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Footwork at Year 3
Reflecting on our first three years of investing our first fund.
 • 
Nikhil Basu Trivedi
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Mike Smith
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February 2024

Tracksuit
Footwork co-leads the Series A in the brand tracking software company growing quickly amongst brand leaders.
 • 
Nikhil Basu Trivedi
 and 
Mike Smith
Watershed
Footwork invests in the category-leading enterprise climate platform.
 • 
Nikhil Basu Trivedi
 and 
Mike Smith
2

January 2024

Does the product get better over time?
A simple but critical question for every company to ask itself.
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Nikhil Basu Trivedi
1
What I'm preparing for in 2024
Seven themes that I believe will define the year.
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Nikhil Basu Trivedi
6

December 2023

The next big thing in 2024 will be...
For the 4th year in a row, 50 of technology's top thinkers weigh in on the year ahead.
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Nikhil Basu Trivedi
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September 2023

A conversation with Harry Stebbings, The Twenty Minute VC
On my 13-year journey in venture, investing wins and losses, AI-first companies, fund sizes and LPs, and more.
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Nikhil Basu Trivedi
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August 2023

The Decades-Long View
The gene carried by a small fraction of startup founders and CEOs, including some of the greatest.
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Nikhil Basu Trivedi
4

July 2023

ReflexAI
Footwork leads the Seed round in the company bringing better training and quality assurance to high stakes call centers.
 • 
Nikhil Basu Trivedi
 and 
Mike Smith
3
On revenue, gross profit, and profitability
A follow-up from last week's piece, The Billion-Dollar Revenue Club.
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Nikhil Basu Trivedi
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The Billion Dollar Revenue Club
Move over Unicorns, Decacorns, and Centaurs. There's a more important club in town.
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Nikhil Basu Trivedi
5

June 2023

Five Themes for New Investments in Mid-2023
What we're spending time thinking about at Footwork, as of halfway through the year.
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Nikhil Basu Trivedi
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