![]() That led me to my most popular piece thus far: " The Blackstone of Innovation ," where I unpacked the business model of venture capital. “Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.” Across all that writing, I kept coming back to this core idea that can best be explained by this Charlie Munger quote : I'd found myself reflecting on the who / what / where / when / why of venture, and that gave me a fair bit of fodder for future pieces unpacking the space.ĭigging into the unbundling of venture led me to unpack the concepts behind the renegades of venture capital, why most VCs suck at talent, and how most people might design the perfect venture firm if given the chance. That led me to questioning a lot of the first principles in venture, and ultimately led me to a very different kind of venture firm in joining Contrary. In 2022, as the markets started to change, I found myself reflecting on what kind of work I wanted to be doing as a VC. There were two articles that were really the driving force in why I set out to start writing more: (1) The Unbundling of Venture Capital, and (2) The Productization of Venture Capital. ![]() If you've been reading my writing for a while, you know that I spend a fair bit of time reflecting on venture capital as an ecosystem. Crash Coursing The Venture Capital Ecosystem But different creatures can hunt in very different ways. I was reminded of this fond memory because of what I've wanted to call today's piece for a long time: "eat what you kill." Sometimes to eat, you have to hunt. If this had been a good ol' fashioned hunting frenzy, my boy would have become a vegetarian so fast. Crawling over each other, clawing the dirt, casting off the yellow starburst in search of the blow-pops. ![]() But as unprepared as he was for the violence, there was nothing that could have enticed him into the mayhem that followed.Ĭandy burst onto the ground, and children scattered in every direction. The look of horror in his eyes as this little girl, who he knew from class to be a kind, sweet, very not-violent little girl, devolved into a mafia hit squad, just demolishing the face of this little papier-mâché donkey. Just waiting to see what the activity would entail. He got his bag, and stood in the circle, smiling. We're also not a particularly athletic family, so I think the concept of violence surrounded by mayhem didn't really sink in. I tried, as best I could, to explain the concept of a piñata. Little did he know he was about to witness the blood-thirsty dismemberment of that animal before his very eyes. At first, he thought it was a really cool statue of a donkey hanging in the tree. ![]() I remember once he went to a friends birthday party, and was met with his first introduction to the concept of piñatas. My two oldest are about 2.5 years apart, and my first-born has always been cautious as a cucumber (that's a thing people say, right?) ) Well, that certainly proved to be the case with my kids. They say when you have two kids, the second is always more resilient than the first (and by "they" I mean memes on the internet. ![]()
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