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Some personal news. This is my last week a16z Nearly 4 years ago Jeff Jordan took a chance on a goofy Canadian obsessed with network effects and I am forever grateful.

It's been fun to watch the Spotter team build a large business so quietly... until now! techcrunch.com/2022/02/16/spo…

Who else has been doom scrolling non stop for the last 4 days

There is A LOT of conversation happening around the AMZN TPS space right now. See below for some thoughts from the front lines. Thanks to Meghan Hillery on our team for helping me draft this: crossstack.substack.com/p/what-is-goin…

We just sent an email on the macro environment to all the Better Tomorrow Ventures portfolio founders. I've shared the key points in this video:

Uhh… a massive DAO just voted to “refund” one of their investors who was owed a 30x return ($5M+) This is an insane story that impacts all builders in web3 and as a founder I need to speak out Merit Circle DAO vs YGG 🧵

An opinion I've been afraid to share: I think that DTC has failed, overall. I've helped launch more brands than anyone else so maybe there's something to it. The brands we hold up as beacons have been unprofitable for years. Every IPO tanks. Acquisitions are quickly sunset.

NINE. 9. nine. So many whales saying it once doesn’t seem like enough! Breaching whales and whales swimming in tandem and whales interacting with dolphins. All of this with sights of NYC & the harbor in the background. Amazing day to say the least.

If I could send every student to one writing class, this would be it. Good article by Jason Fried.

A decade ago tech startups thought they could eliminate life-insurance agents. The agents won the battle, and now the startups are courting them. wsj.com/articles/how-l… via The Wall Street Journal

I think the most frequent piece of info missing from seed decks is a slide on the incentives governing an industry "Here is how money traditionally flows through this industry, here's an observable paradigm shift, and here's why that shift favors a startup"

We launched a fintech-focused accelerator program, The Mint last month. We've got most of the cohort locked but we'd love your help spreading the word to get a few more. The program starts Aug 1 & applications close on June 30. themint.vc

Excited to get this release out before #ITC2023vegas featuring Drew Aldrich from Viewpoint who will be presenting at ITC. Drew talks about investment, challenges and what comes next for funding. Need to get to Vegas for ITC? Discount link on website!!! theinsurancepodcast.com/looking-at-ins…

MrBeast Tim Brooks Bill Peebles Aditya Ramesh

Very excited to co-lead the seed round for Stay and back Tsai Chi-yu, Nicolas Frajhof, and Caio Elias in building the future of retirement savings in Brazil. Stay is bringing private pensions (similar to 401ks in the US) to the 85% of companies and more than 90% of the Brazilian

The BTV team bought me this shirt in case anyone was wondering what it’s like to work with me

Trump is pulling the plug on congestion pricing in New York, which seemed to be working great also the president should not be able to do this

Jamie's letter is exceptional, recommend reading it. It reads like he's running for president- he'd have my vote!

Very excited to announce that Riza (the company I started with Kyle Gray) has raised $2.7M in seed funding from Matrix with participation from 43 and a handful of our favorite angels. 850M code execution requests in March, and we're scaling up to run tons more. Join us!