congrats to my friends @venice_inc on three years of design excellence 🤌
@jeffinvenice is a prolific pixel pusher AND piano player !!
100% of the people I've referred to Venice have been blown away by Jeff's quality of work and professionalism
(and he's single, btw)
@venice_inc turned three this week.
A new reel and website to celebrate three years of building brands, products, and websites with people pushing the world forward.
Grateful to our team, our clients, and everyone who’s been part of it. We're just getting started.
Sound on ↓
Recently completed the 50th project in Wordsss history 🙏
Hadn’t thought about this business in terms of project quantity, but it’s a number worth celebrating (currently doing so in the lakes and mountains around Zurich).
Grateful to have found something that I love doing, that some people (most importantly: our clients and my parents) seem to think I’m good at.
Here are some highlights from the monthly-ish update I sent to colleagues, collaborators, and one person who has since asked to be removed from the list:
I started my career by NOT starting my career at @AngelList (didn't get an offer for the Analyst program after a final round interview ... that I absolutely crushed btw!!)
I’m mostly over it now, but that made it particularly special to help this underrated beast of a business retell their story:
✌️ AngelList is the financial system for private markets: a portfolio of businesses that move capital between funds, investors, and companies. Each business handles a different layer of private market participation: how funds form and operate , how individuals find investment opportunities, how startups raise capital, and how payments are processed. Now with over $200B in assets on the platform.
Some recently wrapped work that's launching soon:
-Reindustrializing American biology with closed-loop clinical trials.
-Beating the market is a research problem. Active ETFs built on semi-autonomous, long-term fundamental equity research.
-Make your most complex business decisions safe to hand to an AI agent. Every agent is a brilliant new hire. Make it a seasoned veteran.
-Engineering intelligence, built from the session. Reopen any session, in any tool — and see what the spend built.
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Wordsss is a storytelling studio for high-growth teams. We help innovative companies describe what they do, why it matters, and how it's different.
Every year, $2.7 trillion moves through the U.S. economy on PDFs, phone calls, and faxes.
The companies getting parts to data centers, equipment to hospitals, components to factory floors.
Most still quote jobs by hand: a rep spends hours matching a 300-line order to the catalog and keying it into an ERP from the 90s, and by the time the quote goes out, a faster competitor has won.
Faction removes the friction One platform works across your entire operation (sales, purchasing, planning, finance) that integrates with any system you run.
Scan emails, PDFs, and spreadsheets, match vague product descriptions to your catalog, apply customer-specific pricing, and push complete quotes to your ERP in seconds.
Faction's voice agents handle inbound calls around the clock — answering pricing and availability questions from live data, capturing orders without manual entry.
Quote, source, sell, get paid — at the speed the physical world demands.
For the distributors of the future.
Stardust's research is out now, with coverage from @TheEconomist, @eniiler, @CorbinHiar, and @AlexCKaufman.
I'm honored to have played a small part in work that could help put Earth's hottest years behind us.
Much love to @orbuch @lowercarbon for bringing me into this project.
Our planet is better off because people like Yanai and Amyad are committing their lives to this research.
🆕 Wordsss for Stardust: building humanity's thermostat.
What if we could turn down global temperatures?
Stardust's Sunlight Reflection Technology (SRT) introduces safe particles into the high atmosphere yo reflect a small fraction of sunlight — a controllable, reversible way to stabilize temperatures.
To give civilization a new capability to manage climate risk and protect populations from the accelerating impacts of warming.
Climate stability enables prosperity, protects vulnerable ecosystems, and lets us build rather than merely adapt.
a lot of people have been asking me for an ID on my jeans here... Studio Nicholson - Paolo (Indigo)
