Yay! TechCrunch just announced our $13M Seed led by Khosla Ventures with Lightspeed, @Latitud, Lenny Rachitsky, 20VC Fund and friends. This is the first step toward our mission of making college education accessible and equitable. Come work with us: [email protected].

Me, a founder adding more features to my product that doesn't have product/market fit.

Ah yes it's Wrapped time. #SpotifyWrapped open.spotify.com/wrapped/share/…

As consumer investors, we're no strangers to committing to models and industries when they're out of favor (in fact, this is when we love to double down). In the past 5-10 years, marketplaces have fallen out of favor in Silicon Valley. Investments in series A marketplaces

Why is Amazon one of the most defensible businesses in the world, while "Uber for X" failed everywhere it was tried? Any defensive moat can be overcome with enough capital. If someone was willing to give you hundreds of billions of dollars without expecting a return on their

🎬 It’s impossible to capture all the can’t-miss advice from the podcast this past year (the name is In Depth for a reason). But we plucked out practical wisdom from some of the sharpest folks in tech into one essential video: Krithika on craft and taste Yuhki Yamashita on embracing

Presenting the 12th edition of this annual list. Here’s the best company-building advice we heard last year — distilled from dozens of conversations with exceptional folks like Will Larson, Matt MacInnis, Jack Altman, Krithika and more. A sneak peek at some of the 30 actionable tidbits

I recorded a new selfcast on using M&A for marketplaces as a few of these recently took place in my portfolio. I've acquired or merged companies multiple times in my career, and both the decision to acquire/merge and how you integrate are pretty important and often mismanaged.

Many stories get told about why DoorDash won: The business school version: they had the right strategy. They launched in the right markets, acquired the right restaurants, and designed the marketplace the right way. The hustle culture version: they out-executed everyone else.

Incredible work by this team. Becoming the default solution in growth this quickly is not easy or normal.

congrats to Musa for being #1 on product hunt today!!

Very excited to bring these courses back and for the new AI courses.

You make images of yourself in the style of Studio Ghibli. I make images of myself in the style of Vic Rattlehead, mascot of Megadeth. We are not the same.

Defense industry? More like Offense industry

Excited to share that we've raised $5m in new capital Type Five, led by Haystack alongside Village Global, Kevin Patrick Mahaffey, and an incredibly passionate group of investors and angels. Type Five is a new kind of homebuilding company. Our systems, software, and approach

Wow, talking with Brian Balfour about growth strategy in voice mode is pure awesomeness: superme.ai/bbalfour

My co-founder Ludo Antonov and I wrote about one of our principles to building an AI-native company: onboard everyone as if they are an engineer. Read why we think this is not only possible, but optimal with AI tools here: caseyaccidental.substack.com/p/building-an-…

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I wrote a new essay about when to think about new channels for growth and when that is worth it vs. too small an optimization for your growth model. open.substack.com/pub/caseyaccid…

FERMÀT just closed a $45M Series B fundraise led by VMG Partners! Excited to have QED Investors, Greylock, Bain Capital Ventures, and Courtside Ventures continue their support alongside this incredible new partnership — and thrilled to see the story covered by Axios today. Today,