Who needs a website when you have a terminal.

• help: list all commands
• whois root: learn about us
• whois [partner]: learn about a partner
• tldr: list all portfolio companies
• tldr: [company_name]": learn about a portfolio company
• email: reach out to us
• twitter: twitter accounts
• instagram: instagram account
• git: this repo
• github: all repos
• test: do not use
• other: try your favorite linux commands

• alias
• cat
• cd
• chmod
• chown
• clear
• cp
• curl
• df
• echo
• emacs
• exit
• fdisk
• find
• finger
• free
• ftp
• grep
• groups
• gzip
• head
• history
• kill
• less
• ls
• man (alias: woman)
• mkdir
• more
• mv
• nano
• open
• passwd
• pico
• pine
• ps
• pwd
• quit
• rm
• say
• sftp
• ssh
• stop
• su
• sudo
• tail
• top
• touch
• uname
• vi
• vim
• zsh

Missing a favorite one? Make a PR!

Future project: get the Hello Worlds working for every portfolio company with a CLI or npm/pypi/cargo package

• esper
• great_expectations (alias: ge)
• meroxa
• okteto
• particle
• privacy_dynamics (alias: privacy)
• zed

Run npm run build before serving the site locally or deploying.

That build now:

• copies and minifies the xterm vendor assets
• bundles the app boot/runtime code into js/app.bundle.js
• emits a minified lazy-load asset for the RickRoll animation

The terminal now initializes on DOMContentLoaded instead of waiting for window.onload, and optional work such as ASCII art preloading happens after the terminal is already usable.

In local repeated Chromium benchmarks against the previous HEAD, median startup timings improved roughly:

• homepage prompt visible: 1941.7ms -> 70.1ms
• homepage first command rendered: 2076.5ms -> 223.5ms
• #whois-lee deep link rendered: 1159.9ms -> 151.9ms

Live at: https://root.vc.

Special thanks to Jerry Neumann at Neu Venture Capital for the inspiration for this website concept.

Thanks to the team at divshot for the awesome and hilarious Geocities Bootstrap Theme.

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