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The Destination Is Well Described. Nobody Has Written the Path.
The agentic organization has been imagined, in detail, what builds it has not ● The failure is in the structure ● The AI-transformed enterprise can…
Jul 23
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Roman N. Lasker
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The Clock Nobody Rang
VC first principles were established during the heyday of software and became, de facto, the principles of the entire industry ● As venture creation…
Jul 9
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Roman N. Lasker
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June 2026
The VC Scrutiny-Avoidance Machine
Recent VC distribution numbers are just bad ● DPI to TVPI proves that the problem is structural, and it will worsen ● A healthy model needs to make…
Jun 24
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Roman N. Lasker
"A New Science of Venture Building" Explained - part I: The Demand-First Principle
The first in a series of posts explaining the founding principles, the operative commitments and the functional deployments of the framework at the core…
Jun 10
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Roman N. Lasker
When Marc Rowan and David Haber Missed the Elephant
Apollo's CEO and a16z's GP correctly identify the gap between venture capital and private equity. Their solutions address yesterday's problems.
Jun 3
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Roman N. Lasker
May 2026
When the Moat Is a Wall
The AI capital stack has a structural problem. It is financing exclusion and calling it defensibility.
May 27
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Roman N. Lasker
The Heinz Pickle Moment: Why the Critics Are Right About AI and Wrong About What It Means
Reid Hoffman is right about AI slop. He's also missing the mechanism that makes his argument actually interesting.
May 18
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Roman N. Lasker
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There Is No Such Thing as a Clean Win Story
Memory is reconstructive. The mess gets edited out — and with it, the only information that would actually be useful.
May 11
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Roman N. Lasker
Why Venture Capital Is Structurally Incapable of Funding the Reorganisation Wave
Tiffany Luck is waiting for the Waymo moment. The question she didn't ask is who will make it happen.
May 4
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Roman N. Lasker
April 2026
Every Bet Was a Winner: Why the Garage Entrepreneur Worked Then and Can't Work Now
The first wave of digital venture creation was structurally forgiving. That structure is gone.
Apr 27
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Roman N. Lasker
Why pilot waves
Almost everything written about venture building, innovation, and capital is produced after the fact.
Apr 23
About "A New Science of Venture Building" framework
Most frameworks in the innovation and venture space are methodologies: step-by-step processes that tell you what to do in what order.
Apr 21
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Roman N. Lasker
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