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Q What are the top performing types of content that you have? Is there like a specific kind that like just always works?
A Uh, I have a series that I do called Hot Startup Rounds that has done really well. I think Contrary to, like, what we know as our daily jobs and, you know, it feels like we live and breathe this stuff, a lot of people actually don't feel like they have visibility into startup fundraisers and where money is going. Like, they'll hear about the open AIs and the anthropics of the world raising large rounds or, you know, pre-IPO stories, but actual visibility into the earliest stages of building, um, I realize that a lot of people are actually very interested in that, right? I, I think in what's being seeded, early stage ideas, and Oftentimes it's actually interesting. I'll get comments like, where do you hear about startup fundraising? I'm like, it's a no-brainer. TechCrunch, like textbook, Crunchbase. It's all stuff that feels very intuitive to us. But I started externalizing a lot of that, and so once a week I would share two or three startups that I think were notable. They didn't necessarily have to be, you know, the largest fundraisers. It could be interesting tech. It could be interesting stories. Those videos have done really well because I think people care about Genuinely, what's being funded? What type of technologies are emerging? Uh, and then I do a lot of content around breaking down general tech news. I would say, uh, usually with the angle of what is this? Why does i…
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Q So are you going to keep doing Zowie talks in this new role? Like, how is this being set up?
A Yeah, uh, that was a really important point for me was that I think as even an investor generally, like, you should always have an opportunity to Hold your views, um, independently and have editorial control of, you know, what you say and, and how you think about the world, and I, I think most venture funds, and even at a place like Lightspeed, having differing views is welcome. Like, it's what makes us all better, and so I think for me it was really important having Zowie Talks as the space that I could continue to refine my ideas, continue to interface with the public sphere, uh, in the same way that I think when you have In the VC ecosystem, a lot of people have independent X accounts, um, or they have independent blogs. Like, those are places where they can share their independent thinking, and that in turn is actually, I think, enriches the overall firm's, um, collective understanding of, you know, Nuance and also understanding of different opportunities and, like, I think nurturing of, like, healthy discussion, and so it wasn't honestly even a point of discussion. They're like, oh, obviously you'll, you'll continue to have your own platform in the same way that I think if you look at a Fred Wilson at USV continues to have their own blog or the various exit counts of, um, investors in the ecosystem or, like, Bill Gurley and BG too, or sorry, um, Brad Gershner And formerly …
AI assessment note: “it wasn't honestly even a point of discussion. They're like, oh, obviously you'll”
