Phin Barnes
@phineasb
http://Sneakerhead.VC @theGP, Alumni @firstround, @dormroomfund for life. Partner to @notionHQ, @clayrunhq, @Persona_IDV. Investing to bring out the founder's best.
NEWS: $300M raised for @thegp Fund II. I'm so happy to build with @dan_portillo & our incredible team. Grateful to our exceptional founders & committed LPs. If you’re an experienced builder, let's run it back! Thanks @danprimack and @axios for the story axios.com/2024/06/27/swe…
What is taste vs. consensus in product design? @lil_dill is the Head of Design at @stripe. @randyjhunt is the Head of Design at @NotionHQ. In this episode of The General Podcast, Katie and Randy swap notes on: - How to protect product quality without being precious - The…
News! We just launched “The General Podcast” 🎙️ It’s a ‘hostless' show that pairs tech and business leaders together for honest, behind-the-scenes conversations about building: 🎙️ Ep 1: Katie Dill (@lil_dill) x Randy Hunt (@randyjhunt) 🎙️ Ep 2: A healthcare journalist x a…
Your agents now stack. GT 🤝 MCP is out, in beta. GT MCP instantly enables your agents to create smaller stacked diffs that are easier to review, so you can better understand what's changed. Set it up here → graphite.dev/docs/gt-mcp#in…
The General Podcast kicks off with Katie Dill (@lil_dill) and Randy Hunt (@randyjhunt) on all things design leadership. They cover: - Building taste into product - Scaling creative conviction - Why beautiful products still win (even in AI) - How both teams use design rituals to…
Launch day! I'm so excited to share "The General Podcast," a true labor of love and almost a year in the making. 💥 It's a 'hostless' show that pairs founders, execs & creatives for fly-on-the-wall conversations on craft, curiosity & building (because maybe the world doesn’t…
The obvious solution to the WNBA salary issue, given players are driving enterprise value in still-unprofitable teams, is to give marquee players equity in the franchises they play for.
One reason San Francisco has so many empty storefronts? We require too much ground-floor retail—even when there’s no demand for it. Seattle took the opposite approach: it reduced its retail space by 1.5 million square feet over the past four years, converting it into new…
San Francisco has high retail vacancies -- why? It's not just COVID recovery and remote work. It's also SF's uniquely strict planning codes, mandatory ground-floor retail in new buildings, and inflexible rules on re-use. But we can fix it, here's how: growsf.org/research/2025-…
Two meetings today confirm that VC internal culture and returns are correlated. Strong culture = Strong returns. Shit Culture = Shit returns
To designers who want to start a company: you already know how. Same system thinking and tradeoff making with pixels and UX, then add capital and people. You got this!
"In some sense, starting a business, solving a design problem or solving a technical problem are no different. You are all making trade-offs." Here’s a highlight from our fireside chat with @designerfund during Config 2025 💭
So many incredible opportunities exist on the other side of this door - apply august 1st and benefit for life #DRF4Life
It’s official. Applications to join DRF’s student investment team drop Friday, August 1st. Real capital, real term sheets, real community.
This weekend we crossed 100k lifetime networks. We fed our users' feedback to @grok and it summarized it in three words: amazing, innovative, revolutionary. Just like WhatsApp replaced your SMS, these 100k people replaced their VPN with free, transparent, and the best…
// welcome to the agi fight club 🥊 the world’s very first competitive ai hacking tournament, where all is fair and speed is everything <ugly code is totally welcome> think you're a cracked dev? prove it in the arena season 0 details: location > san francisco date > 26 july
like everything we do @theGP - it's VC but different...
Next week.🎙️
