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Joon Cho Built a Business Around the Words We Never Type
A boarding-school friendship, an accidental lesson at TechCrunch SF, and a library of tiny drawings turned Joon Cho's Stipop into infrastructure for digital feeling.
Michael DeGiorgio Put Commercial Real Estate on the Screen - Without Taking the Broker Out of the Room
A drink with a mentor became a resignation six weeks later, then a nine-month build in a Venice house. A decade on, Michael DeGiorgio is still pursuing the same unfashionably practical idea: better software should give real-estate people more time to be human.
Nanea Reeves Has Spent a Career Betting on the Screen After the Screen
Before most people wanted games on a phone, Nanea Reeves helped build them. Now the TRIPP co-founder is asking a stranger question: what if the next interface could change not merely what you see, but how you arrive?
The Firm That Turned $26 Million Into a Billion, One Concentrated Bet at a Time
It runs a small firm out of Santa Monica, writes a handful of checks a year, and once turned a $26.5 million CrowdStrike stake into a billion-dollar return. Here is how March Capital plays venture capital like a concentration bet.
The Santa Monica Lab That Builds Companies Like an Assembly Line
Most venture firms wait for founders to knock. Science builds the company first, then writes the check - and the method has turned razors, canned water and robo-advising into billion-dollar exits.