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Oct 7, 2024

Stacking the Talent Bench

Jose Guardado and Rockman Ha join TheGP

by Dan Portillo
Sep 12, 2024

Startup investing in a chaotic era

My next chapter at TheGP

by Ben Cmejla
Aug 26, 2024

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.

by Anthony Kline
Aug 20, 2024

Partnering with Cassidy

A practical approach to AI workflow automation

by Ben Cmejla
Aug 7, 2024

The Failproof Matrix for Evaluating Fit Vs. Performance

Your culture is not static

by Doug Hanna
Jul 18, 2024

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.

by Dan Portillo
Jun 27, 2024

New fund, same mission

Announcing TheGP II, a $300M fund for the builder

by Phin Barnes and Dan Portillo
May 20, 2024

The team you need as you transition from PLG to enterprise sales

Who to hire when you start with PLG and move upmarket

by Doug Hanna
May 6, 2024

Partnering with Anetac: Recruiting, Product & Capital

Solving the least privilege problem in security

by TheGP Team
Apr 23, 2024

Partnering with Stainless

Elevating the developer experience for every API company

by Anthony Kline
Apr 18, 2024

Partnering with Clazar

Solving the cloud marketplaces complexity problem

by Dan Portillo
Mar 27, 2024

Incubating with TurbineOne

Edge ML software that's purpose-built for military intelligence

by Dan Portillo
Feb 5, 2024

Partnering with Dexa

An AI-powered search experience built around people, not web pages

by Ben Cmejla
Jan 24, 2024

A Case for the AI Dungeon Master

What happens when you introduce AI to diehard gamers?

by Greg Harezlak
Jan 16, 2024

How AI will (and won't) change how technology gets built in 2024

What's coming in our new AI normal?

by TheGP Team
Sep 5, 2023

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

by Anthony Kline
Jul 21, 2023

Building With the New AI Stack

Our perspective on experimenting with new AI applications

by Phin Barnes
Jul 20, 2023

How We Partner at TheGP

An explainer on our “services-for-equity” model

by Phin Barnes
Jun 13, 2023

Building Chatcraft.org

Developer-focused open source ChatGPT

by Taras Glek
May 2, 2023

Building a Better Trading Experience for Web3 Gamers

Inside our partnership with AQUA to design and build a visual web3 orderbook

by Marcus Gosling
Apr 13, 2023

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."

by Danny Oliveri
Mar 30, 2023

GPT-ARIA: GPT-3 as a User-Agent

The most interesting prototype I’ve ever explored

by Taras Glek
Mar 29, 2023

The Risk in Your Assumptions

The lesson for founders in SVB's collapse

by Phin Barnes
Feb 16, 2023

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.

by Tina Tian
Dec 13, 2022

Why Every Web2 Business Will Become a Web3 Business

Web3 = web2 + crypto.

by Niall O'Higgins
Nov 22, 2022

Where Will Builders Go?

How to find the right startup job when public companies fail you

by Anthony Kline
Jul 6, 2022

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?

by TheGP Team
Jun 7, 2022

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.

by TheGP Team
Feb 25, 2022

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...

by Phin Barnes