Don't solve problems that don't exist. Happy Monday!

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We're wrapping up fundraising on our Chisos Fund II in a few months We've made 41 investments We have equity markups We have cash flow We've sent distributions back to investors We've catalyzed follow on investments We built something new and it's working

Had a great time watching Sam Altman in London yesterday! Thanks to The Oxford Guild and @CliffordChnce for setting it up. Met lots of new faces and bumped into jon there too 🙏 #London #Tech #Startups

Big shout to Toby Allen and Geo for putting this together. BO will simultaneously make it easier for founders to submit their decks, and for us to be analysing cool deals that are coming through. Check it out and let us know what you think. Links down below.

Re alt funding mechanisms and investing: “It’s not [the founder’s] job to meet us on the financial terms, it’s our job to meet them on the human terms” Great episode Keith Harrington & jamie finney podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rbf…

I’m yet to find a capital allocator who doesn’t want this future, they just don’t yet know how to invest in it. We now need the LP ecosystem to scale with the rising GP ecosystem. blog.innovative.finance/p/10-20m-vehic…

Tl:Dr- we're excited bc: (1) It provides an “all in one solution” for electric vehicle ownership with maximum convenience for the consumer. (2) It will gain a customer facing place in a burgeoning market (who can buy cars outright in today's market?). Link in the original post.

“Capital Entrepreneurs” Fantastic convo b/w Keith Harrington & Tyler Tringas on taking a different approach to funding entrepreneurs.

At the EY Growth conference today, sitting between 2 founders both building tech enabled products. 1 bootstrapped to $20m in revenue and 1 to $30m. No VC💰Wow! Asked them how? Credit card debt + spun out of an agency. More and more convinced that VC is not the way for most…

Join jon & I on a live Nothing Ventured episode w/ Aarish Shah today Friday Nov 24 at 6pm GMT as we freestyle hot & spicy takes on the current state of play in VC, [Open]AI (duh), & what the future holds for Tiger Global, Softbank & Africa VC youtube.com/live/3hXjmWRGK… Bring questions

Troy Kirwin Midjourney By VC standards we should either "conquer the world or die in a fire" and neither of these are spiritually compelling for me. I never wanted a company I just wanted a home. At this point we have a large and loyal paid community, we build tons of features for them (I think we did

Jonathan Sun - Founder UpsideDown VC x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

hi! we just launched SF + LA Tech Week and it’s crazy to say (I know I say this every time) but it really is true - it’s the biggest one yet. we’ve broken more records and now have 1,500+ events, over 2x last year’s launch! SF Tech Week: Oct 6-12 LA Tech Week: Oct 13-19