company.

My focus is on consumer technology companies, as well as enterprise companies that are building consumer-like products. I also have a deep passion for businesses working on the most important challenges of our time, such as the climate crisis, access to education, societal inequality, and the intersection of healthcare, biology, and computing.

In this Substack, I’ll share unfiltered thoughts in the form of a weekly essay on the next big thing across these areas, as well as trends in consumer behavior, business models, venture capital and more.

You can find more of my writing on Twitter (@nbt), LinkedIn, and Medium.

I’m a former General Partner at Shasta Ventures, now Limited Partner, and thus an investor in these portfolio companies.

Venture investments that I led or co-led at Shasta: Athelas, Blume, Brigit, Canva, ClassDojo, Color Genomics, Cover, FlyHomes, Frame.io, Imperfect Foods, Kapwing, Lattice, Let’s Do This, Literati, RDMD, Second Measure, Tally, Tandem, The Farmer’s Dog, The Pill Club.

Solo investments made since July 1, 2020: Canva, daring, Digital Brain, Grain, Index, neo.tax, Roam Research.

My personal public direct holdings: AAPL, AMZN, BABA, BRK.B, CRM, DBX, ETSY, FB, GOOG/GOOGL, LYFT, MSFT, NFLX, NKE, SHOP, SNAP, SPOT, TSLA, TWLO, TWTR, UBER, WORK, YELP, ZEN, ZM.
For those of you who hope to build the next big thing, I hope my writing is of service.

-Nikhil Basu Trivedi (@nbt)