Over the past few months, I’ve joined a few new communities. I got a job working in venture capital as an early-stage investor. Along with this role comes the community of my new team, as well as the extended venture capital community of fellow non-partner investors. I joined a new…

Sounding like you know what you’re talking about is cool. Actually understanding what you’re talking about is cooler. As early-stage investors, we are tasked with generating opinions about inherently uncertain markets and ideas; this process requires informed (and often outsized) confidence. To develop this confidence, we have to see a…

People often ask me how I got into VC. It’s a difficult question to answer because the truth isn’t sexy or fun. Getting hired in VC was a winding, frustrating, and often draining process during which I repeatedly convinced myself this wasn’t the path I wanted to take, then reignited…

I am so excited to share that today I joined NextView Ventures as a Senior Associate on the investing team, based in New York City, the town I’m lucky enough to call home. Thank you to NextView for this awesome announcement! Why NextView NextView is a seed-stage, generalist venture capital fund led…

Conversation starters that don’t trigger coronavirus anxiety — There’s a spontaneity to social life in quarantine. Just a few weeks ago, before the coronavirus forced us all inside, trying to pin down a dinner with friends could sometimes feel like playing Tetris — and everyone involved knew it would be rescheduled at least twice anyway. But now, hunkered…

Focus on small victories — Brethren, it has been a week. A month. A year. And it’s only March. In such complicated and anxiety-provoking times, simple wins mean a lot. I’ve got a tip that involves avocados — a prime culprit in the wellness movement. For a long time, I found avocados very annoying. They…

At the troubled luggage startup Away, private messaging and group chats were effectively banned — One detail still haunts me from that explosive report on workplace dysfunction at the luggage company Away that the Verge published last month: Private messaging, for all intents and purposes, was banned at the luggage startup. “Employees were not allowed to email each other, and direct messages were supposed to…

This week has been shit. This week has also been, in some ways, pure love. On Tuesday, October 29, Lauren Brown passed away at age 37 (her birthday was two months earlier, in August). Breast cancer killed her, but to me, and so many people, she is still so alive. …

As a journalist, I spent a lot of time thinking and writing about early-stage venture capital. The mystique was intriguing, and at times, pretty annoying. I loved the idea of deeply researching, sourcing, and betting on the brands and companies that will define the future. But it was nearly impossible…