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Hydrogen Space Balloon (with Jane Poynter & Ali Rohde)
Jane Poynter spent two years and 20 minutes in a biosphere back in the early 1990s. (There’s a documentary about it.)
Later, Poynter set her sights o…
2 years, 7 months ago
Spaceman Explains to Earthman How Things Work (with Delian Asparouhov)
Last time I remember writing about Varda co-founder and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov, I was giving him a hard time about his subdued impro…
2 years, 7 months ago
Scaling People (with Claire Hughes Johnson)
Claire Hughes Johnson writes in her book, Scaling People, about a moment early on in her time at Stripe when an Irish journalist shouted to her, “You…
2 years, 8 months ago
Staying Global (with Bejul Somaia)
Lightspeed Venture Partners can sometimes live in the shadow of its noisier rivals.
Andreessen Horowitz has a massive war chest, sprawling payroll, a…
2 years, 8 months ago
Psychedelics, Micro Nuclear Reactors & Venture Turbulence (with Rebecca Kaden)
Union Square Ventures has some of the best performing funds in the venture capital industry.
As I’ve reported, USV-backer UTIMCO disclosed in a recen…
2 years, 8 months ago
Talking Threads With the Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen
Elon Musk is the liberal elite’s enemy of the moment.
How quickly the bad blood for Mark Zuckerberg is forgotten.
When Zuckerberg’s Meta released Twi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Musk & Zuck Go Head to Head, Vying to Rule Global Online Discussion (with Katie Notopoulos & Tom Dotan)
Former BuzzFeed reporter Katie Notopoulos spent the first few days posting on Meta’s Twitter copycat, Threads, as if she were the editor-in-chief of …
2 years, 8 months ago
Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet Talks Pre-Seed Deals, YC, SoftBank & `Zombie Mode' Funds
Maëlle Gavet and I first crossed paths about a decade ago when she was the CEO of the Russian e-commerce company Ozon. Then, we met up again when she…
2 years, 9 months ago
Not Exactly AR And Not Exactly VR (with Lauren Goode & Anand Agarawala)
The metaverse had been left for dead. The massive hype for virtual worlds that we saw during the pandemic dissipated once we could all see our fellow…
2 years, 9 months ago
Rug Salesman Turned Valley Insider Raises a $432 Million Seed Fund (with Pejman Nozad)
I couldn’t help but spend the first few minutes of my conversation with Pejman Nozad fishing for the story of how a rug salesman built one of Silicon…
2 years, 10 months ago