turns out michael hess was a volunteer firefighter. he then went on to raise $51M building Outset crazy.

VCs say they invest in vision in reality, they invest in momentum. Once a startup has it, everything gets easier before that, everything is a grind.

Capital isn’t something you have to deploy immediately, it’s ammunition. Use it when you know where to shoot. James He

Watching Ben Cera post about hitting $7M ARR in 7 weeks from $700k with Polsia.. This is meta. INSIDE episode coming soon

Most founders think the hard part is raising capital. It's not. The hard part is what happens after, when expectations show up overnight and you actually have to build something that lives up to it.

Met with Hugo Amsellem to talk about the intersection of creativity, media and VC. Most VC conversations are about capital, this one was about how ideas actually spread. The funds that understand distribution as a compounding asset are playing a different game.

You can tell how fast a company is growing by how quickly it outgrows its own office. Outset went through 3 offices in 8 months.

There’s about 4x more companies than ideas rn. Harder than ever for VC’s to sniff out the bad..

during a team standup, Sahaj Garg said roadmaps are dead they used to be about detailed planning now they’re just direction the faster you move the less you can pretend you know what comes next Wispr Flow

Most venture capital is chasing software and AI. But some of the most important companies are being built in the physical world. I went behind the scenes with UP.Partners to see it firsthand. In this episode: - Skydio ($110M Series F, $4.4B valuation) building autonomous

These are the companies in Silicon Valley that are redefining the physical world..

This founder just moved a 6000lb trailer with one hand. Range Energy ($23.5M Series A) is building electric trailers that can power themselves. This is what the future of freight looks like.

founders are building faster than ever, fewer are actually thinking

you can learn more sitting in a team meeting than reading a pitch deck the difference is one shows you the story, the other shows you what’s actually happening..

Want startup funding in Silicon Valley? Go to Blue Bottle. Bernardo Aceituno

it’s easier than ever to build it’s harder than ever to build something that matters