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Special announcement 🎉: Sarah and I are expecting a baby boy next month!

Over the last 20 years, 77 companies in Washington state have successfully completed IPOs, but none of them had a female CEO.

Back in July, SoftBank set up a new fund to invest in public equities, and it’s doing very well. So far, they have purchased $4B of call options on tech stocks, and they are up ~100% on their investment. 😲

Was last week the best week of the year for tech investors? Not only was it YC Demo Day, but a bunch of tech startups filed to go public as well! Here are some links and articles to get caught up on all of the excitement:

Based on anecdotal research and close observation of Zoom backgrounds, everyone without kids has left San Francisco to live in random places around the country. And here’s data from Zillow backing that up!

So last week Amazon came out with a couple new products:

In case you’re wondering what themes I’m most interested in right now, here are three areas where I’m excited to find and fund new startups:

Back in July, I asked readers which company would hit $2T first, and 90%+ of you said Amazon or Microsoft. Well, looks like we were wrong because Apple was the first company to cross the $2T mark last Wednesday.

When the pandemic first hit in March, many startups and VCs were ready for “The End.” However, over the last five months, not only have companies like Apple hit new highs, startups like Brex and Airbnb are seeing...

Imagine spending ~$100M over five years to build and launch a “triple-A” video game. You give it away for free, but one month after launch you have <300 players. That’s what happened earlier this year with Crucible...