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This newsletter curates a selection of posts featured on the website each week.

Investment Themes, Theses, & Outlooks

• AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) (Elad Gil, Solo GP)

• Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World (Morgan Housel, GP @ Collaborative)

• Caregiver Benefits, Social Listening for Communities, Meeting Scribe (Elaine Zelby, Partner @ SignalFire)

• The Future of Crypto Native Consumer Products, Part 3: Utility (Mercedes Bent, Partner @ Lightspeed)

Industry Developments & Analyses

• State of Healthcare Investing — A Lightspeed Perspective (Galym Imanbayev, Partner @ Lightspeed)

• Don't Look Now But Web3 Companies are Beginning to Trade Like their Web2 Counterparts (Tomasz Tunguz, MD @ Redpoint)

• What Snowflake’s and ZoomInfo’s Earnings Say About the Current Economic Environment (Dharmesh Thakker & Jason Mendel, Battery)

• Field Study: Global Supply Chains — Part 3 (Aubrie Pagano, GP @ Alpaca VC)

• Reflections on the Consumer Correction: On Goes August (Meera Clark, Principal @ Redpoint)

Guides, Case Studies, and Best Practices for Operating

• Founders, Forget About FOMO (Gordon Ritter, GP @ Emergence)

• The “North Star” Efficiency Metric You’re Looking For (Battery Ventures Team)

• 3 important questions every startup should answer during fundraising (Eric Feng, ex-GP @ KPCB)

• 200% NDR: What Does it Take to Achieve this Stellar Milestone? (Tomasz Tunguz, MD @ Redpoint)

• Modern Demand Management (René Bonvanie, EIR @ Battery)

Additional Reads

• Rule of 40 valuation premium: The relative impact of each efficiency score component (Janelle Teng, VC @ Bessemer)

• What Goes Down Must Go Up? (Michael Dempsey, GP @ Compound)

• The Full-Stack VC (Matt McIlwain, MD @ Madrona)

• What I Learned in my First Year as a VC (Dez Fleming, VC @ FirstMark)

• The Long Tail: The Internet and the Business of Niche (Rex Woodbury, Partner @ Index)

• Being Honest About Intellectual Honesty (Kyle Harrison, GP @ Contrary)

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