This Week in Beyond Wealth
What to do before a liquidity event.
Inside Long Angle's partnership with General Catalyst.
How to raise kids without overparenting.
Money & Markets
What do equity holders need to know before an IPO?
The 2026 IPO wave featuring SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others is creating one of the largest cohorts of pre-IPO equity holders in a generation.
The highest-leverage decisions happen 12 to 24 months before the lockup period ends. Options like entity restructurings, exercise sequencing, residency moves, and estate transfers narrow significantly after the IPO. The pre-lockup window should be treated as live planning time.
Here are the five moves that matter most and when to make them, based on Long Angle community discussions.
One pattern that comes up repeatedly in Long Angle discussions is that employees underestimate how much exposure they actually carry. Vested shares are just one layer, and unvested grants and career capital tied to the same company are another two. All three move together when the business underperforms.
Read the full pre-IPO planning guide: What to Do Before a Liquidity Event
Private Market Perspectives
Investing in a top-tier venture fund
Long Angle is excited to share that we’ve obtained access to General Catalyst, one of the top venture capital firms in the world. GC manages $43B+ in assets and has backed companies including Stripe, Anthropic, Anduril, Canva, HubSpot, and Circle.
Access to top-tier venture firms is notoriously difficult to obtain, even with sizable commitments. The best firms gain the best access to the top companies, making manager selection the primary driver of returns in venture. Last year, Long Angle broke into the top tier of VC investors with allocations to Lightspeed and directly into Anthropic. We view General Catalyst as our core venture allocation for 2026.
GC's latest multi-stage venture fund offers exposure to Applied AI and Global Resilience. Focus areas include AI infrastructure, defense and industrial resilience, healthcare transformation, and next-generation financial infrastructure.
Only Long Angle members have access to diligence materials and investment opportunities like this one.
Life, Health, & Family
What is lighthouse parenting?
Lighthouse parenting means being a steady, present guide for your child’s development.
The metaphor: the lighthouse stands on shore, stable and visible, while the boat navigates its own passage through open water. The lighthouse doesn’t steer and doesn’t get in the water. It stays lit so the boat can orient itself when things get difficult.
For families with significant resources, the risk of overparenting can be high. More time and more financial capacity make it easier to intervene in problems children should be solving themselves.
The lighthouse parenting framework rests on five pillars:
Connection: the sense a child carries that they can bring a real problem to you and be received.
Boundaries: limits with consequences, teaching judgment and not just rules.
Resilience: built through real exposure to difficulty.
Independence: requires being asked; most children are capable of more than parents request.
Mattering: comes from genuine contribution and being depended on, not from praise.
Read the full article for a deeper dive: Lighthouse Parenting: How to Raise Resilient Kids at Every Stage
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Chris Bendtsen
Insights Lead, Long Angle
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