new dungeon master just dropped

Today we're officially announcing and opening applications to Campus 🏛️ 1/ A “school” for the soul, intellect, and inner-child: 🔭community-created curriculum exploring our curiosities 🌱 50+ circles, salons, juntos and extracurriculars 🤓 "nerd prom" at end of the qtr

Introducing Fikra Magazine, “a Project by Palestinians and for Palestinians arablit.org/2023/01/25/int…

A key focus Forerunner for 2023 (and beyond): the traditional needs of non-traditional consumers, as core life fundamentals have become increasingly fragile and complicated. The Next Wave of Game-Changing Companies Will be Life-Changing Companies forerunnerventures.com/our-perspectiv…

makes me think that the $200M back catalogue deal with Justin Bieber was actually a steal (?) IP / content rights / likeness is more important than ever

We're leading the $20M round for JUMP, an ambitious new approach to the fan experience, founded by the incomparable Jordy Leiser, Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New essay! A few months ago, Fawzi Itani came to me with a question: Why do so many games look like anime and comics these days? Today, I'm sharing my findings, in partnership with Naavik:

.Mitch Lasky re: "Investing in content" (2012, Blog Archive)

Naavik Digest: VC Edition 📈 Fawzi Itani asked six different gaming VCs how they think about the current climate in game investing, what they’re spending their time on, and what makes them excited for the future. We compiled answers from: - Moritz Baier-Lentz, Partner at

Launching a new initiative today: Tech For Palestine Over 40 tech folks – founders, engineers, product, marketers – working to change tech. Join us! blog.paulbiggar.com/tech-for-pales…

Time to be open-minded, think big, and be optimistic. And be courageous. Our newest fund is dedicated to maximizing these rare opportunities ahead and their value for consumers. Announcing Fund VII! forerunnerventures.com/our-perspectiv…

hosting a casual 5-person design engineer dinner this thursday with Fawzi Itani in nyc - dm for invite! 😎

We’re thrilled to announce our $18M Series A funding led by Forerunner with participation from Y Combinator, NFX, Perceptive Ventures, and Gaingels 🔥 Read more from our co-founder Jacob Fortinsky below 👇

Fawzi Itani on why we invested in Novig, the top peer-to-peer sports prediction market: forerunnerventures.com/perspectives/i…

We're co-leading the $25M series A for Basic Capital alongside Lux Capital! For Forerunner, this isn’t just an investment. It’s a bet on a future where timing doesn’t determine your financial destiny, and where leverage isn’t just for the wealthy. forerunnerventures.com/perspectives/i…

Many are asking if they can move their Next.js projects from Vercel to Replit? Yes! - Go to Import then GitHub - enter repo URL - Agent will take care of the rest It will set up the dev and deployment environments! For companies moving lots of work, happy to help + discount.

Congrats to Kahlil Lalji, Eric Wang, and Walt Leung for launching Natural out of stealth!! These guys have been executing at warp speed and we're excited to be a small part of their journey

incredible, incredible. And not just to any New Yorker, but any Muslim in the US

One of my favorite parts of this report is there's so much potential for NDR to be > 100% for Prosumer businesses today. Subscription + usage-based pricing (monetization generally) are changing core loops for these products & driving increased usage