As an Investor, I Hated Acquisitions, But As an Operator, I’m Proposing More of Them As an investor, when one of my portfolio companies wanted to buy a company, I’d generally be negative about the idea. …

R-Zero just celebrated its first birthday and looking back we had an incredible year. In the 12-months, we have stood up a company, hired a world-class team, released an industry-leading piece of hardware, and signed a term sheet to fully fund our business plan. …

Since co-founding Tenaya Capital in 2009, I’ve had the opportunity to invest in startups like Qunar, Eventbrite, and Lyft — companies that have transformed entire sectors and with them, our daily lives. But as I entered my 40s and began to think more about my impact on the world, the…

Trying to find sleepy old industries to disrupt? A great way to identify them is by looking at the amount of money, as a percentage of sales, they spend advertising their undifferentiated commodity products. Case in point: we sell our UV-C disinfection system, Arc, to a large number of professional…

For 20 years, I’ve been investing in startups. It’s no revelation to me — or anyone else — that startups are hard and require immense sacrifices from their founders. But, one year into being a startup co-founder, I have to admit it is even more all-consuming than I ever imagined. …