Want to go faster? Bring fewer people. I learned this the hard way one long night during Army Special Forces Assessment & Selection. Our team of 10 guys had to carry a full-length telephone pole (1,200lb) for double-digit kilometers. Imagine holding 120lbs in one hand. The

AngelList's captable management is a superior product to Carta and materially cheaper. Business is pretty simple when you have a better product at a cheaper price. Good work from Dan Hightower and team.

Raising VC isn't a flex. Distributing profits is the flex.

Shared friend.com with my wife (lawyer) and she had a stroke. Her dying words were, "it's all discoverable... all of it."

When smart founders start building in uninteresting spaces, investors and talent eventually find those spaces to be interesting. So if you're a smart founder, you can pretty much throw out the idea that you should pick popular spaces to build in. Everyone's looking at you to

2-3 founders/day tell me Carta has hiked their renewal price by a lot. Anyone else hearing ab it/feeling it themselves?

VCs know damn well there's LP wealth in the southeastern US. The problem is these LPs are Americans. Hard A. They don't do "Zoom deals." So GPs would have to leave Silicon Valley for Tennessee to break bread. In other words, show up on the LP's farm without the ability to use

My angel investor portfolio indicates the ideal founder has: 1. a sprinkle of mania 2. sufficient childhood trauma 3. Lifestyle/religious/family infrastructure strong enough to keep their monsters in check.

Those that are having surprise prices with @Carta the recommendation is AngelList and they will take care of you. If anything Dan Hightower could help as well. #Startups

Our designer at AngelList Equity is at Burning Man. I'm thinking about shipping a website update. WDYT? (before/after)

I become a father on Tuesday. Hit me with your advice.

We're just getting started, and I can't wait to share what we're building for companies on AngelList!