Working Theories
A selection of my working theories — on startups, investing, work, culture, and more.
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Fission & Fusion in Communities🪆People talk a lot about building a new community, but rarely about how it evolves. Communities are fundamentally groups, and groups aren’t static, they’re dynamic — constantly forming, evolving, fragmenting, and even breaking apart into sub-groups or new communities. So products…
What I Learned at Clubhouse 📓I’ve learned a lot about building startups over the past few years, and have become much more opinionated on how to do it well. I spent the last 2 years at Clubhouse, where my learning was supercharged by the caliber of our team, the rate of growth, and the very nature of…
The Group Chat Renaissance 💬What’s old is new again. How we connect has changed a lot in the past two years — from pre-pandemic to mid-pandemic, irl to fully remote to now hybrid, and now with web3. Still, the most important way to connect today predates every ‘social network’ and effectively predates the…
