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125 days ago

Meet the M...eta-Yankees

132 days ago

Socialism Blowback + Hiring & Sourcing in Age of AI...

140 days ago

AI Pokemon (catch'em all) & Hierarchy of Business Models

146 days ago

Scale, Sambot, Harvard Reunion

154 days ago

Bears and Books no E, no T

159 days ago

who is single?... and steven pinker

168 days ago

Vibecode Reality, OF, and Incumbents

175 days ago

experiences' airbnb, farming, brokers

182 days ago

Tel Aviv

187 days ago

Antisemitism and AI

196 days ago

WTFVC 2025, Anti-Trust, and Ruck Rock

203 days ago

Harvard, and Decolonization

217 days ago

Tariffs and Spies...

222 days ago

Mostly Skiing... a few other thoughts

231 days ago

Spies, Teams and Themes

236 days ago

Space Bet, Softbank, and Bill Maher

245 days ago

Again and Again, Nothing is New

252 days ago

Narrative Selloff, HP, and Harvard

266 days ago

Slow Creator I, Merit First, and Memes

270 days ago

Understanding Memecoins, and Merit First

280 days ago

Deepseek, Memes, and oh my Jelly-Jelly...

287 days ago

Tiktok, Trade Wars, and Financial Nihilism

301 days ago

The 2025 Gameplan, Free Speech, and Degen Investing

322 days ago

Elon 'Zaphod' Musk and AI pragmatism

329 days ago

Sora, United Health, Survivability of Seed Capital

336 days ago

Aaron Levie, Voight-Kampff, Retail Fomo

343 days ago

Venmo, Sling & Techbro Culture

350 days ago

Fwd Health, VC Regatta Model, Value Seed Investing

357 days ago

Summers, DOGE, Storytelling

364 days ago

Election Thoughts...

371 days ago

Tech Earnings, Destroying Trust in Reality

378 days ago

Vision Pro Failure, AI Cherry on Top

385 days ago

Planet Elon & Seed 'Value' Investing

392 days ago

Google Antitrust, The State of Seed

399 days ago

Monster F-it Funding Rounds, Golf Curious VC

406 days ago

Meta, Death of SaaS and YC...

411 days ago

the children, aleo, and hustle culture

419 days ago

Beast is Buzzfeed... Google SEO sadness

427 days ago

Founder Mode, Packy and Harry discoveries...

434 days ago

VC Reset, and Some Hiring

448 days ago

Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop In

462 days ago

AI Earnings, Harvard Wins

469 days ago

Opensource AI, Topaz, and Netanyahu

476 days ago

Trump, Kiki, and the Olympics

490 days ago

Patriotism and Summer

495 days ago

Hearsay, Debates and Hacks

707 days ago

Followup from Capital Light Conference

710 days ago

Reminder - Capital Light Conference Tomorrow AM

714 days ago

Invite to The Capital Light Conference on the 29th

714 days ago

Capital Light Conference on the 29th

728 days ago

Post-Factory VC' Conference Invite...

735 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

749 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

751 days ago

The State of VC in 2023 - a Techno-Realist Manifesto

751 days ago

What To Do About Misinformation in the Upcoming Election Cycle?

770 days ago

Scott Belsky & Why Your AI Startup is Probably Already Dead*

784 days ago

The Apple Episode (Carbon Neutralish)

798 days ago

Notes from Beijing, Energy Vampires and a Venture Capital Therapy Session

805 days ago

Why Hybrid Work Doesn't Work, Long Live the Phone Call

812 days ago

You should kill your startup, What replaces globalization

826 days ago

Where's the Barbie business pop? Where brands beat marketplaces

833 days ago

Episode 7: Elon's X game and RIP seed investing

836 days ago

More or Less Podcast

1012 days ago

The Best Time to Build

1044 days ago

Creator Financing Is Going Mainstream

1093 days ago

From Theranos to FTX: Silicon Valley’s ‘No Additional Work Required’ Late-Stage VC Culture and What to Do About It

1291 days ago

Elon Musk Is Silicon Valley’s New Hero—for Better or Worse

1352 days ago

How to Put Physical Assets on the Blockchain

1436 days ago

Facebook’s Decade-Old Missteps Should Be a Lesson for Web3

1456 days ago

The Metaverse Is Coming. What Happens Next?

1463 days ago

Investing Directly in People Is the Future of VC. Here’s How to Do It.

1472 days ago

What Sequoia Gains by Blowing Up the VC Fund Structure

1487 days ago

A test title

1556 days ago

The End of Venture Capital as We Know It

1689 days ago

‘MrBeast’ Explains His Plans to Help YouTube Creators Raise Equity Finance

1691 days ago

The Future of Investing Directly In People

1711 days ago

Collectibles, Crypto NFTs, and the Monetization of Influence

1723 days ago

Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms

1746 days ago

Equity Financing for Influencers

1760 days ago

How Blocking Trump Puts the Future of the Internet at Risk

1781 days ago

How Covid Accelerated Changes Already in the Making

1822 days ago

The Societal Problem of Only Needing 1,000 True Fans to Be Successful Online

1844 days ago

How to Prevent Social Media’s Editorial Role From Becoming Censorship of Speech

1862 days ago

Lessons From the Rise of OnlyFans

1894 days ago

California’s 2020 Budget Solution: A Startup Equity Tax

1915 days ago

Why Instagram’s Reels Rollout Will Slow, but Not Stop, TikTok’s Growth

1935 days ago

The Simple and Practical Steps the Federal Government Should Take to Fix Online Speech

1941 days ago

The Escalating War Between Our Physical and Digital Realities

1964 days ago

On Feed Ranking and Free Speech

1978 days ago

The Slippery Slope to Censored Speech

1985 days ago

The Over-Under on New Voice-Chat App Clubhouse

1997 days ago

How Covid-19 Is Changing Seed Companies and Financing in Silicon Valley

2011 days ago

How Google and Apple Need to Play the Covid Contact Tracing Debate’s Next Phase

2017 days ago

The Long-Term Implications of Extended Work From Home

2041 days ago

Technology’s Role in Shaping the Impact of Covid-19

2069 days ago

How Coronavirus Epidemics Could Alter the Future of Tech

2097 days ago

The 10 Ways TikTok Will Change Social Product Design

2124 days ago

My Predictions for the Next Decade

2124 days ago

Grading My 2010 Predictions—and What I Learned

2153 days ago

In Defense of Deep Fakes

2167 days ago

Four Paths Forward for ‘Social Products’

2195 days ago

The Key Themes That Matter for the Future of Work

2208 days ago

The Challenges Facing Free Speech

2236 days ago

The Home Camera Wars

2244 days ago

A Solution for Gig Economy Labor: Lightning Strikes

2300 days ago

On Inequality and Risk Capacity

2307 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

2377 days ago

Remote Work and the Politics of Decentralization

2391 days ago

Why the Internet Could Help Small Businesses Regain Power

2412 days ago

What Will Happen to the Social Wealth of Instagram Influencers as They Age?

2426 days ago

The Cost and Risk of Regulations That Make Information ‘Own-able’

2436 days ago

A Warning on the Dangers of Ephemeral Messaging

2447 days ago

ISAs and the Future of Securitization

2461 days ago

The Pressure on the News Industry Is a Symptom of Disempowerment

2462 days ago

Modest Conversations: Income Share Agreements

2468 days ago

How to Introduce a Wealth Tax

2482 days ago

How Political Content Fills the Void Left by Micro-Targeting

2510 days ago

What Technologists Can Learn From Religions

2517 days ago

My Predictions for Crypto in 2019

2531 days ago

We Need Better Measures of Social and Environmental Impacts

2552 days ago

Is Uber Cash a Crypto Play?

2580 days ago

The Coming of the Human Knowledge-Work Cloud

2621 days ago

How the Internet Broke and What to Do About It

2627 days ago

Introducing “B is for Bitcoin”

2636 days ago

The Future of Privacy: Disinformation

2657 days ago

Scooters: The New Self-Driving Cars

2698 days ago

It’s Time for an American Internet Privacy Framework

2720 days ago

Instagram Is the Real Virtual Reality, Not Oculus

2740 days ago

Venmo Trust and The Blockchain

2769 days ago

Governing the Internet

2804 days ago

The Double-Edged Sword of Using Blockchains for Identity Portability

2825 days ago

The Intellectual Tension Between Social Networking and Blockchains

2832 days ago

Stable Coins, Oracles, Trust, and Identity

2839 days ago

Open vs. Closed in National Tech Strategies: the U.S. and China

2853 days ago

The Future of Hybrid Centralized-Decentralized Apps

2881 days ago

Blockchains and the Right to Be Forgotten

2895 days ago

14 Ways the Cryptocurrency Market Will Change in 2018

2910 days ago

Modest Conversations: Runaway Objective Functions & Human Agency with Tim O’Reilly

2923 days ago

The Tower of Babel: Five Challenges of the Modern Internet

2924 days ago

Modest Conversations: Attention and Addiction

2945 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Human Side of Building Technology

2951 days ago

The Future of Work

2979 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

3015 days ago

On Bitcoin Cash & New Ways Crypto-Projects Move Forward

3021 days ago

The Future of Truth

3023 days ago

On Product Management - Rousseau Kazi

3029 days ago

Building Platform Products - Raylene Yung of Stripe & Facebook

3036 days ago

Viewpoint From The Silicon Valley Entering Class of ‘17

3043 days ago

Modest Conversations: Solving The Problems of Modern Cities

3049 days ago

Seven Key Questions in the Cryptocurrency World

3051 days ago

Modest Conversations: What You Know vs. Who You Know

3057 days ago

Modest Conversations: On Metrics & Building What Your Competitors Can’t Measure

3071 days ago

Modest Conversations: Jobs, Inequality, and UBI

3077 days ago

A Game Plan for VR and AR in 2017

3078 days ago

Modest Conversations: Cryptocurrency & ICOs vs. Venture Capital

3084 days ago

Modest Conversations: Building Great Relationships With Kids

3091 days ago

Time to Pay Attention to Cryptocurrencies

3092 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Near Future of AI

3099 days ago

Modest Conversations: Morning Routines of 2027 and 2047

3104 days ago

The Wrinkle In Forecasting Autonomous Cars

3106 days ago

Modest Conversations: 09 - Have We Reached The Limits of VC? - Bryce Roberts of OATV & Indie.vc

3113 days ago

08 - Entrepreneurial Resilience - Leila Janah, Founder Samasource and LXMI

3119 days ago

The Bay Area Should Levy a 5% Equity Tax on Startups

3120 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Future of Real Estate

3127 days ago

Modest Conversations: Is Meditation The Next Yoga?

3133 days ago

The Second Coming of IT

3134 days ago

Modest Conversations: New York Tech & Social Media Fame

3140 days ago

Why Twitter Should Start Charging

3141 days ago

Modest Conversations: Virtual and Physical Communities

3148 days ago

Modest Conversations: Unions, Regulatory Capture, and Tech

3154 days ago

Who Pays for Redesigning Streets for Self-Driving Cars?

3155 days ago

Modest Conversations: Who Drives Corporate Benefits and Responsibility?

3162 days ago

The Information Presents: Modest Conversations

3168 days ago

Slowing Down the Digital Escapist Movement

3182 days ago

The Return of History: Google Photos and Personal Big Data

3189 days ago

The Similarity Between Silicon Valley and Trump

3217 days ago

Our Silent Future

3230 days ago

Bot Check-In: A Year of Disappointment

3237 days ago

In 2017, Tech Will Seek to Regain Moral High Ground

3245 days ago

Why Amazon Should Launch a Bank—But Won’t

3259 days ago

Free Speech and Democracy in the Age of Micro-Targeting

3273 days ago

The Rise of Information Imperialism

3287 days ago

The First Modern Election

3294 days ago

Where Airbnb May Be More Vulnerable than Uber

3308 days ago

Why Today’s Tech Narrative is Way Ahead of Reality

3322 days ago

How Data Analytics is Changing Startup Financing

3336 days ago

Uber’s Self-Driving Car Puzzle

3350 days ago

What Everyone Is Missing about Venture Returns

3364 days ago

Why I Like, but Won’t Use, Instagram Stories For Now

3371 days ago

Olympic Coverage: The Best of Times and the Worst of Times

3384 days ago

Why the Bonus Culture Will Spread

3399 days ago

How to Profit from Political Correctness

3412 days ago

Bots in 2016: Mid-Year Check In

3427 days ago

The Negative Side of Incubators

3441 days ago

Era of Lean Startups Nears an End

3455 days ago

The Non-Monetizable Product Blind Spot

3469 days ago

Why the Home Wars Aren’t the Phone Wars

3483 days ago

The New Business of Editing

3497 days ago

The Coming End of Capitalism

3511 days ago

Why Tech Needs Epic Failures

3525 days ago

Why We Should Abolish Time Zones

3546 days ago

Startups Need to Fire More Customers

3560 days ago

Why Startups Are Doomed, Part Two

3581 days ago

On Bots, Conversational Apps and Fin

3595 days ago

Personal Voice Analysis for the New Year

3609 days ago

Star Wars’ Private Tech Valuation Formula

3609 days ago

Why Aren’t We Talking More About Autonomous Passenger Planes?

3623 days ago

The Good Enough Stuff Revolution

3637 days ago

Kodak’s Lesson for Detroit

3651 days ago

The New Winners and Losers in the Boredom Market

3665 days ago

How Growth Will Burst the Tech Bubble

3679 days ago

Why It’s Hard to Fix Failing Tech Cos.

3693 days ago

The Case Against Product-Market Fit

3707 days ago

Paying Up Front is a Legacy Concept

3728 days ago

Understanding the Hidden ‘Costs’ of Products

3742 days ago

Oculus Is for the Elderly

3756 days ago

The Hidden Costs of Pivoting

3770 days ago

Startups Need Shade—Not Just Time—To Grow

3784 days ago

Why VCs are the New Investment Bankers

3798 days ago

‘It’s a Trap’: The Danger Zone for Series B and C Startups

3812 days ago

Pricing for Consumer Perception

3833 days ago

The End of the Bazaar

3847 days ago

The Downside of Positive Feedback

3861 days ago

A Call for New Type of Mapping Platform

3875 days ago

The Economics of Sharing: Past and Present

3882 days ago

How Startups Get Their Metrics Wrong

3896 days ago

Why Tech Comp is Broken and Ideas To Fix It

3910 days ago

Why Late-Stage Investing is Becoming More Like Seed-Stage

3924 days ago

Leapfrogging the U.S.: Transportation in Sao Paulo

3938 days ago

Labor Economics and How Uber is Going to Disrupt Starbucks

3952 days ago

Native Advertising: A Convenient Pitch I’m Not Buying

3966 days ago

My 2020 Predictions: A Reality Check

3973 days ago

Technology, Taxi Medallions and the Ancien Régime

3980 days ago

How Digital Photography Is Altering Our Memory

3986 days ago

Economy Soars, Uber Drops in The Information Survey

3987 days ago

The Race to Become the Apple of Drones

3994 days ago

As Technology Kills GDP, What’s Next?

4001 days ago

When Tech Companies Enter Zero-Sum Markets

4008 days ago

Uber As Gatekeeper to the Physical World

4014 days ago

The Information Subscribers Say…

4015 days ago

Native Apps: A Game Startups Can’t Win

4022 days ago

Big Brands Have Become Liabilities

4029 days ago

Growth: Design It, Buy It or Get Stuck

4036 days ago

What I’ve Learned Since Leaving Facebook

4043 days ago

Time to Hang up on Voice

4050 days ago

How the Sharing Economy Threatens the Traditional Economy

4057 days ago

The Second Coming of Non-Consensus Currencies

4064 days ago

Why Universities Should Wise Up and Retain Their ‘Users’

4071 days ago

The ‘Uber Effect’ on the Property Market

4078 days ago

Selfies, Emoji and the Economics of Communication