11 must-follow people on LinkedIn for VCs and founders

Compiled by Olha Dub , PR writer at F1V

Scrolling LinkedIn isn’t procrastination anymore. The feed serves up tips you won’t find in pricey courses and lets you watch founders build in real time.

Operators with solid track records share their wins, mistakes, and candid opinions openly. Our team loves these personal blogs — here are a few we’ve been following lately.

Yuriy Zaremba

Yuriy Zaremba is a 2x YC founder who sold his first startup AXDRAFT to Onit. Now he’s building AiSDR, an AI agent that automates sales prospecting, and shares his reflections on LinkedIn. The company has just celebrated two years with an impressive track record: $3M raised, 6x YoY revenue growth, 3x YoY customer growth.

Current position: co-founder & CEO at AiSDR .

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yuriy-zaremba.

Stakh Vozniak

Stakh Vozniak built Forward Group, a company automating trucking and reshaping the industry with two products: Cargofy and Cargohub . “In 2017, I was texting truckers about delivering apples to a juice factory,” he says. “Today, our AI agents close cargo deals without a single human in the loop.” What they’re building is as exciting as how the founder writes about it.

Current position: co-founder & CEO at Forward® .

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stakh.  

Lenny Rachitsky

Lenny Rachitsky went from leading product and growth at Airbnb to running one of the most-read newsletters in tech. He also co-founded a startup that was acquired by Airbnb in 2012. His writing and podcasts are must-follows for product builders.

Current position: angel investor, author of Lenny’s Newsletter and Lenny’s Podcast.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky. 

Amy Wu Martin

Amy Wu Martin is a partner at Menlo Ventures, backing consumer tech, gaming, commerce, and AI. Before that, she led investments at FTX Ventures and Lightspeed, and served as CFO and SVP at Warner Bros. Discovery. She has a clear eye for consumer tech and writes about it on LinkedIn.

Current position: partner at Menlo Ventures .

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amytongwu. 

Andre Retterath

Dr. Andre Retterath invests in enterprise software and has a focus on AI, infrastructure, data, developer tools, and robotics. Before moving into VC, he worked in process automation. He makes a weekly newsletter, DataDrivenVC, and writes about startups and tech on LinkedIn.

Current position: general partner at Earlybird Venture Capital .

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/andreretterath. 

Vital Laptenok

Vital Laptenok is the general partner and visionary behind Flyer One Ventures. He also co-founded Genesis, one of Ukraine’s largest IT companies. A talented entrepreneur, investor, growth hacker, leader, and… introvert — he somehow is all of these things. His LinkedIn posts read like mini novels. Did you know he went to Burning Man and found one of our portfolio founders on Richard Branson’s island?

Current position: general partner at Flyer One Ventures .

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vital-laptenok.

Henry Shi 

Henry Shi is a serial entrepreneur, software engineer, Forbes 30 Under 30. Now he’s building Super.com, a savings app with over $150M in annual revenue and $200M raised. On LinkedIn, he writes about AI, growing and scaling businesses.

Current position: co-founder and board member at Super.com .

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/henrythe9th. 

Alyona Mysko

Alyona Mysko never planned to be a founder — she was a CFO who loved building models and analyzing numbers. In 2019, she made a simple Google Sheets model to help Petcube get a grip on its finances. Five months later, they turned profitable. That MVP became Fuelfinance, now a financial platform managing over $500M in customer P&Ls. Alyona writes about running her company and arranging finance at startups.

Current position: founder and CEO at Fuelfinance .

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alyona-mysko. 

Eldar Sadikov

Eldar Sadikov is a computer scientist and serial entrepreneur. He sold his previous startup to PayPal and co-founded a new company, Field Materials, in 2022. It helps construction teams automate procurement and ditch the spreadsheets, saving them up to 90% of the time spent on routine tasks. The company has raised nearly $20M and is quietly modernizing one of the least digitized industries in the U.S.

Current position: co-founder and CEO at Field Materials AI .

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/eldarsadikov.

Elena Verna

Elena Verna has led growth at SurveyMonkey, Amplitude, Miro, and Dropbox, and has advised dozens of startups. Now she’s head of growth and marketing at Lovable, an AI-powered platform for building apps and software without heavy coding (raised $223M). On LinkedIn, Elena writes about her work at Lovable, AI, and growing B2B SaaS companies.

Current position: head of growth at Lovable .

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elenaverna. 

Sarah Tavel

Sarah Tavel is a partner at Benchmark, investing mostly in marketplaces, user networks, and vertically focused AI. She was one of the first 30 employees at Pinterest, then moved into VC with roles at Bessemer and Greylock. On LinkedIn, she writes about AI adoption, venture, and startups, often reflecting on conversations with founders and investors.

Current position: partner at Benchmark .

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarahtavel.

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