#Land rank venture towns code

Garry Tan, founding partner of Initialized Capital, sits at the top of the Facemash leaderboard with 712 votes. The early-stage investor recently closed his debut fund at $9.99 million to back 'internet-first' companies, and he's winning over founders and limited partners with his meme game and viral TikTok videos mocking venture capital. 'I think someone must have hacked it, no way I'm #2,' Turner Novak of Banana Capital told Insider. We asked a handful of investors on the list for their reactions. But for the most part, people online just poked fun at it. There's a clear question of taste with the website's purpose, which is judging investors based on their appearance. 70), who's now infamous shirtless picture is featured on the website. 20) twenty-something podcaster-turned-venture-capitalist Harry Stebbings (No. The mix of investors on the site include Alfred Lin, a top investor on the Midas List (No. The website also has a leaderboard that shows the hottest investors, ranked.Ī screenshot of the Facemash.vc website shows a ranking of the hottest venture capitalists. 'We hope this gave people a laugh and made them happy. 'We're staying anonymous because it's more fun this way,' they said. The website has logged about 5,000 page views and 50,000 votes, the person said. They didn't mean to launch the website last week, but a friend they shared it with leaked it online.

#Land rank venture towns code

They're on Twitter at person behind the website told Insider it took about an hour to scrape together photos of investors off Twitter and another hour to code the website. They used a privacy-protection company to register the domain, and when reached for comment, the person said they wanted to be anonymous. The website's owner could not be determined. Will we be judged on them? Still no,' the website reads. 'Were we let into tech for our looks? No. The website is called 'Facemash - Investor Edition,' a nod to the prank website, FaceMash, that Mark Zuckerberg coded late one night in his dorm room at Harvard University, for ranking his classmates by their looks.īut this website shows two photos of investors and asks people to pick 'who's hotter (on your cap table).' Clicking an image causes two new photos to pop up, and the game goes on until the user has cycled through all investors. 'Hi mom! Didn't make the Midas list but I made it here somehow!' Hustle Fund partner Elizabeth Yin tweeted. It got passed around on social media and online, as investors like Garry Tan, Turner Novak, and Lucy Guo quickly racked up votes. Last Friday night, a website went up for ranking venture capitalists by their attractiveness. They used a privacy-protection company to register the domain.Īn internet prankster gave venture capitalists a new reason to congratulate themselves. We asked investors for their reactions, and they were modest: 'I think someone must have hacked it.'.The Facemash.vc website asks people to rank venture capitalists based on 'who's hotter.'.