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Today we’re launching Catalyst 02: where founders meet their co-founders Looking back on cohort 01, one thing stood out…

Your next co-founder might be at this dinner. @andychen and I are hosting a private founder dinner in SF. luma.com/98n4ukj3

Yesterday's $60B Cursor acquisition means a group of exceptional builders suddenly has the freedom to leave and start companies of their own. At @OutcastVC , we track this through The Talent Mobility Index: our framework for understanding when exceptional technical talent is locked up, when it becomes liquid, and when it becomes free to build.

This is the question I get asked more than any other: I'm grabbing coffee with a potential technical co-founder. What do I ask?" So I wrote down 100 of them: outcastventures.com/essays/100-que…

What if the best co-founder for you is someone outside your network? If that question hit home, Catalyst applications close TONIGHT at midnight. Been a longtime listener of Founder in Arms so was thrilled to sit down with @rajatsuri and talk about why we built @outcastvc and Catalyst around the contrarian idea...

Building a billion-dollar company takes 12+ years. Are you choosing a co-founder who can go the distance?

The AI generation may build companies 10x larger than those before it.

The most overrated signal in venture? Where the founder went to school.

Most capital goes to all-male teams. The biggest exits don't.

If you want your kid to be a billionaire, name them… Michael.

Building a company is a learned skill. We analyzed 350 U.S. tech IPOs and $1B+ acquisitions over the past 20 years in our Billion-Dollar Founder Study.

Everyone's celebrating the solo founder era. The data says it's a trap. 📊 The Billion-Dollar Founder Insight 02 📊

The best co-founder probably isn’t someone you’ve worked with before.

@andychen @heyamylin 4/ Applications are now open: outcastventures.com/catalyst/

3/ So we built Catalyst to change that. 💰️$500K investment 💻️60 founders (half technical, half non-technical) ☀️ 2 months 🤖 $1M+ cloud & compute credits ...all in-person in San Francisco. The founders work side by side and decide deliberately whether to start a company together.

1/ Introducing Catalyst - a program for top 1% builders to meet their co-founder. Co-founders and GPs @andychen and @heyamylin have spent their careers recruiting, building, and investing at the earliest stages.

2/ One pattern kept showing up: who you build with is the most important decision a founder makes, and it's still left to chance. When we studied 350 billion-dollar U.S. tech exits, the data confirmed it. Founders who previously didn't work together built companies with 21% higher exits than those who had.