1/4 Founders (and to a lesser extent investors) move in generational cohorts.

These cohorts depend less on actual age, and more on when you started your company + market segment.

Cohorts emerge every ~4-6 years.

2/4 Founder cohorts/generations help each other out, provide peer advice, and bootstrap off each others& #39; success.

Often have common overlapping networks and circles.

Today& #39;s core networks include Stripe, Uber, Twitter, Facebook, Google, SPC, YC & others.

3/4 Often founder cohorts have overlapping viewpoints and are exploiting a new platform or type of distribution.

For example, founders from 2008-2012 have tended to be against going public. Founders after that much more comfortable with it.

4/4 Feels like we have a new founder generational cohort emerging right now.

Bottoms up distribution, nocode/RPA, collaboration enterprise, "re-bundling virtual layer", fintech (APIs), new social products & other areas.

Exciting times.

(other key networks include:
Square, Lyft, Coinbase, Pinterest, Dropbox, Airbnb, Opendoor, French mafia, Affirm, Palantir, etc.)