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I do indeed work in VC. But as another reply mentions, any accredited investor can write small checks into startups, and most preseed/seed founders are happy to take angel checks.

Disclosure, I’m an investor in Jamsocket, the company behind this… but I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that every time Paul and Taylor launch something they have been working on, I e…

Pixar acquisition by Disney comes to mind

Definitely some exciting stuff like Redwood and Wasp working to solve these problems. I always loved what Meteor tried to do for this, though the JS ecosystem sort of evolved in a …

I’m 100% convinced I would never have learned to code without Meteor… it made so many things simpler. You should check out wasp[0], which has a lot of philosophy in common. Disclos…

I have read most of his stuff, including The Pale King. It is absolutely worth reading, but also recall that it was published in an unfinished state posthumously. It is not a parti…

This and Bill Watterson’s commencement speech at Kenyon[0] are both things I read a few times a year—-challenging and relatable. [0] https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.htm…

Typo in the title, ought to be “Skeptic.” Unless, that is, his skepticism is also directly tied to handling sewage.

> Do you outright reject "open source" projects ... ? No! I'm bullish on open source, I just think the current climate is weird. I have a small vc fund, currently 8 portfolio compa…

Haha I mean nothing that was obviously ridiculous, like “Applebee’s, but open source” or something. It was more just really hand-wavy logic around why their product needed somethin…

It exists! Disclosure: I am an investor in the company behind this project. https://github.com/Parabeac/Parabeac-Core

I’d feel a little bad calling any out bc it’s usually not too hard to figure it out if I gave that info even without a name :)

Early stage investor here. You’d be shocked. It’s extremely en vogue to start a company and have your value prop be “open source alternative to X,” without any regard for whether t…

This seems a little myopic. Definitely earnings growth is a factor, but it can’t really explain what just happened with GameStop and WSB, nor most of Amazon’s rise over the past de…

Just from a 30k foot view, the lender has a valid legal claim to that money. If you accidentally paid your mortgage or rent without meaning to, should the lender have an obligation…

As usual, it's worth going out of your way to read Matt Levine's column on the matter [0]. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-17/citi-c...

Here's a pretty good explanation of that how that can happen: https://nope-its-lily.medium.com/gamestop-power-to-the-marke...