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Alice Zagury, Oussama Ammar and I founded our firm The Family to pursue a simple mission: provide entrepreneurs with all they need to overcome the many obstacles encountered while trying to build great tech companies.

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Public markets reward predictability.

VCs may begin imposing strategic direction toward becoming the perfect acquisition target while founders are focused on creating the most sustainable company.

startup could be addressing a compelling market need, have the right team in place in an attractive industry, yet still the math might not work.

The flood of effective altruists into the firm was worrisome. These people arrived with their own value system. They had their own deep loyalties to something other than Jane Street. They didn’t have the usual Wall Street person’s relationship to money; they didn’t care about their bonuses in the ways Wall Street people were supposed to care. Sam

CynMerc II will come in when about 75 percent of CynMerc I is committed to deals,

For centuries, private attorneys have molded and adapted these legal modules to a changing roster of assets and have thereby enhanced their clients’ wealth. And states have supported the coding of capital by offering their coercive law powers to enforce the legal rights that have been bestowed on capital.