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Announcing Monochrome Capital! And our first investment!

Monochrome provides seed-stage capital to B2B startups building significant technical moats to real-world challenges.

6 min readSep 22, 2021

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Announcing Monochrome Capital! And our first investment!

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Ben Metcalfe

The liberal-leaning case for the recall of SF DA Chesa Boudin

For a while I have publicly support the efforts to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, including tweets which gained the…

5 min readApr 3, 2021

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The liberal-leaning case for the recall of SF DA Chesa Boudin

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Future of Work: ‘Work From Home’ Visas?

I’ve been thinking about the various ramifications from the inevitable work from home culture that will remain after COVID. I don’t…

2 min readJul 11, 2020

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Future of Work: ‘Work From Home’ Visas?

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RidgeVC

Remembering Leila Janah, Founder & CEO of Samasource

Leila, who had bravely fought a rare form of cancer, Epithelioid Sarcoma, recently passed away at the age of 37.

3 min readJan 30, 2020

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Remembering Leila Janah, Founder & CEO of Samasource

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Ben Metcalfe

Forget about Dre, what about the double standard at Apple?

“It’s too violent”, Mr. Cook told Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine, said people familiar with Apple’s entertainment plans. “Apple can’t…

1 min readSep 22, 2018

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“How much of my life is being effectively subsidized by investors?”

Kevin Roose in the NY Times has captured a question that’s been on my mind for a while — “How much of my life is being effectively…

2 min readMay 17, 2018

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“How much of my life is being effectively subsidized by investors?”

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From the mailbox: Tips for raising seed investment

In your experience, what is the most unforeseen misstep that new startups make when seeking funding at the angle or seed stage?

1 min readMay 15, 2018

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A quick word to say that DJI Support is fantastic

(I have not been paid or incentivized to write this post, these are my own personal views)

2 min readJul 16, 2017

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A quick word to say that DJI Support is fantastic

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It’s time for a New Labour and Lib Dem shotgun marriage…

Theresa May has played an incredibly clever hand calling for this UK general election.

2 min readApr 18, 2017

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Autonomous vehicles are our wake up call to negate the downsides of automation

This is the face of the American worker who has realized automation is on the cusp of ending his livelihood. His emotionally charged video…

2 min readDec 16, 2016

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Ben Metcalfe

Ben Metcalfe

Founder & General Partner @Monochrome_VC • Co-Founder @WPEngine • Ex- @RidgeVC, @Uber, @BBCNews & @MySpace • Former Product-Focused Entrepreneur & Executive

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