Free Agency Season Three: Applications Now Open

Free Agency is a focused 8-week program to help you select the right startup idea

The Real Thing

Finding what's real in the age of AI

Process as Product

Process is becoming a standalone product. When making can be one shot, an adept human hand and the story it carries strikes a cord.

CoPlane raise $14M to streamline the back office

Terrain invests in Parallel, the API for AI agents to access the web.

Building America's Power Company: Base Power & Terrain

We visited Austin, Texas, to join Base Power Company CEO Zach Dell at the opening of Base Factory 1 and the announcement of their $1BN Series C

Base Pace

Working closely with the Base Power since day one has shaped how we think about execution and excellence at scale

Terrain Founders Series: Parag Agrawal

We sat down with CEO Parag Agrawal as Parallel launched to discuss the company's origin and vision for a "web built for AIs"

AIUC raises $15 million to build the confidence layer for AI

Every Thesis: In the AI Age, Making Things Difficult Is Deliberate

There's a difference between obstacles and the friction that makes you better

What to Look for in Your First Designer

When looking for your first designer, seek out range and pace above all other skills

Terrain Founders Series: Zach Dell

One year. Thousands of homes powered. $200M in new funding. We asked Zach Dell CEO of Base Power Company what’s next.

Base Power raises $200m Series B to build America's next generation power company

Willem Van Lancker on TBPN

Discussing new paths for promising founders and the launch of Terrain's Free Agency program

Do You Have Agency?

A simple rubric on agency

Option Rot

Each fruit is a possibility, an option, a future you might one day grab

Bootscaling and the Reckoning for Seed VC

The Last Human Century

Between 1920 and 2020, humanity did something unprecedented: we made a world almost entirely for ourselves

Design Literacy In the Age of Intelligent Automation

How design thinking and making change in the AI era

Is Peloton the Roku of Fitness, the Netflix of Fitness, or Neither?

Whoever Generates the Demand Captures the Value

eBay Should Have Captured the Shopify Opportunity

Humble Giants are Unbundling the Internet

Hidden Moats in Consumer Subscription