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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. In his role, Flaherty focuses on sharing insights and lessons from successful founders and funders, contributing to the firm's mission of supporting startups at the seed stage.14
Before joining Founder Collective, Flaherty 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, he wrote over 300 articles that garnered significant traffic and visibility, and he appeared on major media platforms such as CNN and NPR to discuss topics like 3-D printing.23
Flaherty holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, which he completed in 2004. His background combines expertise in design and communications, which he has leveraged throughout his career in various roles, including strategic marketing and product design in the medical device industry.12
Highlights
Plastic recycling is a civic sacrament.
It can't be rolled back now.
To admit that we wasted decades dutifully sorting LDPE from PS and that we built billions of dollars of infrastructure to do so breaks people's brains.
Better to just genuflect for the good of the movement.
There are three US tech companies with Market Caps over $3T.
There are 170 countries with GDPs under $3T.
