Aydin Senkut was among the earliest super angels to build his solo investing into a multi-stage platform, scaling Felicis from a $4M first fund to over $100M while maintaining his founder-first approach and serving as a blueprint for the super-angel-to-top-tier-VC evolution. As one of Google's first product managers and its first international product manager, he brings a global perspective to investing and is known for his 10x or nothing investment filter and hands-on support in areas like founder storytelling rather than narrow sector specialization.

• Emphasis on the intersection of AI, robotics, and agentic workflows to reshape the economy. He highlights investments in companies like SkildAI to demonstrate how robotics can drive a new era of manufacturing and n8n for serving as a backbone for agentic AI automation.
• Deep appreciation for developer-first infrastructure and open-source tools that simplify backend complexity. He frequently praises Supabase for its product taste and rapid feature velocity, comparing their relentless focus to the culture he observed during the early days of Google.
• Value placed on constant self-reinvention and contrarian thinking as a strategy for survival and growth. He advises that relying on proven facts is looking backward, and instead encourages looking for underestimated or improbable opportunities to catch the next wave of innovation before it becomes obvious.
• Focus on modern security solutions, ranging from cybersecurity to physical defense. He supports companies like RapidFort for reducing software attack surfaces by removing unnecessary code and Vannevar Labs for applying AI to defense challenges to protect democratic institutions.
• Attraction to technical founders who demonstrate distinct product taste and high velocity. He notes that the best teams often spot future trends early, citing how GitHub scaled to millions of developers by understanding the modern development process long before AI became a dominant trend.