Why Does Chapter One Publish Its Investment Committee Notes?

Jeff Morris Jr says Chapter One publishes its weekly investment-committee notes because those partner meetings are the firm's best conversations, and sharing them beats running a separate content strategy.

The firm records what the partners talk about and posts it. He treats that as building in public, the habit operators already have, applied to venture. Firms have historically stayed private. Opening up the thinking is what readers find interesting. Turner Novak describes it as automating building in public, taking the conversations and synthesizing them, and Jeff agrees.

The posts that draw other investors and limited partners are firm-building topics, especially portfolio construction and the fight over seed versus growth. Chapter One anonymizes the companies. Jeff follows a Sequoia rule he names: never disparage a founder. Building a company is hard enough without a venture investor picking at it in public.