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Investment Themes, Theses, & Outlooks
Here’s What’s Most Exciting About Insurtech in 2024 (Munich Re Ventures Team)
Industry Developments & Analyses
Highly Leveraged Demographics: Medical Debt… (Michael Greeley, GP @ Flare Capital)
AI and Knowledge Work (Tanay Jaipuria, Partner @ Wing)
The Augmented Web (Kojo Osei, VC @ Matrix)
Open Banking Walked so Open Finance Could Run (Sarah Lamont, Sr. Associate @ F Prime)
Time to Take Out the Regulatory Trash (Joe Lonsdale, GP @ 8VC)
Guides, Case Studies, and Best Practices for Operating
Stop with the Rule of 40 (Sammy Abdullah, GP @ Blossom Street VC)
Growth At All Costs vs. Bootstrapping vs. ?? (Ben Yoskovitz, Partner @ Highline Beta)
The state of SaaS pricing (Kyle Poyar, Partner @ OpenView)
My Pitch Framework (Jean de La Rochebrochard, MP @ Kima Ventures)
A 2024 Growth Dynamics Outlook (Annabel De Gheldere, VC @ Mountside)
The Best Way to Drive Demand in Marketplaces is Hiding in Plain Sight (Casey Winters, Partner @ Reforge)
Winning Strategies for Applied AI Companies (Louis Coppey, VC @ Point Nine)
Additional Reads
Things I Don't Know About AI (Elad Gil, GP @ Cosmic)
The Trough of Feedback (Kyle Harrison, GP @ Contrary)
The Most Important AI Model Is The Business Model (Matt McIlwain, MD @ Madrona)
How do we make AI work for us? (Wendy Xiao, Partner @ Northzone)
VC Funds Regulatory Playbook (Chris Harvey, Venture Lawyer)
Nobody Knows : Steel & Blockchains (Tomasz Tunguz, MD @ Theory)
Dynamic Networks and Machine Learning (Dev Dabke, Level Ventures)
A Hero with an Idea Whose Time Has Come (Pratyush Buddiga, VC @ Susa Ventures)
Venture Capital & Free Lunch (Packy McCormick, GP @ Not Boring)
Compressing Switching Costs In Software (Akash Bajwa, VC @ Earlybird)
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