Hunter Walk

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Is The Quest For “Software Margins” To Blame For Twitter’s Trolls, Facebook’s Russians and YouTube’s Fake News?

Nothing gets an investor’s heart racing like the phrase “software margins.” It’s shorthand for the concept than businesses which are primarily bits (not atoms) have some ver…

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Instead of Asking AI Companies to ‘SLOW DOWN’ We Should Encourage Them to Move Even Faster

An AI Safe Harbor Provision Would Create Guidelines For Development & Safety Without Premature Regulations The conversation around Artificial Intelligence has started to take on a binary qualit…

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I Graduated Into The 2000 DotCom Crash, And It Was The Best Thing To Ever Happen To My Career

Why Lack of Easy Options Made Me Focus On Who I Wanted To Be, Which Paid Off Over Time a very sad businessman holding a popped balloon, digital art [DALL-E] In retrospect the fact we were all day t…

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As a Human, I’m Excited About AI. As an Investor, I’m Still Wrestling With a Few Questions

Riffing Off VC Charles Hudson’s Blog Post, Here’s What I’m Trying to Answer a group of different robots running a race, digital art [DALL-E] If startup founders sometimes ‘Build in Public,’ is the …

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A Strong Cold Email Always Beats A Weak Warm One

The “always find a warm intro to a VC” axiom is misunderstood. Its intent was to suggest that a mutual connection who can vouch for an entrepreneur’s abilities, experience and per…

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Changing The Face(s) of Venture Capital, Screendoor Hires Lisa Cawley, Our First Managing Director, to Scale Further

An Economic Vehicle With a Societal Mandate, Screendoor Backs Emerging Managers from Underrepresented Groups My hope for Screendoor is clear, if not simple: we’re going to be the largest, and…

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Amazon v Google v China: Quantum Computing Will Blow Your Mind.

When Private Companies Take On Nation States The eggs wouldn’t stay in my mouth. Reading this New Yorker article over breakfast left me gasping so often that whatever I was chewing needed to find a…

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Can OpenAI Live Up To The ‘Open’ Brand Promise?

Is Their Company Name a Core Value Or Marketing Spin You learn a lot when buying a first home. I learned that there are principal agent issues with your realtor exacerbated by the transactional inc…

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Some of the Best Founders Are “Difficult” People

What To Look For When Reference Checking Polarizing Entrepreneurs There are certain words I don’t want to hear when doing backchannel references on a startup CEO. Sketchy would be one. Unmotivated …

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Why a Paid Newsletter Won’t Be Enough Money for Most Writers (And That’s Fine): The Multi-SKU Creator

Photo by Ibrahim Rifath on Unsplash A number of reporters and columnists these days are “going indie,” detaching from their previous employer and signing up with a site like Substack…