GitHub Cofounder on Becoming a VC: Five Questions With Tom Preston-Werner
By Hunter Walk
Tom Preston-Werner on now becoming a VC himself, and four other questions I asked him.
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Perspectives and announcements from PWV, our founders and community.
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PWV Year in Review: 2025 Highlights
By PWV Team
From founder conversations and private salons to portfolio milestones and community announcements, PWV spent the year doing what we believe matters most early on: staying close to builders, tracking early signals, and creating space for community and connection.
The Real Genius of AI Investing: Why Venture Capital Isn’t a 1980s Frito-Lay Sweepstakes
AI investing isn’t Lazlo’s Real Genius sweepstakes machine. VC isn’t closed, founders choose, and even infinite capital can’t guarantee outcomes. The real genius of AI investing is judgment, timing, and knowing when not to invest.
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Everywhere, Somewhere, Here: Intelligence in the Place
From foundation models to agents to embodied intelligence, AI is unfolding from everywhere to here.
Seeing the Big Picture
From tldraw experiments to FAL's $125M Series C and $140M Series D, how sketches turned into billion-dollar infrastructure for generative media.
Fundraising doesn't always go to plan
Raising funds is a wild game of ups and downs and sometimes it doesn't truly go to plan.
Tuist's AI whitepaper
By Pedro Piñera
AI is revolutionizing how we build Apple apps. We're pioneering agentic coding experiences, automated QA testing, instant previews, and data accessibility to make Swift development dramatically faster and more accessible.
Vibe coding to Chomksy: will linguistics pop off in a world full of prompting?
By Ayman Nadeem
Like many developers, I’ve spent most of the past year vibe coding. Across the many tools I’ve tried, my workflow looks something like this: I prompt AI agents in natural-language and hope they make the edits I want. When it works, it feels like sorcery. When it fails, I’m left spelunking through probabilistic misfires, trying to reverse-engineer why the model chose a broken string-replace instead of the obvious refactor.
fal is Generative Media
By fal
Today, we are excited to share that we’ve raised a $125M Series C led by Meritech, with new participation from Salesforce Ventures, Shopify Ventures, and the Google AI Futures Fund. Our existing partners Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, a16z, Notable Capital, First Round Capital, Unusual Ventures, and Village Global,
Vibe code is legacy code
By Steve Krouse
Despite widespread confusion, Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" as a kind of AI-assisted coding where you "forget that the code even exists."
No Cookies, No Consent Banners? Not Quite.
By Chris Burns
Reflections on navigating GDPR, ePrivacy, and the death of third-party cookies - lessons learned from building Consent.io and why privacy-first isn't just compliance, it's a competitive edge for developers, builders and product teams.
Commutator Studios GmbH Secures Funding for Innovative Quantum Technology
Düsseldorf-based Commutator Studios GmbH has secured €1.5 million in funding from prominent investors including Backtrace Capital and Preston-Werner Ventures to develop their innovative Quantum Error Management Platform. The startup, founded by quantum computing experts Dr. César A. Rodríguez Rosario and Dr. Jan M. Knaup, aims to tackle one of quantum computing's biggest challenges by creating hardware-agnostic technology that effectively manages and mitigates quantum errors.
Building a business around Tuist
By Pedro Piñera
Our lessons building a dev tools business: community focus, human-centered marketing, technological pragmatism, and creating sustainable innovation.
Matt Perrott on Million Dollar Days Podcast
Discover new insights on the future of construction tech on Million Dollar Days. Discover what’s planned for Builders and the construction industry.
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