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weekly essay by a venture capitalist (@nbt) in search of the next big thing. Click to read next big thing, by Nikhil Basu Trivedi, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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2026 15

  1. Skydive
  2. Thank you, GPTZero. Go Superhuman!
  3. Princeton's Class of 2011
  4. Sense of Urgency
  5. Canva's Original Pitch Deck
  6. Monk
  7. Footwork at Year 5
  8. Automating Footwork
  9. Fuse
  10. "Automate the entire company"
  11. Levels of greatness
  12. The feature backlog has gone *poof*
  13. What I'm preparing for in 2026
  14. Snout
  15. The next big thing in 2026 will be...

2025 11

  1. Revisiting 2025 Predictions
  2. A SF VC in NYC
  3. Benable
  4. Anything
  5. Waldo
  6. Honeydew
  7. Protege
  8. Confido
  9. Footwork at Year 4
  10. Elicit
  11. What I'm preparing for in 2025

2024 10

  1. The next big thing in 2025 will be...
  2. Revisiting 2024 Predictions
  3. Consumer and Enterprise in the AI era
  4. Portex
  5. GPTZero
  6. Footwork at Year 3
  7. Tracksuit
  8. Watershed
  9. Does the product get better over time?
  10. What I'm preparing for in 2024

2023 11

  1. The next big thing in 2024 will be...
  2. A conversation with Harry Stebbings, The Twenty Minute VC
  3. The Decades-Long View
  4. ReflexAI
  5. On revenue, gross profit, and profitability
  6. The Billion Dollar Revenue Club
  7. Five Themes for New Investments in Mid-2023
  8. WindBorne Systems
  9. Footwork at Year 2
  10. Saturday Night Thoughts on the SVB Collapse
  11. The P&L Tells The Story

2022 8

  1. The next big thing in 2023 will be...
  2. Power
  3. Felt
  4. Heard
  5. Prioritization as a Superpower
  6. Employee-VC Alignment
  7. Footwork at Year 1
  8. Table22

2021 12

  1. The next big thing in 2022 is...
  2. Cradlewise
  3. Climate and Crypto are the new Mobile
  4. All Wedges Are Not Created Equal
  5. How fast is too fast?
  6. Via
  7. Many-Winner Markets
  8. Footwork
  9. The Post-Pandemic Family
  10. One-of-a-Kinds
  11. Why I Use Roam Research Daily
  12. A Widening Gap

2020 29

  1. The next big thing in 2021 is...
  2. Slack-Salesforce and The Next $10B+ Software Acquisition
  3. Venture Partnerships vs. Solo Capitalists
  4. Consumer Technology Is Alive and Well
  5. The Most Obvious Consumer Hardware + Software Opportunity Today
  6. Record Turnout
  7. Democratizing Access
  8. The Consumerization of Healthcare
  9. The Farmer's Dog: A Consumer Subscription Case Study
  10. 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Consumer Subscriptions
  11. Consumer Subscriptions
  12. The Mental Health Crisis
  13. The Climate Crisis
  14. Grocery Delivery and The Future of Packaged Food
  15. Screenshot Memos
  16. Food Delivery and The Future of Restaurants
  17. The Venture Capital Flowchart
  18. Founder-Investor Fit
  19. Agglomerators vs. Specialists
  20. The Rise of the Solo Capitalists
  21. An Ending and Fallow Time
  22. Shopify and The Key Decision for Business-in-a-Box Platforms
  23. The World is Tuning In
  24. The Right Side of History
  25. The Next Silicon Valley is...
  26. Entrepreneurship from Home (EFH)
  27. Consumer and Enterprise
  28. Notion, Roam, and The Future of Doing Work (#1)
  29. in search of the next big thing...