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5 Questions With PetsVivo's Luis Zamora

May 17, 2026

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3 min read

5 Questions With PetsVivo's Luis Zamora

Why the future of hospitality belongs to properties that stop treating pets like a liability

Ilona Limonta-Volkova
Ilona Limonta-Volkova

Sector Deep Dives

Oura got it wrong. Then it got rich.

May 12, 2026

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7 min read

Oura got it wrong. Then it got rich.

Three companies solving radically different problems, while building the same kind of access architecture to do it.

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5 Questions With Foyer's Landy Liu

May 10, 2026

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3 min read

5 Questions With Foyer's Landy Liu

Inside the evolving homebuying tech stack with Foyer founder Landy Liu, plus live coverage from the Baltics.

Ilona Limonta-Volkova
Ilona Limonta-Volkova

5 Questions

5 Questions With Amkan’s Raida Daouk

May 3, 2026

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4 min read

5 Questions With Amkan’s Raida Daouk

The fund of funds model most LPs are sleeping on

Ilona Limonta-Volkova
Ilona Limonta-Volkova
I went to cheer on a friend at the Brooklyn Half. I left with a thesis.

Apr 30, 2026

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5 min read

I went to cheer on a friend at the Brooklyn Half. I left with a thesis.

The amateur sports experiential economy is here.

I interviewed the CTO of Zoom about the future of AI

Apr 21, 2026

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3 min read

I interviewed the CTO of Zoom about the future of AI

Two panels, one Zoom CTO interview, a Formula 1 champion, and a Russell Westbrook sighting

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5 Questions With Onton's CEO Zach Hudson

Apr 19, 2026

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4 min read

5 Questions With Onton's CEO Zach Hudson

The shopping problem nobody solved (until now)

Ilona Limonta-Volkova
Ilona Limonta-Volkova

5 Questions

5 Questions With Furnished Finder CEO Jeff Hurst

Apr 12, 2026

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7 min read

5 Questions With Furnished Finder CEO Jeff Hurst

How Furnished Finder found the gap between Airbnb and Zillow

Ilona Limonta-Volkova
Ilona Limonta-Volkova

Sector Deep Dives

Here's what happened when I tried to buy a house for $1

Apr 7, 2026

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9 min read

Here's what happened when I tried to buy a house for $1

Can fintech really fix homeownership?

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