The Generalist helps you understand what matters in tech, artificial intelligence, and venture capital.
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The Generalist delivers in-depth analysis and insights on the world's most successful companies, executives, and technologies. Whether you’re an investor, entrepreneur, or operator, we equip you with the knowledge and understanding to capitalize on the future.
We hope you’ll find The Generalist as valuable as one of our long-term members, the CMO of a large public tech company:
“The one email I'm actually waiting for in my inbox. Deep and thorough analysis of the most interesting trends and companies in the digital world, delivered with the right touch of wit.”
What to expect
Every week, you’ll receive The Generalist’s newest piece in your inbox, for free. We specialize in deeply-researched case studies that unpack the strategies, tactics, and secrets of exceptional businesses. We refer to these pieces as “briefings.”
Beyond teaching you how the best businesses operate, our briefings help you stay ahead of the curve, and capitalize on change. You’ll understand tech’s most important trends and what they mean for the future. We strive for high-quality writing and extremely deep research – as a result, we recommend setting aside 30 minutes to enjoy our briefings.
For reference, The Generalist’s thinking has been cited by leading publications and figures like The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Tim Ferriss.
As a free subscriber, you get access to our full archive of briefings covering organizations like Stripe, Airbnb, Y Combinator, and Kleiner Perkins. You’ll also unlock interviews and insights from some of the world’s most successful founders and investors.
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Generalist+ is our premium newsletter. It’s been built to make you a sharper investor and technologist. You might be an experienced investor running a storied fund, a new manager just getting started, an angel investor dipping their toes in, or a founder looking to understand the game from the other side of the table.
Fundamentally, if you’re interested in tactics, strategies, insights, and stories from the investing world, Generalist+ is made for you.
Here’s what you’ll unlock inside Generalist+
By joining Generalist+, you get access to exclusive series architected for the modern investor. We believe they’re just the start of what Generalist+ will grow to include.
Series 1: The Future 50
This is a database of the world’s highest potential startups valued at or under $200 million, and the product of a five-month process involving the wisdom of elite venture practitioners, access to confidential information, and detailed independent research. How can we ensure Generalist supporters know about the world's most promising startups before they become well-known? The Future 50 is our version of an early detection system for great companies, driven by our editorial process.
Series 2: Letters to a Young Investor
This series features a monthly email correspondence on the craft of investing between me and a legendary investor. Each season, we ask a titan of the industry for their advice on topics both current and timeless. Season 1 of Letters to a Young Investor features a correspondence between The Generalist and the incredible Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and partner at Greylock. Reid has been at the heart of some of the most influential companies and trends over the past few decades, and the stories he has to offer are remarkable.
Series 3: Letters to a Young Founder
A similar monthly email correspondence, but from the perspective of exceptional, time-tested founders. We’re kicking off our first season with the one and only Vinod Khosla.
Series 4: The Investors Guides
A step-by-step breakdown of the essential challenges of raising, running, and succeeding as a private market investor. How do you raise your first fund? What are the best ways to spot a supertrend? Which sourcing channels are most effective, and why? How do you find your first unicorn? What tools should you use to run your internal systems? What should you do when competing head-to-head for a deal? The Investors Guide series answers these questions and many more.
Series 5: The Founders Guides
In our Founders Guides, eight unicorn founders answer your most pressing operational questions. How do the best CEOs hire upwards? How do they optimize their investor base? How do they learn from their customers? Learn from the best and bring the lessons to your company or portfolio.
For the price of a New York City cocktail, you’ll get access to new investment ideas and strategies every month. (That says quite a lot about the price of cocktails in the Big Apple but hopefully even more about the comparative value of hopping aboard.)
Why you should consider joining Generalist+ today
Learn from investing legends. Hear the wisdom of legendary venture capitalists in their own words. You’ll discover the mistakes they’ve made, how they’ve honed their practice, and where they see opportunity today.
Understand how exceptional businesses are built. Hear how some of the world’s best founders manage their companies. Then, bring those lessons back to your portfolio or your startup. It’s like unlocking a mini-advisory board.
Find the next great startup. Discover the early-stage companies we think are most promising, and why. Add curated picks to your pipeline.
Benefit from exclusive investing insights at an affordable price. Access information designed to make you a better investor – all for just $22 per month.
Attain dangerous levels of competence. It is very possible that Generalist+ may make you even more astute, insightful, and thoughtful than usual. Be prepared for flattery from colleagues and invitations to senior management meetings.
Build The Generalist with us. In the grand scheme of things, The Generalist is still a very small and very young startup with our best days ahead. By joining Generalist+, you help us grow, evolve, and deliver even more valuable information to your inboxes each week.
Expensing the newsletter
Good news! Generalist+ is highly tactical and, as a result, very expensable. Joining Generalist+ can directly help you accelerate your investing or operational career.
To make the expensing process as easy as possible, we’ve created a template you can use to send an email to your manager. We’d love to welcome you aboard!
The best of The Generalist
We’re true to our name. The Generalist covers a range of sectors across tech and finance including venture capital, fintech, artificial intelligence, marketplaces, ecommerce, healthcare, crypto, emerging markets, and more. You can find all the topics that we cover here.
Venture capital
Big brands
Artificial intelligence
Fintech
Consumer social
Crypto
Physical world
Emerging markets
Interviews
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The Generalist is read by decision-makers across tech and business. That includes the C-Suite of iconic public and private companies, the GPs and CIOs of the world’s largest and most influential funds, and business leaders around the world.
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