Design Partner at @TrueVentures. Formerly, founder of Typekit and Adaptive Path, design leadership at Google and Adobe.
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Joined July 2006
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Excited to be part of this! Please come if you’re in London and we’ll excavate some early web design lore.
We live in an incredible era. Every day something launches that looks wicked, and I feel like I’m constantly playing catch up just to keep up.
In a weird way, all of this has got me looking back at the earlier days of the internet, and wondering which lessons from that era still feel timeless.
That’s the idea behind Internet Icons at @meetgranola, a new event series celebrating the pioneers whose work still shapes the internet today.
First up in London 🇬🇧
- @EbenUpton, co-founder & CEO @Raspberry_Pi, the affordable little computer that got millions of kids (and plenty of grown-ups) tinkering, coding and building.
- Julia Whitney, who led design for the original BBC iPlayer during her eleven years at the BBC, as people’s media habits shifted from radio and TV to online, then mobile.
- @veen, co-founder & CEO of Typekit. Hard to imagine now, but websites used to be stuck with the same handful of fonts. Typekit changed that, and it’s part of the reason the web stopped looking so uniform and people could bring some individuality to their corner of it.
It feels like we are heading toward a future of super powerful, totally disposable, completely personalized tools.
I started feeling this way after building a cool visualization tool—here's what I learned along the way... 🧵
And here's the tool I built with Claude. Try it out!
veen.com/metcalfe-generator/
Actually posted to my very old website:
veen.com/jeff/archives/30-ye…
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Awesome chat with my Partner @puneet324 and @geneteare last week on all things AI and seed.
"These are waves you live for."
news.crunchbase.com/ai/true-…
#trueventures
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.@DanielLurie turning SF around one AI conference at a time!
And schooling me in selfie video etiquette, nonetheless.
Catch us backstage at ConnectedStack and hear where @DanielLurie and @tonysphere like to hang in the city 👀
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Every innovation wave comes with a familiar prediction: “venture is dead,” or now "irrelevant".
Who needs VC when one person can build a $1 billion unicorn?
I believe the opposite: AI will save venture and restore value to the entire startup economy.
trueventures.com/blog/the-tr…
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Just announced: @rauchg (CEO, @vercel) will join @kevinrose (Partner, @trueventures) on stage at #ConnectedStack on September 10 in SF.
Hear how the future of the AI-driven web is being built.
Seats are limited: connectedstack.ai
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At the core of design, it’s about understanding people and unlocking their desires. @joellewenstein of @AnthropicAI on why designers are key to solving the human mystery.
We’ve had over 200 students pass through this program, and I’m always impressed with their values and thoughtfulness. If you know a great college student, please send them our way!
In our summer fellowship program, True Fellows aren't fetching coffee and assisting. They learn alongside founders of True Portfolio companies and contribute in a real way to companies fighting climate change, building on the blockchain & more. Apply now: trueventures.com/true-platfo…
After 123 episodes, I've come to the end of the Presentable Podcast. It's been an amazing run of incredible conversations; I'm proud of the work and grateful for the response. Thank you everyone who's make it possible!
relay.fm/presentable/123
“Whatever company or organisation you happen to be working for right now, remember that you are building something bigger.” — @adactio
adactio.com/articles/18580
20 years ago today, we threw a party at SxSW on a rooftop in Austin to announce the launch of a new design agency we called Adaptive Path. I’m grateful for all the work we did, the influence we had, and the relationships we forged in those decades.
Peter looks back: petermerholz.com/blog/it-was…
