Joey DeBruin

This is the overall promise of your startup. Expert level performance through appropriate use of your software to speed up a defined part of a businesses’ key workflow.

I’m personally much more interested in machine intelligence as human augmentation rather than the oft-hyped AI assistant as a separate embodiment.

In the Curiosity Phase of an emerging technology, Founders must at times ignore the seemingly endless user demand and instead litigate each decision they make with a lens for building long-term defensibility and value. Product feature expansion, prioritization, go-to market, and customer success become filled with minefields amongst the rising... See more

Idea machines are not new, but the form in which they appear is changing. For most of the 20th century, the home for idea machines was foundations, first popularized by John D. Rockefeller in the 1910s.

I don't have any 2024 startup predictions, but I do have a pocket guide for you ... This was 100% inspired by YC's pocket guide. H/T @mwseibel

The best example of this alternative product is Indie.VC, run by Bryce Roberts. Over the course of 6 years, Indie invested in 40 companies. It held the two key components of limited fund size and gave equity optionality through redemption clauses or equity buybacks. The results are encouraging, with a 51% IRR and 4.3x TVPI, while 87% of the... See more

There should be Retroactive Public Goods Funding for those founders crazy enough to try something truly new that failed as a business but succeeded in creating useful mutations, maybe even ticker tape parades, and certainly not derision.

Venture capital actually does a pretty great job here (the beauty of the model is a subject for a future piece,... See more

what would federalism look like on Twitter—could the network be split into regions that have some degree of local autonomy?