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Behind every good alumni syndicate is a great community
The most important infrastructure is people.
So you want to start an alumni syndicate
You just need good people, good instincts, and the courage to build
Stacking the Talent Bench (Again)
Bret Reckard joins TheGP
Partnering with Kenzo Security
Helping defenders move faster than threats
The Art of Intelligence
AI knows everything we've done, but perhaps nothing we've felt
Winning in the Deflationary Era of Software
The new playbook for scale: high-leverage tech
TheGP’s Year of AI Debates
What our engineers talk about when they talk about AI
Should We Outsource The Future?
The nuance and creativity required for AI leaps demand human intuition.
Stacking the Talent Bench
Jose Guardado and Rockman Ha join TheGP
Startup investing in a chaotic era
My next chapter at TheGP
LLMs Are Not Going to Win the Looming Talent War
Prediction: Talent is about to become the biggest bottleneck in the next 12-24 months.
Partnering with Cassidy
A practical approach to AI workflow automation
The Failproof Matrix for Evaluating Fit Vs. Performance
Your culture is not static
Building with Momento
Momento quietly built a platform for reliable infrastructure for real-time applications at any scale, creating a new category for interactive experiences.
New fund, same mission
Announcing TheGP II, a $300M fund for the builder
The team you need as you transition from PLG to enterprise sales
Who to hire when you start with PLG and move upmarket
Partnering with Anetac: Recruiting, Product & Capital
Solving the least privilege problem in security
Partnering with Stainless
Elevating the developer experience for every API company
Partnering with Clazar
Solving the cloud marketplaces complexity problem
Incubating with TurbineOne
Edge ML software that's purpose-built for military intelligence
Partnering with Dexa
An AI-powered search experience built around people, not web pages
A Case for the AI Dungeon Master
What happens when you introduce AI to diehard gamers?
How AI will (and won't) change how technology gets built in 2024
What's coming in our new AI normal?
The State of Tech Talent: 50 Talent Leaders Share Where Top Candidates Want To Go
We surveyed over 50 talent leaders for their observations on the hiring market and candidate trends
Building With the New AI Stack
Our perspective on experimenting with new AI applications
How We Partner at TheGP
An explainer on our “services-for-equity” model
Building Chatcraft.org
Developer-focused open source ChatGPT
Building a Better Trading Experience for Web3 Gamers
Inside our partnership with AQUA to design and build a visual web3 orderbook
How to Get Over the Fear of Selling to the Enterprise
"In over 20 years of helping founders go to market, I’ve watched founders take the longer road less traveled...and it works."
GPT-ARIA: GPT-3 as a User-Agent
The most interesting prototype I’ve ever explored
The Risk in Your Assumptions
The lesson for founders in SVB's collapse
How to Design An Offer Process
Our team of talent experts have scaled teams at Stripe, Robinhood, Databricks, Uber, and Coinbase. This is their guide on how to run an offer process like the best tech companies in the world.
Why Every Web2 Business Will Become a Web3 Business
Web3 = web2 + crypto.
Where Will Builders Go?
How to find the right startup job when public companies fail you
Building with Switchboard
Instead of trying to take a physical office and put it in a virtual space—what could remote work actually look like if it was more dynamic?
Redefining value in VC: Working for equity, accelerating with capital
The General Partnership’s $240 million inaugural fund adds capital as the fourth pillar in our service-for-equity model.
My choice to do the work: Joining The General Partnership
In August of 2020, I left First Round to discover the opportunity to build again. I had a lot of clarity on how I wanted to play the game, but didn’t know where my home court would be...
