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Volume 04 / May 2026
Annual Report · 2026
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The year we slowed down.
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Our year in one number
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1,247
conversations we paused
to listen to.
What this means
Every founder we met in 2026 — over coffee, over Zoom, over a long walk — counted. We don't measure success in capital deployed. We measure it in the questions we were trusted enough to be asked.
What changed.
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Before
- More launches than we could feel.
- Calendars that never breathed.
- Numbers as the only measure.
After
- Six launches we are proud of.
- Wednesdays without meetings.
- Stories that travel further than charts.
A tale of two operating modes
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From the Founder's Letter
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We stopped optimizing the team and started taking care of the people on it.
— Founder's letter, March 2026
On care as a strategy
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Chapter Three
The art of doing less, well.
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