Angular Ventures

Great blog post by David Wharton !! Spot on.

For the most part, I am pretty obsessed with the idea of talent density and the idea that having inspirational / aspirational people around you is often a really good thing, but I was challenged by David Peterson's column this week on 'The Case for Digital Solitude' and why "doing anything sufficiently new, weird or hard, should largely disengage from the online discourse." "What begins as "staying informed" ends with you abandoning your unique insights about the world. And that's the true danger. It's not just wasted time - it's the slow death of potentially world-changing ideas that never get the chance to prove themselves because they were abandoned too early in favor of what everyone online already agreed was important." Link to full column in comments **logs off X for the week**

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This is big. Let's hope it's another stepping stone and not the toptick on Israeli tech. "Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., has agreed to acquire Israeli-founded cybersecurity startup Wiz for at least $32 billion, marking the largest acquisition in the tech giant’s history. The deal, announced Tuesday morning, underscores Google’s intensified efforts to bolster its cloud security capabilities and compete with Microsoft and Amazon in the highly competitive enterprise cloud market."

I am really excited about this one - it's the first time we're going live with our new open source product! Sandip Das and Chris Paraoan will join Rita Gorokhod and myself as we walk through the reasoning for going open source, what we think this might mean for the FinOps community at large, and give a sneak peek into what's inside the GitHub repo we just open sourced. Can't wait to see you all there ??

This is absolutely bananas - and super bad for innovation, customers, and VC returns. LPs need to do their job and insist on risk-seeking, contrarian, diversified investment behavior. "Redpoint: 31% of All VC Money Last Year Went Into Just 20 Deals"

I realize it's a bit ironic to post this on LinkedIn, but...I think we all should just log off for a little while. Founders especially. Here's why: Any idea that is sufficiently new, weird or hard is incredibly fragile. As a result, creation requires solitude. Don't believe me. Listen to Bob Dylan: "When we're inventing something, we're more vulnerable than we'll ever be...To be creative, you've got to be unsociable and tight-assed." These days, most so-called innovation is just mimicry. And I think social media is a big part of the reason why. Scrolling through X or LinkedIn, you begin to doubt your unique vision. You see companies growing exponentially with what seem like derivative ideas. You watch other investors pile into trendy sectors. Slowly, imperceptibly, you start to conform. So, log off! Talk to customers, of course. But stop scrolling. And cancel those investor meetings as well. If you want to build something that truly matters, go dark. I made the full case for digital solitude in the newsletter this week (linked in the comments). Let me know what you think!

This one hits home David Peterson from the Angular Ventures newsletter today. ?? When we started paradime.io, one of my biggest challenges was how to separate the signal from the noise. This was 2021 when new data companies were forming every week, and everyone seems to be doing everything. I remember Gil Dibner telling me then that there was no point fighting the airwaves, it's useless as 50% of these business will run out of money, others will implode, some will make bad decisions and die, etc. - all with seemingly great products but a tiny few will remain. This is in fact true. We have just one competitor left, but a pretty formidable one :-D! But it's always a battle to extract signal (i.e. competition) from the noise (i.e. groupthink) and its a delicate balance. Am I good at it? I don't know, but I surely try very hard every day. My goto solution has been bury myself in work and focus on our customers. Listening to my customers, their feedback, figuring out their willingness to pay and working on things centred around them has helped me tremendously. Because in the digital world, everyone on air has a purpose - and its futile for me to let digital noise to cloud my judgement and focus. It's easier said than done, but the benefit of escaping the warping effect or the reality of others, is one of the hardest but necessary skills I've had to work on.