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Digest #60 | Tech's Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity, The Shadows of Web 3, & more

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Digest #60 | Tech's Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity, The Shadows of Web 3, & more

Jan 23rd–29th | Insights from G2VP, Northzone, A16Z, Insight, Haystack, and others

Ali Afridi
Jan 30, 2022
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Digest #60 | Tech's Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity, The Shadows of Web 3, & more

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Welcome to our new subscribers! SandHill.io aggregates and shares the latest investment themes, market insights, and best practices for operating and investing from 650+ VCs, analysts, and operators.

This newsletter curates a selection of posts featured on the website each week.


Investment Themes, Theses, & Outlooks

  • Edge Computing: Tech’s Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity (Lonne Jaffe & George Mathew, Insight)

  • B2B Marketplaces → Financial Operating System (A16Z Team)

  • Unlocking ClimateTech — Trends to Watch in 2022 (Valerie Shen, Partner @ G2VP)

  • How Quantum Computing Can Solve Real-World Problems (Lonne Jaffe, MD @ Insight)

Industry Developments & Analyses

  • Lighting up the Shadows of Web 3 (Wendy Xiao Schadeck, Partner @ Northzone)

  • $40B 2021 climate venture recap (Sophie Purdom & Kim Zou, Climate Tech VC)

  • Populating the Metaverse — an Overview of the Early 2022 Landscape (Sabina Wizander & Beata Klein, Creandum)

  • The Consumerized Enterprise is the best thing to happen to software since its name changed to SaaS (Kara Nortman, Partner @ Upfront)

  • State of Chinese unicorns 2021 (Lillian Li, Founder @ Chinese Characteristics)

Guides, Case Studies, and Best Practices for Operating

  • ScaleUp Guide: Expanding to Asia Pacific (Pablo Dominguez & Courtney Zessar, Insight)

  • The New Operating Manual for Fintech-Enabled Marketplaces (Pete Flint, GP @ NFX)

  • Taking it to the Next Level (Asheem Chandna, Partner @ Greylock)

  • Your Startup’s Management Training Probably Sucks — Here’s How to Make it Better (First Round Review)

  • Great Startups Deserve Great Brands — Build a Strong Foundation by Avoiding These Mistakes (First Round Review)

  • Marketing and PLG: Unlocking the Opportunity for Growth (Shannon Curran, Director @ OpenView)

Additional Reads

  • The Unbundling of Venture Capital (Kyle Harrison, Principal @ Index)

  • Gyrations (Aashay Sanghvi, Principal @ Haystack)

  • On Covid (Fred Wilson, GP @ USV)

  • Why did late-stage valuations skyrocket? (Kevin Stevens, Partner @ Energize)

  • Can Starlink Save the American Mother? (Katherine Boyle, GP @ A16Z)

  • Defense Fordism and AI (Danny Crichton, Head of Editorial @ Lux Capital)

  • Our Fluid, Multi-Faceted, Pseudonymous Digital Identities (Rex Woodbury, Principal @ Index)


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