Kirsten Green

Loved teaming up with Ben Lang and Next Play on this post spotlighting the career-making consumer AI companies that are hiring now. So much imagination and fun in this bunch. 🌟 https://lnkd.in/gt...

Consumer powerhouses are generally built through three key levers: • An aspirational vision that makes people feel something bigger • An incredible and consistent product experience • Top quality, ...

humans& captures so much about what we care about most at Forerunner in 2026. This team of former Anthropic, Google, and xAI researchers has a simple but bold view: today's technology shift can ma...

In this market, when there is so much frenzy and opportunity up for grabs, teams stand out more than ever. Because if there’s a good idea, prepare to see 100s of it. There’s a lot of sameness, and ...

My Word of The Year: Discernment To start every January, I step back and decide on a word to shape my mindset for how I live the year ahead. I find the simplicity of a single word to be especially...

Today’s technology shift has a narrative problem. It’s no surprise why. The topic of the past ~2 years has focused on efficiency: how much cost can we strip, how much time can we collapse, how many...

Didn't hold back in my recent interview with a16z speedrun. We went everywhere: my early, pre-VC ambitions to be an architect, what founder pitches are grabbing my attention most these days, and ...

I have always been long SF. So long, I've lived here more years (decades) than I'm going to share here 🙃 Anyone here today knows this city is going through a special shift: new energy, a new sens...

Chime being named to Fast Company’s Brands That Matter list feels exactly right. They’ve built something rare in consumer fintech: a brand rooted in trust, clarity, and real impact for people man...

Great to be on Library of Minds with Dara Ladjevardian. The questions pushed me to revisit a part of my journey that I don’t get to reflect on often. I started Forerunner with no venture experien...

New tech, new moats. For the past two decades, the strongest moats were built around external forces: network effects and economies of scale. Cognition is different. It doesn't depend on one mass...

This team ⚡⚡ $370M in volume on Novig in just the last month alone. Insanity growth for a truly superior product: • the first zero-commission sports industry prediction exchange • a peer-to-pe...

Daydream is live on iOS! Julie Bornstein and team are building the next generation of fashion discovery, where deep industry intelligence, thoughtful design, and an understanding of real consumer ...

Building "wrappers" was once assumed to be simplistic, even to the point of lacking true defensibility. The reality has turned out to be far more complex — and far more interesting. True differen...

Long Faire 🚀 Long indie retail, long local communities, and long craft, quality products. Today's $5.2B tender offer led by crossover investor WCW signals that Faire has the attributes of a publi...

A very impressive milestone from the Ash by Slingshot AI team today. In collaboration with NYU, they ran a 10-week real-world study on how a therapy AI can support well-being. The results cut agai...

Duckbill has been quietly building a cult-favorite consumer AI service, one that nails the deep nuance and technical specificities of something as subjective as personal assistance — making its pro...

The Prosumer market has exploded in mind share (and market share) over the last 10 years. Alongside Waymo, WhatsApp, DoorDash, consumers have Notion, Lovable, ChatGPT, and Slack on their phone's h...

Job-searching & hiring is one of the most pervasive problems in the startup industry. For founders, it keeps them up at night and gobbles up their precious time, and for job-searchers, they rely ...

Loved hosting this off-the-record talk with South Park Commons founders about what’s next in consumer software, consumer hardware, and commerce experiences. The beauty of consumer is a community t...