I'm helping the Thingtesting team for the next few weeks, writing a few new stories & putting spotting new brands. If you've seen any new and cool consumer products, let me know! Here's what I found this week (feat. a plug for my hiking kit list 😅): thingtesting.com/stories/brands…

In the year 2024, you, a brand, not only need to have a good plan for *how* you can build a community (if you want one). But also a good reason *why* your customers should spend their time with you. Put yourself in their shoes and ask if this is what they need from you.

Rolling on out into September 🤘

We've been spending a ton of time in women's health and fertility. (I am especially interested in new CPG brands targeting the motherhood journey) and so we've made it the focus of our September Bullish Office Hours. Refer someone or sign up here! bullish.co/articles/offic…

Frances Tiafoe: “I’m the son of immigrant parents from Sierra Leone. When I was a kid, my dad got a construction job at College Park Tennis Club in 1999, a new tennis academy in the D.C. area. While my dad worked, I picked up the game during nights and weekends at the facility

A perfect night for a NY tradition 🎾

Big congrats to Nichole Wischoff! Story by Alex. Definitely a fund to watch.

Today marks 1⃣ year with Bullish. Hunting for exciting consumer companies as an investor while building the Bullish brand feels like I'm bringing my full self to work and learning every single day. Early-stage founders building in consumer products and services: let's chat.

I'd like to thank Iced Latte with Three Shots for being my copilot this week 🫡

If you're a film reviewer, podcaster, or journalist in the LA area & would be interested in seeing the latest doc I produced, narrated by Rosario Dawson, EP'd by Martin Sheen & George DiCaprio...DM me. Our week of screenings start today! Here's the trailer for VIGILANTES INC.

Stoop Dogs with Alex Konrad (H/t) Natalie Sportelli for photos!

For those of you wondering why I was in London this week, had to go to this once in a lifetime show. ❤️‍🔥

In Issue #36 of The Brief: - Have consumers become mean? - Daisy raises Series B - News from Bubble, The Light Phone - Updates from Bullish HQ Read & sign up: mailchi.mp/bullish.co/the…

We get asked constantly about what it takes to grow a brand these days. This story by Sarah Drumm for Thingtesting gives a great download. Especially great to see our portco Bandit Nicholas West in here as a brand doing it well. ❤️‍🔥 thingtesting.com/stories/report…

Too many startups/investors are exploring the b2b opportunities with LLMs and not enough are exploring the consumer opportunities. This is the moment consumer founders have been waiting for.

This household runs on chicken caesar salad wraps

Have consumers become mean? We've been interested in exploring the demise of customer service and why it poses a cultural tension between companies and consumers. So we wrote about what it means for brands and what it says about us. Bullish ➡️ bullish.co/articles/cultu…

When I am grappling with whether I like a deal enough to move it forward or not I remember what a great GP once told me: If it's not a hell yes, it's a hell no.💡

Hard to state how good a show Hacks is, it's in its own league.

I personally can't wait for Emily in Rome, for some reason.