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Jonathan Lehr

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Enterprise VC @Work_Bench | We lead $3-6M Seed Rounds | Organizer @NYETM, @KauffmanFellows 19 | My better half is @MichaelaLehr | 305 Native

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Thrilled to unveil our $100M @Work_Bench Fund 3 in @Forbes Thanks so much @alexrkonrad for the wonderful coverage that really nails the essence of our GTM-focused enterprise VC model Let's gooo! 🔥🔥🔥

Exclusive: Work-Bench, the early-stage VC firm focused on growing enterprise tech in NYC, has a $100M new fund. I spoke to founders @jerseejess and @fendien about the new, and why the pandemic hasn't shaken their faith in the city's startup scene. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…



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this is an insane thing for a Rutgers professor to make up, given that Ashkenazis make up a minority of Israeli Jews compared to Mizrahi and Sephardic. Academia is really leaning into revisionist history antisemitism.

Mary was a Jew. Yes. But she was an Indigenous Palestinian Jew. Not a white European Zionist settler cosplaying as Indigenous.



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Highlights from #theCUBE + @NYSE Wired Media Day 🚀 @furrier speaks with @JacobMoshenko about how @authzed prepares customers for business growth and scalability. 📺 Catch the interview on-demand! thecube.net/events/nyse/me… #EnterpriseTechNews @bjbaumann2014


Amazing @Work_Bench Infra leaders dinner last night at Il Buco Vita in partnership with @grante23 of Tiger Global We had senior engineering leaders from Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, BNY Mellon, Citadel, and BNP Paribas, as well as from scale ups including Addepar, ASAPP, and…

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🤑Building something in this space? I'm actively looking to make an investment in Seed stage opportunities @Work_Bench that bridge platform-native & independent data architectures DM me or email priyanka@work-bench.com to chat thedatasource.substack.com/p/the-data-sou… fin/


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🗡️My take is that the next meaningful innovation won't be new catalogs or query engines—it'll be tools that bridge these two architectural approaches, solving hard problems in multi-platform sync & metadata consistency 5/


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🔥off the press🔥 The Data Source #26 -- my Substack on all things cloud infra, data & dev tools Check out my latest piece on how I'm re-thinking data catalogs + query engines + associated investment opportunities ⤵️ thedatasource.substack.com/p/the-data-sou… 1/


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Enterprises are moving back on prem. Tech companies (Dropbox, Pinterest, Snap, and others) have been public on this shift for some time and I expect that we'll start to see more Fortune 500s and large enterprises speaking up about repatriating cloud workloads. GEICO is a prime…


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Every day, I start by putting on my tefillin and praying. It grounds me in gratitude—grateful for my health, my family, my kids. Starting the day with that perspective reminds me how fortunate I am. It’s easy to look at others, but staying centered gives you the strength to…


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A new deal sourcing channel! Conversion metrics off the charts! 😂

Sourcing a deal from a...mohel?! 🤯 I had an absolute blast with @ephraimyarmak on his podcast where we discussed my wildest @Work_Bench investment sourcing story🤓and lots more. I appreciate how Ephraim got to the heart of the values and people related elements of…



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Every founder needs a consistent, always-on top-of-funnel engine to maintain a steady stream of prospects To tackle this challenge, we hosted an Enterprise Masterclass with Robin Izsak-Tseng, growth marketing leader from @BetterCloud & @G2dotcom covering 👇 5 battle-tested…


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Level up your customer retention game 💪🚀 For our next Enterprise Masterclass this Wednesday, our Sales advisor @knarsu will walk through his framework for building a rock-solid post-sales model ​Whether you're a founder going at it alone or a scaled-out sales team, RSVP👇…


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fuck all these people. the greatest threat to the world is intolerant radical islam long live our living veterans + forever remember our dead.

The "Free Palestine" crowd hates America, example one million

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Couldn't agree more! It's why GTM is a core focus of ours at @Work_Bench

As I get older, i am coming to the realization that building winning go to market is the hardest enterprise startup problem. A lot of folks like me look for easy fixes, and it just may be that there are not any.



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As we remember the 86th Anniversary of Kristallnacht, we in America must summon the moral courage to stand up, speak out, and act against antisemitism with fierce urgency of now. If antisemitism is allowed to fester freely, aided by the silence and cowardice of a complacent…


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In the warped worldview of Afif Aqrabawi, the blame lies not with the perpetrators of the pogrom. It lies with the victims—the Jews who had it coming. The problem is not antisemitism as most Jews define it. The problem is Zionism, which Afif redefines as “the most dangerous…

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Words=code casting mind spells from NYT shaping how people see truth by obfuscating it to antisemite mobs co-opt wikipedia to cynical dishonest use of ‘genocide’ + ‘apartheid’ illegitimately conflating provoked war + stopping suicide bombers––w/ legit civil right movements

Posts like these from @RitchieTorres actually deliver results. Note the changed headline.

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What you're seeing in Europe is the logical reaction to the blood libel that Israel is committing genocide. If people think Israelis are the new Nazis, they will treat them as such. Journalists and leaders entertaining this malicious blood libel are fueling real violence.


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The original NY Times headline reads: “Violence Tied to Soccer Game….” There is no mention of the unprecedented nature of the event—a pogrom in the 21st century. No mention of its motive: antisemitism. No mention of its victims: Jews and Israelis. No mention of the response it…

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