People First. AI Only.
It starts with people.
Every startup is an experiment.
The product will change.
The market might change.
Sometimes even the original problem changes.
The founder is the constant.
That's why we spend more time understanding people than ideas.
We're looking for founders who learn quickly, change their minds when they're wrong, care deeply about the problem they're solving, and have the resilience to keep going when things inevitably become difficult.
In most cases, founders hit the wall multiple times while building. It takes resilience to push through those moments.
Resilience is the single most important trait we look for in founders.
Ideas can be improved.
Products can be rebuilt.
Markets evolve.
Founders who keep learning can navigate all of it.
Building a company isn't a sequence of workshops or mentor sessions. It's a series of difficult decisions that rarely have obvious answers.
Those decisions deserve more than occasional advice.
They deserve partnership.
So we work with a small number of founders each year. We become an extension of the founding team.
Thinking through product decisions.
Talking to customers.
Refining strategy.
Making introductions.
Raising capital.
Helping however we're most useful.
AI Only
If you're going to work this closely with founders, you can't work on everything.
So we choose to focus.
Today, that focus is AI.
AI is changing what a small team can build in the same way the internet changed what a small team could reach. When a technology changes what's possible, it creates room for entirely new companies.
While our focus may evolve, our principle won't.
Start with people. Then help them build what's next.