BUILD ↔ INVEST
The work connects.
Ideas become experiments.
Experiments open the next question.
Research at the frontier.
Invest at inception.
How to read the connections
Amber theme nodes gather work around a shared idea. Blue lines show software use or documented support. Purple marks a public account; green marks an account shared by Yohei. Dashed lines show an editorial reading of the connections.
PixelBeasts led to Pixels, according to Yohei. Cofounder’s founder told Yohei that Pippin’s architecture inspired v1. Attribution stays with each connection.
Public work is placed by its publication date. Companies use their first investment year from retained portfolio records. Cofounder and Akta sit with their parent companies’ investments. Research practice and FirmOS have an owner-directed 2026 map placement, not a publication or investment date. Themes take the earliest year among directly connected work and companies. Timing sources are in the details. This is a selected map of the portfolio.
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