Digest #16 | Shopify for Creators, Post-Pandemic Family Opportunities, and more

March 21st – 27th

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Investment Themes, Theses, and Outlooks

• Shopify for Creators (Beata Klein, Associate @ Creandum)

• The Post-Pandemic Family (Nikhil Basu Trivedi, ex-GP @ Shasta)

• Five Startup Ideas #027 (Mario Gabriele, The Generalist)

Industry Developments and Analyses

• Firehose #185: ☀️ Climate invariants. ☀️ (Alex Taussig, Partner @ Lightspeed)

• Demo Experience Platforms — A Primer (Astasia Myers, Investor @ Redpoint)

• How Apple Can Own I/O to Own the Universe (Byrne Hobart, Writer @ The Diff)

• What People Misunderstand About The Creator Economy (Rex Woodbury, Principal @ Index)

• Why insurtech enablers are fairy godmothers (Clara Ricard, Analyst @ Balderton)

Case Studies and Best Practices for Operating

• Good vs. Great Leaders (James Currier, GP @ NFX)

• Creandum Series A Deck Template (Peter Specht, Principal @ Creandum)

• This GTM-Leader-Turned-Investor Crowdsources Early Lessons From Stripe, Figma and More (First Round Capital)

Additional Reads

• VC Market Dislocation: The Fundamentalists vs The End Marketers (Semil Shah, GP @ Haystack)

• The Excess of Everything: The Markets Unrelenting Supply Creation Machine (John Street Capital)

• Narratives and hype in verticals (Tanay Jaipuria, Fellow @ Rough Draft)

• a16z Slack Debate: Breakout Marketplace Companies and Categories (a16z)

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