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Joseph Flaherty
Director, Content & Community at Founder Collective
Joseph Flaherty is the Director of Content & Community at Founder Collective, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has held this position since November 2014. Founder Collective is known for investing in notable startups such as Uber, The Trade Desk, and Airtable, and has been recognized as a top-rated seed-stage fund on Forbes' Midas List for four of the last five years.12
Flaherty has a diverse background in both content creation and product design. Before joining Founder Collective, he was a staff writer at Wired, where he was part of the founding team for Wired Design, the magazine's design vertical. During his tenure at Wired from April 2012 to March 2015, he wrote over 300 stories that garnered significant traffic and visibility.13
He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and has also worked in various roles at AgaMatrix, where he contributed to the development of medical devices and product strategies.14 His experience includes managing product design and marketing efforts, as well as engaging with key opinion leaders in the healthcare sector.15
Flaherty's work at Founder Collective focuses on sharing insights and lessons from successful founders and investors, enhancing the community's knowledge and engagement within the startup ecosystem.23
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A "Messy History of Commercial Aviation," would make for a fascinating coffee table book.
It's a space where the technology, architecture, social norms, and commercial relationships rapidly co-evolved and led to wild designs, many of which only existed briefly.
My daughter developed sepsis while on treatment for leukemia and spent a week hovering near death in the ICU.
We were lucky; we had a standing appointment at Boston Children's Hospital, where they recognized the signs.
I often think, what if we didn't have an appointment that day?
AI could save so many lives. Accelerate!
