Rob Go

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Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers · Unpacking "A Crisis Moment In Seed" · 12 Nov 2025 podcast

And so one of my partners, Melody, who has previously had a product leadership role at a scaled company and

had led data science teams previously, has transitioned to being sort of a full-time chief product officer for us and to really take the things that we were doing with like our 10% time that was showing actually really interesting results and taking that to the next level.

So that's something that we've really worked with sort of a meaningful human capital investment, meaningful cost investment for us.

to do this.

And we think that'll initially supercharge the way that we source companies, where we've already seen a lot of returns, but even the way that we implement nurturing campaigns with founders in our network, make decisions, support portfolio companies, and that sort of thing.

So like I said, I think that's a sustaining innovation.

I think it's something that has to be done.

Otherwise, you're going to be left behind.

But I think it's a pretty important and meaningful investment.

The other thing is we're a

We're a thematic firm, and we have this focus on what we call the everyday economy.

And I actually think that in this market, we kind of have to triple down on that positioning even more, right?

And so a lot of the stuff that we do is not just even application layer, it's application layer in like...

categories with like normal mass market end users.

And so I like to say we typically don't invest in startups to sell to other startups.

I feel like YC has a pretty unbeatable network effect for that sort of investment.

And we typically don't invest in a lot of companies that sell to like corporate IT departments.

But, you know, as there's a pretty huge realm of opportunities that don't fit that mold.

And in a lot of cases, they're like, not really

there's not a huge amount of competition within some of those spaces.

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