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(Unstated) VC Fundraising Risks
Part of unpacking the “black box” of pre-seed/seed fundraising from the founder perspective is figuring out what investors are often thinking but not saying.
Thoughts on late 2025 M&A in Cybersecurity + Infrastructure
Having worked on the CorpDev side prior to building Garuda, I’m always a close observer of M&A activity in all technology markets.
🎧 🧱 Andrew Peterson | From Practitioner to Security Founder
Andrew Peterson co-founded Signal Sciences and now is a seed investor. Hear about what gave him the conviction to leave Etsy and start the company, and much more.
Introducing the Brick by Brick Podcast
Hear how companies were really built, directly from the people who built them
New Beginnings: Garuda Ventures
A personal narrative of my journey to co-founding a new venture firm
What does M&A for startups really look like?
Highlights for founders from the 2022 SRS Acquiom private M&A deal study
Nobody cares as much as the founders
Or, keep "doing things that don't scale"
Companies are a Reflection of Their Founders
When I parted ways with Okta last October after an 8-year journey, I wrote an “exit memo” to our co-founders, Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest.
SKO, QBR, and top-down GTM
The beginning-of-year "alphabet soup" for B2B founders and sellers
Starting to Write
It’s with some nervousness, but more excitement, that I am starting a Substack!
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