Where YC is looking for startups, founder vesting benchmarks, Forerunner raises a massive new fund, plus one thing to change how you think about money
Why the future of healthcare will be preventative
Why you should choose investors based on their anecdotal evidence, why some IPOs fail, lessons from studying 3,000 pitch decks, and Naval’s life rules
Why crypto played such a big role in determining the next president, the four stages of GTM, why diversification sucks, and an AI voice agents market map
Customer support 2.0, AI knowledge and support for technical sales teams, and the future of list building and enrichment
How to build a GTM strategy from scratch, how celebrities are becoming VCs (and VCs are becoming celebrities), the FTC goes after a challenger bank, when smart people are bad employees
Smaller funds aren’t raising like they used to, what Trump’s win means for AI regulation, what’s next for crypto
PE is betting big on niche sports, Coatue is raising $1b for AI, 14 ideas from Buffet and Munger, and the chart to end the product vs. distribution debate
Why Crosscut and other firms are moving away from software and towards hardware investing, Tomasz Tunguz files for a massive Fund II, and PE doubles down on value creation
The good, the bad, and the outlook
30% of AUM expected to go to evergreen fund structures, Yale's endowment numbers signaling something larger, the modern VC sourcing method, and rethinking personal healthcare
Why more more means more problems for most founders, the most practical skill you’ll learn, and Google keeps betting big on self-driving
