Why We Invest in Teams: From Hype to You Too
Why great venture investments start with teams, not products. Using U2’s early years, we show why early-stage VCs back people who can evolve, pivot, and compound long before the product is finished.
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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.
From Riff to Rooftop: Why I Invest at PWV
Inspired by the Get Back documentary: why investing means being truly invested: giving founders space to create, stepping in at the right moments, and building alongside people who turn ideas into lasting products.
Announcing PWV Fund I: Built by Founders. Backing What’s Next.
PWV is raising a venture fund to invest in today's most exciting early-stage software- and AI-driven companies.
Thoughtful Capital. Extraordinary Founders.
A PWV gathering featuring candid conversations with founders and investors including Topher Conway, Mary D'Onofrio, David Price, Scott Johnston, Johannes Landgraf, and Tom Preston-Werner. They discussed funding, setbacks, operational realities, and the key lesson: address your metaphorical junk drawer early.
Queue the Job
Investing in Inngest was my first opportunity at PWV, and it highlighted how far developer experience for jobs and queues has come—from brittle Sidekiq runners and missing JAMstack features to elegant, one-line functions. Just as Inngest orchestrates async tasks, venture capital orchestrates deal flow: success depends on queuing the right work, trusting the system, and watching it complete.
The Startup Multiverse: Why Five Years Reveals the Winning Branch
GitHub Co-Founder Tom Preston-Werner on the 5-year rule, pivots, and finding the winning branch in the startup multiverse.
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.
Update: Startups as a Band / Startups as a Service
In my prior post, I failed to consider the quartet as a startup as a band model.
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