We usually tell the story of entrepreneurship through the lens of companies: the idea, the product, the raise, the team, the exit. But the deeper story is the founder’s journey. A company is often just one chapter in a much longer learning curve. After a decade of working with founder across multiple stages, I made this interactive timeline to map that journey more clearly: from seller to…
For the last two years, almost every conversation about AI and work has started with the same question: Are software engineers going away? I think that is the wrong fear. The more interesting possibility is almost the exact opposite. Software engineering does not disappear. Instead, the engineering mindset spreads into every other computer-based job. Marketing becomes more like engineering. Sales…
There is a lazy belief floating around startups that often gets disguised as pattern recognition: If this company could have broken out, it would have by now. Once people decide a company is old, it stops being seen as early. Not unfinished. Not still learning. Just old. And from there, the whole environment changes. Investors lean back. They tell other investor friends to lean back. Talent gets…
Wether they realize it or not, everyone is playing a game. Two people could be doing almost the exact same work: building, selling, hiring, raising; and yet they were playing completely different games. The Two Games Naval Ravikant frames it simply: status games and wealth games. And the difference between the two is structural. These games operate on entirely different systems of incentives,…
Machines specialized to the factory floor; I think software will specialize to the workflow floor. For most of the last 40 years, software has felt like this: A company buys apps. People learn the UI. Work bends to the software. But I think AI flips the relationship. We are entering an era where software needs to bends to the work. And this is possible for the very first time thanks to an AI…
From 4K to 1M to 1B to 1T: If you want to understand where AI is going, let’s stop staring at “IQ” benchmarks for a minute and look at memory . An A.I. model’s context window is its working memory: how much information it can hold in mind at once while reasoning. It’s measured in tokens (roughly word chunks, though tokenization varies by language and content). When context windows expand, the…
How the Object in Our Hand Reveals Each Era’s Interface… …And Why the Next One Won’t Need a Hand at All A Quick Look in the Rear-View Mirror In the 1950s and ’60s, cigarettes served as social passports. Around 42% of American adults smoked in 1965, making the glowing ember as commonplace and stylish as a wristwatch. A single glance at a Mad Men-era photo vividly captures the scene: fingers curled…
From radio → video → internet → AI — each wave doesn’t just add a new format. It rewrites what “a creator” even is. There’s a cultural breadcrumb trail hidden in three titles: “Video Killed the Radio Star” (a pop prophecy from the end of the 1970s), “Internet Killed the Video Star” (a 2006 tongue-in-cheek update from the early social era), and my new rendition of “AI Killed the Internet Star” the…
The Long Arc of “Getting Online” (1995–2025) Twenty-nine years ago during the dot com boom, barely 1 in 40 people alive today had ever typed a URL. Since then things have changed quite a bit. The population of the internet has more than doubled in the last decade thanks to the rise of smartphones, from just 2.5B people in the early 2010’s. Today, roughly 6.04 Billion people (73.2% of the 8.2B…
What’s Happened So Far : To better understand where we are going, let’s first look at where we are coming from. From dial-up modems to foundational AI models, the venture capital (VC) and startup ecosystem has evolved through multiple cycles of rapid growth, dramatic busts, and revolutionary technological breakthroughs. Understanding these trends helps us navigate the current markets and…
With Veterans Day upon us, I’ve had some thoughts. Maybe they provide some insight into the shifting cultural fabric of the United States—or maybe not. Either way, I found the data compelling.
During NY Tech Week 2024 Finta hosted a live panel discussion in midtown Manhattan on the state of fundraising in 2024. Delving deep into the nuances of fundraising from three different perspectives: an investor, a founder, and a lawyer . Our incredible panel for this event consists of: The Founder David Silverstein , is the CEO of Ned, a white label lending platform that makes it easy for…
Over 100+ billion humans have existed before us… Everyday we drive on roads, enter buildings, use technology, medicine and science whose existence is the result of contributions by billions of human lives that have come before us.
Finta is on Product Hunt today! 🥳 We are constantly improving the product with your feedback. So very grateful to the Product Hunt community today and massively appreciate any upvotes! 😻
Lorenzo Thione is the Managing Director of Gaingels, a leading LGBTQIA+/Allies investment syndicate and one of the largest and most active private investors in North America. He is also the co-founding Chairman of StartOut, Chairman of the Board at Social Edge, and previously co-founded Powerset, a natural-language search engine startup sold to Microsoft for $100 million in 2008.
Last month I had the opportunity to sit on the opposite sit of the podcaster’s table to be a guest on the Millennial Investing Podcast! Where hosts, Robert Leonard and Clay Finck interview successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to help educate and inspire the millennial generation.
In the fall we sat down with one of the godfathers of Venture Capital, Jordan Levy, who shares his very inspiring founder story and how that led to his career as an investor.
Flow can transform your experience at work, as well as your productivity, satisfaction, and happiness. While there is no hard and fast rules for inducing flow, there are ways for you to recreate meaningful flow in your life. Join me as I share my methods for unlocking your potential at work and setting yourself up to be more productive with flow.
Automation softwares are so important for becoming more efficient and creating meaningful output across your team. Join Kevin as he shares top productivity tools for automating your workflows, enabling you to refocus your energy on what you're passionate about and become the best version of yourself.
Happy New Year to you and your family! In addition to well wishes for 2022, I also wanted to take a minute to kick off 2022 with some predictions for the year! Some of my own, but also let you know what predictions I am following from others.