Builders Field Guide
A practical guide for ideators, entrepreneurs, & ecosystem leaders navigating the changing landscape of venture creation in an AI world. Each edition delivers novel insights, untold founder stories, & actionable frameworks to democratize entrepreneurship.
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What If AI Replaces Startups Too? (opens the original)
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Anthropic’s economics team just released an assessment of how AI could reshape the U.S. economy by 2030.The model works like this. The economy is made of tasks. Tasks make up jobs. Jobs are held by workers. AI augments some tasks and automates others. That changes jobs, productivity, labor demand, wages, who has to switch occupations, how much GDP grows, and ultimately how much income flows to the human laborers versus the owners (aka, capital).Anthropic’s headline finding is about that last par
Where in the AI Economic Stack will Humans Sit? (opens the original)
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I don’t believe the answer is predetermined. But we need to act with urgency.I cannot overstate how important entrepreneurship is in this moment.Take this article about Waymo. A Lyft driver used to do a bundle of things: drive the car, keep it clean, notice when something was wrong, fuel or charge it, maintain the customer experience.Waymo automates the most important task: driving. But the rest of the work doesn’t just disappear. It gets unb
Think Like an 8-Year-Old (opens the original)
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I run into entrepreneurial dreamers everywhere I go.“Someday, I might open that little shop….Someday, I’d love to work for myself….Someday, I’m going to do something about that problem everyone in my industry complains about…Someday, I’ll finally make the thing I’ve been thinking about for years…”These folks don’t call their ideas startups, and they certainly don’t call themselves founders. Mostly, they’re dreamers with possibilities kept tucked away for another day.But before anything gets buil
The IPO Isn't What It Used to Be (opens the original)
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A few months ago, my 16-year-old son asked me if we should buy SpaceX the day it went public.I told him no. I wasn’t betting against SpaceX. I was betting on history.SpaceX went public in June. Since then, its stock has fallen roughly 25%.Some people see that and conclude the company was overvalued.
The New Physics of Venture Capital (opens the original)
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Venture capital is having its biggest year in history. More than $400 billion has already been invested in U.S. startups through the first half of 2026. AI is driving unprecedented investment. Mega-rounds are back.That’s the headline. But I don’t think it’s the story.The more I look at the data, the less convinced I am that we’re witnessing a venture capital boom. Instead, I think we’re watching venture capital itself transform.This is actually a
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