Digest #54 | Employer-led Health Disruption, Business of Space, & more
Digest #54 | Employer-led Health Disruption, Business of Space, & more
Dec 12–18th | Insights from Northzone, Obvious Ventures, Coefficient Capital, A16Z, Redpoint, Primary, and others
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Investment Themes & Theses
Every Company is a Healthcare Company: why employers are leading a trillion-dollar disruption (Michelle Nacouzi, VC @ Northzone)
Orchestration Software: Unlocking Superpowers for SMBs (Chris Cheng, VC @ Obvious Ventures)
2022 Outlooks & 2021 Retrospectives
2022 Consumer Trends (Coefficient Capital & The New Consumer)
22 Healthcare Predictions For 2022 (Meera Clark & Vishal Vasishth, Obvious Ventures)
Spotlight on Consumer-Directed Technologies: 2022 Digital Health Predictions (7wire Ventures Team)
Ecommerce Trends That Shaped 2021 (Lia Zhang & Brian Schechter, Primary Ventures)
Looking Back at the Fintech IPOs of 2021 (Emily Man, VC @ Redpoint)
🌏 2021 in review, 22 perspectives for 2022 (Kim Zou & Sophie Purdom, Climate Tech VC)
Industry Developments & Analyses
The Business of Space (Jake Tauscher, VC @ G2VP)
The Benefits and Drawbacks of Web 2 (Matt Cohen & Dom Lau, Ripple Ventures)
🌍 An ocean and atmosphere of CO2 removal #82 (Kim Zou & Sophie Purdom, Climate Tech VC)
Creators, Culture, & Crypto: State of the Union (Rex Woodbury, Principal @ Index)
Guides, Case Studies, & Best Practices for Operating
Come for the Tool, Stay for the Exchange: Bootstrapping Liquidity in the Private Markets (David Haber, GP @ A16Z)
Building a Board: What I Wish I Had Known (Ryan Caldbeck, Founder @ CircleUp)
The 3 Levels of Goal Setting That Every Startup Needs (Matt Hoffman & Tania Luna, M13)
Navigating Your Way to a Solid Series A: Part II (Emma Silverman, Principal @ TMV)
Additional Reads
The Fifth SaaS Correction (Tomasz Tunguz, MD @ Redpoint)
I’m Successful In Tech Because I Managed To Visit The Future Without A Time Machine (Hunter Walk, GP @ Homebrew)
Charting the rise of the student builder (Alexandra Sukin & Sakib Dadi, Bessemer)
Variant Xi (Mike Solana, VP @ Founders Fund)
Playing Startup Versus Building a Company (Charlie O’Donnell, GP @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures)
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