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On vacation last week in Panama, I witnessed the 19th Centuryโs Biggest VC Project - The Panama Canal. While I was there, thanks to the suggestion of David Frankel, I dug into David McCulloughโs b...
My kids and I have had a lot of fun on Sora. We created a whole video series about a human hamburger;) So it surprised me when OpenAI announced they were shutting it down. The narrative around AI ...
Parenting through the social media was hard, but whatโs coming next might be harder. AI agents donโt just shape how kids feel- they risk outsourcing how kids function and learn. Iโve been thinkin...
I used to joke that GPs never retire, you just hear from them less :) Iโm starting to think thatโs wrong. They donโt retire because they donโt want to. They have money. They have a track record....
Todd Krizelman joined my Cornell Tech class this week, and his founder journey is one of the most unique in tech, and chock full of lessons in start-ups and life. In 1994, he co-founded theGlobe.c...
Hardware outcomes seem binary. Hardware investing has produced some of our biggest wins at Founder Collective - Shield AI, WHOOP, Verkada and at the same time some of our larger losses. Its about ...
Failure of Diversification I was chatting with some peers this week about where the โalphaโ is in Seed investing right now. It feels elusive. I have one theory: weโre not actually diversified. I...
Congrats on the big launch - so amazed and proud of the hard work of Rahul Jain Joshua Budman - onwards!
The Boring (Legal and Accounting) Stuff that Matters I had Joe D. and Sacha Ross drop by my Cornell Tech โThinking Like a VCโ class this week. We skipped the typical strategy and analysis this wee...
Five questions weโve been kicking around here at Founder Collective: 1๏ธโฃ How do you compare across vintages when the business has changed so much? 2๏ธโฃ Is a 1:1 ratio of funders to founders sustain...
When I spoke to future founders and VCs at Columbia Business School recently, this slide is when all the phones came out. It's a snapshot of the types of questions I've been asking founders when w...
Hereโs my due diligence dilemma. Thereโs so much to know and so many ways to know it and yet it feels harder than ever;). Not because thereโs less information. Because thereโs too much. And becau...
When Jack Altman merged his fund into Benchmark recently, it wasnโt just a partner announcement, it was a sign that change is afoot in this business. The data has suggested for years that the vent...
VC is usually a very attractive job for an MBA. This year? Less so! I asked our current MBA Associate why? He said everyone wants to be a founder - they feel like the opportunity cost of not fo...
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Love this. Definitely seeing / feeling this as an investor as well. Though a part of me wants to build right now;) Grass is always greener. Very sober take.
The "Corporatization" of Venture Capital Venturing in Public - Feb 13, 2026 There is a debate happening in venture right now (Erik Torenberg has framed it well) about the bifurcation of our indust...
The Power Law has gone fractal. Iโve been digging through the new SVB State of the Markets report (always worth the time), and some of the data really stood out. We talk a lot about the Power Law...
In VC, we obsess over metrics, yet the highest-return asset FC has created doesn't show up on our financial statements. Looking around the room at our events last week, I realized the most satisfy...
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