Paula Hübner Wehmeyer
Building General Intuition | a16z New Media Fellow
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Paula Wehmeyer: General Intuition & the a16z Media Fellowship
Recently moved from General Catalyst's Europe team to New York, Paula Wehmeyer introduces General Intuition, an early-stage AI lab that raised $133M from GC and Khosla to build spatial-temporal models trained on gaming clips as a post-LLM paradigm. She explains how the investor-to-operator move happened, and unpacks a16z's new media fellowship — its ~65-person first cohort and a16z's 'media company monetizing through investing' comms playbook. The interview continues in part 2.
Paula on Posting as a VC and the Lap Coffee Story
Paula, a VC recently named a new media fellow, explains her thesis that society increasingly communicates through short-form video and why she started posting on Instagram: sharing career stories, curating startup lists, and building rapport one-to-many. She recounts her viral take defending Lap Coffee against Berlin's price-dumping backlash, which was quoted by FT Germany, and closes with advice to 'document, don't create' and get over the fear of being seen.