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原帖正文 Hi everyone! After *13* life-changing years, I’ve left my full-time role at @500GlobalVC to pursue what I'll be doing for the rest of my life (more on that below).500 first backed me at 19. As a college dropout, 500 was my education. When that startup failed, largely due to my own arrogance and naivete, I was given the opportunity to join as an EIR on a six-month contract. At minimum, I figured I owed them some work after losing their investment. lolThen came the chance to return to Korea, where I was born but hadn’t been back since I was 14. That led to 500 Korea in 2015. Signing the partnership docs, I remember shaking hands with @davemcclure and agreeing to stay for “at least two or three years.” Later, @christine_tsai gave me the opportunity to come back to SF, where I spent my last six years as Managing Partner. Those 6 months became 13 years quite fast...I spent my twenties and then some growing up inside 500. 1M+ miles flown all over the world, friends all over the world, and lifetime airline and hotel statuses I’ll keep collecting on. I got married. Became a dad. Learned and got to form unique perspectives from those experiences. Because of 500.500 believed entrepreneurship would reach far more people, far beyond Silicon Valley, long before it was obvious. I got to see that happen firsthand.To my teammates, our LPs, and the founders who trusted me: thank you for the friendships, opportunities, and responsibilities I had to grow into. I’m proud of what we built and excited for what you’ll continue to do.As for my next chapter...I always knew I wanted to build again. But leaving a mission I loved and the security of this role, with a baby on the way, wasn’t something I could take lightly. I needed to know this was what I’d be spending the next 30 years doing.I believe AI will enable a new generation of founders, just as other platform-shifting technologies have over the last two decades. And this time, growing their business won’t have to mean growing a large team.We’re building @edaphic_xyz to become the enabler and catalyzer for that new generation of founders.I’m doing this with my co-founders Donny, a former portfolio founder and CEO, and Daniel, my younger brother. I’ve worked with both for years. We share the same vision and the same long-term commitment. I couldn’t ask for two better people to build this with.We’re fully in person, in downtown Austin(!), and hiring engineers. Reach out or make an introduction. And to friends I haven’t caught up with in far too long, I’d love to reconnect.(We wrote about what we believe and why we’re building Edaphic on https://edaphic.co/, and I shared my personal notes on https://edaphic.co/notes/the-circle-widens.)There are so many people I want to thank and shoutout. I'll reach out to all of you individually. Thank you.The 30 Year Sprint of my Lifelong Project starts now.