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Jason Preston
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Early stage venture investor, Co-Founder of Dent. Longer thoughts at https://jasonp.substack.com
The CEO of LinkedIn uses copilot to fine tune his emails to Satya. 👀
June 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Of all the messaging apps I use, Telegram is both my favorite and the biggest cesspool of spam.
May 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Hungry, passionate, crazy, foolish — the words we use to describe the people who can create success open.substack.com/pub/jasonp/p...
May 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Tfw your fortune cookie tells you the ends justify the means.
April 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
As the VC industry matures, it changes. These days I think of new VCs as choosing between two branches of the industry: risk managers and wildcatters. jasonp.substack.com/p/ce570934-d...
April 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Last week I suddenly (finally?) felt the need to create a separate split inbox for all my substack newsletters. It felt sudden! But was it? So I sampled a day each month going back to 2023 and had ChatGPT build a chart. I wonder if substack subscribing is addictive? ;)
April 8, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I am enjoying the reframe from Venkatesh Rao’s newsletter: memory is the limiting factor on intelligence; therefore memory *defines* intelligence. I wish I could argue, but I haven’t read enough philosophy so I don’t have the relevant info in my memory…
April 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I didn’t know Waymo vehicles were available through the Uber app, but I guess they are!
April 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My son Julian says he wants to be a professional tennis player, so we told him he has to do 6 AM tennis lessons three times a week. Joke’s on us! He loves them, and now I have to get up three times a week at 5:30 in the morning to drive him.
March 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I seem to find that my thoughts work like this picture. I am doing something (like writing a post), when something else occurs to me. I better write it down! But while I’m doing that, something else occurs to me. Where do I capture that? Eventually, my brain is just spaghetti.
December 1, 2023 at 2:50 AM
It took a very long time, but I did finally get a photo of a Cedar Waxwing that I’m happy with.
November 30, 2023 at 7:15 PM