Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
Near the end of last year, I asked myself:What do you want from the internet, anyway?
Robin Sloan • Specifying Spring '83
ReFi seems hippie, but it isn’t anti-growth or anti-progress. It’s for a new financial model that includes and regenerates people as individuals with unique talents, communities as economic hubs, and the health and biodiversity of global ecosystems. Its participants want to accelerate the development of new, planet-positive technologies through... See more
Packy McCormick • Celo: Building a Regenerative Economy
10 Highlights from USV's 2025 Annual Meeting
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For early-stage investing, I believe that the small flat partnership is the best structure if the goal is to produce high return on capital funds. Here are some reasons why this model is superior for early-stage investing:- At the early stage, investors must bet on teams and ideas that have not been proven. The biggest winners almost always come... See more
Fred Wilson • The Partnership - AVC
Since last summer, a start-up in beta mode has been soliciting volunteers to take part in 55-minute sessions called “gathers,” where strangers discuss their deepest hopes and fears. The fledgling company, Peoplehood, is led by the entrepreneurs Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice, who combined sweat and spirituality in their last venture, the high-end... See more
New York Times • SoulCycle Without the Bike: Here Comes Peoplehood
Valuing AI companies using traditional VC methods and metrics isn't just wrong—it's dangerous.
SoftBank values OpenAI at $300B
Microsoft values it at $157B
Elon wants to buy it for $97B
Who is right, who is... See more
long good thread on “value” in AI companies
Bennington College, the wildest and wickedest school in America. In the last great decade: the 1980s. Bennington class of ’86 includes Bret Easton Ellis, future writer of American Psycho and co-leader of the literary Brat Pack; Jonathan Lethem, future writer of Motherless Brooklyn and MacArthur Fellow; and Donna Tartt, future writer of The Secret... See more
Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College on Apple Podcasts
DocSend - Simple, intelligent, modern content sending
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Roelof Botha brought up this same topic in a recent Invest Like The Best episode in an even more poignant way: "Imagine the venture business in a decade, and Sequoia is gone. We presided over the decline of Sequoia, this team, the people here in this room, it was us. What happened? What did we not do?"