The Generalist

After publishing over half a million words on some of the world’s most innovative businesses, these are the 10 lessons I come back to again and again. You’ll find tactics from Stripe, FTX, Tiger Global, OpenSea, and other exceptional organizations. To find the original piece, published March 13, 2022, follow this link. Subscribe to this podcast, and to our newsletter at readthegeneralist.com. You can also follow @mariogabriele and @thegeneralistco on Twitter for updates.

AngelList Venture is now worth $4.1 billion. That makes Naval Ravikant’s company a unicorn and a creator of unicorns. It may just be getting started. To find the original piece, published March 6, 2022, follow this link.  Subscribe to this podcast, and to our newsletter at readthegeneralist.com. You can also follow @mariogabriele and @thegeneralistco on Twitter for updates.

The fintech company is building the country’s fairest financial institution by doing things differently. To find the original piece, published February 16, 2022, follow this link. As a note, this was written as part of The Generalist's partner program. You can read about the ethical guidelines I adhere to in this link. Subscribe to this podcast, and to our newsletter at readthegeneralist.com. You can also follow @mariogabriele and @thegeneralistco on Twitter for updates.

The megafund might look like Tiger Global, but it's operating a very different playbook. Coatue’s performance has been built around strong in-house research, astute data analysis, and a stellar network. Its greatest weakness may be its own culture. To find the original piece, published February 13, 2022, follow this link. Subscribe to this podcast, and to our newsletter at readthegeneralist.com. You can also follow @mariogabriele and @thegeneralistco on Twitter for updates.

Solitary general partners now manage more than many multi-person venture funds. What are the limits of a one-man band? And how should legacy firms counter? To find the original piece, published February 6, 2022, follow this link.  This piece was supported by Clay. Clay brings data sources together to help people find information and build (sometimes mind-blowing) automations. It’s pretty cool to see how companies are using Clay to superpower their growth, sales and recruiting teams. If you’d like to join me and companies like Mainstreet, Pave and Newfront — click this Generalist link to get a month on the Pro plan for free.  Subscribe to this podcast, and to our newsletter at readthegeneralist.com. You can also follow @mariogabriele and @thegeneralistco on Twitter for updates.

The projects, trends, and assets worth paying attention to this year, shared by some of crypto's sharpest founders and builders. To find the original piece, published January 23, 2022, follow this link. This piece was supported by Rows — a spreadsheet with superpowers. With Rows you can build interactive spreadsheets, automated reports, forms or models, and create internal tools you need - all without code. Here is an example of one of Rows' spreadsheets — a funding rounding calculator that you can use and remix. Head over to rows.com to get started.  Subscribe to this podcast, and to our newsletter at readthegeneralist.com. You can also follow @mariogabriele and @thegeneralistco on Twitter for updates.

"Russia's Mark Zuckerberg" has built a social media giant defined by its counter-positioning. Today, Telegram has roughly 600 million active users and was the fastest-growing app of 2021. To find the original piece, published January 16, 2022, follow this link.  This piece was supported by Masterworks — my favorite place to invest in art. You can join me and 300,000 others by heading over to masterworks.art/generalist. Disclosure below.* Subscribe to this podcast, and to our newsletter at readthegeneralist.com. You can also follow @mariogabriele and @thegeneralistco on Twitter for updates. __ *See important disclosures and offering circular.

The virtual world has grown its users by 3,300% over the past year and reached a peak market cap of $12 billion. It may prove the best challenger to Meta’s long-term ambitions. To find the original piece, published January 9, 2022, follow this link. Subscribe to this podcast, and to our newsletter at readthegeneralist.com. You can also follow @mariogabriele and @thegeneralistco on Twitter for updates.

Tiger Global is venture capital's winning machine. The near-$100 billion crossover fund moves at a pace that no other firm can compete with, allocating around the world, on virtually a daily basis. To the casual observer, Tiger seems to run on a dark blend of hedge fund bravado, inflated valuations, and fast-twitch hunches. It's a lot more complicated than that.  To find the original piece, published November 14, 2021, follow this link. Subscribe to this podcast, and to our newsletter at readthegeneralist.com.  You can also follow @mariogabriele and @thegeneralistco on Twitter for updates. 

As technology lowers the barrier to product and company creation, a new type of empire-builder is emerging. While hedge funds, private equity groups, and venture firms battle for tech's fastest-growing companies, "micro private equity" searches for bargains amid a jumble of family businesses, software side projects, and profitable but unloved apps.