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Investment Themes, Theses & Outlooks

• Edtech, “Post” Pandemic: 3 Trends Here to Stay (Mercedes Bent, Partner @ Lightspeed)

• Deep Dive: Entering a New Phase of the Creator Economy (Adriel Bercow & Eddie Chan, K50 Ventures)

• The Case for Credit Unions (Anish Acharya & Seema Amble, A16Z)

Industry Developments & Analyses

• What’s Driving A New Wave of Carbon & Emissions Platforms? (Eileen Waris, Associate @ Energize Ventures)

• Crypto: Parallels to Packet Switching (Albert Wenger, MP @ USV)

• Faster, simpler, better: The delivery Olympics (Parvathi Nair, Analyst @ Sequoia Capital India)

• 5 Lessons from China's Internet Companies (Rex Woodbury, Principal @ Index)

Case Studies and Best Practices for Operating

• All Wedges Are Not Created Equal (Nikhil Basu Trivedi, GP @ Footwork)

• ⚖️ Operating leverage. ⚖️ (Alex Taussig, Partner @ Lightspeed)

• What Startups Need (And Don’t Need) In Their Series A Data Room (Lacey Wisdom, Tim Wang & Nihal Meta, Eniac Ventures)

• Unlocking “Disruptive Power” For Your Marketplace (James Currier, GP @ NFX)

• Leaving Well (Fred Wilson, GP @ USV)

Additional Reads

• Rawlsian Philosophy Revisited (Joe Lonsdale, GP @ 8VC)

• Dots, Not Lines (Michael Dempsey, GP @ Compound)

• Sticking With The Plan (Fred Wilson, GP @ USV)

• Truth, Status, and Tribes (Erik Torenberg, Partner @ Village Global)

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