Submit Your Anonymous Nominations For The Newcomer Silicon Valley Superlatives

Submit Your Anonymous Nominations For The Newcomer Silicon Valley Superlatives
We’re putting together a list of Newcomer Silicon Valley Superlatives and we’d love your input.

To be totally upfront, you’re not voting. Ultimately the selections will be at my discretion and entirely capricious. We’re taking them both extremely seriously and not seriously at all.

But as always we believe in the wisdom of our readers — true Silicon Valley insiders all.

Weigh in with the form below. Your input will be off the record. Your snark will not get forwarded on. And even your praise will be kept in the highest of confidences.

Check out our post about this in the Newcomer newsletter here.

Make Your Anonymous Nominations Below

Each category is optional—don't feel pressure to come up with ideas for every single one.
Investor Superlatives
The SoftBank/Tiger Global Capital Deployment Achievement Award
The venture capital firm most willing to pay high prices to stay in the zeitgeist.
Venture Capital Associate MVP
The nameless associate landing generational wealth for their general partners.
Early Stage Manager on a Hot Streak
Who is the most promising early stage investor with their own fund?
Most Helpful VC
The (actually) founder friendliest among us.
Venture Capital Dysfunction Award
What venture capital firm is not so secretly unraveling behind the scenes?
Board Asleep at the Wheel Prize
Who let their startup get away with bad acts or incompetence without stepping in?
Startup Superlatives
The Atlas Award
What executive put their startup on their back this year?
The Stealth Mode Phantom Prize
The most successful startup doing their best to keep their heads down.
Best New Product
Let’s reward those who shipped greatness.
The Paper Unicorn Prize
What valuation has the farthest to fall?
Wackiest Startup Idea
Who had the kookiest startup idea that got investor attention this year?
Most Likely to Become a Decacorn
What startup worth less than $1 billion today is most likely to be a decacorn this decade?
The AI Everything Award
For the company most determined to slap “AI-powered” on every feature.
General Superlatives
Silicon Valley Politico of the Year
In a year where many in Silicon Valley flung themselves into politics, who did the best?
Savviest Dealmaker
What executive, lawyer, or banker cut the best deal that involved a startup?
Wordcel of the Year
Who tweeted their heart out and won over ours?
Podcast Moment of the Year
Audio that decided the course of human history.
Post of the Year
The single best piece of thought leadership in Silicon Valley.
Post of the Year
The single best piece of thought leadership in Silicon Valley.
Scoop of the Year
Best exclusive tech news story of the year.
PR Whisperer Achievement Award
Who saved their client from near disaster?
Suggest a Silicon Valley Superlative & Nominee
Give us your idea for an award we weren't clever enough to think up.
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Submit Your Anonymous Nominations For The Newcomer Silicon Valley Superlatives

Investor Superlatives

Startup Superlatives

General Superlatives