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What VCs are Building in 2023
Year by year, firms rarely change. But decade by decade, anything can happen.
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Will Robbins

March 2023

Jamie Dimon: America Has the Best Hand Ever Dealt
"I don’t want to be Secretary of the Treasury. But I tell people this country has the best hand ever dealt of any country on the planet."
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Will Robbins

February 2023

Google Has $50B, Doesn't Innovate
10 years ago, Google had more cash than ideas. Has it come time to reap what has been sown?
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Nth Layer Investing
A framework for investing with a focus on leading indicators, not lagging ones.
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Will Robbins

November 2022

Book Recs on the History of Science
"This is not to attack or devalue science, but to reveal its richness as the human endeavor that it most surely is."
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Will Robbins
Sequoia's Leaked YouTube Investment Memo
How the greatest venture firm considered investing in one of the greatest startups.
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Charlie Cheever on StarCraft
Answering the question: what are some lessons learned through playing StarCraft that are useful in real life?
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Domino's Pizza Beats Any Tech Stock
Businesses that appear to be commoditized can often times outperform even the strongest products and services.
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The Head of Facebook on Shifting Long-Term Strategy
Facebook still services 1.9B DAUs. Tom Alison, Meta's Head of Facebook, outlined their forward-looking strategy in this memo to employees.
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Why we backed Vesto
Imagine you just raised a $10 million seed round for your startup. Congratulations! This means more hiring, more building, more expansion, and enough…
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Oprah: 25 Years of Focus
The iconic companies and individuals of past decades tend to take one of two paths to success: hyper-focus, or ruthless diversification. Bill Gates…
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Will Robbins

October 2022

23 Year Old Evan Spiegel's Leaked Email
The market from last decade wasn't too unfamiliar. How did a world-class CEO navigate it?
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