Director of Product Design @ Coinbase. Previously at Instagram & Facebook.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined December 2012
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INVESTING: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY
I’m increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of venture capital as a full-fledged stand-alone function.
Instead of raising from traditional VCs, founders are turning / will turn to AI-driven capital allocators trained on decades of market data, pattern recognition, and actual outcomes (this takes a few prompts max). Once the thesis is defined, founders feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate funding strategies, portfolio construction, and even board decks.
If you’re a VC, I think you have two choices:
- Become an operator: Actually build something and develop first-hand intuition for what it takes to create value. This can be a good, if humbling, career pivot.
- Become a brand: Lean into content, audience, and distribution—essentially become a media company with a fund attached.
Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I’m really sorry about this – some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learned the most from are investors – but it seems inevitable.
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One no brainer place for companies to over-invest is their marketing site.
It’s the closest thing your company has to a digital avatar and is the first lens through which everyone sees you…customers, employees, investors. It’s worth whatever energy it takes to make it great.
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Breaking: Brian Kemp signs 95 page Georgia GOP voter suppression bill allowing GOP takeover of state/county election boards, unlimited challenges to voter eligibility, restricting drop boxes & making it crime to give voters food & water in line. It will be challenged in court
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I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out.
Happy to work w/ almost any other GOP that aren’t trying to get me killed.
In the meantime if you want to help, you can resign.
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Thank you to @BenMusch @ericalford @cat_audi and Ben Greenberg for taking an idea we had (OutReach) and bringing it to fruition in less than a week. Y'all blew my mind.
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Every campaign who uses Reach finds new awesome ways to use our app, but @TeamOssoff took this to a whole new level and crushed it. Congrats to @eliasmduncan @davisjohanna @_joshuakravitz @cat_audi @BenMusch @ericalford @Zoe_Hugs_Trees and the rest of the crew.
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For real though...HUGE shoutout to the brilliant humans who built this & blow my mind daily: @_joshuakravitz @cat_audi @BenMusch @ericalford
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Looking forward to this Post-Pixel event with @Humanhair @amosie @cat_audi Rowan Rosenthal @okcupid @CaitlinNitz @cattsmall hosted by @facebookdesign in NYC
ALT Post-Pixel Design, an event hosted by Facebook.
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128 years ago today Yosemite became a national park. We're reminded of John Muir's words, "There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls." A clip from our National Parks film at UNUM: to.pbs.org/2NehWDR
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The synchronized swimmers would've kept their stories straight.. #LochteGate
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ITC Benguiat, the STRANGER THINGS font, is the same font that kept us from pirating all our Paramount VHS tapes.
