Digest #23 | The ESG Puzzle, 6 Kinds of Product-Market Fit and more

May 9th – 15th

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Investment Themes and Industry Analyses

• Solving VC’s ESG Puzzle (Gabe Kleinman, Obvious Ventures)

• Apple is Holding Back the Creator Economy (Li Jin, MP @ Atelier Ventures)

• Climate 101: Part 3 Actions (Albert Wenger, Partner @ USV)

Case Studies and Best Practices for Operating

• The Gross Margin Secret (Kevin Stevens, Principal @ Energize Ventures)

• The New World Of “Going Public” – Pros and Cons of IPO v. SPAC v. Direct Listing (Pete Flint, GP @ NFX)

• ESOP: The burden with “burden bearing” (Tilman Langer, GC @ Point Nine)

• Navigating Consumption-Based Pricing with Mike Scarpelli, CFO of Snowflake (Anoushka Vaswani, Partner @ Lightspeed)

Additional Reads

• Six Kinds of Product-Market Fit (Micah Rosenbloom, MP @ Founder Collective)

• Whoever Generates the Demand Captures the Value (Erik Torenberg, Partner @ Village Global)

• G(TM)FEE: Go To Market For Everyone Else (Jonathan Lehr, GP @ Work-Bench)

• The round on the cover (Aashay Sanghvi, Investor @ Haystack)

• On Chaos (Jake Tauscher, Investor @ G2VP)

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