a board member and advisor while I turn my attention to what’s ahead. I'm grateful to the NextView team, our LPs, and the founders who welcomed me into their companies and their stories. My time at NextView has been full. I led more than a dozen investments across our seed funds and All Access fund, including some of the firm's earliest investments in AI-native and AI-enabled companies. I backed founders I've known and admired for more than fifteen years, industry veterans, and first-time founders. I brought a new LP into the fund. I overhauled how the firm manages its deal pipeline and relationships. And I originated and designed the NextView Founder Retreat, an annual gathering where the deep connections founders make endure long after the retreat ends. Four years went fast. And now feels like exactly the right moment to imagine something new. The early conversations I'm having are already stretching my thinking at a time when venture itself is changing shape. Sitting in San Francisco amid the most exciting technology wave I've experienced in my career, I've never been more motivated to find exceptional people, spot what others don't yet see, and guide founders through the moments when the path forward is least obvious. I'm entering my next chapter with fifteen years of investing experience, an open mind, and genuine curiosity about where my judgment, relationships, and energy are most useful. As I consider what comes next, I keep returning to a purpose statement I wrote years ago: To invest in and nurture people, ideas, and family in order to help them explore, grow, and reach their potential. That's the texture I'm carrying with me. If you're building something ambitious, reimagining how investing gets done, or simply think there's someone I should know, I'd love to hear from you. My inbox is open. 📬
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Karin Klein reacted on thisKarin Klein reacted on thisHi friends, Back with another update 😊. I’m beyond thrilled to share that I’ve joined Baseten as Chief Marketing Officer. Every once in a while, you come across a special company with all the right ingredients that is poised to take advantage of a massive market shift. That’s how this feels. We all know that adoption of AI is accelerating, but we’re just barely understanding what companies will build with it. The great companies of the future will be built on intelligence that is uniquely their own and Baseten is building the infrastructure that makes that possible. What got me excited to join though, wasn’t just the opportunity. It was how much customers love working with the team. We sit side by side with our customers every day, helping them to solve hard problems and achieve their mission. That kind of customer obsession is my oxygen. And of course, most important is the people. The Baseten team is deeply technical, ambitious, thoughtful, and humble. They care about the work, they care about the customer, and they care about each other. Those are my peeps. I’m incredibly grateful to Tuhin Srivastava, Dannie Herzberg, Amir Haghighat and the entire Baseten team for welcoming me in. LFG. https://lnkd.in/gB9Hyddz
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Karin Klein reacted on thisKarin Klein reacted on thisToday is a big one. When we started Trayd: Construction Payroll, HR, & Compliance, the vision was never to build another payroll company. We wanted to build the system contractors could run their entire business on. Today, we take a huge step toward that vision. Introducing Trayd Accounting. The field. Payroll. Job costs. The books. One connected system, built around the job from the ground up. Every dollar in construction starts in the field. Now, it doesn’t have to take weeks to make its way to the financials. I couldn’t be prouder of our team or more excited to finally put this into the hands of contractors across the country. Field to finance, finally. Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/g8bqece7
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