Join a startup early and you can make millions. Join a growth stage startup and you have way better odds of seeing an exit. But what stage offers the optimal tradeoff between risk and reward? We looked back at 14,000 startups that raised in 2014-15 and found the highest

Farming season returns 👨‍🌾 👩‍🌾 as Zaheer told us crypto “is literally the most FOMO industry ever.” Read more: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Crypto

The great (VC) resignation is really starting to pick up. Sat next to a solo capitalist on my flight today who is joining one of his portfolio companies as the COO. He believes that it’s the best company in his portfolio and wants to double down. So the question is what happens

Can Sequoia legend Michael Moritz fix San Francisco? Like many, he's been "fed up" with the city. But unlike most, he's put hundreds of millions - and years of his own time and work - into trying to make it better (or at least his definition of it anyway) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scoop w/ Amir Efrati: Boston-based venture capital firm OpenView has cut most of its staff and will stop making new investments & focus on supporting existing portfolio companies. This comes just months after the firm closed a $570M fund. theinformation.com/articles/vc-fi…

Bravo! " The Market-Based Case for Covering Startups’ Financial Data" The private markets are a key component of our financial system. Our democracy and capitalist system hinges on people being able to participate knowledgeably. Cory Weinberg theinformation.com/articles/the-m…

Best advice I ever got: think like a VC when looking for tech job. It led me to joining Rippling ($11B+) before its Series A. It changed my life, so I built a free tool to help others. We expect that each company listed on Prospect will grow at least 2X over the next 4 years:

Hoodline "is using generative AI for the vast majority of its recent, “originally reported” stories — without clear disclosures to the extent of its use." sf.gazetteer.co/hoodline-using… -- once they got caught they updated the bylines to look like this:

👇 Advice everyone should hear about how to vet your personal-finance apps 👇 from Tomio Geron wsj.com/podcasts/tech-…

New fintech apps help people better manage their finances. But how can they keep themselves safe when using many apps that share their data? My story via The Wall Street Journal: wsj.com/tech/personal-…

The best CEOs have a plan to create a long term, standalone, durable business that rewards employees and shareholders. Reminded of this daily in current environment where emerging private cos are poaching talent from "🦄" of 21/22 era. Interview this week: "We raised way too

Consumer is at such an interesting moment and as an investor I’m always frustrated we are not seeing more wildly creative ideas given LLMs. We are seeing too much focus on how to generate more content without thought on what people also may want to consume. Because there is

The overlooked GenAI use case: cleaning, processing, and analyzing data. blog.sumble.com/the-overlooked… Job post data tell us what companies plan to do with GenAI. The most common use case is data analytics projects. Examples: - AstraZeneca: using LLMs on freeform documents to

good mapping of AI agents in fintech from Antler

After advising 50+ consumer companies over the last year, the one thing that separates those who can execute and those who can't: Having a full-time designer in the room at all times I've met with countless companies that have raised millions—and even one that has raised

The state of VC in 2025. Where we are, where we are going, and where to invest ... docsend.com/v/w5bsh/wtfvc25

In pursuit of product-market fit, you should be less of a data scientist and more of an anthropologist. Every week I see teams pretending to be scientists and analyzing metrics on a test group of a few hundred users who came from odd sources unrepresentative of their broader

Fav Quote from report 💭 My fav. quote is in the image below 2 more honorable mentions: “Like electricity and other general purpose technologies in the past, AI and cloud data centers represent the next stage of industrialization.” — Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President,

Some notes on Negotiations 1/ When you finish any complex deal you will feel fatigued and worn out. It sometimes feels hard to celebrate. The best deals feel this way. Complex negotiations require compromises. When both (or all) parties make concessions nobody feels great.

my weekend project to learn about bluetooth mesh networks, relays and store and forward models, message encryption models, and a few other things. bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat...IRC vibes. TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/QwkyFq6z GitHub: github.com/jackjackbits/b…