#218 | Future of Professional Services, AI impact on Customer Acquisition, & more
Feb 9th | The latest from Crossbeam, Susa, Lerer Hippeau, Elad Gil, Slow, Khosla, and others
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Investment Themes, Theses, & 2025 Outlooks
Crossbeam VC's LegalTech predictions for 2025 (Ryan Morgan, Partner @ Crossbeam)
The Techbio Thesis (Pratyush Buddiga, Partner @ Susa Ventures)
Industry Developments & Analyses
AI agents and the future of professional services (Sam Parker, Partner @ Wing)
How AI Changes Customer Acquisition (Rex Woodbury, MP @ Daybreak)
A Secondhand Opportunity: How brands are reaching revenue and sustainability goals through circularity (Eileen Waris & Anson MacKinney, Energize)
America’s Relig-ish Revival (Will McKelvey, VC @ Lerer Hippeau)
Consumer’s Situationship with Computer-Generated Companions (Meera Clark, Partner @ Redpoint)
Guides, Case Studies, and Best Practices for Operating
Emerging Playbooks in Vertical AI (Euclid Ventures)
What’s Old is New: AI Apps Go Back to the Future (Ajay Agarwal, GP @ Bain Capital Ventures)
When to Hire a CFO (Brian Roberts, GP @ A16Z)
Compensation matters (Rory O’Driscoll, GP @ Scale)
EvolutionIQ Just Got Acquired for $730M — Here's Their Playbook For Building an Enduring AI Business (First Round Review)
Your complete guide to board rooms (Kyle Poyar, Partner @ Tremont)
Additional Reads
Leaving Delaware (Elad Gil, GP @ Cosmic)
Blurred Lines (David Beisel, GP @ NextView)
Legible and illegible risk (Yoni Rechtman, Principal @ Slow)
Forward Deployed Engineers: A Means To An End For AI Startups (Akash Bajwa, Principal @ Earlybird)
Rise of Asynchronous Intelligence (Nikunj Kothari, VC @ Khosla)
Internet of Agents (Kojo Osei, VC @ Matrix)
If Nassim Taleb were a VC (Jordan Nel, VC @ Nomads)
Google's Future in Search & AI (Tomasz Tunguz, MD @ Theory)
Resources & more
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