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First Round's Epic Holiday Video Makes Your Startup Portfolio Look… Inadequate

Jason Kincaid

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The wait is finally over: it’s holiday season, which means it’s time for First Round Capital’s annual video greeting card. From the intro by First Round Managing Partner Josh Kopelman to Path’s flamingos (you’ll see), this video reaches new heights of awesome (and goofiness). I’ve never wanted a muscle suit more.

If you have’t seen them yet, make sure to check out First Round’s previous holiday greetings, which included a sing-along inspired by Les Misérables in 2009 and a dancing-themed video that helped brighten up the gloomy days of 2008.

Update: First Round is really going all in with this, and it’s awesome. They’ve now taken to YouTube to post video responses to tweets about the holiday video card. Make sure to watch the top one in response to our co-editor Erick Schonfeld. You can find all of the responses right here.

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Jason Kincaid

Jason Kincaid is a writer, tech pundit, on-screen video guy, and occasional conference host with ambitions of getting into comedy.

Before becoming a cliché, Jason worked as a writer at TechCrunch from 2008-12, spanning some of the site’s most formative years. There, he wrote over 3,000 posts, met with countless entrepreneurs, and interviewed key figures including FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Senator Al Franken, Google VP (and now Yahoo CEO) Marissa Mayer, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, and many others. He was the cohost of the weekly-ish talk show OMG/JK and the co-creator and host of TC Cribs.

Drawing on his experience at TechCrunch, in late 2014 he published his first book: The Burned-Out Blogger’s Guide to PR.

He has appeared on CNBC, BBC America, NPR, and G4, moderated several panels at SXSW, regularly serves as the emcee of the Startup Battlefield portion of TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference, and recently played himself on the hit HBO show, Silicon Valley.

He attended UCLA, graduating with a BS in Biology and a minor in Society and Genetics.

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