After 13 months of stealth, we are pleased to share our investment in Sumi Network, a decentralized storage solution aiming to provide a more private and reliable storage offering for internet applications. When one of our LPs connected us to David Rhodus, the CEO and Co-Founder, we knew we had to be a part of his journey and became one of his largest and earliest investors. As we have seen over the last decade, open-source software usage has exploded due to businesses searching for more open, reliable, and privacy centric offerings of apps. Storage still has the same problems as hosted, proprietary software.

Digs is officially out in the wild! Grateful to partner with Ryan Fink and Ty Frackiewicz, PMP and the world-class team they’ve assembled to vastly improve the homebuilding and ownership experience. Read more here.

Today brings us to the final episode in the Executive Hiring Series: the VP of People & Culture. Satbir Khanuja returns to lead the discussion. He has seen it all when it comes to building and propelling great teams. Join us as he shares insights on how to find a great candidate, and how the paradigm for this role has fundamentally changed in recent years. Sneak preview below! If you missed prior episodes, be sure to check them out on Spotify, Apple, and the FUSE website. And stay tuned for more Operational Excellence content in the New Year…Lots more to come!

We’re back with the next role in the Executive Hiring Series! John Connors returns to share key insights on the VP of Technology (Engineering) / CTO role. Of all contributors in the organization, this leader sits at the core of the company. They are key in executing the product build and are responsible for finding the most efficient and effective way to solve the customer problem. Check out the sneak preview below! Also, be sure to see the companion write-up as well.

Next in the Executive Hiring Series is the VP of Marketing role. In this episode, Satbir Khanuja returns to discuss how the marketing discipline has changed over the years and the key requirements of a modern marketing leader. Satbir speaks from his own experience as a startup founder, operator, and advisor — as well as from his own time leading Amazon’s global marketing initiatives. Check out the sneak preview below!

On to the next episode in the Executive Hiring Series! John Connors is back to lead the discussion on the VP of Finance / CFO position. John has significant first hand experience with this role and has helped many startups build out their Finance teams. He has worked with and alongside many renowned Finance leaders throughout his career and also personally served as CFO at Microsoft. Listen in as he unpacks key learnings for how to frame and hire for this role. It is much more far-reaching and complicated than many realize.

We’re back and excited to share more of the Executive Hiring Series. FUSE Operating Partner Satbir Khanuja leads the discussion in Episode 2 as we unpack key considerations in hiring an early product leader. The VP of Product is one of the most important hires a CEO/Founder will make. …

Congrats to Ryan Soskin, David Tsai and the entire GoodShip team! FUSE is thrilled to be a part of the journey. This company is changing the game for the shippers and freight carriers serving the $800 billion domestic transportation industry. Middle mile logistics is a historically antiquated industry, with countless disparate systems and many critical workflows living in spreadsheets and email. GoodShip aims to streamline and automate the most time-intensive and inconsistent processes such as contract procurement, carrier scorecarding, shipper benchmarking, and more.

Kicking off the Executive Hiring Series with the one and only John Connors. In this first episode we discuss key considerations a Founder or CEO should make when hiring a VP of Sales. Quick lowdown: It’s all about closing business, building strong teams, and crafting + delivering against forecasts. John…