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Friday, 24 July, 2026
Newcomer | Eric Newcomer
High-Stakes Battle Over China Policy & Open Source AI Pits LLM Giants Against Their Customers
Saastr
We Peaked at 30 AI Agents. Now We’re Coming Back Down to 20. Here’s What Consolidation Actually Looks Like. The Agents #011 Live!
You Should Be Collecting At Least 100% Of Your MRR Each Month in Cash. Ideally, 110%+.
Not Boring | Packy McCormick
Weekly Dose of Optimism #203
Clouded Judgement | Jamin Ball
Clouded Judgement 7.24.26 - The World Isn’t Zero Sum
Investing in AI | Rob May
Coherent: The Optical Plumber Of The AI Buildout
First Round Review
How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
Alex Oppenheimer
Design the Wave. Don’t Just Ride it.
A Wealth of Common Sense | Ben Carlson
Investing in the Boom Times
Thursday, 23 July, 2026
Michael Dempsey
Power, Status, and Legitimacy in Tech
Beyond Tech’s Power: On Status, Sacrifice, and the Search for Legitimacy
Hunter Walk
I’ve Changed My Mind.
I’ve Changed My Mind. Early Stage Venture Funds of $100 Million or Less Should Hold Almost No Reserves for Follow-On.
SCOOP: Fundraising Documents Reveal IVP Quietly Raising $1.8 Billion, Boasting 31.1% Net IRR Since Firm's Inception
Saanya Ojha
Beat, Build, Bleed
Brian Sugar
The Corner Table at The Swiss Hotel
Veridical
ServiceTitan Waited 10 Years. Procore Waited 21. The Next Vertical AI Winners Won't Wait at All.
A16Z
How to Win the Largest Market in AI
5 Interesting Learnings from Stripe at $6.8 Billion in Revenue: 33% Growth, 47% Free Cash Flow Margins, and a $53B Bid for PayPal
Turner Novak
🎧🍌 Inside Solana's Plan to Replace Wall Street
Sequoia
Partnering with Etched: Building the Inference Machine
Euclid Ventures
The Open-Weight Unbundling
Ian's Blog: Nominal Returns | Ian Gutterman
State Farm: Is What’s Bad For Agents Good For Policyholders?
AI Won’t Kill SaaS. But It Will Kill Vendors That Stopped Shipping. Point Solutions Are Most at Risk.
Renting is stressful. Millions of renter conversations tell us why.