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Unconventional for a company of Rippling’s size, Parker has no executive assistant. This means you can’t simply slide onto his calendar. The result is that he spends far less of his time in meetings, and far more on product, than the average founder. A compound product requires undivided attention.
John Luttig • Rippling and the Return of Ambition
Things have accelerated massively on the distributed work front (obviously) and, per Gartner it seems many companies won't look back — 74% of CFOs expect to shift some workers remotely on a permanent basis. This inorganic acceleration has, however, come at a pretty significant price.
Venture Desktop • Economic Oceans and an Alternative Trade Route
Good product managers think in terms of delivering superior value to the market place during inbound planning and achieving market share and revenue goals during outbound. Bad product managers get very confused about the differences amongst delivering value, matching competitive features, pricing, and ubiquity.
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager | Andreessen Horowitz
Give special attention/effort to firms that have recently had a personnel change.
John Gannon • Road to a Venture Capital Career: Practical Strategies and Tips to Break Into The Industry
Most of the CFO tools built in recent years have focused on transacting and record-keeping. Many of those existing finance products are rife with problems.
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • The CFO in Crisis Mode: Modern Times Call for New Tools | Andreessen Horowitz
“PowerPoint is a very imprecise communication mechanism,” says Jeff Holden,
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Y Combinator just shared the startups they want to invest in for summer 2025.
The big theme is AI that turns 40-hour jobs into 40-minute tasks.
My 30 second summary and 12 takeaways below: https://t.co/wCiYRqEMKm
DR has commoditized “thesis development” and “market research” in VC so larger AUM and more resources no longer an advantage