Since we launched our firm in 2013, we’ve had countless conversations with entrepreneurs and investors regarding our investment thesis around the Future of Work. At first, it took a little explaining as to what we meant, but things are quite different now as the Future of Work has sort of become a thing.
Big Opportunities When You Dig Deeper
Ammar and I love the more familiar description of the Future of Work: the configuration and geography of how we organize as teams and the tools and technologies enabling us to be as or more productive, happier and in better communication with each other.
But… we always thought that it could be even more interesting to find a different batch of entrepreneurs working in the trenches of a large established industry such as logistics, food and healthcare who could apply technology solutions towards solving big, gnarly problems that impact the operations or labor efficiencies of that industry.
We’ve connected with thousands of startups that fit our deeper description, coming at us from many different domains, geographies and diverse sources, and things have recently really picked up. To properly organize our efforts over this exciting pace of deal flow, we’ve developed three investment themes to drive our process for the Future of Work. These are meant to be high level, broad concepts that represent how we view opportunities, and they could evolve over time.
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