VC for 20+ years. Co-founded what became Molten Ventures, founded Forward Partners. Now Venture Partner at Molten. Long-time meditator and teacher in training.
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I haven't posted here in a long time. Coming back with something that matters to me.
Two years ago a bolt of energy exploded from the top of my head on a retreat in the Welsh Valleys. I've spent every day since making sense of it. Here's what I've found.
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Great to have you on board @izzyfox !!
We’re excited to announce the appointment of @izzyfox as Molten’s Head of Third Party Funds. moltenventures.com/news/molt…
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I'm excited to share the first essay I've written in a little while - it's about training our subconscious. I was inspired by Josh Waitzkin's book "The Art of Learning"
I hope Josh's work touches you as it has touched me. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
bit.ly/49mUT3E
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I'm very pleased to see our deal with Molten finally completed. It's taken a while! We had our first day in our new offices today. Everyone was super welcoming, and it's great to be back to the day job of working with founders to build great companies.
We are thrilled to announce that Molten has completed our acquisition of Forward Partners, adding 40+ disruptive tech companies to our portfolio.
moltenventures.com/news/movi…
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1/ “The mind is an excellent servant but a terrible master” David Foster Wallace
Cultivating the mindset of adopting mindsets is a way to train our servant minds.
Hey folks - a podcast I did a couple of weeks back with my old friend Dom Monkhouse. We covered a lot of interesting ground, including how at Forward we make our assessments of startups. I hope you enjoy it :)
See here: rb.gy/w28w7
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“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
I love this. So true of me for parts of my life...
Hat tip @tferriss
The ever increasing pace of change is the defining feature of our times
From my new book the-coming-wave.com
"We are reaching the decisive point of what, in geological or human evolutionary
timescales, is a technological explosion unfolding in successive waves, a compounding, accelerating cycle of innovation steadily getting faster and more impactful, breaking first over a period of thousands of years, then hundreds of years, and now single years or even months. See these technologies in the context of press releases and op-eds, at the mayfly pace of social media, and they might look like hype and froth; see the long view, and their true potential becomes clear."
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Hey folks - I did an interview with Vox yesterday. Amongst other things we discussed GenAI and when the VC markets will come back
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Great podcast conversation between Tim Ferriss and Bill Gurley. To my mind Gurley is one of the deepest thinkers in Venture. Plus he’s super clear in his comms and the way he shares his mental models. Brilliant. open.spotify.com/episode/3ku…
Hey folks - this 2019 read is poignant given where the market is. It's counter-intuitive to some founders, but raising a ton of cash is far from the only route to success.
cbinsights.com/research/star…
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I’m a VC. At a wedding recently I introduced my job as “shuffling money around”. The person I was talking to, a life coach, asked me why I would do that, and self deprecation has been bothering me since then. I just worked out why.
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I’m a VC. At a wedding recently I introduced my job as “shuffling money around”. The person I was talking to, a life coach, asked me why I would do that, and self deprecation has been bothering me since then. I just worked out why.
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts” Marcus Aurelius - the more I think about this the more profound it gets
Great article from Tim O’Reilly, which looks at web3 and NFTs through the lens of sociology and leans into what an age of abundance might look like. Tim has been one of the sharpest commenters on innovation for years now, and he’s on the money here. oreilly.com/radar/andy-warho…
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High quality energy is time/effort spent infused with emotions like hope, optimism and challenge. Low quality energy is time/effort spent infused with emotions like anger, fear, guilt and jealousy. #JimLoehr
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