Week 20 - Waves, shifts, and cycles

This week's articles, tweets, and podcasts every founder should check out.

✌🏽Welcome back

Welcome to the 20th edition of Inside Round by AngelList. Every week, we curate the tweets, podcasts, and articles every founder should check out. Let’s get into it…

Reading list

1/ The Unbundling of Retail 2.0 by Rick Zullo and Chelsea Zhang

2/ Social’s next wave by Mario Gabriele

3/ How to compete against an incumbent: change the atomic unit (even in social) by Sarah Tavel

4/ Netflix’s New Chapter by Ben Thompson

5/ Founders and momentum by Julian Weisser

6/ Tech tries a new trick: efficiency by Alex Wilhelm

7/ The Four Shifts: Thriving in the Next Era by Rishad Tobaccowala

8/ America, we have a problem. People aren't feeling engaged with their work by Andrea Hsu

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Thread(s) of insight

1/ New year, better 1:1s

Aletheia Délivré 🌳 @delivreal

I've been leaning into 1:1s lately, and rewiring my brain around what makes them meaningful. Recently got into "stretch questions" as a way to spark deeper conversations. Ideally, we get to the point where we talk about the awkward, hard stuff. 6 topics I'm digging 🧵:

2/ The story of Hint Water

Claudia Laurie @claudiaclaurie

How an “accidental entrepreneur” stumbled into a $150 million dollar business… selling water:

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Listen and learn

Pulling back the curtain on how Mixpanel builds product with Vijay Iyengar.

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