I hope this note finds you well. It’s been a minute since I last put out anything on F2F.
After a rather rough 2022, I had to take a break from writing about startups. I’ve been writing for nearly five years non-stop covering tech companies for a prominent publication (all while having a day job as an MIT graduate student, then a Boeing engineer, and now a product manager at a startup), and then it suddenly came to an end.
Unexpected endings are disorienting. I found myself lost for a while. I put the pen down for a while and took time to gather myself.
Now, I find myself again with Founder to Founder. I’ve only recently realized that within an ending lies a new beginning.
That new beginning is for this newsletter. I want to rebuild F2F from the ground up, now that it's the one and only publication I can focus on.
2023 presents me with a year to create F2F as a community for founders, by founders. Once that community is established, it will serve as the platform for my future endeavors in the startup ecosystem as described here: F2F's Future Lies In Producing Original Content
Everything I wrote in that article I still want to accomplish. What has changed is how I go about it.
The big change I want to share is that the Case Studies will soon come to an end. They will be replaced by my original writing on startups for paid subscribers only going forward. (More details on this in a follow-up post next week.)
It’s hard to get people interested in a deep-dive article on one company, and even harder to build a community around these narrow blog posts is even more challenging.
Instead, I’d like to give you my unique commentary on what’s going on in the startup ecosystem. I hope that my takes will be hot and unique enough to form a community around them, and more importantly, look at startups from a newer, refreshed perspective, instead of through the usual lens of tech journalists and investors.
One day, I’ll talk about what happened to me in 2022 in more detail. But instead of looking back, I’d rather embrace the future and what 2023 has in store for me.
A second chance to re-invent the way we tell stories about startups.
The last thing I want to say is a big, big, big thank you to all the founders who gave me the privilege and honor to cover their company over the past five years. The greatest gift you founders have given me in return was your friendship.
Love it man! stoked for what is to come.
Can’t wait to see what the future holds!