Abie Cohen
@abejcohen
Abie Cohen
- Data Provocation: Hospitals are broken and ripe for technological disruption. I have been following General Catalyst’s bold moves lately, including helping found several healthcare companies and most recently acquiring an entire healthcare system in the United States. My hope is that this leads to a vertically integrated re-imagination of healthca
... See morefrom The Rise of Open-Sourced R&D, How Communal Resourcefulness Will Protect Us, & Wild Data Provocations by Scott Belsky
Broken healthcare system
New @ThePeelPod episode The Story of Haystack with @Semil Semil is the Founder of Haystack, a venture capital firm backing outlier founders at the earliest stages. Semil started Haystack in 2013, and has since invested in 16 unicorns like DoorDash, Instacart, Figma, HashiCorp,… Show moreFund II- eing well-resourced and well-organized matters.
In one of my favorite essays, Choose Good Quests , Trae Stephens and Markie Wagner write about the moral imperative for founders who’ve gained experience, resources, and connections building easier companies early in their careers to use their experience, resources, and connections to tackle really ha... See morefrom The Gang Captures Washington by Packy McCormick
- “The greatest trick the devil ever played was making you believe that the pessimists are the good guys.” – Packy McCormick
State of AI Report 2023
- This has a significant impact on the competitive advantages of a firm in the market as it scales. When party rounds were the standard course for smaller seed firms, connections were the scarce skill set, enabling access to deals led by other reputable firms. As these funds have become larger and rounds have become increasingly tighter, conviction b... See more
Fund II notes
- Social as a model works when people have about as much to offer as they want to receive along a given axis. But no trait is distributed uniformly; there are are outliers in the nice-to-look-at, nice-to-listen-to, nice-to-read, nice-to-get-stock-tips from axes, there's a population that can offer a respectable performance with these traits, and ther... See more
from Is "Social" an Enduring Category or Just a Phase?
On the death of social media
- The most contrarian bet in venture capital right now is Thrive’s investment in OpenAI at an $80B valuation.
Before you bring your pitchforks against me or wonder if I’ve gone crazy, let me explain.
You can be contrarian in two ways:1- Having a different POV than the mainstream
- Having 100% conviction in the mainstream POV and doubling down on it in a way
from The Most Contrarian Bet in Venture Capital by Pratyush Buddiga
- When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything wi... See more
from More People Should Write by jsomers.net