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Carolynn Levy, inventor of the SAFE
Levy shares how she wrote the five-page document that underpins much of early-stage venture capital today.
By
Meghna Rao

Charles Hudson is optimistic about outliers
Find out how one investor finds success in the margins.
By
Athena Feng

Ryan Hoover errs on the side of curiosity
How the founder and investor’s inquisitive nature charts his course.
By
Tamara Rahoumi
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The origins of startup operating norms
Ruminations on the roots of 20% time, hackathons, and building in public.
By
Tamara Rahoumi

Sam Altman’s Silicon statecraft
Making sense of the OpenAI CEO’s $7 trillion plan for AI.
By
Sachin Benny

Misadventures in DAO incorporation
Wyoming’s Bill 38 lets DAOs incorporate as LLCs. But not everyone thinks the legislation is right for them.
By
Shreeda Segan

Lessons from a failed Jupiter probe
A 1991 Jupiter mission that went awry shows us that what makes a moonshot a success isn’t always landing on the moon.
By
David W. Brown
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Jason Rosenthal, behind Lytro’s pivot
How this founder saved his company from bankruptcy and later sold it to Google.
By
Immad Akhund

Avoid pivot whiplash with Elizabeth Yin
The investor shares how early-stage startups can stay lean and pivot, while avoiding whiplash.
By
Meghna Rao

Naj Austin pivots with a mission
This founder’s pivots online, then offline, then hybrid helped her fine-tune her mission.
By
Michelle Hyun Kim

Why Visakan is pivoting to Youtube
The creator already has a cult following on Twitter. He’s still betting on YouTube for the future of his career.
By
Shreeda Segan
For when you want to shoot for the moon

What fake moonshots do to us
Crypto altcoins and trying to go to the moon are two very different things; not all bets are created the same.
By
Coldhealing

Excerpt: “Loonshots” by Safi Bahcall
From Bahcall’s book Loonshots: How do we create environments that nurture loonshots?
By
Safi Bahcall
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