As I highlighted in FJ Labs’ Investment Strategy, FJ Labs is stage agnostic, geography agnostic, and industry agnostic. … Continue reading “The benefits of flexibility and reading the macro tea leaves in venture”

People do not realize how active FJ Labs is in the crypto/Web3 space. We are investors in 47 … Continue reading “FJ Labs’ Crypto Credentials”

The consensus has been that extreme performance requires the vaunted 10,000 hours of deliberate practice which require tremendous … Continue reading “Stealing Fire: how to harness flow states for performance”

I had the pleasure of chatting with Harry Stebbings of 20VC about the current macro environment. In this … Continue reading “WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture”

Mark Lurie is the CEO and co-founder of Shipyard Software. Shipyard Software builds decentralized exchanges (DEX) for specific … Continue reading “Episode 33: From VC to Web2 to Crypto with Mark Lurie”

Laura Behrens Wu (@LauraBehrensWu) is the co-founder and CEO of Shippo. Shippo is an API-first company focused on … Continue reading “Episode 32: Building a shipping unicorn with Laura Behrens Wu, Co-Founder & CEO of Shippo”

I had a fun conversation with Mark Peter Davis of Interplay about my love of marketplaces and all … Continue reading “My conversation with Mark Peter Davis of Interplay”

This week I was in Finse, Norway training for an upcoming polar expedition. The training involved skiing up … Continue reading “Why?”

A year ago, in Welcome to the Everything Bubble, I argued that an unprecedented combination of loose monetary … Continue reading “The Great Unknown”

Alisa Cohn (@AlisaCohn) is a prominent startup coach who has advised founders and executives at Venmo, Etsy, DraftKings, … Continue reading “Episode 31: From Start-up to Grown-up with Alisa Cohn”

Thomas Plantenga is the CEO of Vinted. He was born and raised in the Netherlands. Thomas was previously … Continue reading “Episode 30: A Conversation with Thomas Plantenga”

In episode 27, I took a stab at which categories investors and entrepreneurs should focus on for the … Continue reading “Episode 29: The Latest Marketplace Trends”

I had a fantastic and far ranging conversation with Ted Seides on Capital Allocators about my path to … Continue reading “My conversation with Ted Seides on Capital Allocators”