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Ryan Piela

@RyanPiela

Currently investing at @EsteeLauder and advising startups • ex-founder, ex-consultant, ex-Seattleite

Joined February 2014
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#Clubhouse room on ‘Innovation in Retail & Consumer goods’ w/ @EsteeLauder’s @RyanPiela & @sanyalpritish 🤩 Add the event to your calendar NOW‼️ clubhouse.com/event/xkb3qwz2


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Join us for an exciting session under the ‘Scale in Asia’ range🤩 on ‘Innovation in Retail & Consumer Goods’ w/ @RyanPiela - @EsteeLauder & @sanyalpritish 🗓 July 24 ⏰ 7.30PM IST | 10PM HKT | 3PM BST | 7AM PDT on the #Clubhouse👋 app 🔗 clubhouse.com/event/xkb3qwz2 #innovation

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Excited for what @umarelbably and @FentonJagdeo are building with @facultyworld! Congrats on the raise. Blessed to be a part of it. Now time for me to reapply my Moss polish and get my hands on the other colors #mensgrooming #investing #venturecapital wwd.com/beauty-industr…


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Today @AllRaise released their 2020 annual report. Tl;dr: lots of work to be done. Despite another year of record VC capital deployment, funding to women founders actually went down. And it's worse for Black and Latinx women founders. allraise.org/assets/all-rai…


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Target plans to work with 500+ Black-owned businesses to add products across different categories. Also launching Forward Founders, a program to engage with Black-owned startups earlier. cnbc.com/2021/04/07/tar…


When did #GoogleSearch get so bad? Page one of my most recent search returned 9 ads out of 12 links... With the real links buried in the middle 🤦‍♂️


Excited to join the #EsteeLauder team building out our early stage investing arm... 👀 #LuxuryBrands Hmu


I'm assembling a list of orgs that support POC founders & startups like blackwomentalktech.com Does this list exist already? Otherwise, hoping to crowdsource from the best minds - ideas? @MacConwell @AshleySLiu @MikeMacCombie @TheKofiAmpadu


Looks like Google doesn't think #WFH is here to stay, with their 2021 plan to invest $7 billion in US offices and data centers for 10,000 new FT jobs


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Why do people come? Why do people stay? Why do people share? Why do people pay? The four questions I always ask when evaluating early-stage consumer startups, with additional insights from @lennysan, @andrewchen, @scottbelsky, and others: gabygoldberg.medium.com/my-framework-f…


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yes, VC is lonely AF + remote work exacerbates this. s/o to my homies that send me memes + chat, just to catch up @MacConwell @ohlookitserik @Jai__Malik @manoj_s116 @zhaovc @RyanPiela @joshqharris

Despite meeting more people than you could ever possibly fit in your calendar, you'll also feel quite lonely and isolated most of the time. Most VC investment teams are quite small, and VCs usually operate (meetings, research, diligence, form opinions) solo.



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Tonight's thread is about what it's like to be a fund manager. I think the best analog is actually a sports coach. Which seems like a weird analogy, right? 🤯 But here's why >>


🤯This level of #innovation is crazy: Researchers at MIT have devised a way to allow chemical signals from spinach plants to transmit an email when detecting chemicals typically found in bombs and pollution. #axiosam axios.com/mit-spinach-em…


It was exciting to work for the #NYTimes during their digital transformation. Crazy that 2020 was the first year that the NYTimes made more revenue from digital subscriptions than print for the first time in its history. #DigitalTransformation


Hermes + Birkenstock + MSCHF Winter '21 collection. A Birkenstock I'd consider wearing #Fashionista #COLLAB

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Finally, Face ID coming for the iPhone with a mask on #progress #innovation


An empty inbox... Only happens when I'm actually "All Done!" Thanks @xrclabs for the 1.5 years! Excited to get back to building #NewJob #NewOpportunities

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I'm curious to see if this new hands free #Nike shoe takes off. Their hinge tech is intriguing. I remember being skeptical of the laceless, especially for sports, but now that's half my shoes! forbes.com/sites/timnewco…

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