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Thursday, 20 August, 2026
Phin Barnes
Raise less and build software
Sammy Abdullah
Software Multiples Are Up, And Staying Up
Saastr
Vertical B2B Leader Owner Acclerated After $100M ARR With Agents. The Key Insight: Every Time a Customer Logs In, Owner Has Failed.
Ian's Blog: Nominal Returns | Ian Gutterman
Accelerant Extinguishes Its Stock Listing
A16Z
Rise of the Borderless Founder
The Micromobility Newsletter | Team M
ALSO Raises $150M Series D 🚀
First Round Review
Firsthand: How I Built a Brand with Heart at Lovable
Amir Kabir
Edition 59 | 2026 — The Machine Risk Economy: Part II
Wednesday, 19 August, 2026
Automatter
The Rise and Fall of the Venture Syndicate
Janelle Teng
Who will be the bastion of American open-weight AI leadership?
Meet the a16z Talent Engineer Fellows
OpenRouter & Stripe: The Intelligence Network
Newcomer | Eric Newcomer
Is AINS the Next SaaS?
Saanya Ojha
The Hunt for Human Exhaust
Euclid Ventures
$100M, Zero Churn, All Channel
Deconstructor of Fun
WEBTOON Is Bigger Than Monopoly Go: Inside a New Game Marketing Channel
Controlling SaaS Churn
5 Interesting Learnings from Atlassian at $6.6 Billion in ARR: 28% Growth, 44% RPO Growth, and a 35% One-Day Stock Pop
The Sociology of Business | Ana Andjelic
Cultural liquidity
Insight Partners
The enterprise AI bottleneck is about context, not capability
Investing in AI | Rob May
My Brief Interview With Paddy Srinivasan, CEO of DigitalOcean, On Their AI Growth
A Wealth of Common Sense | Ben Carlson
Animal Spirits: The Best Bear Case on AI
Tomasz Tunguz | Tomasz Tunguz
Previously Unmanufacturable
Tuesday, 18 August, 2026
Earnest Sweat
The Barrel Gets a Price
