Five dimensional chess doesn’t exist. Everyone is furiously improvising all the time. The future is utterly uncertain.

This seems important…

Really fun profile from Evan. @bwertz & @angelatytran fight relentlessly for founders because they know what it takes to build. That’s obvious if you’ve ever worked with them. The story of how they became partners - less obvious. Two amazing people I’m lucky to call friends.

Being the best in the world requires hard work. No matter what your craft, understand there are no shortcuts.

Tough beat for @internetvin. Hearing he was runner up headliner.

This is everything I need to know about Canada’s national AI strategy.

Every Canadian should read this. No politics, no opinions. These are the facts of lived experience.

Probably underappreciated: every public market dollar raised by Alphabet, OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX…is a dollar that does not go to a competitor. It may seem like it now, but capital is not infinite.

Excited to share that we've closed two new funds at @VersionOneVC: Fund V ($78M) and Opportunities Fund III ($30M). Our focus remains the same — backing exceptional founders early, often before a category is obvious or crowded. We're investing globally at pre-seed/seed across AI, robotics, deep tech, biology, decentralized systems, and emerging ecosystems like India and Africa. The founders we're most drawn to aren't chasing trends — they're mission-driven people with unusual insight solving problems they understand intimately. Many of the most important companies of the next decade will initially look misunderstood or too early. That's where we want to be. Thank you to our LPs and community for their continued support. And above all, to the founders who give us the opportunity to be part of their journeys.

We continue to invest globally at pre-seed and seed, leading or co-leading rounds and partnering closely through the earliest and messiest stages of company building.

Our blog post here: versionone.vc/announcing-fun…

Exceptional early founders: two of the most exceptional investors, @angelatytran and @bwertz, are back with Fund V. Excited for all the partnerships that will be built with this. Congrats @VersionOneVC !!!

Shopify started doing this in 2012.

Thrilled to welcome @jmwind to the Spellbook team. JML is one of the top technical executives in the world, having worked with Shopify as CTO and Atlassian as VP Engineering, bringing them both to IPO back-to-back. Over the past year, I’ve been lucky to have him as a mentor and advisor. He is one of the most impressively “30,000 foot view” “in the weeds” people I’ve ever met. In the same hour he can code a prototype and deliver deep insight about how to scale our culture & process. This makes him uniquely suited for the role he is pioneering: Executive IC. AI enables people like JML to scale themselves 100x without getting bogged down in layers of management. We aim to write the playbooks for tomorrow, rather than to execute the playbooks of yesterday. We think that org charts will change radically in the next decade, and we want to get far ahead of it. JML will pioneer the systems that scale our AI-native org, will deliver product and technical insight from decades of experience and help grow myself and our executive team. I recommend following him if you are curious how AI-native orgs will operate–he is writing a playbook for the decade to come: @jmwind theglobeandmail.com/business…

Never deleting this app.

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