About The Venturist
We chronicle the venturists: audacious individuals who take on absurdly risky ideas with profoundly uncertain outcomes.
"To venture is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to venture is to lose oneself."
— Søren Kierkegaard
What You’ll Read
1. On extraordinary companies.
Study Europe’s highest-yield startups deeply (sometimes, but not always, we write a novel-sized article on a company). Includes classic case studies, as well as dedicated series on finding PMF (zero to one) and scaling (one to a hundred).
2. Our correspondence with the finest minds in venture.
Personal reflections and philosophical questions with exceptional investors, founders, and technologists. Includes my favourite series, Epistles, where I put the questions about investing and building that have long perplexed me personally to the best in the game.
3. On the newest startups and trends.
Suss out promising startups and trends early, handpicked with our investor friends. You’ll see the investors’ thinking processes before hindsight steals all the fun.
4. On what the greatest venture outcomes looked like early on.
Hear directly from the investors who backed exceptional companies early. What did they see that others missed? What was their thought process? And what persuaded them?
5. On technology, philosophy, and the future.
We are intrigued by the bigger questions of venture. What can history teach us about ambition, power, and progress? How should we think about building companies in a world of abundant intelligence? Expect opinionated essays, philosophical inquiries, and geopolitical analysis that help us make sense of the future we’re venturing into.
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If you’re looking to improve your intellectual diet with a better understanding of the people, companies, and technologies around us, consider becoming a Venturist Insider (€9.99/month or €89.99/year).
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Why Become a Venturist Insider? (€9.99/month or €89.99/year)
1. Knowledge.
Understand the European companies, technologies, and markets that will affect the technology and geopolitics of the world in the upcoming decades. Get to know our horses in the race and what makes them extraordinary.
2. Wisdom.
Learn from the finest founders, investors, technologists, statesmen and thinkers, past and present. Study their ethos, habits, convictions, decisions, triumphs, failures, and acquire the lessons you’ll carry forward.
3. Judgment.
Cultivate better taste. Learn to recognise exceptional founders, discern transformational technologies from passing fashions, ask better questions, and develop convictions of your own about the world.
4. Perspective.
Abandon the tedious monotony of daily tech news. Bring philosophy, history, and strategy into your understanding of technology. Contemplate what an AI-rich, post-scarcity world might look like, and how to stand out in it.
5. Conviction.
Approach Europe’s technological future with ambition and intellectual curiosity. Conceptualise what we as a civilisation could become, what stands in our way, and what it will take to produce a generation of truly consequential companies.
6. Venturism.
Help rekindle the spirit of venturism in Europe. We want to cultivate an intellectual culture that respects ambitious builders and inspires more people to venture into the unknown.
Learn about European venturists, every week.
