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Second, and perhaps more important, choose your partners with extreme care. If all goes well, then you’ll be working with that person the rest of your career. And if it doesn’t go well, then it really doesn’t.

In movies about impending planetary disasters, we often see the world come together to prepare to meet the threat directly. One might imagine, then, that the potential arrival of all-knowing AI would serve as a galvanizing threat, like a Sputnik moment for our collective capacity to think deeply. Instead, I fear we’re preparing for the alleged... See more

It's like hiring Jimi Hendrix and then telling him he can only play songs that the record label (i.e. the committee) approves. You'll get perfectly acceptable music, but you'll never get "Purple Haze."

Less talking gave other elements prominence. The atmosphere played a larger role. I understood how succinct language impacts user interfaces, but this further reinforced the power of brevity.

But it’s simple: some feedback is good, some feedback is bad. And too much feedback is detrimental—especially to a Creative. At a certain point, you have to choose. If you try to take into account every person’s opinion, you’ll end up with something ‘nice’—not great.

Taste will be paramount as the key driver for the long tail of smaller funds, and sub-sectors (deep-tech, climate) will further specialise (chips, energy) with value compounding in those comfortable with getting creative around new sectors, business models, technologies or markets.