Designer Founders
Designer Fund, Ben BlumenroseInspiring more designers to take the leap of entrepreneurship.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 16 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 3 months ago |
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Building the Intelligent Web: Jonathan Arena on Design at the AI Frontier
A couple of years ago, Jonathan Arena was working on a book about interfaces. He wanted to map the evolution from physical dials and switches to touchscreens, and then try to sketch what might come next. But the book was really a way into a...
Building for Believers: Leif Abraham on Public's Long Game
Leif Abraham’s resume doesn’t read like a typical fintech founder’s. As a teenager in Germany, he taught himself design on a pirated copy of Photoshop. He spent his early career in agencies, pulling all-nighters for clients, building muscle...
Making of a Founder: Julie Zhuo’s Second Act
By any measure, Julie Zhuo had already made it. She’d helped define product design at Facebook while leading a design team of hundreds and written The Making of a Manager, now a modern classic on leadership. But what happens after you’ve ac...
Six Months of Designer Founder Wisdom: What We’ve Learned
Six months ago, we launched Designer Founders with the goal to share stories from designers who’ve built successful companies to inspire more designers to start their own.
We’ve since published interviews with Evan Sharp (Pinterest, West C...
Ambrook's Blueprint for Design-First Company Building
When it comes to product and brand, most early founders set the bar at “good enough.” This allows for speed and iteration as you figure out who you are and what you’ll build. Occasionally, we meet a team that sets a really high bar in one o...
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We invest in exceptional founders and empower them with design to improve the world.
Ben is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Designer Fund, where he backs exceptional founders and empowers them with design to improve the world.
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