When Your VC Quits, Is The Founder Screwed?, Dads Are Doing More Dadding Than Ever, VC Who Founded Multibillion Firm Thinks Employees Need More Equity, AI for Old People +++ [link post]

Happy May! Happy URLs! Not AI. Actual photo. When Your VC Leaves, You Are Fundraising Again [Oana Olteanu/MotiveForce] – “You are likely screwed if I leave my venture firm,” is, not surprisingly, among the most popular topics that our industry chooses to content market around. But these transitions are increasingly common, which caused me to write “Oh Shit, Your VC Just Quit Her Fund! What a Good CEO Should Do Next.” in 2019. Oana provides her own perspectives on how founders should react to circumstances like these – there’s a lot of consensus between the two posts so read them both! How American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were [Derek Thompson] – My joke about the post-economic version of the ‘American Dream’ is that our children go to therapy for something less significant than we do! Being a great dad is a centering priority in my life. It doesn’t necessarily occur to the detriment of other pursuits but certainly if it had to, well, I’d make the tradeoff for my…