Team 5 Extension Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY
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(the Chrome Extension,) and Lee Edwards, the owner and provider of this Chrome
Extension. Lee Edwards takes the privacy of your information very seriously.
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Definitions and interpretation
1. In this privacy policy,... vc
Open source investment memos
A company we invested in is announcing both their Seed and Series A tomorrow, and I’m about to Open Source my investment memo. We are far from the first to do this, but I have to admit, every time I’ve seen it, I’ve thought: big deal. But I have to tell you I’m nervous af.... software, vc
My contrarian opinions about devtools
A popular tweetstorm about how I see investing in the developer tools space.... software
Building our own video conferencing solution with daily.co
During lockdown, I decided to not spend all of my free time playing video games,
and catch up on some programming. So a couple weeks ago, in between about 4-5
meetings, I put together a drop-in replacement for Zoom using the daily.co
[https://daily.co] API.
Presenting: Meet [https://github.com/rootvc/meet].
Pull requests and Issues welcome. I've abstracted away all the Root-specific
code, so you can now deploy your own instance of Meet to your own Netlify
account with one click from the GitHub... olin
Welcoming President Gilda Barabino to Olin College
Excited to be able to finally talk about the thing that's taken me to Boston about 6 times in the last 8 months. Dr. Gilda Barabino is the next President of Olin College.... software, vc
Floors and ceilings
One framework I like to think about in large developer tools opportunities is what I'm trying to call lowering the floor and raising the ceiling.... software, vc
What is hard software?
In Hard tech, I talked about the overarching thesis at Root Ventures. But I mentioned that my area is hard software. What do I mean by that? I'm tempted to say, "you know it when you see it," but here's a few heuristics I think about.... olin
If you learn these 3 things, you can make anything
If you want to make something, anything at all, there's only 3 things you need... software
Developer tools are enterprise software
Last week I wrote about how developer tools are consumer software, but there are also obvious ways in which they are enterprise software. Since this is more or less the traditional way to think about (and value) developer tools companies, I won’t belabor it, but there are a few interesting points... software
Developer tools are consumer software
I’m surprised how many firms put a partner from their enterprise software team on their developer tools thesis area. Don’t get me wrong, many of these investors are truly fantastic...When I left Teespring to start angel investing full-time, the first two people I talked to were former Teespring board members — Keith Rabois and Sam Altman. Keith’s advice, as usual, was highly tactical and proven right over time......
