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Sam Gerstenzang

Sam Gerstenzang

Lessons to my younger self (and other young people today)

One of the challenges of being young is you don’t know what excellence looks like — you just don’t have the reps to know. So you should…

3 min readJan 1, 2019

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What we’re building at Umbrella

We want to tell you about three trends that are changing America today.

2 min readSep 2, 2018

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Big E versus Little e entrepreneurship: the death of the hot dog stand

In geographical space, you can open a hot dog stand with a relatively undifferentiated product, at least compared to other hot dog stands…

2 min readMar 21, 2018

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17 lessons I learned in 2017

2017 ended up being a year of tremendous growth, after what I now realize was a year of terrifying stagnation.

4 min readDec 31, 2017

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Why we didn’t start a software company

There was a time when hardware was the business, and software was the thing that came free. The idea that you could charge money for bits…

2 min readOct 23, 2017

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Founder Friendly? No thanks

The trend within the venture community over the last decade or so has been the notion of “founder friendly” — supporting your founders…

3 min readAug 12, 2017

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Perfect Storm: the next-generation weather company

I have a suspicion that there’s a new enterprise weather company to be built. To be completely honest, I don’t know very much about…

2 min readJul 12, 2017

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The Questions You Must Not Answer

There are some answers that aren’t worth knowing. At least not right now. It might take too much effort to find. The question might be…

2 min readJul 10, 2017

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Silicon Valley’s Original Sin: The Traitorous Eight

Silicon Valley’s original sin was an act of betrayal. Eight employees left Shockley Semiconductor to found their own company, and William…

3 min readJul 5, 2017

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When bandwidth became free, mobile edition

One of the most remarkable parts of Snap’s S-1 (see my larger analysis here) was the explicit decision to not pursue the ‘lite’ strategy…

2 min readMay 29, 2017

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Sam Gerstenzang

Sam Gerstenzang

Building @askumbrella. Previously building products, teams, and companies at @sidewalklabs & @imgur, investing at @a16z http://samgerstenzang.com

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