Terrain – Call Your Shot

By definition, you will likely succeed a vanishingly-small percentage of the time, but—as the saying goes—that’s a feature, not a bug. The point is to venture—fistfuls of money in hand—at the furthest extremes of capitalism, hoping to stumble upon that rare, proper intersection of technology and commerciality.By design, most investments will miss t... See more

The same idea applies to investing. The continuous goal, in my case, is a portfolio that has distinct advantages versus the market along dimensions like value, momentum, capital allocation, etc. There are no price targets, no return targets, no staking my results on a given outcome for a given company. A goalless process like this is incredibly ha

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21: strategy- Vision: your inspiring picture of what everything looks likeStrategic framework: market we are going after, what success looks like and our big bets to win mktbreaking down the problem to understand who you are going after and what it takes to win themRoadmap:Work backwards from vision. What are we doing to get there (not a commitment... See more

My favorite examples of shooting your shot: 1. Elon Musk cold-calling rocket expert Jim Cantrell to convince him to help him colonize Mars in 65 words (the pitch worked). https://t.co/YSSmSDznVo

Techno-Industrials are addressing larger markets than most software companies can.

They use whichever tools they need to provide better solutions to key bottlenecks with better unit economics than incumbents.

They are more capital efficient than most investors expect.

And they have to be more strategically sound than the average software company.

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