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Operator's Dilemma: The space between the Vision and the Work.
Operator's Dilemma: The space between the Vision and the Work.
In most of my early-stage board roles, I spend ~95% of my time with founders. We focus on setting vision, refining…
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Eurie Kim shared thisHomeownership is the America Dream. And yet, once you are lucky enough to reach this dream state, you're immediately confronted with a nightmare of on going maintenance. 100 million single-family homes. Most owners flying blind. We are expected to be experts in electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, landscaping, and everything in between. Expected to have the knowledge, time, relationships, know-how.... and of course, don't even start with the MONEY to cover the never ending bills. This is the burden Casa is here to relieve. Today, Casa launches with $27M in funding led by Forerunner alongside Adverb Ventures, Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, Travis Kalanick, Scott Belsky, and others. I couldn't be more excited about this team and what they're building. The founders Michael Mizrahi and Michael York spent their careers at the intersection of physical and digital — from Uber's earliest days through City Storage Systems. They're uniquely positioned to do for homeownership what Uber did for transportation: introduce a genuinely new business model that makes something previously inaccessible suddenly available to everyone. What Casa is building has never existed before: a deep, technical understanding of every home they serve. Not just a handyman on demand — a dedicated team that actually knows your home, handles the work, and stays in your corner. At Forerunner, we believe the best consumer companies take something that used to be reserved for the elite few and make it available to everyone. Casa is doing exactly that. The home is the largest asset most people will ever own. It deserves better than YouTube tutorials, your friends' "guy", or Yelp. Congrats to the entire Casa team — can't wait to see you around the 🏠 Available now in SF Bay Area and Los Angeles. Reserve your spot everywhere else: getcasa.comEurie Kim shared thisAfter two years of building under wraps, today we're announcing Casa – your personal property manager. We've raised $27M to redefine the homeownership experience from the ground up. We believe your home is your most treasured asset, emotionally & financially. It shouldn't also be a second job. Most homeowners are on their own – expected to have the time, expertise, and relationships to keep things running. Finding a plumber you can trust. Remembering when the HVAC was last serviced. Knowing what's actually wrong before someone shows up to fix it. Casa gives every homeowner what used to be reserved for the few: a dedicated team that knows your home deeply, handles the work, and stays in your corner. We're enabling this by building a deep, technical understanding of every home we serve – something that's never existed before, across 100 million single-family homes in the country. For $199/mo, membership includes: - A complete inventory of your home, built using specialized hardware & software - 1.5 hours of handyman time every month (and it rolls over) - Unlimited Concierge requests to take on virtually any home project - Custom, proactive care plans built specifically for your home - Weekly package and donation pickups - Scheduling and payments for your regular vendors - Utility and property tax monitoring …and we’re just getting started, with more benefits on the way to make the experience of owning your home as magical as it always should have been. We’re incredibly fortunate to be backed by the best in the business, including Kirsten Green and Forerunner, Neo, Adverb Ventures, Maven, True Ventures, Travis Kalanick, Sheryl Sandberg & Tom Bernthal, Scott Belsky, and Kayvon Beykpour. Available now in the SF Bay Area and Los Angeles. Reserve your spot everywhere else. getcasa.com
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Eurie Kim shared thisWowsa! What an incredible presence webAI is building in Austin! Congrats David Stout and team! Just the beginning!Eurie Kim shared thisGrateful for everyone building with us. The future won’t be centralized. It’s yours. Time to think for yourself.
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Eurie Kim shared thisMost AI discourse right now falls into two camps: breathless hype or existential dread. Neither tells the real story — the one about actual humans, building actual products, for actual people. That's why we created Humans in the Loop. Last year, we Forerunner tested an idea: What if we gathered the ambitious builders putting AI in the hands of everyday consumers — not to debate the future, but to show the promise of what's already working (albeit early)? The response blew us away. Packed auditorium. Overflow seating. Energy that reminded me why I got into venture. We're bringing it back in 2026 — bigger and more dynamic. This year's lineup of esteemed cohosts is incredible: Sequoia Capital, Union Square Ventures, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, South Park Commons, Y Combinator, GV (Google Ventures), Greylock Partners, General Catalyst, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Felicis, Menlo Ventures, Pear VC, Lux Capital, Lightspeed, First Round Capital, Offline Ventures, Adverb Ventures, Abstract, A*, True Ventures, and Daybreak. The heart of the event: 20 early-stage consumer AI companies in a rapid-fire demo showcase, each nominated by a cohosting VC. Plus a few special guests and fireside chats we'll reveal soon. I've shared a lot about my own complicated relationship with AI — the paralysis, the cognitive overload, the gap between promise and reality. Humans in the Loop is the antidote to that anxiety. It's proof that when builders focus on enriching everyday life, something meaningful emerges. If you believe the future of AI should be measured by human impact — not just technical capability — this is your event. Join us. Share your ideas. Contribute to the conversation 👇 [Link in comments]
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Eurie Kim shared thisI have a complicated relationship with the word "creator." It conjures a specific image: someone with a ring light and a content calendar, optimizing for the algorithm. Someone trying to sell me something. And yet... every time I sit down to write, I'm making something from nothing. Taking scattered observations — a conversation with a founder, something Izzy said at dinner, a quote I can't stop thinking about — and turning it into a point of view. That is creation. Isn't it? There are three modes we humans move between, but most of us are stuck in one: **Consumer.** We scroll. We absorb other people's thinking and almost none of our own. All input, no output. **Curator.** The underrated middle. Curators select, arrange, contextualize. The act of choosing is itself an act of expression. An act of creation. **Creator.** Everyone creates — not by making art or building companies, but by moving through the world with intention. It's the most distinctly human thing we do. So why do so few of us give ourselves permission to be creative? To create? I spent years thinking someone else would say the things I was thinking. Some more experienced, more well known voice. Then I looked around and realized: that voice wasn't coming. The voice had to be mine. As AI makes the *task* of creating easier, it's becoming more urgent to protect the *purpose* of creating. AI can do the task. Only you can supply the why. You don't need a ring light. You don't need the title. You just need something to say — and the courage to say it. Full essay in the comments 👇
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Eurie Kim shared thisNever had a founder pay me! Thanks Vitalii Dodonov! This makes me feel so special!
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Eurie Kim reposted thisEurie Kim reposted thisIn a mecwacare residential home in Ballarat, a bed-bound woman has begun describing a four-foot robot as the best part of her day. The machine, called Abi, is brightly coloured in green, purple, pink and orange, speaks up to 90 languages, occasionally blows bubbles, and remembers the songs she grew up with. Grace Brown built the first of these machines, called Abi, in her bedroom during a Melbourne lockdown because she felt lonely. Five years on, the 26-year-old mechatronics engineer is chief executive of Andromeda Robotics, a Melbourne-headquartered company valued at roughly $100 million with offices in San Francisco, and convinced that the robot she started as a hobby will become something far larger than aged care. “The hardest part is not what people expect,” Brown says. “It’s not the engineering. It’s not the fundraising. It’s the fact that we are effectively writing the rule book for how a robot should behave around someone who is lonely, grieving, confused, or dying – in real time, in real homes, with real families watching. There is no textbook for that.” This month, Andromeda deployed its 22nd Abi across Victorian not-for-profit provider Mecwacare, completing what the company calls the largest rollout of empathetic humanoid companion robots in Australian aged care. More than 1500 residents are now sharing their days with one. An undisclosed first US customer, on the West Coast, goes live shortly. Australia faces a projected shortfall of at least 110,000 aged-care workers by 2030, according to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia. In Brown’s own research, 40 per cent of Australian residents do not get a single visitor in a given month; in the US, it’s 60 per cent. “Loneliness at the end of life isn’t the absence of people,” she says. “Most residents are surrounded by people. It’s the absence of someone who knows you. Who remembers the name of your first dog. Who notices you’ve gone quiet today in a way you weren’t yesterday.” Read the full story at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. https://lnkd.in/gYYMM5KNMeet the Melbourne-built robot now in dozens of aged care homesMeet the Melbourne-built robot now in dozens of aged care homes
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Eurie Kim shared thisThe best example in the market today of how robots will actually make our lives better!Eurie Kim shared thisMany residents in aged care and assisted living don't receive visitors. That's why we built Abi. Abi is the empathetic humanoid companion designed to address isolation and loneliness by bringing joy and companionship to those who need it most. Built to brighten every day 💜
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Eurie Kim shared thisThis is a must-watch, must-try product launch for anyone on X. I loathe posting on X but know I should do it more to engage in the conversations happening in AI real time. But who has the time??? With Stanley it’s possible! Follow me on X to give me feedback on the extra mojo: https://lnkd.in/gKaKV55nEurie Kim shared thisANNOUNCEMENT!!! Introducing Stanley for X (Twitter) 🏴☠️ The fastest way to your first 10,000 followers. Please support on Product Hunt: https://lnkd.in/erAg9RFC
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Eurie Kim liked thisEurie Kim liked thisI just hit 30K followers on LinkedIn. 5 years ago, I had zero. I also had zero interest in posting online - that was John Hu's thing - he was posting TikToks about our company every day. What he was doing has a name now: building in public. The principle behind it: it's not about who you know. It's about who knows you. So I started forcing myself to put out 3 posts a week. It was hard at first, and took me a year before it started to click. Now, 5 years later: -Stan made the Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list -Creators have earned $500M+ through Stan -Gary Vee and Steven Bartlett invested -Profitable at 40% EBITDA margins None of that would have happened without the audience we built together. John, you were 5 years early. Thank you for going first and dragging me with you. Pictured: Us at Niagara Falls - 3 months into building Stan.
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Eurie Kim liked thisEurie Kim liked thisI've been fundamentally against humanoid robots in senior care. When Grace Brown (CEO of Andromeda) reached out last year about Abi, her humanoid companion robot, I told her, not interested... We've built our business on the human touch. Machines for companionship felt antithetical to who we are. But Grace was kind and persistent, and I wanted to give them a shot. Today, her team came to one of our communities. At first, Abi sang and played music, and I was not that impressed. Then two things happened. A resident who had been grouchy went from a frown to a smile after a few songs. I noticed her tapping her foot to the song. Then Abi went over to another resident, a woman in her late 90s, and engaged her. They started talking back and forth. Hobbies. Personal likes. Memories. She shared that she loves reading stories. And that she's sad she can't read as much anymore, because of her eyesight. Abi asked if she'd like to hear a story about what they'd been talking about. Turtles. She lit up and said, "Yes, please." Abi proceeded with a lovely story. Robots cannot replace people. People have souls, hearts, warm eyes, soft hands. We should not try to replace them. Robots like Abi aren't trying to. Abi is like a board game... a tool... Just something that adds a little color to the day.
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Eurie Kim liked thisWe're at the Ageing Australia ITAC conference in Brisbane! 🙌🏻 Come say “Hi” and meet Abi, the friendly humanoid companion bringing joy and more companionship to seniors in aged care and assisted living 🚀 (Booth 74) #ITAC2026
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Eurie Kim liked thisEurie Kim liked thisKylie and I are grateful to be hanging with these two amazing founders in San Francisco… Grace Brown from Andromeda and Remy Tucker from On the House Group
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Eurie Kim liked thisEurie Kim liked thisA small thing I love about building Known: the company is about real-life connection, so the way we work has to be too. This week we hosted dinner for engineers interested in personalized AI and voice AI for consumers. If you're building in this space and want to come to the next one, my DMs are open.
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Eurie Kim liked thisAs someone who plays tennis every chance I get, this one is especially fun to share: ŌURA is teaming up with the (USTA) United States Tennis Association as the Official Wearable of the USTA, US Open, and USTA Coaching. While I’m still very much a beginner, I'm always in pursuit of improving my game, and Oura has been a big part of helping me achieve that goal. Tennis is often called the world’s healthiest sport for a reason — it’s the mix of mental, physical, and social energy that keeps you coming back. That same mix is exactly where Oura lives for me. It helps me understand my sleep, recovery, and how hard I’ve really been pushing so I can show up ready for more good days on court — and at work. I love seeing Oura Rings on the fingers of my teammates, opponents, and the pros. And now, those pros will be able to wear them in the Grand Slams! Huge thanks to the USTA team for working with us to create this first-of-its-kind partnership. Doug Sweeny Deanne Pownall Rob DeAngelis #WithOura #USOpen #USTAEurie Kim liked thisWe’re excited to announce that Oura has been named an Official Sponsor and Wearable Fitness Device Partner of the US Open! Tennis is a sport of fine margins. A few milliseconds of reaction time. A few percentage points of first-serve accuracy. A few extra hours of quality sleep across a two-week tournament. That's the work we're proud to support. Starting at this year's US Open, every competing athlete will receive an Oura Ring through the player gifting suite, with on-site fitting and recovery education available in player areas. From there, the collaboration extends across a number of the (USTA) United States Tennis Association’s mission-based enterprises – including USTA coaching, USTA League National Championships, and USTA members – anchored by Oura’s designation as a founding partner of the new USTA Player Performance Center. For the players, this means a clearer view of how their bodies respond to training, travel, and competition. For their coaches, sports scientists, and medical staff, it means a richer, longitudinal picture of each athlete as an individual. And for the millions of Oura members watching from home, it's a reminder that the fundamentals driving elite performance — sleep, recovery, resilience — are the same ones shaping your own day. Here's to the next five years. #WithOura #USOpen #USTA
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Eurie Kim liked thisEurie Kim liked thisNearly 500 applications to join in 24 hrs. The 2026 Humans in the Loop is going to be something special. More info on our programming and plans coming soon! https://lnkd.in/g5mjWjCf
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Eurie Kim liked thisEurie Kim liked thisŌURA is redefining what wearables can be—building one of the most trusted platforms in consumer health as it scales globally and deepens its position at the center of personalized health. Edward (Jay) Wedge joining as SVP, Deputy General Counsel comes at a pivotal moment. His experience will be instrumental as Oura continues to expand internationally, navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, and translate health data into meaningful, everyday insights for its growing member base. #daversa #executivesearch
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