When investors read your deck: - 20% they assess the content - 80% they assess the person who wrote it Your deck says more about you than it says about your startup. Examples: ▸ "Market size is $2Tn" -> Founder is delusional ▸ Low-def photos -> Founder has low attention

Take two minutes this Saturday and reflect on that and your life will be a little bit better

In the US ~80% of scaleup capital is domestic. In Europe it’s closer ~25% domestic. And that’s on GP level. If you go to LP level it’s even far worse.

At some point, every founder asks the question: Should I be the face of the company, or stay behind the scenes? It sounds tactical. But underneath is something deeper. A search for self-definition. A hidden pressure to figure out “what kind of founder” you’re going to be.

A founder once told me they couldn’t take a real vacation. Not because they didn’t want to. Because they couldn’t imagine things going well if they weren’t around. The fear was simple: “If I step back, something breaks.” That fear makes sense. In the early days, you’re the

Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?” Don’t ever arrive at the office or in front of your computer without a clear list of priorities. You’ll just read unassociated e-mail and scramble your brain for the day. Compile

One of the best forms of freedom is not needing to have an opinion about everything.

I'm compiling a list of tech bro movies/shows: what did i miss?

Two things can be true: 1. AI hype rivals the dotcom bubble. 2. We’re still radically underestimating its ultimate impact.

“Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.” — John Waters

It's pretty wild that the Nordics (population 28M) have had more unicorn exits than France (pop ~70M), Spain (~50M) and Italy (~60M) have had combined. The Nordics is on par with Germany (83M) which has 2.5x the population and is thought of as EU's biggest startup hub

new to crypto? job titles confusing? here you go: - strategy: you do bd but tell your parents you do “product strategy” - ecosystem: you bribe people to build stuff that are most of the time useless on your chain - devrel: you fly to conferences, eat free food, and pretend to

Early stage VCs should (probably, on average) make more investments. Lots of objections, some of them very valid. But the general disdain for "spray and pray" is pretty anti-math. Link to the full argument as laid out by Dan Gray in following post

Any system in which you will exist for any meaningful period of time should be studied deeply and, eventually, mastered. The two most obvious of these are the human body and capitalism. The experiential difference between those who master these and those who do not isn’t night

Here's the follow-up to my post about the existential crisis facing seed VCs. Spoiler alert: I'm not going to give "the answer". I'm keeping that locked in the mystery box. But I'll share a few thoughts on the potential path forward. Full read: nextview.vc/blog/a-path-fo… TLDR:

Cable was cheaper than this. 😒

With AI, everybody will make their own software just like how we all 3D print our own furniture.

Meta, Google, and Microsoft all use encryption built by the same 50-person nonprofit. Zero revenue from 2 billion users. The founder uses a fake name. And when the FBI subpoenaed them, they only provided 2 pieces of data. Here's how a non-profit secures the internet🧵