Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
GP partnerships are highly time and attention constrained, making them the opposite of scalable. Most processes are run manually, and there is rarely much use of software or automation to help source, assess, or execute deals.
Erik Torenberg • Productizing Venture
I’ve started two companies that have raised $95m
today I take a seat at the other side of the table
House Capital (@housecapvc) is a completely new type of venture fund
here is what the next generation of top VC’s will look like:
jacob peterstwitter.com
late stage capitalism and “Alternative”
the patina of daring had begun to wear thin on the eighties’ chosen crop of celebrity-rebels. Entire new lines of insolent shoes would have to be designed and marketed; entire new looks and emblems of protest would have to be found somewhere. Consumerism’s traditional claim to be the spokesman for our inchoate disgust with consumerism was hemorrhaging credibility, and independent rock, with its Jacobin ‘authenticity’ obsession, had just the things capital required.
Out went the call for an “alternative” from a thousand executive suites, and overnight everyone even remotely associated with independent rock in Seattle—and Minneapolis, Chapel Hill, Champaign, Lawrence, and finally Chicago—found themselves the recipients of unsolicited corporate attention
ReviewsVerifying your supplyLeaning on social proofCreating a perception of qualityProviding a safety netDelivering magic
Lenny Rachitsky • How to build trust in a marketplace
Truth, the provider of meaning and orientation, is also a narrative. We are very well informed, yet somehow we cannot orient ourselves. The informatization of reality leads to its atomization — separated spheres of what is thought to be true.