We are on the cusp of a paradigm shift

As we get closer to 2021, I wanted to do a crowdsourced edition where fintech founders share their experience and thinking. Introductions of founders participating in this edition : Ema Rouf — Cofounder of Pave.dev, a startup building APIs to makes it easier and cheaper to analyze risk, score leads…

We talk mission, product philosophy, marketing, arc of investing products & more Sar : Public is the first app I have managed to grab Sar as my username in! It is definitely a milestone and I’m glad I hit it in an investing app! We tried finding a time to…

Trying to reverse engineer why Sketch is a great venture bet in 2019 — I am going to try to reverse engineer why Benchmark invested twenty million dollars in the European company Sketch that was founded in 2010 and share why I think it is a very counterintuitive bet. …

Here’s a running list of well reasoned takes on the rising sentiment around breaking up big tech companies : Actually, consumers love Big Tech, even if they say they don't Presidential hopeful Sen. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) laid out an explosive proposal as a prelude to her…thehill.com What is Amazon? What exactly is Amazon? This is the question that has consumed me for the last ten years. I have sold to and bought…zackkanter.com

Here’s a running list of insightful resources I have come across on marketplaces : Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth (*) Benchmark is/was an investor in companies labeled with the asterisk. In 1776, Adam Smith released his magnum opus…abovethecrowd.com All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces Since Benchmark's investment in Ebay 15 years ago, we have been fascinated by online marketplaces. Entrepreneurs…abovethecrowd.com

I get asked often to share insightful resources to get a quick overview of the DTC landscape. Here’s a list of things I think would help anyone jumpstart their understanding of the space : A comprehensive landscape by Justine and Olivia Moore D2C 2.0: The Rise of Infrastructure Billions of dollars in venture capital have poured into direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands over the past ten years…hackernoon.com

I moved to Silicon Valley almost three months ago. I wanted to take some time to jot down my early impressions of SF and the Bay Area broadly. I have been reading about SF’s local politics and tech scence for quite some time now. But, living in SF made me…

What are some themes that you think you have an informational or knowledge edge in over your friends and peers? In other words, if you had to shamelessly talk someone’s eyes off about certain topics, what would they be? Oh, God, I have so many topics I cannot stop talking…