Published in Maven Ventures·PinnedRetail Investing 3.0A New Era of Consumer Investing Platforms — 1.0: The Birth of the Retail Investor It’s the year 1989. It’s a Thursday in June and you’re getting paid tomorrow. You’re walking to Penn Station to take the train back home and you’re wearing your favorite shoes. You’re happy and confident. You decide to put some more money in the stock market; “let the good times…Venture Capital12 min read
PinnedConsumer is BACK: A Look at 2020’s Top Tech TrendsWritten by Tasha Kim and Jay Drain Jr. — In recent years, the whispers had grown louder, and the tweets came more frequently. “Consumer tech is dead.” “There’s no innovation in consumer.” 2020 has sent an emphatic response to all of the doubts and gripes: Consumer is back. COVID-19 has flipped our world upside down, drastically and fundamentally changing…Venture Capital10 min read
Published in The Startup·Jul 23, 2020Member-onlyKleiner Perkins’ Investment in Re-Inc Aims to Prove Inclusivity Is ProfitableFour World Cup Champions are making waves in DTC fashion, and demonstrating that doing the right thing is a great business strategy — To say the past 14 months have been a wild ride for members of the US Women’s National Soccer Team would be quite an understatement. Beginning on June 7, 2019 the USWNT kicked off their historic run towards a World Cup Title with a record-breaking 13–0 win over Thailand …Technology6 min read
Published in The Startup·Jun 30, 2020Member-onlySeven Black-led Start-ups that are Shifting the CultureSome of the coolest start-ups from VC’s most underfunded demographic — As companies nation-wide begin to finally acknowledge systemic racism and make efforts to identify ways they’ve failed the Black community, Silicon Valley firms have some serious soul-searching to do. From writing smaller checks for women and minorities, to orienting questions towards prevention methods rather than the promotion-skewed questions fielded by…Startup7 min read
Published in The Startup·Jun 19, 2020Member-onlyOne Trend I’m Watching in Consumer Tech: AudioTwitter just rolled out voice tweets & Clubhouse is buzzing in Silicon Valley — I could not have found a more opportune time to write this than the day after Twitter first rolled out audio tweets to a limited group of users. In my periodic late-night Twitter timeline scroll, I came across my first audio tweet: paying homage to popular Jay-Z lyric and featuring…Startup5 min read
