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Investment Themes, Theses, & Outlooks

• The $100 Trillion Opportunity in Marketplaces (Rex Woodbury, Partner @ Index)

• 4 Key Trends Emerging from ITC (Rick Zullo, GP @ Equal)

• SNBL: A new way to pay (Erik de Stefanis, Partner @ Interlace)

• 3 Things: Eataly for Blue Zones, AI Prompt Generation/Testing, BodyTutor for Productivity (Elaine Zelby, Partner @ SignalFire)

Industry Developments & Analyses

• The Future of FemTech Is Here (Kristen Shipley, VC @ Obvious)

• Next Gen Real Estate: Activating the PropCo/OpCo Flywheel (Alpaca VC Team)

• Charts to Chew On: A September to Remember (Meera Clark, Principal @ Redpoint)

• Direct-to-clinician: How product-led growth is transforming healthcare and life sciences (Morgan Cheatham, VP @ Bessemer)

• The Creator Economy vs The Power Law (Abhishek Maran, VC @ Folklore Ventures)

Guides, Case Studies, and Best Practices for Operating

• An Early Investor's Postmortem of The Wing (Charlie O'Donnell, GP @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures)

• Should you buy a media company? 🎙 (Kyle Poyar, Partner @ OpenView)

• Contracting for speed (Daniela Raffel, VP @ Dawn Capital)

• Why Your Next ‘Yes’ Hire Might Come From Someone Who Just Said ‘No’ To Your Job Offer (Hunter Walk, GP @ Homebrew)

Additional Reads

• What I’ve Been Up To Lately (Marc Andreessen, GP @ A16Z)

• Back to the office (Elad Gil, Solo GP)

• Just How Troubled is the Bay Area Startup Scene? (Tomasz Tunguz, MD @ Redpoint)

• Advice for an Open-Ended Job Search (Nicole Ruiz, Investor @ Compound)

• Learnable Empathy (Kyle Harrison, GP @ Contrary)

• How Do I Teach These Kids?!(Packy McCormick, GP @ Not Boring)

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