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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
The first in a series or articles describing the core and reason of the topic that got me starting this whole thing.
Apr 21
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Roman N. Lasker
What I Do
A brief summary of my professional activities, and an intro to my current and future ones.
Apr 20
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Roman N. Lasker
Who Am I
A good first post starts with an introduction and a welcome.
Apr 20
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Roman N. Lasker
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