The year we slowed down.

May 2026

Volume 04

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Our year in one number

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1,247

conversations we paused to listen to.

What this means

Every founder we met in 2026 — over coffee, over Zoom, over a long walk — counted. We don't measure success in capital deployed. We measure it in the questions we were trusted enough to be asked.

What changed.

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Before

More launches than we could feel.
Calendars that never breathed.
Numbers as the only measure.

After

Six launches we are proud of.
Wednesdays without meetings.
Stories that travel further than charts.

A tale of two operating modes

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From the Founder's Letter

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We stopped optimizing the team and started taking care of the people on it.

— Founder's letter, March 2026

On care as a strategy

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Chapter Three

The art of doing less, well.

p. 47

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