I'm a Managing Director and General Partner at PWV where I invest in early stage technology startups alongside Tom Preston-Werner and David Price.
Previously, I was part of the 🌲 RedwoodJS Core Team and consulted at ⚡️Supabase.
Before then I was part of a few 🏟 sports, 🔋 energy-related and 🤔 consulting startups that saw a few exits.
I enjoy ☕️ and collecting 🖍 street art, 🧷 punk/new wave/rock poster art and ephemera (mainly Madchester, The Haçienda, and Factory Records), vintage 🥁 🤖 drum machines & 🎹 synths.
Latest Updates

The Most Important Idea in Advertising
RedwoodJS lighting-talk: A playful exploration of how umlauts might just be the most powerful marketing tool you've never considered.

Update: Startups as a Band / Startups as a Service
In my prior post, I failed to consider the quartet as a startup as a band model.

Noriko and the City of the Dog: Freedom, Autonomy, and Exile
An analysis of dog symbolism in Ozu Yasujiro's Early Summer (1952), examining themes of freedom, autonomy, and exile through the film's opening sequence.

On Sirens: Musical Devices in Ulysses by James Joyce
A look at the musical devices in Joyce's 'Sirens'

The Womb in the Dunes: Transformations in Suna no Onna
An analysis of symbolism and transformation in Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes
Experiments
- Baseball Pi Day - 5,000 decimals of PI as pairs of in-game baseball inning scores. A hack for Boston Baseball Hackday 2019 Baseball Pi Day Hackathon
- PWV Portfolio Feed - A feed of BlueSky posts from the PWV Portfolio companies. PWV Portfolio BlueSky
- Music Collection - An experiment to fetch music collection from a Turso database loaded with an old iTunes Music Library export. Turso Database
- Bedtime Storymaker - A simple app that generates bedtime stories like you're a kid again. Val Town fal
- Movie Mashup - A simple app that generates a mashup of two movies. It's a fun way to see how different movies can be combined. Val Town fal
- Play Me A Song - Search and if we find it, it'll open the song in Spotify!. Val Town Spotify
- Factory Records Cassette Colors - A list of the colors of the cassette releases from Factory Records. Factory Records
About me
Thyresson
is a 🇸🇪-ish surname pronounced "tear-eh-son"
or simply: 😢 ☀️. It comes from
Norse Mythology: ᛏ "son of
Týr".
I've been to lots of 🛫 airports: ABQ AKL AMS ANC ARN ASP ATL AUS BER BHE BKK BIS BNA BOS BUF BWI CHC CDG CLE CPH CVG DEL DEN DFW DTW ENA EWR FLL GVA HBA HEL IAD IAH ICT IND IVC JFK KUL LAS LAX LHR LGA LGB LGW MCO MEL MEM MIA MFR MSP MSY NRT ONT ORD OSL PDX PHL PHX RDU RSW SAT SEA SFO SIN SJU SLC SRQ STL STX SVO SYD TPA WLG YEG YUL YYZ ZIA ZUR
I graduated from Phillips Andover and Middlebury.
I've seen the 🏒
Boston Bruins play in three
lose two Stanley Cup Finals.
My first computers were the Timex Sinclair, Apple IIc, Apple IIGS, Amiga 2000, and Mac SE/30.