Global leadership starts local. Great-ful to celebrate our Frensgiving with some
By Paulhsu · November 14, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
Global leadership starts local. Great-ful to celebrate our Frensgiving with some great people who are building applied AI in ways that will shape mainstream adoption.
As AI expands what we can build, human trust and relationships become even more valuable. Innovation depends on resilient ecosystems from people who share knowledge, open doors and show up for each other when building gets hard.
You could feel that energy in the room last night.
Founders, investors and builders brought their experiences, questions and perspectives. Conversations deepened existing relationships and sparked new ones. Being together in person gave us space to probe another question, pressure test an idea and understand with empathy what someone is working toward.
We spend a lot of time thinking about memory, agents and multiplayer AI. How this expertise can persist, move across workflows and improve through shared outcomes.
Frensgiving brought the human foundation of that thesis into focus so we can experience how AI impacts society today.
The most valuable AI companies will help human expertise compound. They will create products where people and specialized agents build, decide and learn together, turning individual knowledge into collective capability.
That conviction shapes how we invest across Consumer AI, AI Interfaces and AI × Fintech. And it reinforces why investing in our local community matters: the relationships we strengthen here can shape what we build for the world.
Thank you to Dance Technologies and Ferris & Co for co-hosting in the new five story AI native workspace and clubhouse in the heart of downtown Chicago.
Always be building together.