Folks,
After an incredible year and a half, I’ll be wrapping up my time at Slow Ventures and moving on to an opportunity in media I’m particularly excited about.
It’s been great to have a front-row seat on the early-stage side of the house—working alongside a team whose insight, work ethic, and perspective have sharpened how I think about creators and companies has been a privilege.
Slow’s belief in the next generation of builder-founders remains one I share deeply, and I’ll continue funneling creators who align with this thesis for years to come.
Over the past 18 months, I’ve been fortunate to meet so many creators and operators redefining how people learn, purchase, and create. They’re driving cultural and consumer shifts at massive scale…an exciting time to be building in this space.
Having worked alongside creators for more than a decade, as a producer, alongside brands, and as an investor at both the growth and earliest stages, I’ve come to appreciate just how special this community truly is. Creators aren’t just content makers. They are experts with deep domain knowledge building modern media companies, product and service businesses. They leverage their earned authority and lived understanding of industry dynamics to build with a level of insight, speed, and authenticity that only they can. They sit at the frontier of the future of work and entrepreneurship, disrupting legacy media models, reshaping consumer behavior, compressing feedback loops, and proving that ownership and distribution can live in the same hands.
Creators move quickly. They adapt. They ship. They test in public. They build with their audience, not just for them. They understand leverage intuitively because they’ve lived it—attention becomes community, community becomes trust, trust becomes product, product becomes enterprise.
I’m especially grateful to Sam, Megan, Jack, and Gigi for constantly pushing me to publish (sorry) and to build summits that dove deep into the topics at the core of our shared beliefs. The lesson there was simple but powerful: get like-minded people together often. Don’t overthink the venue. Don’t overproduce the framing. Forget the pomp and circumstance. Prioritize quality people with real experience, strong ideas, and a willingness to learn and share.
I’ve also learned that sharing ideas and beliefs isn’t just newsletter or LinkedIn noise. So much joy has come from the unexpected inbound: “I read your post… you should meet this creator,” or “Have you seen this article?” or “You should try this.” People I would have never met found a small piece of resonance in something written and reached out. Many became collaborators, sounding boards, or simply people to grab a burger or coffee with and trade notes on what’s changing.
Creator-CEOs are rewriting models in real time. Legacy capital and media are putting institutional weight behind this shift—and the posture matters. It should be as a respectful peer, a long-term builder, an additive partner, not an opportunistic incumbent.
More soon on what’s next—but for now, I’m grateful to have been part of the Slow Creator Fund team and a movement helping shape the next wave of ownership and creativity. The future of this space feels wide open, and I’m glad to still be building alongside so many of you.
Most of you know Megan ([email protected])—she’s been my partner in crime on this ride, and she’s rad. If you’re a creator seeking early-stage investment, feel free to reach out to her directly, or let me know and I’ll happily make the intro.
Speak soon,
Billy