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Oliver Buchannon
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I write a weekly newsletter to help VCs, founders, and engineers get an inside look into VC.

Fable & The Feds

Jun 15, 2026

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4 min read

Fable & The Feds

A 5:21pm letter, a disputed jailbreak, no proof

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Price the Recursion

Jun 8, 2026

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3 min read

Price the Recursion

Same company, same week, opposite memo

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The Bottom Rung Is Gone

Jun 1, 2026

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3 min read

The Bottom Rung Is Gone

Advice for those competing with AI

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I Used to Make Fun of FDEs

May 27, 2026

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3 min read

I Used to Make Fun of FDEs

$5.5B in two weeks says I was wrong

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Three Companies in a Trench Coat

May 22, 2026

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4 min read

Three Companies in a Trench Coat

Starlink prints, launch reinvests, xAI bleeds $6.4B

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The Token Bill Caught Up With Us

May 18, 2026

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4 min read

The Token Bill Caught Up With Us

Uber burned its 2026 AI budget by April

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What China Catches Up On First

May 11, 2026

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4 min read

What China Catches Up On First

Two layers won, two in play, one walled off

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"You Can't Just Steal a Charity"

May 4, 2026

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4 min read

"You Can't Just Steal a Charity"

Distillation enters the federal court record

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I Clicked Allow All Again This Week

Apr 27, 2026

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4 min read

I Clicked Allow All Again This Week

A consent screen, an infostealer, and a $2M listing

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Your New Favorite VC Metric Is Two Guys and an FDA Letter

Apr 20, 2026

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5 min read

Your New Favorite VC Metric Is Two Guys and an FDA Letter

Output per human, meet liability

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Your VC Firm Is Now a Codebase

Apr 13, 2026

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6 min read

Your VC Firm Is Now a Codebase

85% of dealmakers use AI daily

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The Bug I Didn't Know I Left Behind

Apr 7, 2026

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8 min read

The Bug I Didn't Know I Left Behind

What Mythos and a $3 model mean for everything ever shipped.

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Anthropic Claws Back

Apr 6, 2026

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9 min read

Anthropic Claws Back

Saw It Coming?

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Your AI Startup Is Already Obsolete

Mar 30, 2026

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9 min read

Your AI Startup Is Already Obsolete

14,000 startups launched. 5,600 are already gone.

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Replit Triples to $9B

Mar 23, 2026

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9 min read

Replit Triples to $9B

Vibe Coding Is a VC Thesis Now

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The Plumber Scores a 2. The Developer Scores a 9.

Mar 16, 2026

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7 min read

The Plumber Scores a 2. The Developer Scores a 9.

Karpathy mapped 143 million jobs against AI exposure, and the laptop class should be nervous.

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AI Supervising AI

Oct 24, 2025

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7 min read

AI Supervising AI

The Paradox That Actually Works?

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The hidden infrastructure crisis behind every ChatGPT requests

Oct 20, 2025

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6 min read

The hidden infrastructure crisis behind every ChatGPT requests

Why Data Center Alley almost went dark

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Due Diligence at Pre‐Seed/Seed

Aug 22, 2025

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5 min read

Due Diligence at Pre‐Seed/Seed

What do investors actually make decisions on?

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Scattering Seeds in the Wind 🌪️

Aug 15, 2025

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12 min read

Scattering Seeds in the Wind 🌪️

The economics of seed stage VC 🌱

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High Stakes Guessing

Aug 8, 2025

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10 min read

High Stakes Guessing

Investing in seed startups with minimal data

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Venture Capital

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🔫 Holy Sh*t, We're in an AI Arms Race

Jul 31, 2025

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8 min read

🔫 Holy Sh*t, We're in an AI Arms Race

... and I'm Not Sure We're Winning 😱

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Venture Capital

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⚡ Big Tech Goes Full‐Stack AI (Part II)

Jul 24, 2025

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8 min read

⚡ Big Tech Goes Full‐Stack AI (Part II)

⚔️ How Startups Can Fight Back!

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⚡ Big Tech Goes Full‐Stack AI

Jul 18, 2025

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11 min read

⚡ Big Tech Goes Full‐Stack AI

☣️ The Vertical Integration Threat to Startups (Part I)

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To Pseudonym or not to Pseudonym !?️

Jul 11, 2025

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6 min read

To Pseudonym or not to Pseudonym !?️

Bye bye SWEdonym?

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