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All articles from this personal site as well as other locations like TechCrunch.

Below, check out my 2021 articles.

To see articles from prior years, click through to 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013 and prior pages.

2021

October

2021-10-20: NerdWallet, Gen Z and the value of the written word (TechCrunch)
2021-10-19: The Automattic TC-1 (TechCrunch)
2021-10-16: LinkedOut (TechCrunch)
2021-10-13: How to sell clothes online and actually make money (TechCrunch)
2021-10-10: Everything is accelerating in the exponential age (TechCrunch)
2021-10-10: The dark side of environmentalism (TechCrunch)
2021-10-10: How culturally deranged is our climate today? (TechCrunch)
2021-10-10: It’s a big moment for climate change. Here are 4 books for autumn to understand what’s changing (TechCrunch)
2021-10-06: The metaverse is coming for Squid Game (TechCrunch)
2021-10-06: Getting the details right in your pitch deck (Extra Crunch)
2021-10-04: As Apple messes with attribution, what does growth marketing look like in 2021? (Extra Crunch)
2021-10-02: Why did the Zoom-Five9 deal eat %#*& and die? (TechCrunch)

September

2021-09-29: Finding fraud in a world of fast-moving deals (TechCrunch)
2021-09-22: Microsoft wants cloud computing to reshape natural disaster modeling, but challenges remain (TechCrunch)
2021-09-22: How technology is transforming organ procurement (TechCrunch)
2021-09-22: As inflation fears spike, 1build raises $14M to help construction firms optimize their cost estimates (TechCrunch)
2021-09-22: Freshworks, Toast go public and we have Takes (TechCrunch)
2021-09-16: Submit your pitch deck now for live feedback at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 next week (TechCrunch)
2021-09-15: Why bringing you emergency toothpaste could be big business (TechCrunch)
2021-09-13: The Equity crew riffs on the Intuit-Mailchimp news (TechCrunch)
2021-09-12: With sales momentum, Bookshop.org looks to future in its fight with Amazon (TechCrunch)
2021-09-12: Should we care about the lives of our kids’ kids’ kids’ kids’… (TechCrunch)
2021-09-11: What’s happening in venture law in 2021? (TechCrunch)
2021-09-10: Data remains a vital part of the marketing world (TechCrunch)
2021-09-09: With $55M third fund, Scout Ventures is funding veterans ready to tackle the hardest technical challenges (TechCrunch)
2021-09-08: TikTok, influencers on the clock (TechCrunch)
2021-09-08: Forerunner is software for NFIMBYs, or no flooding in my backyard (TechCrunch)

August

2021-08-28: How national security is being redefined by climate change (TechCrunch)
2021-08-28: On the future of walls, or The Wall (TechCrunch)
2021-08-28: Air conditioning is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century. It’s also killing the 21st (TechCrunch)
2021-08-28: Now that summer is forever, here are 6 books on climate change to sharpen your intuitions and models (TechCrunch)
2021-08-28: Bill Gates offers direction, not solutions (TechCrunch)
2021-08-28: Is the best way to solve climate change to “do nothing?” (TechCrunch)
2021-08-28: Can the world really just fall apart? (TechCrunch)
2021-08-27: As 5G demand grows, Sitenna helps telcos find more cell tower locations, faster (TechCrunch)
2021-08-26: BreezoMeter, which powers air quality in Apple’s Weather app, launches Wildfire Tracker (TechCrunch)
2021-08-26: A16Z leads investment in Firemaps, a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires (TechCrunch)
2021-08-26: Politico sells, Forbes SPACs and Vice cuts (TechCrunch)
2021-08-25: OnlyFans’ policy change is a tale as old as the internet (TechCrunch)
2021-08-23: With more cash and a launch, Vannevar Labs is reconnecting Silicon Valley to its defense industry roots (TechCrunch)
2021-08-20: Men are a niche demographic (TechCrunch)
2021-08-20: California’s gig worker Prop 22 ruled unconstitutional by superior court (TechCrunch)
2021-08-20: A mathematician walks into a bar (of disinformation) (TechCrunch)
2021-08-19: Paladin publicly launches Knighthawk, a first response drone for cities (TechCrunch)
2021-08-18: FloodMapp wants to predict where water goes before it washes away your home (TechCrunch)
2021-08-18: The hottest fintech market you aren’t paying attention to (TechCrunch)
2021-08-17: informed., you want to be? Trio of European media veterans take on the problem of news economics (TechCrunch)
2021-08-13: Don’t give your weed dealer all your data (TechCrunch)
2021-08-11: When the economic tide goes out, we’ll see which VCs are naked (TechCrunch)
2021-08-10: Following the IPCC’s report, we need more technology to respond to more disasters (TechCrunch)

July

2021-07-27: How RapidSOS used creative tactics to build a partnerships and BD engine at scale (Extra Crunch)
2021-07-27: The RapidSOS EC-1 (Extra Crunch)
2021-07-27: Smoking pizza ovens and pilfered dollar bills, or the early story of RapidSOS, the software revolutionizing 911 calls (Extra Crunch)
2021-07-27: RapidSOS learned that the best product design is sometimes no product design (Extra Crunch)
2021-07-27: No-code Bubble raises $100M to make technical co-founders obsolete (TechCrunch)
2021-07-27: After a decade, Congress might finally bring 911 into the internet age (Extra Crunch)
2021-07-16: The price differential for engineers is declining (TechCrunch)
2021-07-14: You can see fires, but now Qwake wants firefighters to see through them (TechCrunch)
2021-07-14: Your funding round isn’t special, but you might be (TechCrunch)
2021-07-14: SF’s Off the Grid food truck festival refocuses on emergency response and services (TechCrunch)
2021-07-14: Khosla’s Adina Tecklu breaks down how to nail your pitch (TechCrunch)
2021-07-13: Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation? (TechCrunch)
2021-07-13: The TechCrunch List is dead. Long live commodity capital (TechCrunch)
2021-07-09: Mmhmm, it’s the most ridiculous story we’ve ever heard (TechCrunch)
2021-07-07: Acrylic raises debut $55M solo GP fund to paint the future of crypto (TechCrunch)
2021-07-07: Tune in, SPAC on, drop LSD (TechCrunch)
2021-07-07: Dataminr’s first ever acquisition is UK-based geovisualization platform WatchKeeper (TechCrunch)
2021-07-06: Verizon demos THOR, it’s new vehicle for frontline rapid humanitarian response (TechCrunch)
2021-07-05: SoftBank buys perpetual Yahoo trademark license for $1.6 billion (TechCrunch)
2021-07-02: California has no water and lots of liquidity (TechCrunch)
2021-07-01: Robinhood is going public and we’re very excited (TechCrunch)

June

2021-06-26: Equity Extras: Q&A from the live show (TechCrunch)
2021-06-26: Startup leaders need to learn how to build companies ready for crisis (TechCrunch)
2021-06-25: Equity Live: This is what leadership smells like (TechCrunch)
2021-06-23: How many lives does bitcoin have? (TechCrunch)
2021-06-21: Can the military academies compete with Stanford and Harvard in venture? Two veterans are raising $50M to find out (TechCrunch)
2021-06-18: Owning the paycheck is the key to fintech success (TechCrunch)
2021-06-17: Gusto makes first acquisition, buying Ardius to expand into R&D tax credits (TechCrunch)
2021-06-17: Neo4j raises neo$350m as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise (TechCrunch)
2021-06-16: Every startup needs an in-house senate (TechCrunch)
2021-06-15: Mar Hershenson joins us at TechCrunch Disrupt on how to craft your pitch deck (TechCrunch)
2021-06-15: Carbyne raises $20M more so when death knocks, you don’t answer the door (TechCrunch)
2021-06-11: The huge TAM of fake breaded chicken bits (TechCrunch)
2021-06-10: Can payday loans be made obsolete? With $15M more, Clair wants to find out (TechCrunch)
2021-06-04: Amazon is now open to getting sued (TechCrunch)
2021-06-03: One Concern raises $45M from SOMPO to scale its disaster resilience platform across Japan (TechCrunch)
2021-06-02: Coatue direct deposits $20M into Pinwheel, a payroll API for neobanks (TechCrunch)

May

2021-05-29: 3 views on the future of meetings (Extra Crunch)
2021-05-28: The SPAC trash ticker is counting down (TechCrunch)
2021-05-26: Cataclysms are a growth industry (TechCrunch)
2021-05-24: In a YC “power” play, Gridware girds $5.3M to save humanity from weather (TechCrunch)
2021-05-21: LinkedIn is the reason Apple made the M1 chip (TechCrunch)
2021-05-20: OneNav locates $21M from GV to map our transition to the next generation of GPS (TechCrunch)
2021-05-20: Kleiner spots Spot Meetings $5M to modernize walk-and-talks for the Zoom generation (TechCrunch)
2021-05-20: OMG is Canada’s startup answer to the local news crisis (TechCrunch)
2021-05-20: Geospatial startup Unfolded.ai acquired by Foursquare (TechCrunch)
2021-05-19: Spokn slurps out the BS in corporate internal comms and replaces it with audio storytelling (TechCrunch)
2021-05-18: Dorothy is a startup that offers faster cash post-disaster (TechCrunch)
2021-05-18: Uptrust raises $2M to fight the billions of dollars wasted on useless mass incarceration (TechCrunch)
2021-05-18: Father and son duo take on global logistics with Optimal Dynamics’ sequential decision AI platform (TechCrunch)
2021-05-18: Klaviyo’s next-gen email marketing platform engorges on $320M at a $9.5B valuation (TechCrunch)
2021-05-12: Duolingo swipes Tinder in a Clash Royale (TechCrunch)
2021-05-10: Blind raises $37M to double down on workplace gossip and career advice (TechCrunch)
2021-05-09: The human-focused startups of the hellfire (TechCrunch)
2021-05-08: When the Earth is gone, at least the internet will still be working (TechCrunch)
2021-05-07: If 12% is the new 30%, 4% is the new 12% (TechCrunch)
2021-05-03: The Duolingo EC-1 (TechCrunch)
2021-05-02: Data was the new oil, until the oil caught fire (TechCrunch)
2021-05-01: The most disastrous sales cycle in the world (TechCrunch)
2021-05-01: Can speculative fiction teach us anything in a world this crazy? (TechCrunch)

April

2021-04-30: The second shot is kicking in (TechCrunch)
2021-04-28: In a room with no smart speaker, Alexa can’t hear you scream (TechCrunch)
2021-04-28: MD Ally connects telehealth alternatives right into 911 calls (TechCrunch)
2021-04-26: With a third of its capital deployed, Risk & Return is transforming how we think about emergency response (TechCrunch)
2021-04-23: No one is talking about remote work from space (TechCrunch)
2021-04-22: RapidSOS and Axon ink deal to give better real-time information to emergency responders (TechCrunch)
2021-04-22: Newly-christened Percent wants to make it easier to securitize corporate debt (TechCrunch)
2021-04-21: The rise of the next Coinbase, thanks to Coinbase (TechCrunch)
2021-04-19: The Klaviyo EC-1 (TechCrunch)
2021-04-19: These three investors think founders need some TLC (Collective funds) (TechCrunch)
2021-04-16: Do you need a SPAC therapist? (TechCrunch)
2021-04-12: When wildfires rage close, Perimeter wants to tell you where to go (TechCrunch)
2021-04-09: Creator economy’s slow burn (TechCrunch)
2021-04-08: Index closes $200 million dedicated seed fund to intensify multi-stage thesis (TechCrunch)
2021-04-08: Bootstrapping, managing product-led growth and knowing when to fundraise (Extra Crunch)
2021-04-05: The StockX EC-1 (TechCrunch)
2021-04-02: Clubhouse will create billions in value and capture none of it (TechCrunch)

March

2021-03-30: The Tonal EC-1 (TechCrunch)
2021-03-26: You can only invest if you promise not to read the fine print, ok? (TechCrunch)
2021-03-22: Mithril dives into chips again with a $55M infusion to Flex Logix (TechCrunch)
2021-03-19: Forget medicine, in the future you might get prescribed apps (TechCrunch)
2021-03-19: Timing your bootstrap with Calendly’s Tope Awotona and OpenView’s Blake Bartlett (TechCrunch)
2021-03-17: Pregame Y Combinator with Equity (TechCrunch)
2021-03-15: Labs over Fabs: How the U.S. Should Invest in the Future of Semiconductors (Foreign Policy Research Institute)
2021-03-12: Can you beat Google with Google’s brains? (TechCrunch)
2021-03-10: NFTs are changing cultural value creation (TechCrunch)
2021-03-05: SoftBank makes mountains of cash off of human laziness (TechCrunch)
2021-03-03: $100 million for mealworms (TechCrunch)
2021-03-02: Cornea eyes in on fighting wildfires using better data (TechCrunch)
2021-03-02: Silicon Valley’s myths and realities of existential risk (TechCrunch)
2021-03-01: Compass files S-1, reveals $3.7B in revenue on net loss of $270M (TechCrunch)

February

2021-02-26: Why are we still dating LinkedIn in 2021? (TechCrunch)
2021-02-25: USV has been aggressively selling off shares in Coinbase in run up to IPO (TechCrunch)
2021-02-24: The Equity podcast is growing (TechCrunch)
2021-02-24: Select Star raises seed to automatically document datasets for data scientists (TechCrunch)
2021-02-24: SpaceX is really just SPAC and an ex (TechCrunch)
2021-02-24: VCs are chasing Hopin upwards of $5-6B valuation (TechCrunch)
2021-02-22: Lightspeed’s COO David Baga leaving to join pay advance startup Even as CEO (TechCrunch)
2021-02-20: South Korea’s prime minister has joined Clubhouse (TechCrunch)
2021-02-18: A16z doesn’t invest, it manifests (TechCrunch)
2021-02-17: DuPont and VCs see lithium mining as a critical investment for the electric future (TechCrunch)
2021-02-17: Gridware is building early-detection sensors for power grid failures and wildfires (TechCrunch)
2021-02-16: The creator movement is entering primetime, and so is Circle with a fresh $4M (TechCrunch)
2021-02-11: Does SoftBank have 20 more DoorDashes? (TechCrunch)
2021-02-10: Equity Shot: What’s next for the startup software market (TechCrunch)
2021-02-09: PSA: Most aggregate VC trend data is garbage (TechCrunch)
2021-02-09: Dating juggernaut Match buys Seoul-based Hyperconnect for $1.73B, its biggest acquisition ever (TechCrunch)
2021-02-08: CHIPS Alliance hires new director to push open-source chips ecosystem into next gear (TechCrunch)
2021-02-08: Blair launches $100M facility to fund ISAs for students (TechCrunch)
2021-02-08: SoftBank and the late-stage venture capital J-curve (Extra Crunch)
2021-02-08: SoftBank kills half the performance incentive for its Vision Fund execs (TechCrunch)
2021-02-08: WeWork is apparently doing better, not that SoftBank wants you to talk about that (TechCrunch)
2021-02-06: SoftBank files for a double scoop of SPAC (TechCrunch)
2021-02-04: Carta’s startup liquidity service CartaX conducts first transactions on its own cap table (TechCrunch)
2021-02-04: A lake house architect, a Miami VC, and homeowner walk into a wine bar (TechCrunch)
2021-02-03: Lightspeed and Max Levchin bet on Balance to bring B2B payments into the digital world (TechCrunch)
2021-02-02: Omnispace raises $60M to fuse satellites and 5G into one ubiquitous network (TechCrunch)
2021-02-01: Best-Practices-as-a-Service is a key investment theme to watch in 2021 (Extra Crunch)

January

2021-01-28: Robinhood stops the games (TechCrunch)
2021-01-28: Why calendar invites are worth $3B (TechCrunch)
2021-01-26: EdgeQ reveals more details behind its next-gen 5G/AI chip (TechCrunch)
2021-01-26: Ex-Uber team raises seed for geospatial analytics platform Unfolded.ai (TechCrunch)
2021-01-21: The only take about the future of media is that media is the future (TechCrunch)
2021-01-16: Checkout wants to be Rapyd and Fast (TechCrunch)
2021-01-15: As home sales skyrocket and IPO looms, Diane Yu joins fintech Better.com as CTO (TechCrunch)
2021-01-15: DOT evaluated 11 GPS replacements and found only one that worked across use cases (TechCrunch)
2021-01-14: The end of Plaid-Visa, and Palantir’s growing startup mafia (TechCrunch)
2021-01-14: Mosaic raises $18.5M Series A from GC to rebuild the CFO software stack (TechCrunch)
2021-01-13: Will startup valuations change given rising antitrust concerns? (Extra Crunch)
2021-01-13: Two-year-old NUVIA sells to Qualcomm for $1.4 billion (TechCrunch)
2021-01-12: Lantern is a startup looking to ignite a conversation about how to die well (TechCrunch)
2021-01-12: Capchase nabs $60M in credit to help founders avoid dilution (TechCrunch)
2021-01-11: I’m a free speech champion. I don’t even know what that means anymore (TechCrunch)
2021-01-09: Who is underpricing Roblox? (TechCrunch)
2021-01-09: Amazon Web Services gives Parler 24-hour notice that it will suspend services to the company (TechCrunch)
2021-01-09: The deplatforming of a president (TechCrunch)
2021-01-07: Hopin might be the fastest growth story of this era (TechCrunch)
2021-01-07: WeLink raises $185M to deliver high-bandwidth wireless internet to the home using 5G (TechCrunch)
2021-01-04: The cauldrons of gold theory of media and startups (TechCrunch)