A very good move

Posted on February 25, 2025. Filed under: Uncategorized |

It’s February 25th 2025. 8 hours ago Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Yesterday on X a guy cloned AirBnB using Cursor in like 10 minutes. There is a growing list of startups getting to tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars in ARR at record speeds with headcounts one tenth the size of their pre-AI predecessors. You have less than 5 years of work experience. You are about to become an Investor at a venture capital firm called Pace. By the time you know if you are good at investing, the world might not need programmers anymore, it might not need software companies anymore, and it might not need venture capitalists anymore. It could not be a more uncertain time to bet your professional future on the venture industry, and yet…it may also be the most epic time in history to do just that. Change is guaranteed, and with it comes immense opportunity. In tumult, flanks get exposed, incumbents fall, influence is up for grabs, and history gets written.

To be an early career investor at Pace right now, there are certain things I can promise you. You will have a front row seat to the revolution. You will work with some of the brightest minds in our industry. You will learn. You will have fun. You will be well compensated. And if our industry survives in any form (which I believe it will), you will have developed a foundation on which to eventually lead it.

If that sounds interesting and you are spiky, creative, hungry, relentless, self aware, and deeply curious about the future, I’d love to hear from you: Jordan@pacecapital.com

Pace Capital: $400M early curve venture fund in NYC. 4 investors: @cpaik, @g_kasten, @jordancooper, @AryanNNaik.