Flex Capital Journal
Conversations, essays & announcements.
Long-form interviews with founders and operators, plus our own thinking on company-building and venture capital.
From Near-Shutdown to $40M ARR in Five Months: Eric Simons on Building Bolt.new
Clay COO Varun Anand: Why Cutting-Edge GTM Teams Are Moving Away From Traditional CRMs
OpenGov CEO Zac Bookman: Govtech, Data Access, and AI Transformation
OpenAI CSO Jason Kwon: The Real Bottlenecks in AI
Beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk on Why Email Still Beats Every Social Platform
Gokul Rajaram on Building Ad Platforms, AI's Impact, and the Venture Transition
Zip CEO Rujul Zaparde on Enterprise Workflows, AI Agents, and Why Everyone Hates Procurement
Airtable CEO Howie Liu: The Next Generation of No-Code
Why AI Capabilities Are Overestimated: A Conversation with Dwarkesh Patel
Crunchbase CEO Jager McConnell: How Data Companies Can Survive AI
Building the Nervous System for AI with LiveKit CEO Russ d'Sa
Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll: Modernizing the Military
Hello Patient CEO Alex Cohen on SaaS Sprawl, Epic Systems, and Health Optimization
Revolutionizing Defense Tech with Anduril's Trae Stephens
a16z's Martin Casado: AI Economics and Model Architecture
Announcing Our New GP — Paul Johnson
Mark Pincus on Product Frameworks, Platform Risk, and Public Market Investing
Qualia CEO Nate Baker: The Hidden Infrastructure of Real Estate Tech
Trust, Technology and the Future of Family Safety: Life360 CEO Chris Hulls
Building Modern Data Infrastructure: Fivetran CEO George Fraser
From College Newsletter to $75M Exit: Inside Morning Brew with Alex Lieberman
Altana CEO Evan Smith: The Data Behind Global Trade's Big Shift
Ramp CEO Eric Glyman: Decoding the Hidden Forces in Banking and Fintech
People.ai CEO Oleg Rogynskyy: How AI is Replacing Sales Teams
The Evolution of Fintech: Trends, Trust, and Democratization with Adam Nash
Chris Best: How Substack is Building a New Engine for Culture in 2024
Anand Sanwal: Data Driven Decision Making in Tech and VC
Compute And Data: Groq CEO Jonathan Ross's Roadmap for the Generative Future
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen: Bringing Tech to Global Shipping and Logistics
Modern Customer Engagement: Insights from Braze CEO Bill Magnuson
Benchmark Capital GP Sarah Tavel: How AI Will Transform SaaS Business Models
CEO Perspectives for 2024
RewindAI CEO Dan Siroker: AI Wearables & Fundraising in Public
Insights from SlowVC's Sam Lessin: Navigating the Evolving Venture Landscape
Boardroom Wisdom & Next Gen Marketing: A Conversation with HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan
Amjad Masad: AI-Enabled Software Development
Michael Seibel: Investing in 1,000+ Startups
Ben Horowitz: The Wartime CEO Playbook
AI Is Booming. This Is How CEOs Are Actually Using It.
Guillermo Rauch: Dual Threat CEOs & Modern Front End Development
Peter Thiel: The Stagnation of Science and the AI Revolution
Decoding Tech's Next Big Thing: VR vs. AI
Immad Akhund: Crowdfunding, Angel Investors & Fintech
Understanding Cyber Conflict: In Conversation with Dmitri Alperovitch
Breaking Down Founder Compensation: In Conversation with Tod Sacerdoti
Insights from Operators: In Conversation with Romain Lapeyre
Investors Don't Actually Care About Stock Based Comp
Choosing Your Cap Table: In Conversation with Sean Thorne
The Case for Optimism: In Conversation with Packy McCormick
Vartana raises $12m to help B2B teams close deals faster
A Founder's Perspective: Travis May on Datavant & Venture Capital
Incubators and Startup Studios: In Conversation with Jack Abraham
Dual Threat CEOs
Why We Invested in People Data Labs
Keith Rabois: Why Startups Need Undiscovered Talent
Why We Invested in Strapi
Insights from The Power Law: Sebastian Mallaby on the Evolution of Venture Capital
Flex: Flexible Capital by Founders, For Founders
DaaS Bible 2.0: How Standards Increase Data Flow and Benefit Everyone
Part #2 — $100M to $1B+: Non-obvious Lessons Learned Selling to Yahoo!
Part #1 — 0 to $640M: Non-obvious Lessons Learned Building BrightRoll
Data-As-A-Service Bible: Everything You Wanted To Know About Running DaaS Companies
