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Andy Weissman • Karat | Union Square Ventures

Productizing venture means taking everything that venture capitalists do — from sourcing companies to evaluating companies to adding value to founders — and using software or networks to do it better.
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Packy McCormick • 6 cards
Weird is interesting . My friend Jared recently joined Union Square Ventures as a venture partner and wrote a short essay about the consumer applications we should be looking for in the age of AI - and how likely they are to appear “weird” at first glance. Indeed, new social paradigms that consume our psyche tend to appear strange when we first use... See more
Scott Belsky • The Rise of Open-Sourced R&D, How Communal Resourcefulness Will Protect Us, & Wild Data Provocations
But it was Geoff's introduction to Vinod Khosla, who ultimately funded the company along with Geoff, that really made the difference. Vinod interrupted the demo and said, "Can your technology scale? Can it search a big database?" And we said, "That's an interesting question. Nobody's asked us before." We liked the fact that he d
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