Arielle Zuckerberg
General Partner, Long Journey Ventures. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Arielle Zuckerberg is an early-stage venture investor at Long Journey Ventures, having previously served as an investment partner at Kleiner Perkins and Coatue Management. Prior to venture capital, she worked in product management at Wildfire Interactive and Humin.
Everything Arielle Zuckerberg said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Arielle Zuckerberg: My brother Mark is one of history's greatest founders
“I think my brother is one of the greatest founders of all time. And has changed the industry.”
Zuckerberg: Neurodivergence is a superpower in startup founders
“We believe that neurodivergence is a superpower, and we look for people that live their lives differently, and I think it also represents an intensity and directness.”
Arielle Zuckerberg: Swapping out underperforming startup CEOs usually fails
“Some VC firms rather you know, take a more active stance and swapping out CEOs if the company's not performing well. But something I learned is like, that's usually, it usually doesn't work out. So, you know, you're really, In with this founder for the long ha…”
Zuckerberg: VC Twitter is one of the worst places on the internet
“I think that VC Twitter is like one of the worst places on the internet.”
Zuckerberg: Building an audience on Twitter to raise an investor profile is overrated
“So I think, you know, a lot of people are like, oh, I want to like raise my profile. And I think I'm going to like just tweet a bunch and build my audience on Twitter. And I mean, I personally think that that's a little overrated.”
Zuckerberg: Market will probably see a big drop-off in AI revenue
“So I think we're probably going to see a big drop off.”
Zuckerberg: AI-Native Architecture May Beat Incumbents Layering In AI
“I think what we could be getting wrong is like, maybe you kind of have to rethink the entire tool from the ground up to be AI native and maybe that matters versus like layering it into your existing product.”
Arielle Zuckerberg: Communal living prevents over-relying on a single partner
“I think it's just a tall ask for your partner to be everything to you. People are just relying so much on leaning so much on their partners for literally everything where if you live in community, you don't have to do that.”
Zuckerberg: Venture capital has undergone a 'Wall Streetification'
“One thing I'll add is like, there's kind of been this like Wall Streetification of VC”
Arielle Zuckerberg: Best content and hottest takes are in group chats, not Twitter
“All the best content is in group chats. It's not in blogs. It's not on Twitter. The most like unhinged, best, hottest takes and interesting info is all on group chats.”
Arielle Zuckerberg: Most VC Value-Add Is Dumb and Super Marginal
“I think most value add is dumb unless it's something we think about is documentary level value add. If you're not going to provide documentary level value add, then it like it doesn't matter and it's all super marginal.”
Zuckerberg: Writing about outer space doesn't make you an astronaut
“You know, at the same time, writing about outer space doesn't make you an astronaut.”
Arielle Zuckerberg: AI integration will become standard like cloud storage
“The product was artificial intelligence that you integrated into your product, but I don't know, I think that in the future, it'll kind of be like storing things in the cloud, like, it'll be assumed and expected that you have integrated artificial intelligence…”
Mary Meeker: Evan Spiegel views the iPhone purely as a camera
“Mary Meeker told me the story about Evan Spiegel from Snapchat about how he just sees the iPhone as a camera. He doesn't even look at it as a phone. He's like, you're holding a camera. You know, that really carries through in the product vision for Snapchat.”
Zuckerberg: Long Journey evaluates founder 'Rizz and Tiz' balance in IC meetings
“Literally in our investment committee meetings we talk about whether or not this founder has the right balance of Riz and Tiz.”
Zuckerberg: Unconventional personal lifestyles are a proxy for founder boldness
“I think these things are like a proxy for the examples I gave are like a proxy for people who live their lives differently and are, you know, Have the boldness to go after a really magically weird idea.”
Zuckerberg: Long Journey's Average Pre-Seed/Seed Entry Valuation Is Around $15M
“Our average entry valuation on the Precinct seed side is about 15, which I think is, is quite a bit lower than a lot of other folks out there and something we're very proud of.”
Zuckerberg: Entry valuation was not a focus lever at Coatue
“Definitely wasn't as much of a concern at Cotu. For example entry valuation, it didn't, we kind of thought about the model differently at Cotu, and that just wasn't kind of the lever that we were focused on.”
Zuckerberg: Outlier AI growth makes fundraising harder for non-AI startups
“Well, what I'm seeing is it's made it very difficult for non AI, AI companies to get funding. I think like a lot of folks are kind of expecting, like when there are companies out there going from zero to a 124 months, it kind of like resets the bar. And if you…”
Zuckerberg: Scaling VC firms dilutes their authenticity and identity
“So I think, well, like, a lot of firms are really big now, and it's really hard to lean into that authenticity when you have more and more people, because it becomes, like, a watered-down version of, you know, what everyone is standing for.”
Zuckerberg: Angel investors must size portfolios around the power law
“You really have to do a lot of investments based on the power law, which is that one company out of your portfolio will probably return your entire portfolio. And you have to think that every company you invest in is going to be that company that returns your …”
Zuckerberg: Joining VC made me evaluate people transactionally based on intellectual capital
“I feel like this switch has gone off in my brain where I start to think of people Based on their intellectual capital way more so than I did before, which is very challenging for me because I feel like I'm losing myself a little in a weird way.”
Zuckerberg: Bullish on blockchain smart contracts over bitcoin speculation
“Yes. I really like smart contracts. I think those based on the blockchain, or using the blockchain, I think that. That's really promising.”
Zuckerberg: VC Merch Should Resemble Concert Merch Over Patagonia Vests
“A lot of people have like the, you know, the classy logo and on like a Patagonia vest or something. I like to think about it more as merch than swag. So I find inspiration from like rock concerts, festivals, sports teams, like merch that you would purchase.”
The other half of the tape: Arielle Zuckerberg's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 8 times in 5 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
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20VC 3
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 4 mentions in 1 episode
2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
- 20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Arielle's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| SOURCERYLEDGER | General Partner, Long Journey Ventures | 1 | 22 | — | full record on Sourcery → |
| 20VCLEDGER | General Partner, Long Journey Ventures | 1 | 9 | — | full record on 20VC → |