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In praise of quiet excellence
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The future of breathing + Node-S
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Infant nutrition is finally growing up
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Little-known Tesla Lore
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Indirect Value Capture
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Conversational AI That Turns Complex Data Into Simple Dialogue
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What Goes On a Pedestal Must Come Off
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Will People Pay for Just One Flower?
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Anti-Luddism
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Apollo’s Arrow
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Why we invested in talkshoplive: A more authentic, engaging future of commerce
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Shripriya Mahesh Shripriya Mahesh
A New Equilibrium for Firmless Professionals: High Friction, High Reward
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My New Path: Spero Ventures
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Our “Personality Test” for VCs
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Let’s get negative
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Time Travel
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55 Questions for Mission-Driven Co-Founders
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For Our Kids, We Will Always Want to Know
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Talent-Driven Globalization
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Opportunity and Agency for Blue-Collar Technicians
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A Framework for Understanding Customer Love
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The Value of Writing for the Firmless Professional
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Introducing a New Wave of Hyper-Personalized Parenting Advice
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Getting to Know Gen Z
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The Past, Present, and Future of Carbon
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An Inside Look at Roblox, the Gaming Universe That’s Exploded to 164,000,000+ Users
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4 Product Leadership Frameworks for Startups
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Community as a GTM strategy
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Momentum vs Conviction
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What’s the secret to doing your best work?
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How Startups Can Build a Sustainable Future
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Hardware as a Moat
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How Entrepreneurs Can Build Product-Led Communities
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A Founder’s Path From Napkin to NASDAQ
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Twitter is Less Wrong. Facebook is More Wrong. Values Matter.
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Investing in tools for the Trust Economy: Mati joins Spero portfolio
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Shripriya Mahesh Shripriya Mahesh
Seek the Challengers
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Believe in yourself beyond reason
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What Garage Startups Can Learn From Garage Bands
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The Future is Ours to Choose
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A crash course in unit economics — don’t learn this the painful way
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Rebellions (and Companies) Are Built On Hope
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Product-Led Communities Need Picks and Shovels
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Never Give Up
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The Air We Breathe
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A Sense of Belonging (Part 3 of 3)
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Shripriya Mahesh Shripriya Mahesh
Sara Eshelman Sara Eshelman
How You Run Your Startup Will (And Should) Change
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What to Do When the “Shiny-Object Savior” Wants to Join Your Startup
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A Sense of Belonging (Part 2 of 3)
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Shripriya Mahesh Shripriya Mahesh
Sara Eshelman Sara Eshelman
A Sense of Belonging (Part 1 of 3)
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Shripriya Mahesh Shripriya Mahesh
Sara Eshelman Sara Eshelman
Anne Raimondi’s actionable culture kit to boost recruitment and performance
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Secure the Bag: The New Rules of Raising Venture Capital (Part 4 of 4)
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Read the Handbook, Know the Details
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Secure the Bag: The New Rules of Raising Venture Capital (Part 3 of 4)
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Founder Lessons: A Fireside Chat With Maynard Webb, CEO & Co-Founder at Webb Investment Network
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Secure the Bag: The New Rules of Raising Venture Capital (Part 2 of 4)
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Lessons for entrepreneurs from India’s pickle queen
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Secure the Bag: The New Rules of Raising Venture Capital (Part 1 of 4)
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Beyond inclusion: How leaders can become Diversity Champions
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Um, Is that Natural
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Startup Lessons I learned from Tesla Origin Story
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My top 7 takeaways from Product Leader Summit 2019
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Building the Future We Want to Live In
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What I’m doing next
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Net Promoter Score: the Best (and Most Humbling) Way to Improve Yourself and your Business
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A Week in the Life: Sara Eshelman
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When will everyone sequence their DNA? (Hint: it’s not just about the money)
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Why AgTech Is Worth Understanding
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Building Things, Forgetting Things, and What We Leave Behind
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Focusing on the Core
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The Privilege We Don’t See
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Don’t Wait
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Scaling Genomics
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Shripriya Mahesh Shripriya Mahesh
CEO Mastery: Leveraging Board Member Support 
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CEO Mastery: Surviving a Startup’s Breaking Points
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Silicon Valley Talks about Being the Land of Meritocracy. It’s Time the Mythology Becomes Reality.
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The Things that Make Life Worth Living
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CEO Mastery: Leadership Tips For Seed, Series A and Beyond
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True Product Leadership is Product Stewardship
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Top 8 Lessons from the Best CEOs in Tech
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The Stories You Must Tell To Sell
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The End-To-End Guide to Startup Hires, From Yelp’s Former COO
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Building a Future for Everyone: Re-capping No BS Breakfast with Spero Ventures
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Due Diligence with Terri Hanson Mead
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The 5 Questions Your Pitch Must Answer
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Breakthrough interview with Shripriya Mahesh
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Q&A with Spero Ventures Product Partner, Ha Nguyen
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Product Decoded Interview with Amanda Richardson, Chief Data Officer, HotelTonight
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Product Decoded interview with Michael Sippey, VP Product, Medium
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Rediscovering a Sense of Purpose in Tech
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Deliver Value to Shareholders & Society
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4 Steps to New Product Success
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5 Podcasts to Break into Product & Tech
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Product Decoded Interview with Deb Liu, VP Marketplace, Facebook
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Omidyar Network spins out new $100M fund called Spero Ventures
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A Future That Belongs to Everyone
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The Power of Purpose-Driven
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How to Build Rockstar Products
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Tracing the Future of Food Safety
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10 Investors Who Are Authentically Committed To Funding Female Founders
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Founder’s Corner Interview with Andy Rachleff of Wealthfront
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Founder’s Corner Interview with Tim Chen of NerdWallet
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Founder’s Corner Interview with Yancey Strickler of Kickstarter
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Founder’s Corner Interview with Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn
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The Keys to Building Successful Products
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Founder’s Corner Interview with Jeremy Johnson of Andela
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Founder’s Corner Interview with Scott Heiferman of Meetup
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Make Purpose Your Company’s Foundation
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Mistreatment of women isn’t limited to sexual harassment
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Why We Invested: Bunker
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Founder’s Corner Interview with Sean Behr of STRATIM
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Founder’s Corner Interview with Leonard Speiser of Markov
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Founder’s Corner Interview with Steve Spinner of RevUp
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Founder’s Corner Interview with Nancy Lublin of Crisis Text Line
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Founder’s Corner Interview with Andre Haddad of Turo
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Founder’s Corner Interview with Michael Karnjanaprakorn of Skillshare
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Why We Invested: Koko
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Why We Invested: Skillshare
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