20 Minute VC with Harry Stebbings
I recently had a conversation with Harry Stebbings on his 20 Minute VC Podcast My partners Jon, Phil, Tony, Kevin, and Puneet were all earlier guests of the show – so I was excited to cover a different...
View ArticleInvesting in Startups (Lessons from 10 Years at True)
I shared this post with our team last summer while reflecting on a number of different investments at True and after reviewing it at the beginning of this year, thought it’d be interesting to share...
View ArticleShelter in Place at True (May 2020 Edition)
There’s been a lot of discussion on whether investors are “open for business” during the current Shelter in Place environment and I wanted to share some observations based on my experience at True: 1....
View ArticleCounterparty Risk in Venture Capital
In a recent blog post, I discussed the importance of trust amongst investor syndicates and how a good group working together can reduce financing risk for a company. This post expands on some of those...
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Opportunities at the Intersection of Software, Automation, and Biology
This was originally posted on the main True Ventures blog Over the past two decades, we’ve seen hundreds of billions of dollars of market capitalization created by new software and infrastructure...
View ArticleBIOS Podcast on Founder Focused Investing in Human Health and Biology
I recently had a conversation with Chas Pulido and Dennis Gong of Alix Ventures for the BIOS Podcast where we discussed how scientists thinking about starting companies can appeal to investors,...
View ArticleReading Recommendations for a New VC
I recently caught up with someone who is moving into an investing role at a venture capital firm – she asked me for any book recommendations that could help her get up to speed faster I’ve shared...
View ArticleThe Symbiotic Relationships between Corporations and DAOs
Long-term, I think there will be both open source protocols managed as decentralized autonomous organizations – and corporations building products for consumer + enterprise users on top of these...
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Money Out of No Where: How Blockchain Infrastructure is Unlocking Economic Value
In 2019, Bill Gurley wrote a blog post on how internet marketplaces can unlock latent and previously unseen value in the world In the post, Gurley applies concepts from Adam Smith’s “Wealth of...
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Incentives Matter (Or a Proposal for DAOs to Get Excited about Paying...
As part of the recent Optimism Retroactive Public Goods funding program – there was a discussion that startups with large amounts of venture funding shouldn’t apply This isn’t the first time a...
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