🔗 Simple Advice for Junior Folks in Venture Capital

"Don’t Be a Generalist. Do One Thing Really Well for your GP and One Thing Really Well for Founders."

💬 Hunter Walk

I know what he’s trying to say .. and it is ‘simple advice’ that is said a lot - not just VCS.

BUT if everybody does this - without exception - who will;

Connect the dots

See the ocean

Provide the context

Understand the big picture

Make the leaps

I worry that the continual cry to double down on specialisation is going to mean that we miss a lot. Too much even.

Which Is Why https://hunterwalk.com/2025/02/20/simple-advice-for-junior-folks-in-venture-capital-dont-be-a-generalist-do-one-thing-really-well-for-your-gp-and-one-thing-really-well-for-founders/

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Back in Palm Springs and starting the day with a coffee.

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"Amazon taking control of James Bond is like McDonald’s taking over a great steakhouse chain like Del Frisco’s."

💬 John Gruber

it seems like only yesterday that I was reading how much BB hated Amazon - and how they would never have creative control - and yet here we are.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 John Bunyan

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan?wprov=sfti1 https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People

So What Was That About? https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/19/so-what-was-that-about.html

Systems of Truth? Reality of Pipedream, https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/19/systems-of-truth-reality-of.html

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Winston Churchill

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People

Hello … https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/18/hello.html

Ive been cross posting to ‘MastoSkyThreads’ since I could - and I follow all my accounts for occasional checking. I do believe that this is the first time that all 4 posts appeared sequentially without interruption on my timeline.

This Is A Post From Mars Edit https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/18/this-is-a-post-from.html

The Verge Reporting"

"A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system .."

SpaceX are the guys who regularly have rockets accidentally exploding … is that right?

I thought it was quiet - 🔗 Sill disappeared. It’s back. https://sill.com

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Bertrand Russell

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I think they’re landing.

🔗 The Braindump Blog reporting that Twitter (sic) is blocking ‘Signal.me’.

"Signal has been especially important over these past few weeks as federal employees have reached out to journalists to blow the whistle on what Elon Musk’s DOGE have been doing with access to data within numerous government agencies."

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"An astonishing coincidence I’m sure."

💬 Braindump https://thebraindumpblog.com/2025/02/17/173815.html

First it was Deepseek - and now it’s cars. 🔗 Looks like China are doing it again. … via The Information. https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01jmawmh91sgkbbwwftjw8acjt

Collections - Improving The CSS https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/17/collections-improving-the-css.html