By The Librarian—Aug 7, 2024

Mini Agents, Deep Dives on Deep Tech, Incentives, and Leaving A Restaurant Without Asking For The Check […] Read more

By Jared Hecht—Aug 5, 2024

The other day I woke up to the sounds of A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. We recently bought a record player for our home. Carrie requested one for her birthday. I never grew up with vinyl records, so I didn’t “get it.” But now I do. It has been a gift that keeps on […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)

By Nick Grossman—Aug 5, 2024

The middle of a crypto (and broader financial) market meltdown is perhaps an apropos moment to introduce my second podcast guest: Muneeb Ali , the co-founder of Stacks . Stacks is a “Bitcoin L2”, meaning a system for scaling and expanding the usefulness of the bitcoin network, by making it less […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)

By Jared Hecht—Aug 2, 2024

This week my wife Carrie, a documentary film producer , took me to see Eno . The director of the film is Gary Hustwit , who previously made the film Helvetica . Eno is a spectacular film and I encourage everyone to see it. I never realized how profoundly special Brian Eno is. He is […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Aug 1, 2024

Donald Trump is unfit to be the president of the United States of America. He is unfit to hold any public office. It boggles the mind that a number of investors and entrepreneurs have come out in support of Trump despite his obviously disqualifying character, which has been revealed time and again […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Matt Mandel—Jul 25, 2024

Something that’s frustrating about investing in non-purely-software companies is the poverty of vocabulary. People talk about “deep tech”, “hard tech”, “frontier tech”, “atoms”, and so on. Sometimes they just mean to distinguish hardware from software companies, sometimes to distinguish technical […] Read more (opens Matt Mandel in a new tab)