About
I'm David. I write about technology, venture, startups, and other things.
I led growth from $0-100M ARR in the early days at Airtable, led expansion from the beginning at CompStak, invested at Founder Collective and slung ads at Google.
Now I live in Brooklyn with my wife and daughter, and invest in ridiculously early B2B/deep tech companies as a partner at Angular Ventures.
Getting in touch
The best way to reach me is by email: david@davidlpeterson.com.
I also sometimes post things on Twitter.
Favorite posts
Here are a few of my most popular (or just my personal favorite) posts:
2025:
- What's after mimicry? from January 2025
2024:
- The problem with "selling the work" from October 2024
- The age of artisanal software is over from June 2024
- Bleak and bright from May 2024
2023:
- Looking back to move forward from April 2023
- LLMs and the future of customer-built software design from April 2023
- Founders as experiment designers from March 2023
2022:
- The tech recession of 2022 from November 2022
- Why building a "compound startup" might be the next, great, non-obvious SaaS play from March 2022
- The problem with engineering-led growth at early stage startups from February 2022
2021: