Welcome & The Plan
The Vibe Shift, Tucker, building companies, and the future of this publication.
Welcome new and old subscribers!
First of all, thank you to everyone who read my Vibe Shift essay and reached out. Across the board, the response seems to be “I’ve noticed the same but couldn’t put it into words,” and I’m encouraged by that.
I wanted to post a short note with some about me, the work we’re doing, and what you can expect from this publication moving forward.
New Founding
As I mentioned in the piece and Tucker segment, I’m an investor at New Founding, where I lead our efforts to invest in founders who are building for America.
As part of the Vibe Shift, we are confident that the best founders of our generation—the most competent and willing to take big swings—will take advantage of the opportunities emerging from the cultural and political turbulence around us to build companies that disrupt our nation in foundational and positive ways.
Erik Prince’s description of the SR-71 program is the perfect summary of our fund:
“What a few picked men can do given money and authority to affect the course of a nation’s history is spectacular.” - Erik Prince
The kinds of founders that resonate with the Vibe Shift essay are eager to build, but also eager to build with allied capital. As such, we hold that:
the best founders are building real things
the opportunity to build these things is now
aligned capital matters more than ever
If you are an accredited investor and interested in investing with us, I would love to chat. Please visit our fund page here and click on “Invest in our Fund.”
(We get a lot of incoming messages from people who want to chat generally—as much as we’d like to, we don’t have the time to meet with everyone and will prioritize LP inquiries.)
Substack & Podcast
Again, many thanks to the thousands who subscribed to my Substack since launching. As I noted above, my day job as an investor keeps me very occupied, but I will be writing more here.
I plan to publish a long piece (like the VS essay) about once a month, with some shorter content every week. In general, you can expect me to touch on culture, building institutions, history, and—well—the vibe shift.
For weekly content, I also co-host the New Founding Podcast with
, where we drop weekly episodes with founders, investors, pastors, cultural critics, politicians, and others who understand our tumultuous times and are eager to build anyway.Some recent guests include
, , , , , , , and other exceptional thinkers who are building great things.Subscribe anywhere you get your pods (especially on YouTube, if you like video).
Apple Pods
Spotify
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@newfounding
Onward
Thanks again for the support, encouraging notes, and for subscribing. We live in exciting times—we should steward them.
— Santiago
Nice image. Captures the vibe shift well. Aligned capital is the way, comrade.
Loved the vibe shift essay. And have been enjoying the pod. Welcome to substack!