Roy E. Bahat
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Roy E. Bahat
@roybahat.com
Plays a mean game of Werewolf, also a VC who believes in worker power
Reposted by Roy E. Bahat
All of you are deliberately mischaracterizing what Sarah Hurwitz was saying about Holocaust education. Do better.
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
And thank you to our co-sponsors, HBCUvc, Silicon Valley Bank, @burklandassoc.bsky.social, Bloomberg Engineering and Philanthropies!
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Is your startup too small / young / cash-strapped to throw a holiday party?

We're throwing one for you... Startup Festivus on Fri 12/5 in SF, now in its 11th year. πŸŽ‰

Ask to join, or share it with your favorite founder: bit.ly/StartupFesti...
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Is your startup too small to throw its own party this holiday? Join us for Startup Festivus on Friday, December 5 in San Francisco! Because cash is precious and holidays are best spent together, we ar...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Because we try things here and there. I love posting here, and LinkedIn also works well. Sometimes I post less in general, sometimes more.

Also group chat is where I post a lot now.
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Oh shoot you are so right. Back to posting more actively because you said that
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
TY!
October 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
We use that NPS as the most important metric to drive our fund's choices.

(We would share our Net Promoter Score here, but we don’t want our founders to feel we are using their feedback to market ourselves.)
August 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
NPS! Once a year we ask all our founders to do a short anonymous survey to give us feedback on what we can do better. We calculate a Net Promoter Score as part of this.
August 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Founders are our customers. Our North Star metric, by definition, can’t be β€œcapital returned to our LP.” So what is it?

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August 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Thank you @rweingarten.bsky.social for the speed and vision to build the National Academy for AI Instruction.
July 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Read more below β€” and if you’re a founder or technology leader who believes you have something to offer to this effort, pipe up!

www.aft.org/press-releas...
AFT to Launch National Academy for AI Instruction with Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and United Federation of Teachers
NEW YORK – The AFT, alongside the United Federation of Teachers and lead partner Microsoft Corp., founding partner OpenAI, and Anthropic, announced the launch of the National Academy for AI…
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July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Through the academy, all teachers in the AFT will have access to free AI training. The first classes start this fall.

We have yet to see an AI-native generation enter the workforce. Today, that’s changing. Let’s make our generations the last ones that couldn’t take full advantage of AI.
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The idea was inspired by other union training centers around the country – see what the carpenters, operating engineers, and hospitality workers have done

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A model to prepare workers for the future: organized labor training centers
Updated after a 2024 visit
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July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Randi and I talked about this idea for the first time at the union Labor Innovation & Technology Summit in January β€” she pulled her colleague Rob Weil over within minutes, and, building on work they’d already done with Microsoft, the ball started rolling.
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I’m joining the Academy’s board. (I suggested this academy to the AFT, and they brought the partners together fast.)
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thank you to @microsoft.com (and its president Brad Smith), @OpenAI’s @chrislehane, Anthropic’s Jack Clark, Elizabeth Kelly, Deep Ganguli, and others, and of course to AFT president @rweingarten and UFT president Michael Mulgrew.

What a team coming together.
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
If we can figure out how teachers should teach with and about AI, we can affect the lives of millions of educators, and millions and millions of young people.

And if we can figure out how to train teachers on using AI, maybe we can figure it out for other occupations.
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In a world with AI, what will it take for people to thrive in their jobs? The only way to find out is to try.

The first step: unveiling the National Academy for AI Instruction, a teacher training center led by the American Federation of Teachers, with support from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We love serving founders like Kevin, Erin, and Jay β€” through all the gruel and delight of building a startup.

Congrats, Kevin and Mike, and to the whole Charter and SF Standard teams. This picture is a few minutes before we just met in San Francisco...
June 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
SF Standard has already proven its mettle β€” Griffin Gaffney, the CEO, has accomplished the rare feat of both quality and momentum for a new publication β€” and I look forward to seeing where the product goes from here.
June 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
And, of course, there’s the gravitas of the acquirer. Mike Moritz, one of the most successful investors of all time, the VC who started as a journalist (and continues to write), makes an acquisition: business journalism of the highest caliber.
June 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
He’ll bring the perspectives of the East Coast and its corporate and government leadership (back) to SF (where he once lived).

The SF Standard, which has been such a needed new voice in San Francisco, can now spread its wings even further, and sharpen its beak.
June 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
And now, San Francisco gains that wisdom. Kevin will add being the editor-in-chief for the SF Standard, while continuing to oversee Charter β€” moving from New York to where the AI action is in SF.
June 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM