Archive - Shravan’s News Letter

The internet is (or can be) an amazing place.

Jun 24 •

Shravan Narayen

and

April 2025

Asterix vs. Caesar

Apr 9 •

Shravan Narayen

December 2024

What to Watch in 2025

Last year I wrote down some pseudo predictions for 2024.

Dec 18, 2024 •

Shravan Narayen

Find and Replace "Differentiation"

In my prior post, I proposed that capital-D Differentiation is an investor concept that’s overly relied upon during startup evaluations, but that can…

Dec 5, 2024 •

Shravan Narayen

July 2024

What's the differentiation?

At our Annual LP event in March, I gave a brief talk on my least favorite question in venture. This is a condensed, written version of that talk.

Jul 10, 2024 •

Shravan Narayen

April 2024

These aren't the verticals you're looking for

Apr 10, 2024 •

Shravan Narayen

March 2024

A Copilot is not a Strategy

(Unless you're an incumbent)

Mar 28, 2024 •

Shravan Narayen

December 2023

What to Watch in 2024

Some themes I’m curious about heading into next year. These aren't the VC predictions you're looking for

Dec 19, 2023 •

Shravan Narayen

November 2023

Designing the Future

How AI is Reshaping Product Design

Nov 2, 2023 •

Shravan Narayen

and

Karthik Ramakrishnan

September 2023

7 Powers: Opportunities in AI

How's that title for SEO?

Sep 20, 2023 •

Shravan Narayen

August 2023

Avoiding Competitive Destruction from AI

One of the big topics in the venture ecosystem is “where will value accrue” in AI.

Aug 23, 2023 •

Shravan Narayen

Scaling Your Product Org Part 2: Planning

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed hiring great product leaders and ICs and adding layers thoughtfully.

Aug 1, 2023 •

Shravan Narayen

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