Tech’s Other 99%

Alex Lazarow

Essays from [99%tech], read aloud. How the world beyond Silicon Valley builds, and what the Valley learns back. By global VC and Out-Innovate author Alex Lazarow. Narrated with his AI voice, one essay at a time. 99tech.alexlazarow.com

Episodes

  1. 7 Oct

    Five Counterintuitive Strategies for Founders Outside Silicon Valley

    Show notes: Five counterintuitive strategies from my first trip to Romania: don't be born global (yet), don't pitch a small outcome, lead with the money machine, raise to bridge Silicon Valley and local capital, and invest in connectivity. Read the full essay, with all the links: [essay URL when live]. Narrated with my AI voice. New essays weekly at 99tech.alexlazarow.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 99tech.alexlazarow.com

    Five Counterintuitive Strategies for Founders Outside Silicon Valley

  2. 28 Sept

    What We Are Backing In Health

    Five models we have backed in health, one we are graduating, and one we are hunting: AI primary care (Prosper, Jutro), the preventative and D2C convergence (&you), the decentralized hospital (Isa Saúde), the AI back office (Prax Health, Flychain), insurance (Alan, Sidecar Health), and the aging stack we are looking for founders in. Read the full essay, with all the links: https://99tech.alexlazarow.com/p/what-we-are-backing-in-health Narrated with my AI voice. New essays weekly at 99tech.alexlazarow.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 99tech.alexlazarow.com

    What We Are Backing In Health

  3. 17 Aug

    Competition is for losers - the AI edition

    Peter Thiel said competition is for losers. Here’s where the escape hatch is: the two structural advantages of building fintech outside the SF-NY axis that the AI rebuild moment amplifies, the hundred-versus-three math, and why compound startups are the natural shape of the opportunity outside the US. Read the full essay, with links and sources here. This piece first ran in my Forbes column. Narrated with my AI voice. [99%tech] · Tech’s other 99%. From Silicon Valley to the other 99% of the world. And back. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 99tech.alexlazarow.com

    Competition is for losers - the AI edition

  4. 29 Jul

    Three lessons from my 2023 conversation with Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates

    Three lessons from my 2023 conversation with Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates: what the changing role of reserve currencies means for fintech, why diversification maps to the horizontal and vertical stacks of emerging market startups, and how radical transparency translates to building startups and venture firms. From the [99%tech] archive, September 2023. Read the original essay: https://99tech.alexlazarow.com/p/3-lessons-ray-dalio-founder-of-the Narrated with my AI voice. [99%tech] · Tech’s other 99%. From Silicon Valley to the other 99% of the world. And back. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 99tech.alexlazarow.com

    Three lessons from my 2023 conversation with Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates

  5. 19 Jul

    Tech Is Globalizing. The Money Is Lagging.

    Two weeks across South Summit in Madrid and SuperReturn in Berlin, one sharpened conclusion: talent, adoption, and cheap compute have all gone global, and capital is the last input behaving as if geography were destiny. On Europe’s $5.6 trillion startup ecosystem, the liquidity drought and the secondaries plumbing built around it, the trophy-name exit window, and why the AI roll-up wave may work better outside the US. Read the full essay, with links and sources: https://99tech.alexlazarow.com/p/tech-is-globalizing-the-money-is Narrated with my AI voice. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 99tech.alexlazarow.com

    Tech Is Globalizing. The Money Is Lagging.

  6. 19 Jul

    Trailer: Tech's Other 99%

    In 2013, four cities had ever created a unicorn. Today, more than 300 have, across more than 50 countries. [99%tech] covers that world: how it builds, what it teaches, and what flows back to Silicon Valley. I’m Alex Lazarow, a global venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and author of Out-Innovate. Every week, one essay. Read it, watch it, or listen to it here in my voice. Full essays, with links and sources: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 99tech.alexlazarow.com

    Trailer: Tech's Other 99%
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Essays from [99%tech], read aloud. How the world beyond Silicon Valley builds, and what the Valley learns back. By global VC and Out-Innovate author Alex Lazarow. Narrated with his AI voice, one essay at a time. 99tech.alexlazarow.com

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  • Creator
    Alex Lazarow
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Alex Lazarow
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    Tech’s Other 99%