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Good morning 👋

And happy Friday. What a week.

We’re back on the investor interview train, and we’ll share more on that next week.

We also shared our company update from November, a collection of the best market maps we found this year, some thoughts on second order effects of AI, and a shift in the Overton Window.

Lots of keyboard typing this week.

Let’s get into today’s piece.

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Brian Singerman, a long-standing partner at Founders Fund, is stepping back from his daily operational role. Singerman will remain with the firm as a board member and investor, signaling a strategic rather than a full departure.

Why it matters: General partner at Founders Fund is one of the best jobs in venture, so it’s going to become news whenever anybody steps away from that seat.

Even though people still think of Peter Thiel when they think of Founders Fund, Brian is largely the one to credit for making the firm what it is today. He started as a junior investor, worked his way up to partner, moved to GP shortly after, and he has had a crazy run over the past decade.

We can’t speculate as to who will fill his shoes (you can look at their team page to do that yourself), but there are some other big takeaways we had from reading this news and reflecting on FF’s strategy over the years:

Read more: 15 Lessons from Brian Singerman (Partner @ Founders Fund)

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Here are the results from our poll question in Wednesday’s piece:

Which gets affected more by mass adoption of AI?

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ White collar jobs (4)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Blue collar jobs (8)

12 Votes