Alex Rampell

Previously, there were three different layers of “fraud” (and its corollary, validation) on the Internet.

Every human in the workforce has two crude goals: Be richer.

Almost every day I get a note from a student saying they want to get into venture investing. got a nice one yesterday from a rising senior at Harvard (comp sci major), here was my response: my strong, strong recommendation: don’t start in venture capital…

What is a System of Record, and what makes some stickier than others?

The proliferation of AI demands a new “proof of work.”

If you try to get advice from anyone *where they lack full context* you can build support for any position imaginable.

Seed bets are largely people bets, and the way I think about them is a set of simple (but hard to know!)

The payments market is going to massively expand over the next decade because: 1.

Somebody needs to build a parallel education stack, from top to bottom.

The best entrepreneurs constantly “read the room” (or the market) and adjust their presentation style, their mannerisms, their product description, their team, their focus, their advisors — everything.