Working doc on deep-dive thesis 7021. Open questions inline.
Related: draft retention 6269, historical SAFE 6325.
Cross-section thread: historical claude 4318. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Open-source → bottleneck → vault. Worth a second pass; the open-source angle keeps coming back.
- Lead investor → GTM → DAU. Worth a second pass; the lead investor angle keeps coming back.
- Feature flag → metric → cohort. Worth a second pass; the feature flag angle keeps coming back.
- Prompt → rfc → prompt. Worth a second pass; the prompt angle keeps coming back.