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an examination of youth culture

Casey's newsletter is the best way to keep up with the latest consumer trends. If you're trying to curb your TikTok addiction but still want to know what's happening with the youth, check out After School.

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

Mostly metrics

By CJ Gustafson

A newsletter for current and aspiring CFOs. SaaS Metrics, Go to Market Strategy, and Capital Market insights (you can actually understand).

CJ uses his decade of working in finance to educate his readers on all things financial metrics.

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

The VC Corner

By Ruben Dominguez

The VC Corner is where founders stay ahead: sharp news, fundraising strategies, battle-tested playbooks, and the tools to grow.

Great weekly summaries on all things venture capital related.

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

Next Big Teng

By Janelle Teng

VC @ Bessemer; data-driven reflections on startups, AI/ML trends, and venture investing

Janelle writes the best newsletter for founders at the intersection of software and investing. She shares great market data and goes very deep explaining complex topics in an easy to understand format.

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

OnlyCFO's Newsletter

Finance and operational insights for CFOs and other leaders at technology companies.

One of the best newsletters written from the perspective of a CFO. Some historical posts include "the lies of customer lifetime value" and "how to trick investors".

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

Lenny's Newsletter

By Lenny Rachitsky

Deeply researched product, growth, and career advice for product leaders, founders, and ambitious builders.

Lenny's Newsletter is my go-to source on everything product, growth, and navigating a career in tech. I also highly recommend signing up for his paid newsletter - it's one of the few I pay for and it's worth every penny.

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

Venture Capital Jobs

Curated venture capital jobs, delivered weekly.

Best way to find a job in VC

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

The Driverless Digest

By Harry

Covering the intersection of autonomy x rideshare, and the business of AVs.

The best way to stay up to date on everything happening in autonomous vehicles.

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

Digital Native

By Rex Woodbury

Weekly writing about how technology and people intersect

Rex writes weekly about how people and technology intersect, and how humans use technology to communicate, collaborate, and create.

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

SatPost by Trung Phan

By Trungphan2

A Saturday email on the latest in tech, business and memes.

Every Saturday Trung goes deep on one topic followed by his favorite memes of the past week. From SpaceX's design process to a breakdown of the most profitable films ever (horror prints money), I look forward to it every week.

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

Liberty’s Highlights

By Liberty 💚 🥃

Exploration-as-a-Service: the most interesting things I find across business, technology, science, history, culture, and human judgment.

One of my earliest and favorite Twitter friends, Liberty is a software engineer turned investor. His newsletter is a broad recap of his favorite finds. The he describes it is perfect: "Your favorite thing is out there, you just haven't found it yet."

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Tech strategy, analysis, and philosophy, but not boring.

Packy writes one of the longest newsletters you will ever read - and that's a good thing. He goes deep in areas I don't (but wish I could!) like crypto, space, and synthetic biology.

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

On The Frontier

By Shomik Ghosh

Podcast & Posts on founders, investors, and products operating On The Frontier of innovation

A five minute weekly read from my friend Shomik on enterprise software trends he's seeing and thinking about. He covers everything from early stage startups to the public markets - a must read for anyone in the space.

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

This is the Top

By Douglas Boneparth

A closer look at millennials, their money, and everything else.

Douglas is THE millennial finance expert. His newsletter is a mix of personal anecdotes about money and actionable advice from his day job running a wealth management firm in NYC.

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

Tidal Wave

By Arda Capital

Data-driven investment newsletter about software, internet, and media businesses.

Great perspectives on public markets and today's rapidly changing software landscape. Mix of deep dives, investing frameworks, and commentary.

- Turner Novak 🍌🧢

The Split

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