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Jonathan Tower

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articles: 14
total claps: 47
top claps: 21
avg read: 7.1 min
paywalled: 13
active: 2026-04-17 → 2026-07-13

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#venture-capital ·13 #artificial-intelligence ·11 #tech-trends-2026 ·10 #ai ·10 #best-practices ·4 #ai-job-loss ·3 #pricing-strategy ·2 #secondaries-market ·1 #price-discovery ·1 #corporate-development ·1

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The AI Arms Race Is Quietly Centralizing Power

For the better part of the past decade, Silicon Valley sold AI as the great democratizer. Intelligence would become abundant. Expertise…

Jul 13, 2026 · 7 min read · 21 claps paywalled #venture-capital #artificial-intelligence #ai

The AI Arms Race Is Quietly Centralizing Power

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Venture’s Exit Market Has Changed. Underwriting Should As Well.

Every venture investment begins with a deceptively simple question: Can this become a great standalone company? For decades, that question…

Jul 06, 2026 · 11 min read · 18 claps paywalled #venture-capital #corporate-development #artificial-intelligence

Venture’s Exit Market Has Changed. Underwriting Should As Well.

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Why AI Will Compress Venture Returns Before It Expands Them

For the better part of two decades, venture capital has operated on a relatively simple assumption: technological breakthroughs create…

May 29, 2026 · 10 min read · 4 claps paywalled #venture-capital #value-compression #artificial-intelligence

Why AI Will Compress Venture Returns Before It Expands Them

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Why AI Is Becoming Labor

For the last two decades, enterprise software pricing followed a familiar playbook: sell seats, add modules, bundle premium features…

Jun 18, 2026 · 7 min read · 2 claps paywalled #venture-capital #artificial-intelligence #ai

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The End of the Pitch Deck: Why Narrative Is Losing to Live Product

Venture capital has always been a business built on inference. At the earliest stages of company formation, investors rarely have enough…

Jun 03, 2026 · 7 min read · 1 claps paywalled #venture-capital #artificial-intelligence #pitching

The End of the Pitch Deck: Why Narrative Is Losing to Live Product

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Stepping Down From Prosperity7…and What’s Next

In early 2022, I joined Prosperity7 as its first U.S.‑based executive and Regional Managing Director, with a mandate to build the firm’s…

Apr 17, 2026 · 3 min read · 1 claps

Stepping Down From Prosperity7…and What’s Next

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The Talent Stack Is Changing Faster Than the Tech Stack

For the better part of two decades, the tech industry treated organizational design as secondary infrastructure. Founders obsessed over…

May 13, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps paywalled #venture-capital #artificial-intelligence #ai

The Talent Stack Is Changing Faster Than the Tech Stack

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Why Most AI Pricing Models Are Broken

One of the great ironies of the AI boom is that an industry obsessed with intelligence is often remarkably unsophisticated about economics.

Jun 08, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps paywalled #venture-capital #artificial-intelligence #ai

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The Venture Industry’s Credibility Problem

For much of the past decade, venture capital operated in an environment where rising valuations often obscured a more fundamental question…

Jun 25, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #venture-capital #vc-returns #tech-trends-2026

The Venture Industry’s Credibility Problem

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The Great AI Services Bubble

For the better part of two decades, venture capitalists have been trained to recognize a particular type of business. The ideal company…

Jun 11, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #venture-capital #artificial-intelligence #ai

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The Secondary Market Is the Real Price Discovery Engine Now

The recent IPO of Cerebras Systems was a welcome development for an industry that has spent the better part of three years waiting for the…

May 18, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #venture-capital #secondaries-market #price-discovery

The Secondary Market Is the Real Price Discovery Engine Now

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How AI Is Creating a Two-Class Startup Economy

AI is making it easier than ever to build a product but harder than ever to build a durable company.

Jul 09, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #venture-capital #artificial-intelligence #ai

How AI Is Creating a Two-Class Startup Economy

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Why VCs Are Becoming Media Companies

For decades, venture capital operated on a simple premise: proprietary access drove outcomes. The best firms saw the best deals first…

Apr 21, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps paywalled #venture-capital #branding #best-practices

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The HALO Trade: Reassessing Asset Light Models in an AI-Driven Economy

Over the past 18 months, the largest technology companies in the world have quietly rewritten their capital allocation playbooks. Amazon…

May 04, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps paywalled #venture-capital #artificial-intelligence #ai