Joe Medved

I’m ready to move from sending around docs and slides to sharing HTML. Cowork just needs a better editing layer with things like simple text editing, easy image cut/copy/paste, and pagination.

I think we need to update the @LererHippeau website with new team photos from @mother__tech's Degen AI. degen.online/gen/a75d2679-9…

The vibe coding hype cycle, in my very humbling experience.

If AI is going to usher in an era of abundance, can we include fully automating taxes? That alone would be a real gift to humanity.

I've told a few concerned undergrads lately to lean into AI skills. This is the kind of shift they need. Let's hope schools are catching up to professional demands in a post-AI world.

📢 We’re hiring a Director of Talent to join our team in NYC. This is not a recruiting role. It's not an HR role. It's a power broker role. Your mandate is twofold: connect our portfolio companies with exceptional talent, and contribute to our firm's long-term talent mapping and network strategy. 👏 What you'll own: A living network of exceptional operators, technical leaders, and AI-native builders; Founder advisory, serving as the go-to sounding board on hiring strategy, candidate assessment, and org design; Internal tooling and automation to track, map, and engage talent in a way venture hasn't seen before; Deal flow, surfacing future founders to the investment team. 😎 Who you are: You're obsessed with meeting people - not because the job requires it, but because it's who you are; You have sharp pattern recognition, a deep bench of contacts, and people stay in your orbit because you make it worth their while; Your path here could look like a lot of things. Maybe you've scaled teams at a hypergrowth company, founded something yourself, or built your career around community and relationships; What matters less is what you've done before; what matters most is how you do it and the networks you've built. Come help us define what a modern talent function looks like. This is a full-time, in-office role based in New York City. Apply via link in comments.

Meet our newest team member: Madeleine Goldberg. @VCMadeleine joins our team as an Investor. She previously spent 5 years in early and growth-stage investing at Insight Partners. Welcome, Madeleine.

First NYC Angels Summit is in the books 😇 We gathered 150 angels investing actively in New York to discuss topics, tactical and wide-ranging, about everything involved with sourcing, backing, and supporting early stage companies. Thanks to our cohosts @alley_corp, @FirstMarkCap, @InspiredCap, and @usv.

Have we no decency? May this be a turning point for any politician with a soul.

In Dallas municipalities served by Zipline last Sunday, 10% of homes used the service. The best estimates I can find suggest Amazon sees about 5% of US homes ordering on a daily basis.

Calling NYC angel investors 😇 @LererHippeau, @FirstMarkCap, @usv, @alley_corp, and @InspiredCap are hosting the inaugural NYC Angels Summit, bringing together a select group of the most active and up-and-coming angels investing in the NYC ecosystem. Apply to attend at the link below⬇️

Happy holidays from Lerer Hippeau. It wouldn’t be December if we didn’t celebrate with several hundred of our nearest and dearest.

For all the "life-changing" hype in today's market, @Zipline could be one of the most consequential companies of the next decade.

I have had great success backing women entrepreneurs. Amy Wechsler and her daughter Zoe recently launched Spotless. I think it is a great idea which should be a big success. The Acne Evangelists nytimes.com/2025/11/13/sty…

Introducing Board – the first ever face-to-face gaming console that combines the best of board games and video games into one beautiful new platform. Available today!! board.fun

Augmodo recently announced a milestone $37.5M Series A. LH Partner @isabellevop spoke with founder and CEO @Rossfinman about the raise, the company’s rapid rise, and what the future holds. medium.com/lerer-hippeau-…

all in due time ⌚️

Please welcome Lava, our latest announced investment. Lava is a wallet-based payment system that makes it effortless for AI companies to monetize - through credits, usage, subscriptions, or hybrid pricing. lererhippeau.medium.com/please-welcome…

I would have loved to see DLs replace IPOs - it just makes sense to match supply/demand. But Wall Street may just be too addicted to the massive customer give-aways. Tokenization may be the answer. Zero chance anyone in crypto would fail to use an auction to price something.