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Modern Meditations: Immad Akhund • Mercury’s CEO on Genghis Khan, the limits of growth, and the secrets of excellence.
Modern Meditations: Immad Akhund
Mercury’s CEO on Genghis Khan, the limits of growth, and the secrets of excellence.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Modern Meditations: Immad Akhund • Mercury’s CEO on Genghis Khan, the limits of growth, and the secrets of excellence.
Bubble Memory: A CEO’s Reflections on the Dotcom Boom and Bust • Steve Case’s lessons for founders building in the AI gold rush.
Bubble Memory: A CEO’s Reflections on the Dotcom Boom and Bust
Steve Case’s lessons for founders building in the AI gold rush.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Bubble Memory: A CEO’s Reflections on the Dotcom Boom and Bust • Steve Case’s lessons for founders building in the AI gold rush.
Why Being a Generalist VC Is a Competitive Advantage | Aydin Senkut (Founder and Managing Partner at Felicis Ventures) • Felicis Ventures founder Aydin Senkut on how he built a top VC firm, his 10x decision framework, and why he’s bullish on AI and automation.
Why Being a Generalist VC Is a Competitive Advantage | Aydin Senkut (Founder and Managing Partner at Felicis Ventures)
Felicis Ventures founder Aydin Senkut on how he built a top VC firm, his 10x decision framework, and why he’s bullish on AI and automation.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Why Being a Generalist VC Is a Competitive Advantage | Aydin Senkut (Founder and Managing Partner at Felicis Ventures) • Felicis Ventures founder Aydin Senkut on how he built a top VC firm, his 10x decision framework, and why he’s bullish on AI and automation.
54 Books to Read In 2026 • Essential recommendations from some of the world’s most interesting and accomplished people.
54 Books to Read In 2026
Essential recommendations from some of the world’s most interesting and accomplished people.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
54 Books to Read In 2026 • Essential recommendations from some of the world’s most interesting and accomplished people.
Joey Krug on Prediction Markets, Crypto Treasuries & the Next Era of On-Chain Finance (Partner at Founders Fund) • Founders Fund's Joey Krug unpacks the evolution of prediction markets, crypto treasury companies, and why regulatory clarity is finally arriving for digital assets.
Joey Krug on Prediction Markets, Crypto Treasuries & the Next Era of On-Chain Finance (Partner at Founders Fund)
Founders Fund's Joey Krug unpacks the evolution of prediction markets, crypto treasury companies, and why regulatory clarity is finally arriving for digital assets.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Joey Krug on Prediction Markets, Crypto Treasuries & the Next Era of On-Chain Finance (Partner at Founders Fund) • Founders Fund's Joey Krug unpacks the evolution of prediction markets, crypto treasury companies, and why regulatory clarity is finally arriving for digital assets.
Where have the heretics gone? • In our latest letter, Mike Maples Jr. and I explore what apostasy means in the age of AI.
Where have the heretics gone?
In our latest letter, Mike Maples Jr. and I explore what apostasy means in the age of AI.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Where have the heretics gone? • In our latest letter, Mike Maples Jr. and I explore what apostasy means in the age of AI.
How a Solo Founder is Reshaping Global Finance (Parth Garg, CEO of Aspora) • A co-founder's midnight departure catalyzed a $500M rocketship.
How a Solo Founder is Reshaping Global Finance (Parth Garg, CEO of Aspora)
A co-founder's midnight departure catalyzed a $500M rocketship.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
How a Solo Founder is Reshaping Global Finance (Parth Garg, CEO of Aspora) • A co-founder's midnight departure catalyzed a $500M rocketship.
How Do You Build a New Singapore? Inside Próspera’s Bet on Private Governance | Erick Brimen (Founder and CEO) • Próspera founder Erick Brimen on how charter cities could unlock human potential by reinventing governance from the ground up.
How Do You Build a New Singapore? Inside Próspera’s Bet on Private Governance | Erick Brimen (Founder and CEO)
Próspera founder Erick Brimen on how charter cities could unlock human potential by reinventing governance from the ground up.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
How Do You Build a New Singapore? Inside Próspera’s Bet on Private Governance | Erick Brimen (Founder and CEO) • Próspera founder Erick Brimen on how charter cities could unlock human potential by reinventing governance from the ground up.
Observations on People, the World, and Everything Else • A collection of things that are true to me.
Observations on People, the World, and Everything Else
A collection of things that are true to me.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Observations on People, the World, and Everything Else • A collection of things that are true to me.
Letters to a Young Investor: Mike Maples, Jr. • The Floodgate co-founder on backing Twitter and missing Figma.
Letters to a Young Investor: Mike Maples, Jr.
The Floodgate co-founder on backing Twitter and missing Figma.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Letters to a Young Investor: Mike Maples, Jr. • The Floodgate co-founder on backing Twitter and missing Figma.
Lesser Apes • As AI gets smarter, will we get dumber?
Lesser Apes
As AI gets smarter, will we get dumber?
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November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Lesser Apes • As AI gets smarter, will we get dumber?
Palantir’s Weirdest Book Recommendation • Lessons from Impro: Status, spontaneity, and the art of unlearning.
Palantir’s Weirdest Book Recommendation
Lessons from Impro: Status, spontaneity, and the art of unlearning.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Palantir’s Weirdest Book Recommendation • Lessons from Impro: Status, spontaneity, and the art of unlearning.
How to be Agentic in the Age of AI | Cate Hall (CEO of Astera) • Astera’s CEO and ex-No. 1 female poker player on the "soft takeover" of AI and how humans can preserve meaning and agency in an increasingly automated world.
How to be Agentic in the Age of AI | Cate Hall (CEO of Astera)
Astera’s CEO and ex-No. 1 female poker player on the "soft takeover" of AI and how humans can preserve meaning and agency in an increasingly automated world.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
How to be Agentic in the Age of AI | Cate Hall (CEO of Astera) • Astera’s CEO and ex-No. 1 female poker player on the "soft takeover" of AI and how humans can preserve meaning and agency in an increasingly automated world.
Maintaining Human Intelligence in the AI Era | David Krakauer (President of the Santa Fe Institute) • A complexity scientist's assessment of AI's threat to human cognition, what Cormac McCarthy taught him about creativity, and why we need complementary rather than competitive technologies.
Maintaining Human Intelligence in the AI Era | David Krakauer (President of the Santa Fe Institute)
A complexity scientist's assessment of AI's threat to human cognition, what Cormac McCarthy taught him about creativity, and why we need complementary rather than competitive technologies.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Maintaining Human Intelligence in the AI Era | David Krakauer (President of the Santa Fe Institute) • A complexity scientist's assessment of AI's threat to human cognition, what Cormac McCarthy taught him about creativity, and why we need complementary rather than competitive technologies.
Building Beautiful Homes with Robots: The Future of Construction | Salar al Khafaji (CEO and Founder of Monumental) • A founder’s journey to make construction faster, more affordable, and more beautiful using autonomous bricklaying robots.
Building Beautiful Homes with Robots: The Future of Construction | Salar al Khafaji (CEO and Founder of Monumental)
A founder’s journey to make construction faster, more affordable, and more beautiful using autonomous bricklaying robots.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Building Beautiful Homes with Robots: The Future of Construction | Salar al Khafaji (CEO and Founder of Monumental) • A founder’s journey to make construction faster, more affordable, and more beautiful using autonomous bricklaying robots.
The Jensen Huang Playbook • How Nvidia’s CEO built the biggest company on Earth by ignoring customers, forgoing 1:1s, and picking unfashionable markets.
The Jensen Huang Playbook
How Nvidia’s CEO built the biggest company on Earth by ignoring customers, forgoing 1:1s, and picking unfashionable markets.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The Jensen Huang Playbook • How Nvidia’s CEO built the biggest company on Earth by ignoring customers, forgoing 1:1s, and picking unfashionable markets.
What Makes Something Alive? Assembly Theory and the Origins of Life | Sara Walker (Theoretical Physicist) • A theoretical physicist's provocative framework for understanding life across the cosmos—from methane lakes on Titan to AI systems on Earth.
What Makes Something Alive? Assembly Theory and the Origins of Life | Sara Walker (Theoretical Physicist)
A theoretical physicist's provocative framework for understanding life across the cosmos—from methane lakes on Titan to AI systems on Earth.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
What Makes Something Alive? Assembly Theory and the Origins of Life | Sara Walker (Theoretical Physicist) • A theoretical physicist's provocative framework for understanding life across the cosmos—from methane lakes on Titan to AI systems on Earth.
Lessons from Raising a Softbank Megaround • Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on maintaining financial discipline, avoiding people with "chauffeur knowledge,” and the Convoy turnaround.
Lessons from Raising a Softbank Megaround
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on maintaining financial discipline, avoiding people with "chauffeur knowledge,” and the Convoy turnaround.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Lessons from Raising a Softbank Megaround • Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on maintaining financial discipline, avoiding people with "chauffeur knowledge,” and the Convoy turnaround.
Inside General Catalyst’s $1B+ Bet on Fixing Healthcare | Hemant Taneja (CEO and Managing Partner) • General Catalyst's transformation: How Hemant Taneja is building a new kind of "strategic conglomerate."
Inside General Catalyst’s $1B+ Bet on Fixing Healthcare | Hemant Taneja (CEO and Managing Partner)
General Catalyst's transformation: How Hemant Taneja is building a new kind of "strategic conglomerate."
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November 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Inside General Catalyst’s $1B+ Bet on Fixing Healthcare | Hemant Taneja (CEO and Managing Partner) • General Catalyst's transformation: How Hemant Taneja is building a new kind of "strategic conglomerate."
The Future 50 is here • Meet 50 of the world’s highest-potential startups. Nominated by investors, selected by The Generalist.
The Future 50 is here
Meet 50 of the world’s highest-potential startups. Nominated by investors, selected by The Generalist.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Future 50 is here • Meet 50 of the world’s highest-potential startups. Nominated by investors, selected by The Generalist.
The Future of Crypto: Stablecoins, AI Integration, and the Path to Mass Adoption | Jesse Walden (Founder and Managing Partner at Variant) • A crypto VC's playbook for understanding the current cycle: stablecoin productization, regulatory clarity, AI integrations, and more.
The Future of Crypto: Stablecoins, AI Integration, and the Path to Mass Adoption | Jesse Walden (Founder and Managing Partner at Variant)
A crypto VC's playbook for understanding the current cycle: stablecoin productization, regulatory clarity, AI integrations, and more.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Future of Crypto: Stablecoins, AI Integration, and the Path to Mass Adoption | Jesse Walden (Founder and Managing Partner at Variant) • A crypto VC's playbook for understanding the current cycle: stablecoin productization, regulatory clarity, AI integrations, and more.
The Evolution of AI Agents: Navigating the “Fog of AI” in Rapidly Changing Foundations | Stanislas Polu and Harrison Chase • Stan Polu and Harrison Chase unpack agents, reliability hurdles, and staying defensible in the age of AI.
The Evolution of AI Agents: Navigating the “Fog of AI” in Rapidly Changing Foundations | Stanislas Polu and Harrison Chase
Stan Polu and Harrison Chase unpack agents, reliability hurdles, and staying defensible in the age of AI.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Evolution of AI Agents: Navigating the “Fog of AI” in Rapidly Changing Foundations | Stanislas Polu and Harrison Chase • Stan Polu and Harrison Chase unpack agents, reliability hurdles, and staying defensible in the age of AI.
“The Hardest Coordination Problem on Earth” • Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on the founder’s role, operating with velocity, and learning from Brian Chesky.
“The Hardest Coordination Problem on Earth”
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on the founder’s role, operating with velocity, and learning from Brian Chesky.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
“The Hardest Coordination Problem on Earth” • Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on the founder’s role, operating with velocity, and learning from Brian Chesky.
The Decade of Data with Tomasz Tunguz • Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz shares how tokenized IPOs, AI agents, and the “decade of data” are rewriting the VC playbook.
The Decade of Data with Tomasz Tunguz
Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz shares how tokenized IPOs, AI agents, and the “decade of data” are rewriting the VC playbook.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Decade of Data with Tomasz Tunguz • Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz shares how tokenized IPOs, AI agents, and the “decade of data” are rewriting the VC playbook.
Letters to a Young Founder: Immad Akhund of Mercury • The unicorn fintech CEO on shipping with intent, unconventional products, and growing as a leader.
Letters to a Young Founder: Immad Akhund of Mercury
The unicorn fintech CEO on shipping with intent, unconventional products, and growing as a leader.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Letters to a Young Founder: Immad Akhund of Mercury • The unicorn fintech CEO on shipping with intent, unconventional products, and growing as a leader.