GitHub Cofounder on Becoming a VC: Five Questions With Tom Preston-Werner
By Hunter Walk
Tom Preston-Werner on now becoming a VC himself, and four other questions I asked him.
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Perspectives and announcements from PWV, our founders and community.
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PWV Year in Review: 2025 Highlights
By PWV Team
From founder conversations and private salons to portfolio milestones and community announcements, PWV spent the year doing what we believe matters most early on: staying close to builders, tracking early signals, and creating space for community and connection.
The Real Genius of AI Investing: Why Venture Capital Isn’t a 1980s Frito-Lay Sweepstakes
AI investing isn’t Lazlo’s Real Genius sweepstakes machine. VC isn’t closed, founders choose, and even infinite capital can’t guarantee outcomes. The real genius of AI investing is judgment, timing, and knowing when not to invest.
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An adventure in writing compatible systems
Rewriting existing software is hard. Compatibility can take unexpected turns!
Discussing 10 years of orchestration challenges with Erik Munson, founding engineer at Day AI, ex
By Charly Poly
A technical deep dive interview into 10 years of solving orchestration challenges at Hubspot, Netflix and now Day AI.
The Startup Multiverse: Why Five Years Reveals the Winning Branch
GitHub Co-Founder Tom Preston-Werner on the 5-year rule, pivots, and finding the winning branch in the startup multiverse.
Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding — Zed's Blog
By Nathan Sobo
From the Zed Blog: This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.
Aalo Closes $100M Series B
By Aalo
We are excited to announce that Aalo has closed a $100M Series B financing round, led by Valor Equity Partners.
Everywhere, Somewhere, Here: Intelligence in the Place
From foundation models to agents to embodied intelligence, AI is unfolding from everywhere to here.
Seeing the Big Picture
From tldraw experiments to FAL's $125M Series C and $140M Series D, how sketches turned into billion-dollar infrastructure for generative media.
Fundraising doesn't always go to plan
Raising funds is a wild game of ups and downs and sometimes it doesn't truly go to plan.
Tuist's AI whitepaper
By Pedro Piñera
AI is revolutionizing how we build Apple apps. We're pioneering agentic coding experiences, automated QA testing, instant previews, and data accessibility to make Swift development dramatically faster and more accessible.
Vibe coding to Chomksy: will linguistics pop off in a world full of prompting?
By Ayman Nadeem
Like many developers, I’ve spent most of the past year vibe coding. Across the many tools I’ve tried, my workflow looks something like this: I prompt AI agents in natural-language and hope they make the edits I want. When it works, it feels like sorcery. When it fails, I’m left spelunking through probabilistic misfires, trying to reverse-engineer why the model chose a broken string-replace instead of the obvious refactor.
fal is Generative Media
By fal
Today, we are excited to share that we’ve raised a $125M Series C led by Meritech, with new participation from Salesforce Ventures, Shopify Ventures, and the Google AI Futures Fund. Our existing partners Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, a16z, Notable Capital, First Round Capital, Unusual Ventures, and Village Global,
Vibe code is legacy code
By Steve Krouse
Despite widespread confusion, Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" as a kind of AI-assisted coding where you "forget that the code even exists."
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