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Vinod Khosla: A Case Study of Unreasonable Tenacity (and Frozen Pizza)

🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better founder, investor, and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Vinod Khosla was hungry.

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How to Raise Your First Fund

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Modern Meditations: Tyler Cowen

The Generalist delivers in-depth analysis and insights on the world's most successful companies, executives, and technologies. Join us to make sure you don’t miss our next briefing. I’m excited to share today’s Modern Meditations, an interview with Tyler Cowen. For those unfamiliar with his work, Tyler is one of the most inf…

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Ho Nam on VC’s Power Law

🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Friends, We’re back with our latest edition of “Letters to a Young Investor,” the series designed to give readers like you an intimate look at the strategies, insights, and wisdom of the world’s best investors. We do that via a back-and-forth correspondence that we publish in full – giving you a chance to peek into the inbox of legendary venture capitalists.

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The Founders Guide to Culture Building

🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Friends, Founding a company is an act of divine delusion. It goes against all sound logic, most familial advice, and the demands of your bank account. If it were possible to bundle up ten years of your life and commensurate earnings, the odds suggest you would be better off (much better off, in fact) dumping it on a roulette table and telling the croupier:

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Editor’s Brief: The Robotics Renaissance

Every once in a while, I spot something happening on tech’s frontline that I think more people should be paying close attention to. Something that has the potential to radically remake our world, change how we live, and – for the pragmatic investor – possibly deliver outlier returns.

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Working with The Olympians: Inside Traba’s Intense Culture

The Generalist delivers in-depth analysis and insights on the world's most successful companies, executives, and technologies. Join us to make sure you don’t miss our next briefing. Actionable insights If you only have a few minutes, here’s what investors, operators, and founders should know about Traba.

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The Founders Guide to Listening to Your Customers

🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Friends, “If you don’t listen to your customer, someone else will.”

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Letters to a Young Founder: Vinod Khosla

🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better founder, investor, and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Friends, I could not be more excited to share two pieces of news with you.

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The Founders Guide to Optimizing Your Fundraise

🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Friends, Once upon a time, not so very long ago, it was possible to raise venture money on the back of a pitch deck and a few text messages. The heady days of 2021 and 2022 will be remembered in venture capital as an era of compression and expansion: investment decisions shrunk to the time needed to finish a cappuccino while valuations swelled to a frothy peak. During bull markets of such magnitude, little strategy is needed. It was not

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