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Julian Shapiro

Sepia pencil illustration of two men in a biplane, each holding a quill and a scroll

I write handbooks to hold myself accountable to mastering hard skills. Each takes around 500 hours.

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For work, I invest in hardware startups at Julian.capital. If you’re fundraising, I’d love to hear from you. Few VCs are as helpful as we are. I also run three side projects: DeepChecks.vc, VCSheet.com, and ExtremeHiFi.com. Previously, I led growth for startups including Webflow, plus went through Y Combinator, and coded Velocity, an animation engine used by Samsung, Uber, WhatsApp, and thousands more.

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