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Venture Capital Investor. Founder of Category Ventures. Ordinary thinker. Athlete. Dad. Strong opinions about sneakers. https://www.categoryvc.com/ San Francisco, CA

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A bunch of law school students have compiled a list of law firms. Find yourself a firm that is not afraid and is willing to fight. If my law firm ends up on this list, they would be fired promptly. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

11.04.2025 15:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On a positive note, I think World Cup tickets will be cheaper.

06.04.2025 17:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

03.04.2025 04:41 👍 8800 🔁 4151 💬 221 📌 320

With the cuts at the FDA, this is either the best time to be a bio investor (anything goes) or the worst time ever (complete gridlock).

29.03.2025 22:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The coalition on the right is held together by the promise to hurt the people they hate. We should speak up when the people we hate suffer from injustice.

27.03.2025 06:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Too much drugs.

23.03.2025 04:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Airline prices to Europe for the summer seem surprisingly inexpensive. Is there a comparison for y/y change out there? Seems to me tourism and hospitality industry has a tough period ahead.

23.03.2025 02:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What leads to smart and otherwise reasonable people to lose their mind? Drugs, power, insecurity, age, etc? So bizarre.

23.03.2025 02:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I think everybody’s DCF model is wrong right now. This will not play out over the next month or year, but in the new world order the terminal value of basically all assets is overstated.

23.03.2025 02:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Or, building startups will require just as much capital (or more) as it has in the past and startups will have to invest significant resources in R&D and GTM to stay ahead of the intense competition fueled by AI. 3/3

15.03.2025 16:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AI will either lead to rapid commoditization at the application layer (including agents) enabling any good idea to be replicated within minutes, rendering investment in R&D uneconomical. 2/

15.03.2025 16:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

One of these beliefs can be true, but not both:
1. We will have $100M+ ARR companies run by very few people.
2. AI will significantly increase the velocity of software development and enable rapid product development at marginal cost.

I need to write a blog post on this. In short, 1/

15.03.2025 16:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

These people somehow made Fauci the bad guy and put this joker in charge

13.03.2025 06:15 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

PS Congrats!

13.03.2025 06:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who covers enterprise these days at TC?

13.03.2025 06:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I saw a prominent tech person today say that he continues to believe this administration is pro growth. If we are cutting funding for research and science, I don’t know what makes us pro growth.

13.03.2025 06:06 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I recently found out it’s a MacOS thing and not Zoom and now I’m even more mad.

12.03.2025 17:21 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

I know we have not quite recovered from the post 2021 pain in enterprise SW, but my advice to founders is to tighten your belts. We are entering a highly uncertain economic environment that will lead businesses to defer investments. Budgets will tighten. Growth will be slower.

11.03.2025 06:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wonder who is behind this and is the primary beneficiary of gutting NASA.

08.03.2025 04:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It tells you how much talent has left Google. They are so desperate and afraid to lose people, they have to beg.

01.03.2025 08:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think it is time for AI scientists and engineers to move up the stack and build or partner with industry experts to develop vertical solutions and applications. Too many founders with great ideas, but lacking technical depth to execute.

25.02.2025 06:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Today the United States ceased to be the leader of the free world. We sold out. A new era begins.

25.02.2025 05:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seems like we are executing exceptionally well on China and Russia’s strategic priorities.

23.02.2025 00:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What Trump has done for US farmers so far:
-frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot)
-encouraged EU to ban their products
-frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc.
-threatened to deport half their workforce
-suppressed research on bird flu

16.02.2025 22:06 👍 5316 🔁 1973 💬 231 📌 116

It was terrible.

15.02.2025 08:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tax evasion Renaissance. This is going to be wild.

15.02.2025 02:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New @categoryvc.bsky.social office. No furniture yet, but a folding table and a few old chairs will do for now.

10.01.2025 23:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Wait until you see the rage of users who later find out a feature they have been waiting on for years is actually available and hidden behind some setting.

05.01.2025 14:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This seems really useful actually. I am not sure what I should be concerned about here. I mean, this is the only reason I give Google my photos so I can search them.

05.01.2025 04:15 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0