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The n:n Company

Why AI-native software companies may amortize CAC across products rather than R&D across customers.

NAP Decode: Why we backed Zelara

Customer communication in the AI era

A basketball general manager is a VC without the right to write off bad bets.

Big Bets on Cheap Chairs: Marko Pesic did 200+ player deals across 14 years at FC Bayern Basketball. We went in looking for a tidy parallel to early-stage investing.

AI is killing friction

Hard is more buildable than ever. It is also the thing left to build.

Big Bets on Cheap Chairs

The podcast where we talk to dealmakers from art, sport, music, and science who find outliers early. How does it compare to early stage investing?

How we feel about software right now

It’s a confusing world out there (and “out there” being in our little software/AI bubble, never mind the real world).

Agents break the UI

Software was designed for human hands and human eyes. What happens when neither is operating it?

You can't automate a factory with a guesser

Why the scarcest thing in AI isn't intelligence

Fundraising is broken. The user is gone.

An internal note to our portfolio on why 2026 won’t reward “good companies” – only post-labor ones.

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