About

I started this blog in 2009 from the depths of my first startup. I used it as a medium to organize my thoughts and experience. It became a platform to have a voice, recruit, share market insights, share experiences, find community, find support, etc….That was years ago. Since then I built Hyperpublic, teamed up w Kenny and Ben to start Lerer Ventures (now Lerer Hippeau), where I was a General Partner for our first 4 funds, sold Hyperpublic to Groupon (GRPN), invested in more incredible companies than I can list, started a company called Wildcard, built it into one of Apple’s Best Apps of 2015, and then returned partial capital to investors in 2016.

For the past 18 months or so I’ve dedicate most of my investment time and capital to the blockchain ecosystem, running regular white paper reading groups, investing in early protocols as well as surrounding startups at the secure chip, analytics, and exchange layers. I do a fair amount of primary research and occasionally sketch out a new system, mostly to understand the new primitives that the technology exposes and the types of systems you can build with them. You can read more about how i’ve approached this endeavor here: https://jordancooper.blog/w-sq-crypto/.

I’ve also been dedicating a tremendous amount of time and energy over the past year to a new effort that I believe I’ll look back on as the realization of my life’s work. More on that soon.

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Impact is key. A century ago Teddy R. had a few words to say on the same topic:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

the full speech can be found at http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/research/speech%20arena.htm

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January 12, 2010