The best way to learn how venture capitalists and angel investors actually think is to watch them share ideas in real time. Twitter (now X) is where that happens. Most VCs are more candid on Twitter than they are in interviews or on their firm’s blog.
Here’s a roundup of the accounts I follow and find consistently worth reading. The list includes well-known names in venture capital and angel investing, plus a few accounts that take a different angle on the space. Each entry includes a sample post so you can see what to expect before you follow.
@paulg – Paul Graham
Paul Graham co-founded Y Combinator and has shaped how an entire generation of founders thinks about startups. His tweets tend toward first-principles thinking about entrepreneurship, fundraising, and what makes companies succeed or fail. He writes with precision, and his posts are often referenced long after they’re published.
Bootstrapping is a proper subset of taking venture funding. Taking venture funding lets a company choose its growth rate. One end of this continuum is to raise zero dollars and just take whatever default growth rate you can get off your own revenues.
@naval – Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant co-founded AngelList and has invested in over 200 companies, including more than 10 that reached unicorn status. His tweets cover startups, wealth creation, and philosophy. He’s one of the few investors whose account is as useful for personal development as it is for business.
.@nireyal , author of “Hooked” and “Indistractable,” on distractions.
“So the first step to becoming indistractable is realizing that most of our distractions begin from within. We tend to blame the pings, dings, and rings, but that only accounts for 10% of our distractions.…
@sama – Sam Altman
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI and former president of Y Combinator. His tweets cover technology, AI, startups, and broader economic and societal questions. He’s one of the most influential voices in tech, and his account is worth following whether you’re in venture capital or just trying to understand where the industry is heading.
i failed pretty hard at my first startup–it sucked!–and am doing pretty well on my second.
the thing i wish someone told me during the first one is that no one else thinks about your failures as much as you do, and that as long as don’t psych yourself out you can try again.
@eladgil – Elad Gil
Elad Gil is an entrepreneur, investor, and author who co-founded Color Genomics and held early roles at Twitter and Google. He writes about market trends, startup strategy, and the venture capital industry. His feed is one of the more thoughtful in the space, with a good balance of analysis and practical advice for founders.
A founder I know was going to meet with a big name and asked for advice for meeting.
Tips
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2. Come with something useful for them. Intro they may not have within your…
@Travis_Jamison – Travis Jamison
Travis Jamison is a repeat founder turned full-time investor, focused on lower middle market private equity and acquisitions of non-tech, cash-flowing businesses. He runs CapitalPad, one of the most widely used private equity co-investment groups for accredited investors. His tweets focus on why he moved away from venture capital into “boring business” acquisitions and where he sees the best risk-adjusted opportunities.
“I’ve invested in AI, but I’m actually far more interested investing in what AI cannot disrupt. Instead of me trying to figure out what AI will disrupt, I want to focus on what will continue along just fine in spite of AI advances.”
@rrhoover – Ryan Hoover
Ryan Hoover is a venture capitalist and the founder of Product Hunt. His account covers technology, startups, and product development. He regularly highlights interesting new products and services and engages in discussions about what makes products succeed. Good follow if you’re interested in the intersection of product thinking and investing.
Don’t overthink it pic.twitter.com/iGKXvRLZOv
— Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover)
@DavidSacks – David Sacks
David Sacks is the founding COO of PayPal, founder of Yammer (sold to Microsoft), and a partner at Craft Ventures. His tweets cover business strategy, industry trends, and broader economic topics. He’s opinionated and willing to take positions that other VCs won’t, which makes his feed more interesting than most.
When @elonmusk made necessary business changes at Twitter, the media reacted with hysterical melodrama: he was “starving” employees; the site was facing “imminent collapse.” But when Twitter Files exposed state censorship and Hamilton68 fraud, they react with defeaning silence.
@HarryStebbings – Harry Stebbings
Harry Stebbings is the creator and host of “The Twenty Minute VC,” one of the most popular venture capital podcasts. He also runs 20VC, a venture fund. His tweets cover VC deal-making, startup advice, and updates from his podcast episodes. He regularly interacts with other VCs and founders, which makes his feed a good window into what the community is talking about.
Sometimes people say WTF, you have a podcast and then raised $140M.
What no one sees;
2,850 episodes recorded.
7 years without a weekend off.
Countless missed birthdays and family occasions.
Overnight success, I think not. 😂
@jason – Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis is one of the more prominent angel investors in Silicon Valley, with early bets on Uber, Robinhood, Trello, and Wealthfront. His feed is packed with startup advice, fundraising tips, and commentary on the tech industry. He’s not afraid to be blunt, which makes the feed more useful than the polished takes you get from most institutional VCs.
If you want to understand why tradmedia is collapsing, it’s because they’ve been replaced in “the age of expertise.”
When given the choice to consume an average journalist’s reporting or an experts take, consumers are increasingly picking the expert (or at least adding the… https://t.co/Q4JmEBTcb8
@aileenlee – Aileen Lee
Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn” and is the founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, an early-stage fund whose portfolio includes Dollar Shave Club, Bloom Energy, and Guild Education. She’s an MIT and Harvard Business School graduate who has been investing since 1999. Her feed covers early-stage trends, portfolio company updates, and the occasional job posting.
It’s been 10 years since the original unicorn analysis (when we accidentally coined the term)🦄
So, our @CowboyVC team dug into new data. The tech industry has changed a TON!
✨ From 39 to 532 unicorns
✨ Pendulum swung HARD from consumer to enterprise
✨ Business types,… pic.twitter.com/Sfk8uPCp7T
@joshk – Josh Kopelman
Josh Kopelman is the founder of First Round Capital, one of the top seed-stage firms. Since 2004, he has invested in more than 300 companies, including LinkedIn, Uber, and Warby Parker. He was an entrepreneur before becoming an investor, which shows in his concise, practical posts about company building and early-stage strategy.
A lot of startup advice sucks. Here is some that doesn’t.
The @firstround Review team collected the best company building advice we heard from builders at Figma, Shopify, Vanta, Webflow, Retool, Vercel & dozens of other companies to guide you through 2024.…
@ajay_bcv – Ajay Agarwal
Ajay Agarwal is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures with over 20 years of experience investing in early-stage SaaS and digital marketplaces. He’s been involved in the growth of SendGrid, SurveyMonkey, and Optimizely, among others. His tweets focus on SaaS metrics, AI, and where he sees innovation happening in B2B technology.
The day that many of us who use Office 365 for email and calendar is finally here! @getclockwise is now available to Microsoft users—a workforce of over 400 million employees across 40% of businesses.
Try it out and let me know what you think.https://t.co/ITxquaw3yX
@sether – Seth Goldstein
Seth Goldstein is an entrepreneur and investor focused on digital media and technology. He has co-founded several companies, including DJZ and SocialMedia.com. His tweets reflect his experience as both a founder and investor, with perspectives on industry trends, market cycles, and the startup ecosystem.
Looks like I had the timing of this post pretty much spot on. https://t.co/ss8nZ9WkCv pic.twitter.com/1d8gsih7af
@ganeumann – Jerry Neumann
Jerry Neumann runs Neu Venture Capital and is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. He’s been named one of Business Insider’s top 100 early-stage investors. His blog, Reaction Wheel, is one of the best long-form resources on venture capital theory. His Twitter account is a good complement, with shorter takes on VC dynamics, founder-investor relationships, and market structure.
VCs can help when you’re raising money, by making introductions to other VCs, by committing to invest in the round, and by vouching for you. This is the icing on the cake – and founders need to be the cake by doing their job to scale the startup.https://t.co/mIj1ExXtNO
@msuster – Mark Suster
Mark Suster is a partner at Upfront Ventures and a former entrepreneur with successful exits. His blog “Both Sides of the Table” has been a go-to resource for startup founders for years, and his Twitter account carries the same energy: candid, practical, and grounded in real operating experience. He’s one of the more direct voices in VC.
.@NikkiHaley was clearly right
– Calling it a “refugee camp” 70+ years later is false marketing. These are permanent communities
– UN aid groups clearly allowing $$ to fund terrorismShe saw this before many others. WaPo positioning super disingenuous. pic.twitter.com/WMiwJ6ggAg
@bfeld – Brad Feld
Brad Feld co-founded Techstars and the Foundry Group and has been investing in tech companies for over 30 years. He’s best known for his blog “Feld Thoughts” and his books on venture capital and startup communities. His Twitter account covers tech, entrepreneurship, and occasionally mental health awareness in the founder community.
Why 3D printing is vital to success of US manufacturing | FT Film https://t.co/rYJ2STGe6E via @FT
@GuyKawasaki – Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist at Canva, a former Apple employee, and a VC and bestselling author. His Twitter account is built around his podcast, where he interviews entrepreneurs, authors, and business leaders. The episodes are a mix of inspiration and practical advice on entrepreneurship, product development, and marketing.
Join us as Joe Foster takes us behind the scenes of Reebok’s iconic journey. His autobiography, Shoemaker, reveals the secrets to their global prominence 🌏 https://t.co/ZAexH4OeL1 pic.twitter.com/YUS5fPgnx0
@indievc – Indie.vc
Indie.vc is a VC firm known for challenging the conventional venture model. Their account is good at questioning the default assumptions in startup fundraising and growth. If most of the accounts on this list represent mainstream VC thinking, Indie.vc is the contrarian voice that forces you to think about whether the standard playbook actually works.
Sent privately from one of the most active angels in the game
“I’m so over the capital being pushed into so many companies with the expectation to build at a pace that will just kill them. It makes zero sense! Most of those investors don’t even understand the actual business!”
@VCBrags – VCs Congratulating Themselves
This is a satirical account that pokes fun at the self-promotion and jargon common in the VC community. It’s run by the team behind Brags Ventures, and the humor is sharp enough to be worth following even if you’re not in the industry. With over 235K followers, the replies and quote tweets are often as good as the posts themselves.
“I agree with what Peter Thiel said in Zero to One, competition is for losers. That’s why I’m working on something nobody else is”
– Andrew, 28, founder of an AI girlfriend startup
Tips for Using Twitter as an Investor or Founder
Following VCs on Twitter gives you a direct window into how they think about markets, deals, and trends. A few things worth keeping in mind:
Use the mute and block functions generously. The signal-to-noise ratio on Twitter is terrible unless you curate your feed aggressively. Follow the accounts that add value, mute everything else.
Engage genuinely. VCs notice who responds with thoughtful comments. They also notice who’s clearly just trying to get attention. Be real or don’t engage at all.
Don’t use Twitter as your only source of information. It’s a good supplement to your research, not a replacement for it. The best investors combine social media with industry reports, direct conversations, and their own analysis.
Follow curated lists, not the algorithm. Twitter’s recommendation algorithm will flood your feed with noise. Build a private list of the accounts you actually want to read and check that instead of the main timeline.
Updated: April 2026
