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Tony Conrad, True Ventures Partner on AI, Community & Investing

Tony Conrad, True Ventures Partner on AI, Community & Investing

Update: 2025-11-01
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Tony Conrad is a Partner at True Ventures. He worked with amazingly talented founders, operating teams from companies like Automattic (WordPress), ZERO Longevity Science, Modern Animal, Blue Bottle Coffee, Sweetgreen, MakerBot, Voiceflow, Giftshop, Cast, Bumo, Typekit, Pluralsight, Connectifier & Holey Grail Donuts. He also co-founded about.me & Sphere, both acquired by AOL. Tony is a personal investor in Slack, Automattic, Lowercase Capital, Cygni, Ghia, Empirical Spirits, International Smoke, Saltwater Oyster Depot, Elk Fence, flour+water pizzeria, flour+water, Trick Dog, Samovar and August. He is a board member of Flour + Water Hospitality Group, the Tony Hawk Foundation and formerly a T40 National Co-Chair of Technology for President Obama.Topics:

  • What's overhyped in AI? What's underhyped?
  • Building Community & Network Effects
  • Craft Businesses That Scale

#StartupCommunity #NetworkEffects #AITrends #VentureCapital #FounderJourney

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Tony Conrad, True Ventures Partner on AI, Community & Investing

Tony Conrad, True Ventures Partner on AI, Community & Investing

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