{"id":51,"date":"2020-07-01T01:50:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T08:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/really-impressed-with-sparkcapital-if-you\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T01:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T09:49:50","slug":"really-impressed-with-sparkcapital-if-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/really-impressed-with-sparkcapital-if-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Spark Capital track record of hardware bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Really impressed with @sparkcapital<br \/>\n&#8211; if you haven\u2019t been watching, big bets in early hardware with Mirror, CTRL labs, Oculus, and Thalmic\/North. These are often huge forward bets before a product or business and on trends that big companies start caring about and pay big $$<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joshelman\/status\/1278011964526981121?s=46\">https:\/\/x.com\/joshelman\/status\/1278011964526981121?s=46<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3956-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2017\" width=\"1284\" height=\"986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3956-1.jpg 1284w, https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3956-1-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3956-1-1024x786.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3956-1-768x590.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1284px) 100vw, 1284px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really impressed with @sparkcapital &#8211; if you haven\u2019t been watching, big bets in early hardware with Mirror, CTRL labs, Oculus, and Thalmic\/North. These are often huge forward bets before a product or business and on trends that big companies start caring about and pay big $$ https:\/\/x.com\/joshelman\/status\/1278011964526981121?s=46<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[33,32,204,7,2],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-decision-making","tag-exit","tag-hardware","tag-spark-capital","tag-startup","tag-venture-capital","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}