davidkolodny

Hey Jacob, we're a startup studio. If you boil it down, everything we do falls in two buckets: starting new companies and supporting the portfolio. For new companies, we start a few companies per year when an idea is in our strike zone and meets our thesis. This post, at a high-level, hits on what that strike-zone is. We won't start a business unless we are uniquely positioned to solve a big, growing problem.

For existing companies in the portfolio, we provide funding, shared resources, and operational support.

We shared more on what a startup studio is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26004021

Haha! This is the way. Solving a real problem is the only way to build a lasting business.

Not off-topic! Agreed. I'm one of the Wilbur Labs Co-Founders – in the article it mentions that ecomm, employment, insurance, and mobile on-demand are a few of the industries where we are boosting investments as a result of new long-term trends. We're going to put together a more robust list of opportunities in the next few months.