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Product guy at heart, making a living as a VC.

San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2010
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This week, we’ve been highlighting what’s next across Headline’s key focus sectors, and today, we have the ever-critical B2B software. This year, our team’s excited to see more software wedging into the market via specific verticals like healthcare and supply chain. Our SaaS investors Mathias Schilling, @TaylorBrandtNYC, and Dominic Wilhelm share what they’re hyper-focused on for 2024: headline.com/blog-latest/art…
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The next sector in our Headline Lookahead series is infrastructure. Investors @Gieselman and @jconger001 and are following the momentum of developers and data to identify activity-level product-market fit this year. For more on what’s next in infrastructure, check out the full story: headline.com/blog-latest/art…
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You’ve just set big 2022 targets and the team is pumped. Time to hire a bunch of sales reps right? Wrong. If you don’t want to miss numbers, crush morale, and blow up the team, do exactly one thing first: develop your sales managers. Here’s 8 areas to focus on. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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This is an outstanding article by Atul Gawande in the New Yorker about how to protect yourself and others when we reopen. Lots of useful data in there, so I made notes and an illustration to summarize the key points. newyorker.com/science/medica…
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クルーズ船で感染拡大を招いたとされる接触感染がどのようにして起きるのか、NHKが専門家と共同で実験を行ったところ、ウイルスに見立てた塗料は多数の人が触るものを介して広がることが確認されました。 www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/202…
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SUPER important article by @ErinBromage PhD, Prof Biology at UMass Dartmouth — learn how to limit RISKS & avoid #coronavirus: erinbromage.wixsite.com/covi…
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Kerala (population 35 million) was the first state in India to get COVID. Today for the 2nd day in a row they have ZERO new cases! thehindu.com/news/national/c… @nramind @nambath @ramyakannan How did they do it? 1/
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There were two recent Coronavirus stories from Korea. A great case study showing why #Masks4All is important. medium.com/@slowblogger/how-…
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A new research initiative backed by pediatrician Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, aims to track the coronavirus pandemic and identify emerging hot spots as the economy reopens in the Bay Area. buff.ly/2WaprlJ
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We interviewed experts and frontline officials from Italy, Germany, Spain, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. Of all of them, we found more commonalities than differences. So… These are the 7 things we must do before we open up America. A thread:
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#COVID19 South Korea reports only 13 new cases today, 0 in Seoul (10MM population >NYC) S Korea government has published a new report on how it managed to keep the #coronavirus under control without nationwide lockdown "Flattening the curve on COVID-19" korea.kr/common/download.do?…
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“The growth in the number of new cases per day, and the growth in the number of new tests per day, are very tightly correlated.“ A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s #Coronavirus Numbers Are Flat defenseone.com/ideas/2020/04… via @defenseone HT @juliettekayyem
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A look at the challenges tech companies will face when they reopen their offices after the lockdowns lift, such as distancing, contact tracing, and mass testing (Protocol) protocol.com/companies-plann… techmeme.com/200418/p9#a2004…
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Starting today, people in San Francisco are required to wear face coverings at essential businesses, in public facilities, on transit, and while performing essential work. This is not a replacement for staying home and physical distancing, but it is an important step for safety.
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The official count of COVID-19 cases doesn’t tell us how many people are actually infected. But a statistic called the test-positivity rate could. @yayitsrob and @alexismadrigal report: on.theatln.tc/MtFgY22
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An Army of #VirusTracers Takes Shape in Massachusetts ow.ly/SozG50zfSRT @nytimes
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