The General Partnership ("TheGP") @thegp
Where you build your best company. thegp.com The Bay Joined May 2009-
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🎬 YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=LdCv0m… 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1sYmVd… 🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rei… ✉️ Substack: thegeneralpartnership.substack.com/p/reid-hoffman…
NEW: Episode 10 of The General Podcast. @reidhoffman x @johnolilly on why AI won’t replace your network. Reid and John first met through a one-line intro, then started meeting for breakfast at Hobee’s with ongoing lists of ideas, companies, people, and questions to trade. Before @LinkedIn, @GreylockVC, @mozilla and now @manas_co, they were rifling through stacks of business cards together, comparing and sharing their respective networks. More than 20 years later, they recorded this episode and ended it the same way they started...with a longer list of things still left to talk about. This conversation is about company-building, AI, why the best relationships only compound, and a look behind the curtain at how Silicon Valley actually runs—through networks. Tune in 🎧👇
To cap off season 1 of The General Podcast, we paired two iconic builders (+ long-time friends) for a very candid conversation about building *networks* in the age of AI. Premieres tomorrow! 📣 Season 2 loading... @thegp Catch up on all episodes: youtube.com/@thegeneralpod
"Perhaps the most San Francisco screening of all time" Pickford, our portfolio company that created a new form factor for entertainment with AI, was featured in the @sfstandard this weekend 🎬 sfstandard.com/2026/06/20/gos…
Got some love in this week's @sfstandard gossip column "The Waggle" — alongside tidbits about Alyssa Liu at a Warriors game and someone crashing the Stanford graduation ceremony. They called our event — where we brought together prominent AI researchers and local artists to solve an AI-generated murder mystery in real time through live prompting — the "most San Francisco screening of all time." I'll take it. :)
I co-founded and then left a 7-figure consultancy because it felt like painting the Golden Gate Bridge over and over. When a unicorn client wanted to pay us a hefty sum to clean up their Notion workspace, I said no. "I can do it, but it'll quickly turn to shit again." Their response: "I don't care. It's a trash fire." This was the catalyst for starting Falconer. I talked to about 100 engineering managers, tech leads, and founders about their internal docs. They were customers of Notion, Glean, and Confluence. The top complaints were related to document lifecycle management. "What's the source of truth? How does a document get updated? How can I find it quickly?" The vision for Falconer needed to be fundamentally different, not just a beautiful Confluence. It all came down to accuracy and curation. Notion is the everything app. Glean helps you search everything. Confluence is...well I'm not sure what Confluence is for. Falconer is the accuracy app, obsessed with knowledge quality and curation. The app that lets you find the right thing, not just return everything. Falconer is: 1. A knowledge graph built for accuracy 2. An AI-native library that curates your knowledge for you 3. A context monitoring and observability tool None of our tools, UX, or aspirations mattered until we showed results. Customer love has shown up in our Slack Connect channels and internal usage dashboards, but we needed public numbers to prove it. It's validating to share the winning results of our unique approach and architecture. And there's still so much more to come.
Falconer wins head-to-head on hundreds of questions pulled from real, public data. Full results and methods linked below👇
Every sales and marketing tool now promises AI will improve your results but they don't tell you how it will cost thousands of dollars and hours of time to onboard We built a system with @OpenAI for the part everyone hides: onboarding And today we're giving it away for free
I've known Daniel A. Saedi for ~25 years, since before the fancy A. in his name, and have wanted to invest in him for as much of that that I've known investing was a thing. Finally got to do it with Minerva, which you should use if you want customers.
AI can now read your customers' minds. We raised a $20M Series A lead by 8VC & Lingotto to build this. Introducing Minerva, built in collaboration with OpenAI:
pickford.ai's @BernieSu on @tbpn "What can AI do to juice up the art form and the narrative that we just couldn't do before?" "It's not a cost thing, it's a possibility thing!” youtube.com/watch?v=dI0X0f…
Thrilled to publicly announce what we’ve been working on @TryMinervaAI for the past three years! We’re sharing a few things today, but expect more throughout the week! We’ve taken a largely unconventional approach to building Minerva: build value first, build hype second. Excited to start sharing more with the public! More info below 👇
AI can now read your customers' minds. We raised a $20M Series A lead by 8VC & Lingotto to build this. Introducing Minerva, built in collaboration with OpenAI:
The news: axios.com/pro/enterprise…
Announcing our investment in @TryMinervaAI, which is building AI for marketing leaders. We led Minerva’s seed round because we believed @_jcfe, @TheRealDanSaedi & Matthew Joseph have a rare combination of insight, technical ambition, and earned customer empathy. Our partnership with Minerva has only deepened that conviction. Congrats to the team on publicly launching today with nearly three dozen customers to date, including @NBA, @juicebox_work, @trustandwill and @wander. Minerva has also partnered with @OpenAI on two technical workstreams using unreleased frontier models. Read more on the news in @axios and more on our investment below. Let's keep building 💪
Today we’re announcing $20M in funding from @thegp, @8vc, Lingotto Innovation, @topology_vc, @NBA Investments and many others, alongside a collaboration with @OpenAI. Thank you to Chris Metinko at @axios for covering our launch. axios.com/pro/enterprise…
Hey San Francisco - come try AI that smells like popcorn at the Alamo Drafthouse! Get your tickets and join me: drafthouse.com/show/special-e…
Scenes from our annual rooftop party in NYC in honor of #NYTechWeek. As always, many thanks to our friends at @usv and @BoxGroupVC for co-hosting! 🗽
Our portfolio company, Pickford.ai, on @tbpn talking about their interactive AI TV show, "Whispers," and how the art form of entertainment is changing with AI.
after watching @brian_lovin and @wjosephflynn talk about vibe coding, this was the idea i couldn't shake: vibe coding can make you feel smarter and dumber at the same time. you shipped it, but you can't explain it. if success can't be reproduced without the AI, you didn't gain leverage. you borrowed it. the goal isn't getting from prompt to product. it's building confidence in the path between them. when you understand why it works, AI extends your ability. when you don't, it replaces the learning. infinite monkeys eventually write Shakespeare. infinite prompts eventually ship software. the difference is whether each success becomes experience. if not, you're producing outputs, not growing capability.
NEW from The General Podcast: the "design founder" episode. @brian_lovin x @wjosephflynn Before this conversation, Brian and Joey had never actually met, but had surprisingly parallel careers. Both spent early years at Facebook, both started multiple companies, both found
People ask me what we mean when we say we investing in serious people building real businesses @thegp - this work that @phaedrael and the team at Promise are delivering for the citizens of Baltimore is a good example. The City of Baltimore is partnering with Promise, the same secure payment plan provider that has now helped more than 20,000 Baltimore residents manage their water bills since 2023. Promise's technology has been extended to real property taxes, giving homeowners a straightforward way to enroll and manage their payments online. This is the first time in the City's history that residential property owners have been able to address past-due real property taxes through a payment plan, eliminating a major barrier for the tens of thousands of Baltimore residential property owners who previously had to pay their full balance by December 31 or risk tax sale. Promise has now delivered over half a billion in aid and support to Americans in need. promise-pay.com
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