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9 days ago
Meet the M...eta-Yankees
16 days ago
Socialism Blowback + Hiring & Sourcing in Age of AI...
23 days ago
AI Pokemon (catch'em all) & Hierarchy of Business Models
30 days ago
Scale, Sambot, Harvard Reunion
38 days ago
Bears and Books no E, no T
43 days ago
who is single?... and steven pinker
52 days ago
Vibecode Reality, OF, and Incumbents
59 days ago
experiences' airbnb, farming, brokers
66 days ago
Tel Aviv
71 days ago
Antisemitism and AI
79 days ago
WTFVC 2025, Anti-Trust, and Ruck Rock
87 days ago
Harvard, and Decolonization
100 days ago
Tariffs and Spies...
106 days ago
Mostly Skiing... a few other thoughts
115 days ago
Spies, Teams and Themes
119 days ago
Space Bet, Softbank, and Bill Maher
128 days ago
Again and Again, Nothing is New
136 days ago
Narrative Selloff, HP, and Harvard
150 days ago
Slow Creator I, Merit First, and Memes
154 days ago
Understanding Memecoins, and Merit First
163 days ago
Deepseek, Memes, and oh my Jelly-Jelly...
171 days ago
Tiktok, Trade Wars, and Financial Nihilism
185 days ago
The 2025 Gameplan, Free Speech, and Degen Investing
205 days ago
Elon 'Zaphod' Musk and AI pragmatism
213 days ago
Sora, United Health, Survivability of Seed Capital
220 days ago
Aaron Levie, Voight-Kampff, Retail Fomo
227 days ago
Venmo, Sling & Techbro Culture
234 days ago
Fwd Health, VC Regatta Model, Value Seed Investing
240 days ago
Summers, DOGE, Storytelling
248 days ago
Election Thoughts...
255 days ago
Tech Earnings, Destroying Trust in Reality
262 days ago
Vision Pro Failure, AI Cherry on Top
269 days ago
Planet Elon & Seed 'Value' Investing
276 days ago
Google Antitrust, The State of Seed
283 days ago
Monster F-it Funding Rounds, Golf Curious VC
290 days ago
Meta, Death of SaaS and YC...
295 days ago
the children, aleo, and hustle culture
303 days ago
Beast is Buzzfeed... Google SEO sadness
311 days ago
Founder Mode, Packy and Harry discoveries...
318 days ago
VC Reset, and Some Hiring
332 days ago
Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop In
346 days ago
AI Earnings, Harvard Wins
353 days ago
Opensource AI, Topaz, and Netanyahu
360 days ago
Trump, Kiki, and the Olympics
374 days ago
Patriotism and Summer
378 days ago
Hearsay, Debates and Hacks
591 days ago
Followup from Capital Light Conference
593 days ago
Reminder - Capital Light Conference Tomorrow AM
598 days ago
Invite to The Capital Light Conference on the 29th
598 days ago
Capital Light Conference on the 29th
612 days ago
Post-Factory VC' Conference Invite...
619 days ago
Followup from the 'State of VC' deck
633 days ago
Followup from the 'State of VC' deck
635 days ago
The State of VC in 2023 - a Techno-Realist Manifesto
635 days ago
What To Do About Misinformation in the Upcoming Election Cycle?
653 days ago
Scott Belsky & Why Your AI Startup is Probably Already Dead*
668 days ago
The Apple Episode (Carbon Neutralish)
682 days ago
Notes from Beijing, Energy Vampires and a Venture Capital Therapy Session
689 days ago
Why Hybrid Work Doesn't Work, Long Live the Phone Call
696 days ago
You should kill your startup, What replaces globalization
710 days ago
Where's the Barbie business pop? Where brands beat marketplaces
717 days ago
Episode 7: Elon's X game and RIP seed investing
720 days ago
More or Less Podcast
896 days ago
The Best Time to Build
928 days ago
Creator Financing Is Going Mainstream
977 days ago
From Theranos to FTX: Silicon Valley’s ‘No Additional Work Required’ Late-Stage VC Culture and What to Do About It
1175 days ago
Elon Musk Is Silicon Valley’s New Hero—for Better or Worse
1236 days ago
How to Put Physical Assets on the Blockchain
1320 days ago
Facebook’s Decade-Old Missteps Should Be a Lesson for Web3
1340 days ago
The Metaverse Is Coming. What Happens Next?
1347 days ago
Investing Directly in People Is the Future of VC. Here’s How to Do It.
1356 days ago
What Sequoia Gains by Blowing Up the VC Fund Structure
1370 days ago
A test title
1440 days ago
The End of Venture Capital as We Know It
1573 days ago
‘MrBeast’ Explains His Plans to Help YouTube Creators Raise Equity Finance
1575 days ago
The Future of Investing Directly In People
1595 days ago
Collectibles, Crypto NFTs, and the Monetization of Influence
1607 days ago
Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms
1630 days ago
Equity Financing for Influencers
1644 days ago
How Blocking Trump Puts the Future of the Internet at Risk
1665 days ago
How Covid Accelerated Changes Already in the Making
1706 days ago
The Societal Problem of Only Needing 1,000 True Fans to Be Successful Online
1728 days ago
How to Prevent Social Media’s Editorial Role From Becoming Censorship of Speech
1746 days ago
Lessons From the Rise of OnlyFans
1778 days ago
California’s 2020 Budget Solution: A Startup Equity Tax
1799 days ago
Why Instagram’s Reels Rollout Will Slow, but Not Stop, TikTok’s Growth
1819 days ago
The Simple and Practical Steps the Federal Government Should Take to Fix Online Speech
1825 days ago
The Escalating War Between Our Physical and Digital Realities
1848 days ago
On Feed Ranking and Free Speech
1862 days ago
The Slippery Slope to Censored Speech
1869 days ago
The Over-Under on New Voice-Chat App Clubhouse
1881 days ago
How Covid-19 Is Changing Seed Companies and Financing in Silicon Valley
1895 days ago
How Google and Apple Need to Play the Covid Contact Tracing Debate’s Next Phase
1901 days ago
The Long-Term Implications of Extended Work From Home
1925 days ago
Technology’s Role in Shaping the Impact of Covid-19
1953 days ago
How Coronavirus Epidemics Could Alter the Future of Tech
1981 days ago
The 10 Ways TikTok Will Change Social Product Design
2008 days ago
My Predictions for the Next Decade
2008 days ago
Grading My 2010 Predictions—and What I Learned
2037 days ago
In Defense of Deep Fakes
2051 days ago
Four Paths Forward for ‘Social Products’
2079 days ago
The Key Themes That Matter for the Future of Work
2092 days ago
The Challenges Facing Free Speech
2120 days ago
The Home Camera Wars
2128 days ago
A Solution for Gig Economy Labor: Lightning Strikes
2184 days ago
On Inequality and Risk Capacity
2191 days ago
The Future of Free Speech
2261 days ago
Remote Work and the Politics of Decentralization
2275 days ago
Why the Internet Could Help Small Businesses Regain Power
2296 days ago
What Will Happen to the Social Wealth of Instagram Influencers as They Age?
2310 days ago
The Cost and Risk of Regulations That Make Information ‘Own-able’
2320 days ago
A Warning on the Dangers of Ephemeral Messaging
2331 days ago
ISAs and the Future of Securitization
2345 days ago
The Pressure on the News Industry Is a Symptom of Disempowerment
2345 days ago
Modest Conversations: Income Share Agreements
2352 days ago
How to Introduce a Wealth Tax
2366 days ago
How Political Content Fills the Void Left by Micro-Targeting
2394 days ago
What Technologists Can Learn From Religions
2401 days ago
My Predictions for Crypto in 2019
2415 days ago
We Need Better Measures of Social and Environmental Impacts
2436 days ago
Is Uber Cash a Crypto Play?
2464 days ago
The Coming of the Human Knowledge-Work Cloud
2505 days ago
How the Internet Broke and What to Do About It
2511 days ago
Introducing “B is for Bitcoin”
2520 days ago
The Future of Privacy: Disinformation
2541 days ago
Scooters: The New Self-Driving Cars
2582 days ago
It’s Time for an American Internet Privacy Framework
2604 days ago
Instagram Is the Real Virtual Reality, Not Oculus
2624 days ago
Venmo Trust and The Blockchain
2653 days ago
Governing the Internet
2688 days ago
The Double-Edged Sword of Using Blockchains for Identity Portability
2709 days ago
The Intellectual Tension Between Social Networking and Blockchains
2716 days ago
Stable Coins, Oracles, Trust, and Identity
2723 days ago
Open vs. Closed in National Tech Strategies: the U.S. and China
2737 days ago
The Future of Hybrid Centralized-Decentralized Apps
2765 days ago
Blockchains and the Right to Be Forgotten
2779 days ago
14 Ways the Cryptocurrency Market Will Change in 2018
2793 days ago
Modest Conversations: Runaway Objective Functions & Human Agency with Tim O’Reilly
2807 days ago
The Tower of Babel: Five Challenges of the Modern Internet
2807 days ago
Modest Conversations: Attention and Addiction
2829 days ago
Modest Conversations: The Human Side of Building Technology
2835 days ago
The Future of Work
2863 days ago
The Future of Free Speech
2899 days ago
On Bitcoin Cash & New Ways Crypto-Projects Move Forward
2905 days ago
The Future of Truth
2907 days ago
On Product Management - Rousseau Kazi
2913 days ago
Building Platform Products - Raylene Yung of Stripe & Facebook
2920 days ago
Viewpoint From The Silicon Valley Entering Class of ‘17
2927 days ago
Modest Conversations: Solving The Problems of Modern Cities
2933 days ago
Seven Key Questions in the Cryptocurrency World
2935 days ago
Modest Conversations: What You Know vs. Who You Know
2941 days ago
Modest Conversations: On Metrics & Building What Your Competitors Can’t Measure
2955 days ago
Modest Conversations: Jobs, Inequality, and UBI
2961 days ago
A Game Plan for VR and AR in 2017
2962 days ago
Modest Conversations: Cryptocurrency & ICOs vs. Venture Capital
2968 days ago
Modest Conversations: Building Great Relationships With Kids
2975 days ago
Time to Pay Attention to Cryptocurrencies
2976 days ago
Modest Conversations: The Near Future of AI
2983 days ago
Modest Conversations: Morning Routines of 2027 and 2047
2988 days ago
The Wrinkle In Forecasting Autonomous Cars
2990 days ago
Modest Conversations: 09 - Have We Reached The Limits of VC? - Bryce Roberts of OATV & Indie.vc
2997 days ago
08 - Entrepreneurial Resilience - Leila Janah, Founder Samasource and LXMI
3003 days ago
The Bay Area Should Levy a 5% Equity Tax on Startups
3004 days ago
Modest Conversations: The Future of Real Estate
3010 days ago
Modest Conversations: Is Meditation The Next Yoga?
3017 days ago
The Second Coming of IT
3018 days ago
Modest Conversations: New York Tech & Social Media Fame
3024 days ago
Why Twitter Should Start Charging
3025 days ago
Modest Conversations: Virtual and Physical Communities
3032 days ago
Modest Conversations: Unions, Regulatory Capture, and Tech
3038 days ago
Who Pays for Redesigning Streets for Self-Driving Cars?
3038 days ago
Modest Conversations: Who Drives Corporate Benefits and Responsibility?
3045 days ago
The Information Presents: Modest Conversations
3052 days ago
Slowing Down the Digital Escapist Movement
3066 days ago
The Return of History: Google Photos and Personal Big Data
3073 days ago
The Similarity Between Silicon Valley and Trump
3101 days ago
Our Silent Future
3114 days ago
Bot Check-In: A Year of Disappointment
3121 days ago
In 2017, Tech Will Seek to Regain Moral High Ground
3129 days ago
Why Amazon Should Launch a Bank—But Won’t
3143 days ago
Free Speech and Democracy in the Age of Micro-Targeting
3157 days ago
The Rise of Information Imperialism
3171 days ago
The First Modern Election
3178 days ago
Where Airbnb May Be More Vulnerable than Uber
3192 days ago
Why Today’s Tech Narrative is Way Ahead of Reality
3206 days ago
How Data Analytics is Changing Startup Financing
3220 days ago
Uber’s Self-Driving Car Puzzle
3234 days ago
What Everyone Is Missing about Venture Returns
3248 days ago
Why I Like, but Won’t Use, Instagram Stories For Now
3255 days ago
Olympic Coverage: The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
3268 days ago
Why the Bonus Culture Will Spread
3283 days ago
How to Profit from Political Correctness
3296 days ago
Bots in 2016: Mid-Year Check In
3311 days ago
The Negative Side of Incubators
3325 days ago
Era of Lean Startups Nears an End
3339 days ago
The Non-Monetizable Product Blind Spot
3353 days ago
Why the Home Wars Aren’t the Phone Wars
3367 days ago
The New Business of Editing
3381 days ago
The Coming End of Capitalism
3395 days ago
Why Tech Needs Epic Failures
3409 days ago
Why We Should Abolish Time Zones
3430 days ago
Startups Need to Fire More Customers
3444 days ago
Why Startups Are Doomed, Part Two
3465 days ago
On Bots, Conversational Apps and Fin
3479 days ago
Personal Voice Analysis for the New Year
3493 days ago
Star Wars’ Private Tech Valuation Formula
3493 days ago
Why Aren’t We Talking More About Autonomous Passenger Planes?
3507 days ago
The Good Enough Stuff Revolution
3521 days ago
Kodak’s Lesson for Detroit
3535 days ago
The New Winners and Losers in the Boredom Market
3549 days ago
How Growth Will Burst the Tech Bubble
3563 days ago
Why It’s Hard to Fix Failing Tech Cos.
3577 days ago
The Case Against Product-Market Fit
3591 days ago
Paying Up Front is a Legacy Concept
3612 days ago
Understanding the Hidden ‘Costs’ of Products
3626 days ago
Oculus Is for the Elderly
3640 days ago
The Hidden Costs of Pivoting
3654 days ago
Startups Need Shade—Not Just Time—To Grow
3668 days ago
Why VCs are the New Investment Bankers
3682 days ago
‘It’s a Trap’: The Danger Zone for Series B and C Startups
3696 days ago
Pricing for Consumer Perception
3717 days ago
The End of the Bazaar
3731 days ago
The Downside of Positive Feedback
3745 days ago
A Call for New Type of Mapping Platform
3759 days ago
The Economics of Sharing: Past and Present
3766 days ago
How Startups Get Their Metrics Wrong
3780 days ago
Why Tech Comp is Broken and Ideas To Fix It
3794 days ago
Why Late-Stage Investing is Becoming More Like Seed-Stage
3808 days ago
Leapfrogging the U.S.: Transportation in Sao Paulo
3822 days ago
Labor Economics and How Uber is Going to Disrupt Starbucks
3836 days ago
Native Advertising: A Convenient Pitch I’m Not Buying
3850 days ago
My 2020 Predictions: A Reality Check
3857 days ago
Technology, Taxi Medallions and the Ancien Régime
3864 days ago
How Digital Photography Is Altering Our Memory
3870 days ago
Economy Soars, Uber Drops in The Information Survey
3871 days ago
The Race to Become the Apple of Drones
3878 days ago
As Technology Kills GDP, What’s Next?
3885 days ago
When Tech Companies Enter Zero-Sum Markets
3892 days ago
Uber As Gatekeeper to the Physical World
3898 days ago
The Information Subscribers Say…
3899 days ago
Native Apps: A Game Startups Can’t Win
3906 days ago
Big Brands Have Become Liabilities
3913 days ago
Growth: Design It, Buy It or Get Stuck
3920 days ago
What I’ve Learned Since Leaving Facebook
3927 days ago
Time to Hang up on Voice
3934 days ago
How the Sharing Economy Threatens the Traditional Economy
3941 days ago
The Second Coming of Non-Consensus Currencies
3948 days ago
Why Universities Should Wise Up and Retain Their ‘Users’
3955 days ago
The ‘Uber Effect’ on the Property Market
3962 days ago
Selfies, Emoji and the Economics of Communication