I wrote my first check into ID.me in 2010. Blake Hall had a thesis that digital identity was broken, that Americans fundamentally couldn’t prove who they were online despite everything that technology made possible. He was a combat veteran with two Bronze Stars and the kind of clarity about hard problems that you only develop […]
This month, a single letter took a frontier AI product to zero in about six hours. No court, no notice-and-comment period, no phased rollback. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent Anthropic an export-control directive on a Friday evening, and by midnight the company had disabled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide for every customer to […]
I first met Rob Leathern back in early 2005, when I was advising LinkedIn in its earliest days. The platform was wrestling with a question that has only gotten bigger since: how do you build something people can actually trust, when there are smart, motivated adversaries working to exploit it? Rob was already thinking about that problem […]
I started angel investing in 2004 in the Los Angeles ecosystem. My first checks were small — tiny, really — but I always invested my time and network alongside my capital. That combination earned me the reputation as a “go-to” angel, and soon, I started seeing more and more deal flow. I shared those deals […]
We invested in Wildfire because Jordan Glazier embodied the extraordinary leadership Moonshots was founded to champion.
As AI races ahead, the real contest isn’t between humans and machines, but between nations and leaders who know how to wield them.
Equity may be a founder’s greatest asset, but understanding how fast it disappears is the difference between building wealth and losing it.
The right government contract can catapult a defense startup from prototype to national-scale impact — if founders know how to navigate the system.
Watching Elon Musk and Blake Hall in the same room offered a clear window into the traits that define truly transformative leadership.
In venture capital, a single breakout company can outweigh dozens of failures — and fund size determines who wins and who merely survives.
By combining Web3 infrastructure with a world of five billion fans, Matchday aims to redefine how supporters connect with the sport they love.
How a Latina entrepreneur with no tech background built an e-commerce platform that helped thousands of independent pet retailers survive the digital shift.