Perspective

I have never understood why so many VCs shield LPs from other VC introductions. Great managers will raise. If you can, help them do it; then both they and the LP will appreciate it. Build the ecosystem together.

A rare chance to hear from Reece Duca, founder of IGSB tegus.com/converge/craft…

I seeded Coinbase 🛡️ in 2012. I've been in crypto for over a decade. I've invested through every "crypto winter," and they still don't faze me. Winter clears out the tourists and grifters, it happens in every industry.

Feat of Strength 3: Cyberbeast (0-60 in 2.6s)

Congratulations to the class of 2020-2023. Now you’ll be able to tell the class of 2024-2027 that you managed to survive the collapse of a major exchange, multiple lending desks and hedge funds, major “stablecoin” protocol, countless apps and lived to see another day. Forged in

“Order granting accelerated approval” it’s over. Thank God.

0/ We are delighted to release the 5th annual Electric Capital ⚡️ Developer Report We analyzed a record 485 million code commits across 818k repositories—20x more code than our first report from 2019! 356+ people across the community contributed to making this report. Long,

When it’s difficult to fundraise it’s great for investing.

How to Have Meetings that Don't Suck...A new paper from Brinton Johns Learn why we ♥️ to have meetings at NZS! There are some simple suggestions everyone can implement along with some uncomfortable concepts that might require a culture shift at your org. nzscapital.com/news/meetings

TJD BLOCKS GIANNIS TWICE THEN THROWS DOWN THE LOB 🤯

It’s fascinating to me how public interest in certain technologies is just wildly cyclical I’ve never seen so much interest in semiconductors as today. When I started at Bernstein 7 years ago, nobody cared about semis. Everybody just wanted to talk about, like, SaaS stocks

Jeff Bezos on how to win:

You should prepare for moving your crypto startup to the US. The lawyers will still carve a pound of flesh out of your startup, but once the rules are clear the upside is unbounded. US is the largest unified free market economy in the world.

We are delighted to release the 6th annual Electric Capital ⚡️ Developer Report! We analyzed a record 902M code commits across 1.7M repos thanks to the 829 people who contributed to making this report since inception. How did 2024 in crypto look in data? Long thread below 👇🏽

Stay Shameless [mainly wrote this as a letter to myself]

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

Gamecraft: Season 3 /// 04.02.2025 /// Mitch Lasky

The Senate voted YES for GENIUS - a historic step for the digital asset industry. We thank Leader John Thune Tim Scott Senator Bill Hagerty Senator Cynthia Lummis Kirsten Gillibrand & bipartisan members for this clear framework for stablecoin innovation. America is moving forward.