Jack Morrison

A huge thanks to everyone who supported us on this incredible journey – Vive Terra! 🌎🌿

8 long, joyful, tumultuous, exciting years have passed since I decided I was sick of mowing my lawn manually and decided to dedicate nearly every waking hour to… mowing.

Our mission has always been big: build the tools to better care for our outdoor spaces. Today that mission gets a whole lot bigger. Scythe is joining Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI), the worldwide leader of industrial vehicle automation.

Say goodbye to McKinsey... Nano Banana just did in 30 seconds what consultants charge $600k for. Here’s how I did it + 5 wild use cases 🤯:

@cursor_ai heads up your RSS and Atom feeds for your blog are broken

In case you were concerned, GenAI is monitoring the situation @tbpn

@vikasreddy There are a good number out there — happy to make some introductions!

Finance/Startup friends - does anyone know any companies specializing in non-dilutive funding (debt) for hardware companies that have great margins, sales and growth? Could secure the debt vs receivables or components? Everything seems geared toward B2B SaaS which is lame.

@almostcmb The fact most folks around VC don't know Starbucks was a huge VC winner and are surprised by Blue Bottle/Philz/Luckin is amusing

I hear this concept discussed frequently. But it's more perception (and maybe some suave product marketing) than reality If you really study the history of the asset class, right alongside semiconductor investments are endless stories of pitches from coffee shops (Starbucks), book stores (Borders), and ex-hedge fund employees pitching "everything stores" out of Seattle with a focus on logistics automation and online distribution. You barely get 10 pages into eBoys about Benchmark's history before you hear about all of these Many of the best returning investments of all time are consumer businesses, which by definition need to be legible, understandable ideas right from the start in order to grow It is selective memory to perceive venture as an asset class as being uniquely focused on hard tech. While that is the OG origin story, and its important it continues to be a meaningful component, it is far from it's primary identity if you take an intellectually honest view of things

@bscholl @celinehalioua @snowmaker Love this and 100% agree. When you've got to demonstrate demand years ahead of delivering, you have to figure out how to showcase the excitement of your future paying customers to investors & employees alike in increasing ways over time.

Boom is low-key famous for pre-orders and LOIs. The most common question I get from founders is: how did we do this? So I wrote up what I've learned and why I think pre-orders are critical for hard-tech. Thanks to @celinehalioua and @snowmaker for reviewing drafts of this post.

@johncoogan First Substack in print, now TBPN on the pod — NYT promoting all its best competition for free 🏆

Getting a TBPN airhorn on the New York Times podcast is a dream come true.

@brian_armstrong based

From the Spotify leak - I've been exposed for having a 7 hour long playlist with only one song on it. It helps me do deep focused work, don't ask me why.