Itamar Novick is a solo GP at Recursive Ventures who took his entire net worth plus borrowed money to buy out a Life360 co-founder, then stayed 12 years to help grow the company from seed to a multi-billion-dollar public company through IPO. He operates his fund using AI agents to automate roughly 80% of traditional VC associate work while co-developing a structured catalogue of 75 startup antipatterns that he uses to coach founders on systematically avoiding predictable failures. Itamar Novick is a solo GP at Recursive Ventures who took his entire net worth plus borrowed money to buy out a Life360 co-founder, then stayed 12 years to help grow the company from seed to a multi-billion-dollar public company through IPO. He operates his fund using AI agents to automate roughly 80% of traditional VC associate work while co-developing a structured catalogue of 75 startup antipatterns that he uses to coach founders on systematically avoiding predictable failures.