Cup of Zhou

My buddy recently asked me to give some advice to an early-stage consumer social company.

I had a conversation with both a family office and a fund-of-funds this week about the same topic.

Crossposting this from my LP specific Substack… I met a family office last week and she asked me a really interesting question.

My girlfriend and I hosted a tea tasting omakase at our home over the weekend.

Yesterday, I was watching a reshowing of Gwynne Shotwell and Elon Musk at the 2026 All-In Summit.

This is a repost of a piece I wrote earlier this week on my investing topic only blog that seemed to get good feedback, so sharing here as well, in hopes that it is helpful to you as well.

I’ve been a believer for a long time that our jobs as LPs (especially if we’re on the LPAC) is to be the parent at the playground.

A friend of mine was in the market for a new chef knife.

When British voters voted for Brexit in 2016, comedian James Acaster gave a hilarious and apt analogy.

On a quarterly alchemy session with my buddy Matt (yes, we have a quarterly-ish ideation/philosophical debate session), he asked me, “If you were a video game character, with both pre-set stats as well as the stat points you’ve accumulated through experie…

Three conversations happened recently.

I was chatting with a friend over the weekend who made me look stupid.

We’ve had a number of family offices (FOs) ask Sam and I for advice recently on investing in venture.

Danny Meyer wrote in his book, Setting the Table, that as Union Square Hospitality Group, which has always stayed rent-free in my my mind, they prioritize the following in the order of: The team The customers The community The suppliers The investors And…

At the risk of being an iconoclast and at the risk of offending people with the below, these are the tenets of venture capital today.