Scott Kupor

@skupor70k followers

Dir., Office of @USOPM (previously, MP at a16z); Author of Secrets of Sand Hill Road; father of three amazing/crazy/beautiful girls.

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1	Dec 22, '24	Thank you @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to serve our country in helping @elonmusk, @VivekGRamaswamy and the entire DOGE team make efficiency a central tenet of the federal g	119×	1.2M	3k	236	110
2	Nov 5, '25	Is it too much to ask that @WSJ reporters who cover finance actually understand the asset classes they purport to report on? @roelofbotha and @sequoia are world class investors who	51×	497k	740	18	131
3	Mar 14, '23	In case helpful for a broader audience, a number of VCs were on a call tonight with the new SVB CEO. Here are a few data points they shared with the group:	49.5×	482k	484	91	85
4	Jul 2, '24	It's worth reading the SCOTUS presidential immunity decision yourself vs just listening to the scaremongering from others.	36.7×	357k	402	65	117
5	Jun 28, '23	Really disappointing to see the US falling to embrace the immigrant talent that has contributed immensely to our economic growth	30.5×	297k	636	97	10
6	Jul 18, '24	Usha is a distinguished lawyer who has reached the highest eschelon of her profession (Yale Law School, SCOTUS clerk, partner at Munger Tolles) AND is a mother of 3, but all the @n	24.4×	238k	1.5k	111	128
7	Apr 24, '24	I love @danprimack (other than his poor choice of sports franchises to support) and think he's got some important points here, but wanted to add some commentary:	19.2×	187k	194	17	188
8	Mar 31, '23	This is such a great read for anyone interested in the early days of VC, Silicon Valley, etc. Here's a few gems to wet your appetite:	18.2×	178k	255	34	142
9	Jan 11, '23	My daughter came across this today in the @Stanford library archives - pretty cool!	18.1×	177k	501	35	178
10	Oct 28, '23	I never made Midas List or 40 under 40 (when I was in fact eligible for that age bracket), but apparently have finally made it to the "Tech Investor Boycott List for Palestine" - I	15.3×	149k	956	58	116
11	Oct 30, '24	Would love to be a fly on the wall at @khoslaventures partner meetings - calling your partner garbage may be over the top even for VC's??	14.4×	141k	715	14	33
12	Jul 3, '23	Narrative violation	12.6×	123k	276	22	25
13	Oct 21, '24	Dear Governor Walz, I sent you an earlier note about a book I wrote to help explain venture capital. It just dawned on me that perhaps you'd prefer the Chinese edition. So next tim	12.6×	123k	801	40	50
14	Dec 7, '23	This will make a great case study for all of the @Wharton MBAs on how not to do crisis comms - follow-up a disastrous day of Congressional testimony by reading from a teleprompter	11.9×	116k	447	23	29
15	Apr 12, '23	When billionaires who made all of their money off on the unregulated internet (and SPACs) somehow decide they are now pro-regulation ("for the good of society") when it comes to AI	11.3×	110k	337	33	12
16	Sep 23, '25	Amen, @KTmBoyle - we have to stop with this false dichotomy that you are either a career civil servant or a career private company servant. Everyone should have the opportunity to	10.6×	104k	231	30	23
17	Nov 15, '25	Had @rokhanna been alive and representing Silicon Valley in the Vannevar Bush era, the entire history of the United States' global economic and national security dominance that was	10.2×	100k	772	43	40
18	Jul 31, '24	Reid Hoffman self-diagnoses with multiple personalities - Reid as a $10m donor is separate from him as an expert (telling Harris to fire Lina Khan) which is separate from him as a	9.4×	91k	345	26	65
19	Dec 8, '23	Once you internalize that the CA budget is tethered to NASDAQ performance, you can start to understand why the general anti-tech sentiment of the CA government will eventually bank	8.8×	86k	234	31	16
20	Jul 15, '25	I am honored today to officially join @USOPM as director and help lead the federal workforce modernization effort through efficiency, accountability, and putting taxpayers first. I	8.8×	85k	434	20	14
21	Dec 29, '24	There are incredibly important roles in @DOGE and in all of the agencies that will work closely with @DOGE in helping improve government efficiency (including OPM - hint, hint). If	8.6×	84k	214	28	32
22	Jul 2, '24	This may be the more relevant post-debate story - not Biden's mental acuity, but the fact that the party that bills itself as the party of the people is controlled by a small cabal	8.6×	83k	507	74	35
23	Oct 13, '18	45 is the new 21, at least with respect to successful startups	8.1×	0	1.1k	391	71
24	Jun 5, '23	“The worst thing you can do is give up, because there’s probably a move. You just have to find it. I’m definitely from the Jay-Z school. Forward is the only direction. Can’t be afr	8.0×	78k	329	55	101
25	Nov 22, '24	Narrative violation (for Dems): Trump appoints first LGBTQ+ Treasury Secretary (Bessent) in US history	7.0×	68k	384	15	31
26	Jun 25, '19	Great thread - VC is indeed tiny (about 0.5% of US GDP), but VC-backed companies punch well above this weight: about 1/3 of total employment; nearly 2/3 of US market capitalization	6.9×	0	1k	271	115
27	May 7, '19	Very excited to announce that my book, Secrets of Sand Hill Road, comes out next month. I've tried to de-mystify the VC business with the hope that it encourages more people to par	6.8×	0	1.1k	145	133
28	May 6, '19	This "death of the middle" trend is true of nearly every maturing industry - retail, banking, prof srvcs firms, private equity, etc.	6.5×	0	1.1k	242	63
29	Jun 12, '24	Happy 15th Birthday @a16z	6.5×	63k	274	12	15
30	Sep 10, '21	Everything you need to know – or at least I what I thought was interesting – in <100 tweets about the Apple/Epic lawsuit verdict today.	6.0×	0	684	134	284
31	Nov 2, '19	This is a great read about the (40+ year) "overnight" success of an investment management startup. We are easily fooled by the post-hoc narrative fallacy, but businesses don't just	5.8×	0	808	181	179
32	Nov 1, '23	UPenn President: “The engagement of Jewish faculty, students, staff and alumni has been an important part of the success of Penn as a leading University. To see their sense of belo	5.7×	56k	228	9	8
33	Jan 18, '18	Mike Moritz memo to Silicon Valley startups: You are lazy (compared to China) via @FT	5.1×	0	603	240	1
34	Jul 4, '24	Independent of your political leanings, this is the kind of spinning/lying that just destroys Americans' confidence in government. It's no wonder our views of politicians are at al	5.1×	50k	394	18	29
35	Jun 2, '21	@andrewrsorkin Alternate view: the "public" (meaning, non-institutional investors) has long believed that the stock market is "manipulated and not trusted" and they now have the to	4.9×	0	1.2k	46	4
36	Jan 13, '22	"Venture capitalists’ secret has been to look through the doubts and “imagine . . . what can happen if everything goes right.”	4.6×	0	634	101	178
37	Oct 10, '23	If you are just now claiming to learn that many of America's institutions of higher learning support anti-Semitic student groups (and, at a minimum, would never condemn their views	4.4×	43k	290	26	5
38	Jun 15, '19	Am I the only person who is just hearing about the existence of Spark on the day of it's shutdown?	4.4×	0	889	117	10
39	Apr 12, '17	Bezos: "To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance it's going to work, it's not an experiment."	4.3×	0	502	317	1
40	Jul 9, '24	After Biden's emphatic resistance to dropping out over the last few days, it seems as though the biggest challenge for the D's is that they lost their core anti-Trump narrative .Th	4.2×	41k	213	8	17
41	Mar 12, '25	It's great having my family's support during my nomination process :) To give you a sense of some of the very helpful feedback I have received from them after posting a few picture	4.1×	40k	241	1	4
42	Oct 16, '24	Dear Governor Walz, I wrote this book if you are interested in learning what a venture capitalist is. You can have it delivered to you overnight from a place called @amazon. Sincer	4.1×	40k	492	17	48
43	Jul 9, '25	Thank you to @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to serve this great country. Our future as a nation is incredibly bright, and I am humbled to be able to play a small part in help	3.9×	38k	325	8	8
44	May 26, '23	Probably not too much of an over-statement to say that we all owe a debt of gratitude to the often-maligned gamers for (almost) singlehandedly subsidizing @nvidia to get us to the	3.8×	38k	214	34	12
45	Jan 31, '25	According to @CNBC, for the first time ever, the market capitalization of US technology companies exceeds the entire market capitalization of all European markets.	3.8×	37k	260	35	31
46	Nov 9, '25	VC's whining about losing deals because of valuation (i.e., the winning firm overpaid) is the moral equivalent of sales reps complaining about losing a deal because their competito	3.8×	37k	327	23	46
47	Nov 4, '24	How great is that??	3.8×	37k	275	4	2
48	Jun 15, '19	If you've ever wondered how to pick a VC, structure a deal or work with a VC post-investment, @withfries2 and I lay it all out here in a 3-video series. It's snackable content perf	3.8×	0	493	97	155
49	Dec 22, '24	@pmarca @bhorowitz @a16z I can't thank the two of you enough for the excitement we have shared for 25 years now - first Loudcloud/Opsware and now @a16z - many more exciting things	3.8×	37k	273	2	8
50	Sep 10, '25	Please join me in praying for Charlie Kirk and his family in the wake of this terrible attack	3.5×	34k	242	2	2
51	Nov 11, '20	Headline makes no mention of the fact that the sale was done automatically via a 10b51 plan put in place in August	3.3×	0	711	33	18
52	Mar 20, '19	If you are interested in reading more on this topic and on how venture capital works from top to bottom, check out my soon-to-be-released book: Secrets of Sand Hill Road	3.1×	0	462	74	90
53	Apr 6, '19	Interesting example of misleading stats. Story says that bad diet kills more people than smoking (which is true), but doesn't tell readers until the end why this is obvious - every	3.1×	0	568	100	11
54	Aug 27, '15	Immigrants co-founded 40% of SV businesses from 06-12; of those, 1/3 had Indian founders; 5% had Chinese founders	3.0×	0	211	290	0
55	Oct 18, '16	70% of engineers in Silicon Valley are foreign born.	2.9×	0	295	219	0
56	Nov 10, '24	This is just silly. The Harris campaign outspent the Trump campaign by at least 2:1, and the number of billionaires supporting Harris was also double that supporting Trump. In an i	2.9×	28k	221	10	14
57	Nov 3, '23	Nice, peaceful commemoration at Stanford for the hostages - an empty Shabbat table in honor of the victims	2.9×	28k	221	8	5
58	Jan 27, '25	Come on people, get your DOGE on! Work with @elonmusk and team to help make the government both more efficient and more responsive to the American people.	2.9×	28k	185	18	9
59	Nov 29, '19	An oldie but a goodie - Paul Krugman in 1998: "By 2005 or so it will be clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."	2.8×	0	465	79	25
60	Dec 2, '18	75-year study to end all happiness studies - biggest predictor of happiness is quality of close relationships	2.8×	0	433	98	41
61	Aug 2, '20	The silence from the business and journalist communities re the govt's ability to literally shut down a company overnight is deafening. Tik Tok will be the first salvo in a prolong	2.7×	0	431	92	17
62	May 4, '19	More evidence for software eating the world: Buffett deciding to invest in tech stocks (“We screwed up.”)	2.6×	0	418	93	32
63	Jun 3, '25	Turns out that DPI matters: "Together, Thoma Bravo said its flagship and Discover funds have returned a total of more than $30 billion to investors since the beginning of 2023." vi	2.6×	25k	225	12	64
64	Dec 9, '17	If you care to learn about crypto, @arampell has you covered	2.4×	0	449	85	3
65	Jul 18, '24	You may not like her, her husband or who she represents, but there is no need to denigrate her by valuing her alone based on her fashion sense vs acknowledging her professional and	2.3×	22k	390	9	8
66	Feb 24, '19	Wasn't that entirely predictable? The only companies who can afford the regulatory cost burden are the largest, most profitable. Same think with Dodd Frank - it was the best thing	2.3×	0	342	107	13
67	Aug 31, '20	This is very cool	2.2×	0	386	74	23
68	Mar 1, '19	This is a really good read - 0 alpha generation from CEOs with MBAs, 0 difference between elite and non-elite programs, 0 persistence in returns for repeat CEOs	2.1×	0	275	86	53
69	Jul 11, '17	Correct - US VC is now 54% of global VC investment, down from 90% 20 years ago - where will it be 20 years hence?	2.1×	0	234	143	0
70	Dec 6, '19	According to Warren, any company with $40b+ in revenue is prohibited from making acquisitions and any 2 companies each with $15b in revenue cannot merge; oh, and her bill would mak	2.0×	0	202	30	13
71	Dec 22, '24	@VivekGRamaswamy Thank you, Vivek - honored to work with and the team!	2.0×	19k	280	6	5
72	Jun 12, '20	This is unbelievable - Hertz is going to sell new equity to the public in the middle of a bankruptcy process, even though that equity sits junior to the DIP and on par with all oth	1.9×	0	253	51	15
73	Oct 8, '20	Silicon Valley has been doing SPACs forever. We just call them SPVs. A SPAC is just a special "SPV" that trades publicly and acquires an existing business (vs just investing in one	1.9×	0	308	45	30
74	Mar 27, '16	The "founder's mentality" - new data from Bain showing 3x outperformance by founder-led public companies	1.8×	0	217	135	0
75	Aug 31, '19	Interesting story debunking the myth of the young founder. The study is behind a paywall, but it apparently uses "fastest growth in employment and sales" as the success metric. See	1.7×	0	244	46	46
76	Sep 29, '19	Well said from @fredwilson - tech companies enjoy premium valuations b/c they have long-term competitive moats, high unit margins and Ieverage at scale, driving high cash flow at m	1.7×	0	289	50	32
77	Sep 2, '18	Everything you ever wanted to know about sales, but were afraid to ask - or didn't know to ask. From @a16z Peter Levine	1.7×	0	226	62	49
78	Aug 28, '20	(Not) Throwing out the baby with the bath water in reforming the IPO process #tech via @a16z	1.7×	0	214	42	63
79	Dec 7, '20	Winning investment strategy? When a prominent venture firm (particularly one named after a tree) publicly pronounces that the world is coming to an end, go long :)	1.7×	0	337	19	21
80	Oct 6, '20	According to the House, big tech has reduced entrepreneurship and VC activity. The data show otherwise: from '06-'19, total # of VC deals/$ up 4x to 12,211 deals/$135.8b, early-sta	1.7×	0	219	67	25
81	Jul 16, '19	A simpler form of this graph: Red = tech largely absent from these industries; Blue = tech largely present in these industries.	1.6×	0	228	64	19
82	Dec 4, '20	Amazing chart - this is FAAANM earnings vs rest of the S&P and MSCI (in case you were wondering whether stock prices reflect earnings) via @bopinion	1.6×	0	236	49	36
83	Jan 15, '22	Lots of reasons why it's so hard for incumbents to innovate, but this highlights a big one: it often requires turning over your shareholder base from dividend/earnings focus to gro	1.6×	0	262	27	39
84	Dec 29, '20	Proud to see my Dad getting his Moderna vaccine as a front-line physician in Houston.	1.5×	0	376	5	1
85	Apr 21, '22	Next time a hedge fund manager tells you they are long term investors . . .	1.4×	0	264	26	22
86	Nov 4, '25	This is great news! @rookisaacman will be a fantastic addition to the Administration.	1.4×	14k	254	5	2
87	Aug 18, '18	When software starts to eat cultural norms, it's safe to say that software truly is eating the world	1.4×	0	206	55	15
88	May 1, '19	Thanks to all of the entrepreneurs we've had the pleasure to work with over the past 10 years; looking forward to the next 10! via @a16z	1.4×	0	255	31	10
89	Mar 29, '19	Tech narrative for last ten years: Companies are staying private too long + private valuations are too high --> We must be in a bubble Tech narrative today: Wow, so many tech co	1.3×	0	249	50	3
90	Aug 11, '21	The number 1 goal for any startup - stay alive to fight another day!	1.3×	0	282	25	12
91	May 18, '19	Good to see more states realizing that Noncompete Agreements are bad for employees and bad for economic growth generally. One of the big reasons why CA tech industry successfully o	1.3×	0	206	59	4
92	Oct 21, '20	As expected.	1.3×	0	221	42	15
93	Mar 3, '19	Harvard Law Prof Lawrence Lessig: "Defending a criminal defendant is not to defend a crime. That understanding is fundamental to a just criminal justice system.”	1.3×	0	198	50	13
94	Mar 11, '20	Asking for a "friend," does anyone know if on a Zoom call whether the host can tell if you've navigated to another window - i.e., multi-tasking? I've heard of teachers threatening	1.2×	0	199	18	11
95	Mar 11, '21	From @matt_levine: "Venture capitalists are not happy when mutual funds get underpriced stock: It dilutes existing shareholders and 'leaves money on the table.' [VC's] are of cours	1.2×	0	231	20	12
96	Jan 29, '21	This is groundbreaking - the idea that stock prices would reflect fundamentals or that the government could declare this by fiat :)	1.1×	0	223	19	5
97	Dec 18, '20	Vaccine quote of the day - Sen. Kennedy (R-LA), reported by @politico: “I hear a lot of ‘I’m not gonna take it, because I don’t know what’s in it.’ And you know what I tell them? D	1.1×	0	189	31	3
98	Jun 14, '19	A huge thank you to everyone who has supported the launch of Secrets of Sand Hill Road - because of you, we made the @WSJ Best Seller's List! If you haven't had a chance to read ye	1.1×	0	195	28	6
99	Dec 1, '22	@pmarca You had me until the last exchange when the Entrepreneur says to the Journalist that she "respect(s) your [the Journalist's] opinion." That's the dead giveaway that the AI	1.0×	0	261	3	1
100	Aug 3, '20	I didn't realize FINRA had granted the US government a broker-dealer license such that it can take a success fee in M&A transactions!	1.0×	0	200	23	2

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