@justmazer - is this how you post a sign? Definitely not AI-generated.

Thinking about the holidays and questioning whether you want to walk back into the same job next year? If the idea of joining a scrappy, fast-moving, early-stage startup has ever crossed your mind—but you didn’t know where to start—the @speedrun Talent Network is your entry

Ready for the Consumer AI Rennaissnce!

I’ve seen multiple cofounder divisions upfront this week, both from teams where partners had recently met and elected to build together. They did all the recommended steps to vet one another - deep work trials, personality assessments, a slew of backchannel references - but

NEW VID: The slower an industry adopts new tech, the more likely a FAT startup is coming to EAT IT 💰🍽️ Not because someone won’t upgrade their iPhone or use @cursor_ai - it's a signal of how much an industry wants the future vs. how hard it clings to the past

We had our Speedrun 006 cohort kick-off call last Friday. Our main piece of early advice: Get comfortable bragging about yourself to the extent that you blush. At the earliest stages, conviction skews more to people than markets or ideas. You are your most powerful foundational

As I near the 2-month mark in the new role, I’ve been reflecting a lot. Stepping into any new function has a humbling quality - a shift from instinctively knowing the answers and the internal landscape to rebuilding mastery from the ground up and rediscovering the covert nooks of

my 2026 big idea (have you had enough of these yet? 😬) >> the hacker house / founder residency professionalizes, an important step towards becoming a FAR more pivotal part of the startup ecosystem ambition breeds ambition, and society needs ways to get the smartest and

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In 2026, I expect we’ll see the birth of the first AI-native university. Over the past several years, universities have dabbled in AI-enabled grading, tutoring, and scheduling. But what’s emerging now is deeper, an adaptive academic organism that learns and optimizes itself in

Building in multi-player AI? My brilliant colleague @far33d is on the hunt for the next evolution of team <> AI collaboration.

In 2026, Venture Capital will eat Private Equity It used to be that venture capital and private equity lived on two separate planets: VC = San Francisco PE = New York They targeted completely different universes of companies: --> PE - people heavy biz services, stable/low

Link to the JD for their founding engineer:

Today I’m thrilled to share that Straia is officially out of stealth — and that a16z Speedrun has invested in their pre-seed round, alongside Reach Capital and JFF Ventures. https://t.co/ulQsDh3Fik. Having spent years as an edtech investor at Owl before joining a16z, I’ve seen

Don't miss my partner @Tocelot sharing thoughts on the evolution of AI world models in storytelling in 2026. Excited to see how creative possibilities rapidly expand in the coming years.

Thrilled to partner with @kenanhsaleh on the @speedrun team. Our founders are lucky to have you.

One big idea I’m thinking about for tech in 2026: "In 2026, I expect we’ll see the birth of the first AI-native university, an institution built from the ground up around intelligent systems. This AI-native university will become the talent engine for a new economy.” More big

Would you give up a "dream job" to chase your childhood dream? Elena did. This is her story.