If you are like me, there are some moments when you have no inspiration. You sit to write or do something creative, and everything feels stale. Everything you come up with is uninteresting, and you feel absolutely repulsed by the boring ideas that you even dare consider. And then there…

I caught up with my friend Greg yesterday in Los Angeles. Greg is from France and happens to be the first person I ever invested in… The first of now 800+ teams. He reminded me of this yesterday, and he vividly remembers the way we met. I was writing some…

Fireside Chat Series — The Pareto team has given dozens of talks and fireside chats at universities across the U.S. and Europe, often with Cory Levy and the Z Fellows team. We frequently hear the same questions so I figured that I would memorialize some of my common answers here…

I am usually not tired on the days when I do the most. And I have felt at times most lethargic on certain Sundays and holidays. I know I am not the only one, and I don’t think it has anything to do with the Sunday Scaries. I have seen…

I did not grow up here, so Thanksgiving wasn’t part of my life as a kid. But ever since I moved to the U.S. for college, I have celebrated every year. And I can pretty much remember where I was every time. My family mostly lives in France and Canada…

My mother has often told me stories of how, as a younger woman living in Paris, she would find herself walking around say on the Champs-Elysées one early afternoon, and suddenly become anxiously convinced that all of the exciting action and life of the city that day was actually in…

The real tragedy of aging — beyond the obvious ailments and loss of loved ones it entails— is that not everyone in the world is the same age at the same time. If we all went through life as one cohort, going through the motions of the human condition in…

I meet with a lot of ambitious founders, many of whom are into the idea of improving themselves. They think that if they become better, they are more likely to build a successful company and achieve whatever other goals they have. This is of course correct. But the part where…

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” — This is one of the most beautiful ideas from Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist.” I love that this book appeals to everyone — from the person who reads a book a day to the person who has read three books in their life. It’s similar to St Exupery’s “The Little Prince,”…