This morning as I walked to the cafe my phone alerted me that I’d left my luggage at home. This and other bugs have been happening off and on since I upgraded to iOS 26. My AirTags are randomly forgetting where they are. Some of my friends are showing up as mere phone numbers in iMessage. Nothing terribly bad, just a string of little paper cuts.
Earlier this year, we brought the entrepreneurs from our portfolio companies together at Founder Camp, a gathering designed around the premise of the ‘unconference’: that the audience will connect and self-organize into conversations that are most relevant to them. More facilitation, less programming. For startup founders, we’ve found this is intensely valuable. The nature of what they’re struggling with is, by definition, out ahead of where conventional advice can help. The best solution is to connect with others who are at the coalface with them.
You can open up a terminal on your computer and type the following at the command prompt:
$ whois veen.com
Your terminal will fill with a few pages of mostly-redacted information. This command queries a database of publicly available domain registrations. Years ago, you’d see actual email addresses and phone numbers for the people who owned and managed domain names across the internet. But in today’s world, all of that is hidden.