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๐Ÿ“ถ the self-driving company

๐Ÿ“ถ the self-driving company

The real challenge with reaching 100% autonomy, who wins with the Figma IPO, the new pre-seed strategy, and a crisis moment for seed VCs

๐Ÿ“ถ Brian Singermanโ€™s next act

๐Ÿ“ถ Brian Singermanโ€™s next act

Thoughts on the newest fund of funds, some signs of life for fintech, the easiest jobs in finance, plus we're reviving our VC jobs

๐Ÿ“ถ big swinging CVCs

๐Ÿ“ถ big swinging CVCs

CVCs are making fewer but bigger bets, there is more than one way to make money in the venture game, why Cloudflare wants AI companies to pay for content, and some signs of life for emerging managers

๐Ÿ“ถ the death of collaborative capital?

๐Ÿ“ถ the death of collaborative capital?

Seed leads are taking down more of rounds, some signs of a better exit environment, and the best of last week

๐Ÿ“ถ charts that show where we're going

๐Ÿ“ถ charts that show where we're going

Charts that show trends, telling stories to get people to care, web 4.0, and crossing the agent chasm

๐Ÿ“ถ some VC fund performance data (Q1 2025)

๐Ÿ“ถ some VC fund performance data (Q1 2025)

The latest fund data from Carta, 10x concepts from Jack Butcher, and very bad advice you should ignore at all costs

๐Ÿ“ถ career pivots for VC

๐Ÿ“ถ career pivots for VC

The market is forcing VCs to rethink their careers, patterns from YC investing, Felicis raises new funds, and the SEC is making it easier for retail investors to access venture investing

๐Ÿ“ถ YC is all in on AI agents

๐Ÿ“ถ YC is all in on AI agents

The future is agentic, money flows as a function of stories, and some reason for defense tech VCs to be optimistic

๐Ÿ“ถ Bill Gurley's 2025 state of the union

๐Ÿ“ถ Bill Gurley's 2025 state of the union

A temperature check for the asset class, becoming an attention-first investor, and the two sectors eating up the majority of venture dollars today

๐Ÿ“ถ the latest Thiel Fellows

๐Ÿ“ถ the latest Thiel Fellows

Plus what they're building, easy shouldn't be confused with fun, how to be more lucky, and what all you missed from earlier this week

๐Ÿ“ถ some thoughts on pre-seed pricing

๐Ÿ“ถ some thoughts on pre-seed pricing

The pre-seed bubble, the measure of multi-billion AUM funds, the true cost of churn, and nobody knows what an AI agent is

๐Ÿ“ถ Mercury founder announces his fund I

๐Ÿ“ถ Mercury founder announces his fund I

Founders becoming GPs, 12 ideas from Don Valentine, the newest distribution channel to unlock, and five memos on early-stage companies we like

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