Abie Cohen

Imagine being at Mount Sinai: The Exodus happens! You and your family are freed from bondage. You have every reason to think your life is about to be as good as you’ve always dreamed it could be. Instead, you’re left wandering the desert for 40 years. It’s miserable, and hard, and feels like it might be endless. Finally, your time comes! Or you thi... See more

That horizon is massive and inevitable. We can take lessons from the evolution of social media to will a new multiplayer future of shopping into existence and change for the floundering paradigm forever.

Weird is interesting . My friend Jared recently joined Union Square Ventures as a venture partner and wrote a short essay about the consumer applications we should be looking for in the age of AI - and how likely they are to appear “weird” at first glance. Indeed, new social paradigms that consume our psyche tend to appear strange when we first use... See more

because you want to be long optionality into increasing volatility, for example. There was going to be something about writing fewer, deeper pieces, and about leaving room to experiment.

But I began to enjoy fundraising and the minute I did more people said yes.

Everyone prefers a real conversation to a pitch where you are simply a number on a CRM.