.Zach Coelius on why platform risk for startups is like mainlining jet fuel.

I love NFX's content around network effects and AI so it was a joy to have Founding Partner Gigi Levy Weiss join for a conversation on Investing In Startups. We talked about network effects, AI agents, content, why first-mover advantages are overrated, and how NFX has built its own brand,

NFX Gigi Levy Weiss Investing In Startups .Gigi Levy Weiss on why a great product alone isn't enough.

Excited to share my conversation with David Cohen, CEO and Cofounder of Techstars. We talked about the problems that Techstars solves for founders, how vibe-coding affects accelerators, why Techstars finally opened up in SF, and why bigger isn’t better – better is better.

.Charles Hudson has invested in more than 400 startups at Precursor Ventures. He's picked up more than a fellow lessons along the way including about how a solo GP can reach his 5th fund. We talked about the importance of founder-centric investing, portfolio construction, and the balancing

.Charles Hudson on how the looong time that startups take to exit has led to the normalization of early investors taking some money off the table before an IPO or exit rolls around.

Excited to share my conversation with Rex Salisbury of Cambrian Ventures! We talked about why fintech is rolling, community, disruption versus partnership, and how the venture world is evolving. Here's the longer take: Rex’s origin story: quit i-banking, taught himself to code,

.Seaplane Ventures just turned 3! Here are 3 lessons from our first 3 years. 1. Preparation is a Superpower. We earned allocations this year in 3 wildly oversubscribed rounds where we had no obvious right to win. The edge wasn't a logo wall. It was that founders were impressed that I

Excited to drop a new convo with Morgan Flager of Silverton Partners on the art & science of portfolio construction. We dig into how to size first checks, when to take secondaries, and when to bend on price. Plus the eternal debate: team vs. product vs. market. Morgan is such a

Excited to share my conversation with Jackie DiMonte! We talked about pre/seed, frenemies, small funds vs. big funds, power laws, investing with conviction, and whether pre-seed valuations really are mental. Here's a longer rundown of our conversation: Thesis & geography: Grid

Just dropped a great chat with 👨🏻‍💻☕️. From shipping product at Google and YouTube to co-building Homebrew and Screendoor, Hunter digs into trust, product, investing personal capital vs. other people’s money, and why he’s chilled out on valuation. If you care about

Today I’m excited to introduce micro1 Intelligence, the world’s most advanced platform for training frontier AI models. Achieving AGI is bottlenecked by one main thing: high-quality data. Data based on real-world environments that capture human expert workflows, complex

Excited to share our first roundtable conversation on Investing In Startups with my friends ands early-stage marketplace experts Colin Gardiner and Sonia Sahney Nagar. We talked about AI’s role in marketplaces, why network effects aren’t more popular (even though they should be), how to make

I love my job, which is running Seaplane Ventures. I have a pretty fun hobby, though, which is hosting Investing In Startups. I get to quiz wicked smart early-stage investors about their strategies, stories, and more. The show has been going up-and-to-the-right throughout 2025 thanks to

Excited to share my conversation with David ☕ of Superclusters. We talked about picking VCs, emerging managers, portfolio construction, and which of sourcing, picking, and winning is the most important. Here are the longer notes and takeaways from this episode of

2025 was a big year of adulting for me. I... Walked 11,589 steps a day Worked out 234 times Stayed alcohol-free Ate better Lost 8 pounds Coached 5 youth sports teams 2.3X'd subscribers to the Investing In Startups podcast Made new 7 investments at Seaplane Ventures into Better Auth,

Here’s how we put money to work at Seaplane Ventures in 2025: New Investments: 7 Follow-Ons: 2 Stage: Seed (6), Seed+ (1) Avg Check: $215k Median ARR: $170k (Low of $0, high of multi-millions) Business Models: Network Effects-Driven (5), AI-Native SaaS (2) Sources: Outbound (4),

Excited to share my conversation with David Gardner of @TheMotleyFool. David is one of the best investors of his generation with six different 100X investments to his name. We talked about breaking the rules of investing, optionality, letting winners run, and thinking

Excited to share my conversation with of Gutter Capital. We talked about why Gutter invests with conviction, why Gutter seeks out founders with unique insights rather than Gutter trying to dream up their own, and how AI can solve problems in the real world, not just online.