📶 Bryce Roberts (Founder @ INDIE) on efficiency, the pursuit of revenue-per-employee, and escaping the venture rat race
Efficiency and growing revenue-per-employee, automating the back office vs. front office, why creators are bad at pursuing the right ways to monetize their audience, and how seedstrapping changes venture math
📶 Ashley Smith (GP @ Vermilion Cliffs Ventures) on operators-turned-investors, the evolution of engineering roles, and how GTM is changing in 2025
Non-traditional paths to become a GP, secondary effects of AI co-pilots, hiring the unhireable, and why you can't take a one-size-fits-all approach to GTM strategy
📶 Zoe Weinberg (GP @ ex/ante) on agentic tech and reasons to be optimistic about AI
Pre-seed capital, signaling risk, and what changes as it becomes easier to spin up an MVP, the threats and opportunities in AGI (and why a lot of the noise is overhyped), and how alpha is created through unique lived experiences
📶 Charley Ma (GP @ Pathlight) on how to think as a thematic GP
The choice to be a thematic investor, the challenge of thinking over long time horizons with the pace at which the world is changing today, takeaways from moving upstream and warranting more ownership, how the role of emerging managers will change over the next ten years
