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Defy Ventures teaches entrepreneurship in prisons. It changed how I think about founders
Glazier is the CEO of Defy Ventures, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit running entrepreneurship training programs in prisons across eight states.…
In antiquity, it was leather pouches for coins. In the Renaissance, it was folding pocketbooks that developed alongside the rise…
The Walton family-funded PE firm that owns Rapha Cycling Club pauses all new investments
RZC Investments, the private equity firm of Walmart heirs Tom and Steuart Walton, has paused new investments and is reconsidering…
A scary SaaS selloff changes the calculus for startups and private markets: “code alone was never a real moat”
On this Friday the 13th, I didn’t have to try hard to come up with a scary story for you.…
Exclusive: Seligman Ventures debuts with $500 million and a new model for the blurring line between public and private markets
The public markets are thinning, the private markets are exploding, and AI is wholly destabilizing both. Consider the past week’s…
Early in his career, Will Lawrence worked on the product team at Facebook focused on anti-money laundering. The former PayPal…
Moltbook is the talk of Silicon Valley. But the furor is eerily reminiscent of a 2017 Facebook research experiment
The xAI-SpaceX merger is still fresh, AI fears have been slamming software stocks, and Moltbook—a social network for personal AI…
Kleiner Perkins’s Leigh Marie Braswell learned about risk from playing poker: “If the odds are in your favor, you push your chips to the center”
Leigh Marie Braswell likes a game of risk, particularly if it’s a game of math. Braswell grew up in rural…
Why President Trump’s latest crypto scandal could spell disaster for the blockchain industry
Just over a year ago, I stood in a gilded Washington, D.C. ballroom during inauguration weekend, surrounded by the blockchain…
$100 million-plus rounds used to be rare. Now, 40% of seed and Series A rounds are clearing that bar
I’ve grown completely numb to AI funding numbers. Ten years ago, even five, an epically large seed round of hundreds…












