Lisa Sutton Gunderson has never worn a uniform. But as a General Partner at The Veteran Fund — a seed-stage VC backing veteran-led critical technology companies in defense tech, autonomy, space, and…
The veteran hiring system isn't broken because nobody cares. It's broken by design. Brian Nichols has sat on the other side of the table for his entire career — as a Navy recruiter, at Wounded Warrior…
Keith Dupont left the Army after a strong run as a top-rated company commander and battalion operations officer. What followed was a compressed transition, 100 job applications, and... silence. We…
Kyle Packard and I get into what actually creates leverage after service, what people get wrong about money and planning, and why a lot of vets are in a much stronger position than they realize. Kyle…
The wrong map. The wrong assumptions. The wrong expectations. In this Field Notes episode we move from diagnosing the environment to owning your position inside it: speed, risk, timing, tradeoffs, and…
Endless advice. Endless engagement. No accountability... In this Field Notes episode, we examine the military transition “industry”: the attention loops, the placement pipelines, and the incentives,…
A senior title. A respected logo. Proximity to power. But the scope, authority, and compensation don’t match what you’ve already demonstrated you can do. In this Field Notes episode, we unpack how…
We’ve been handed a story about the military-to-civilian transition... one that sounds clean, seamless, and inevitable. It rarely is. In this first Field Notes episode, we unpack the myth of the…
