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263 days ago

Meet the M...eta-Yankees

269 days ago

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

277 days ago

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

283 days ago

Scale, Sambot, Harvard Reunion

292 days ago

Bears and Books no E, no T

296 days ago

who is single?... and steven pinker

305 days ago

Vibecode Reality, OF, and Incumbents

312 days ago

experiences' airbnb, farming, brokers

319 days ago

Tel Aviv

324 days ago

Antisemitism and AI

333 days ago

WTFVC 2025, Anti-Trust, and Ruck Rock

341 days ago

Harvard, and Decolonization

354 days ago

Tariffs and Spies...

359 days ago

Mostly Skiing... a few other thoughts

368 days ago

Spies, Teams and Themes

373 days ago

Space Bet, Softbank, and Bill Maher

382 days ago

Again and Again, Nothing is New

389 days ago

Narrative Selloff, HP, and Harvard

403 days ago

Slow Creator I, Merit First, and Memes

408 days ago

Understanding Memecoins, and Merit First

417 days ago

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

425 days ago

Tiktok, Trade Wars, and Financial Nihilism

439 days ago

The 2025 Gameplan, Free Speech, and Degen Investing

459 days ago

Elon 'Zaphod' Musk and AI pragmatism

466 days ago

Sora, United Health, Survivability of Seed Capital

473 days ago

Aaron Levie, Voight-Kampff, Retail Fomo

481 days ago

Venmo, Sling & Techbro Culture

488 days ago

Fwd Health, VC Regatta Model, Value Seed Investing

494 days ago

Summers, DOGE, Storytelling

502 days ago

Election Thoughts...

508 days ago

Tech Earnings, Destroying Trust in Reality

515 days ago

Vision Pro Failure, AI Cherry on Top

523 days ago

Planet Elon & Seed 'Value' Investing

529 days ago

Google Antitrust, The State of Seed

536 days ago

Monster F-it Funding Rounds, Golf Curious VC

543 days ago

Meta, Death of SaaS and YC...

548 days ago

the children, aleo, and hustle culture

557 days ago

Beast is Buzzfeed... Google SEO sadness

564 days ago

Founder Mode, Packy and Harry discoveries...

572 days ago

VC Reset, and Some Hiring

586 days ago

Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop In

600 days ago

AI Earnings, Harvard Wins

607 days ago

Opensource AI, Topaz, and Netanyahu

613 days ago

Trump, Kiki, and the Olympics

628 days ago

Patriotism and Summer

632 days ago

Hearsay, Debates and Hacks

844 days ago

Followup from Capital Light Conference

847 days ago

Reminder - Capital Light Conference Tomorrow AM

851 days ago

Invite to The Capital Light Conference on the 29th

851 days ago

Capital Light Conference on the 29th

866 days ago

Post-Factory VC' Conference Invite...

872 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

886 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

889 days ago

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

889 days ago

What To Do About Misinformation in the Upcoming Election Cycle?

907 days ago

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

922 days ago

The Apple Episode (Carbon Neutralish)

936 days ago

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

942 days ago

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

949 days ago

You should kill your startup, What replaces globalization

964 days ago

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

971 days ago

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

974 days ago

More or Less Podcast

1150 days ago

The Best Time to Build

1182 days ago

Creator Financing Is Going Mainstream

1230 days ago

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

1429 days ago

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

1490 days ago

How to Put Physical Assets on the Blockchain

1574 days ago

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

1594 days ago

The Metaverse Is Coming. What Happens Next?

1601 days ago

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

1610 days ago

What Sequoia Gains by Blowing Up the VC Fund Structure

1624 days ago

A test title

1694 days ago

The End of Venture Capital as We Know It

1827 days ago

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

1829 days ago

The Future of Investing Directly In People

1849 days ago

Collectibles, Crypto NFTs, and the Monetization of Influence

1861 days ago

Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms

1884 days ago

Equity Financing for Influencers

1898 days ago

How Blocking Trump Puts the Future of the Internet at Risk

1919 days ago

How Covid Accelerated Changes Already in the Making

1960 days ago

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

1982 days ago

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

2000 days ago

Lessons From the Rise of OnlyFans

2032 days ago

California’s 2020 Budget Solution: A Startup Equity Tax

2053 days ago

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

2073 days ago

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

2079 days ago

The Escalating War Between Our Physical and Digital Realities

2102 days ago

On Feed Ranking and Free Speech

2116 days ago

The Slippery Slope to Censored Speech

2123 days ago

The Over-Under on New Voice-Chat App Clubhouse

2135 days ago

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

2149 days ago

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

2155 days ago

The Long-Term Implications of Extended Work From Home

2179 days ago

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

2207 days ago

How Coronavirus Epidemics Could Alter the Future of Tech

2235 days ago

The 10 Ways TikTok Will Change Social Product Design

2262 days ago

My Predictions for the Next Decade

2262 days ago

Grading My 2010 Predictions—and What I Learned

2291 days ago

In Defense of Deep Fakes

2305 days ago

Four Paths Forward for ‘Social Products’

2333 days ago

The Key Themes That Matter for the Future of Work

2346 days ago

The Challenges Facing Free Speech

2374 days ago

The Home Camera Wars

2382 days ago

A Solution for Gig Economy Labor: Lightning Strikes

2438 days ago

On Inequality and Risk Capacity

2445 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

2515 days ago

Remote Work and the Politics of Decentralization

2529 days ago

Why the Internet Could Help Small Businesses Regain Power

2550 days ago

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

2564 days ago

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

2574 days ago

A Warning on the Dangers of Ephemeral Messaging

2585 days ago

ISAs and the Future of Securitization

2599 days ago

The Pressure on the News Industry Is a Symptom of Disempowerment

2599 days ago

Modest Conversations: Income Share Agreements

2606 days ago

How to Introduce a Wealth Tax

2620 days ago

How Political Content Fills the Void Left by Micro-Targeting

2648 days ago

What Technologists Can Learn From Religions

2655 days ago

My Predictions for Crypto in 2019

2669 days ago

We Need Better Measures of Social and Environmental Impacts

2690 days ago

Is Uber Cash a Crypto Play?

2718 days ago

The Coming of the Human Knowledge-Work Cloud

2759 days ago

How the Internet Broke and What to Do About It

2765 days ago

Introducing “B is for Bitcoin”

2774 days ago

The Future of Privacy: Disinformation

2795 days ago

Scooters: The New Self-Driving Cars

2836 days ago

It’s Time for an American Internet Privacy Framework

2858 days ago

Instagram Is the Real Virtual Reality, Not Oculus

2878 days ago

Venmo Trust and The Blockchain

2907 days ago

Governing the Internet

2942 days ago

The Double-Edged Sword of Using Blockchains for Identity Portability

2963 days ago

The Intellectual Tension Between Social Networking and Blockchains

2970 days ago

Stable Coins, Oracles, Trust, and Identity

2977 days ago

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

2991 days ago

The Future of Hybrid Centralized-Decentralized Apps

3019 days ago

Blockchains and the Right to Be Forgotten

3033 days ago

14 Ways the Cryptocurrency Market Will Change in 2018

3047 days ago

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

3061 days ago

The Tower of Babel: Five Challenges of the Modern Internet

3061 days ago

Modest Conversations: Attention and Addiction

3083 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Human Side of Building Technology

3089 days ago

The Future of Work

3117 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

3152 days ago

On Bitcoin Cash & New Ways Crypto-Projects Move Forward

3159 days ago

The Future of Truth

3161 days ago

On Product Management - Rousseau Kazi

3167 days ago

Building Platform Products - Raylene Yung of Stripe & Facebook

3173 days ago

Viewpoint From The Silicon Valley Entering Class of ‘17

3180 days ago

Modest Conversations: Solving The Problems of Modern Cities

3187 days ago

Seven Key Questions in the Cryptocurrency World

3189 days ago

Modest Conversations: What You Know vs. Who You Know

3195 days ago

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

3209 days ago

Modest Conversations: Jobs, Inequality, and UBI

3215 days ago

A Game Plan for VR and AR in 2017

3216 days ago

Modest Conversations: Cryptocurrency & ICOs vs. Venture Capital

3221 days ago

Modest Conversations: Building Great Relationships With Kids

3229 days ago

Time to Pay Attention to Cryptocurrencies

3229 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Near Future of AI

3236 days ago

Modest Conversations: Morning Routines of 2027 and 2047

3242 days ago

The Wrinkle In Forecasting Autonomous Cars

3244 days ago

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

3251 days ago

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

3257 days ago

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

3258 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Future of Real Estate

3264 days ago

Modest Conversations: Is Meditation The Next Yoga?

3271 days ago

The Second Coming of IT

3271 days ago

Modest Conversations: New York Tech & Social Media Fame

3278 days ago

Why Twitter Should Start Charging

3278 days ago

Modest Conversations: Virtual and Physical Communities

3285 days ago

Modest Conversations: Unions, Regulatory Capture, and Tech

3292 days ago

Who Pays for Redesigning Streets for Self-Driving Cars?

3292 days ago

Modest Conversations: Who Drives Corporate Benefits and Responsibility?

3299 days ago

The Information Presents: Modest Conversations

3306 days ago

Slowing Down the Digital Escapist Movement

3320 days ago

The Return of History: Google Photos and Personal Big Data

3327 days ago

The Similarity Between Silicon Valley and Trump

3355 days ago

Our Silent Future

3368 days ago

Bot Check-In: A Year of Disappointment

3375 days ago

In 2017, Tech Will Seek to Regain Moral High Ground

3383 days ago

Why Amazon Should Launch a Bank—But Won’t

3397 days ago

Free Speech and Democracy in the Age of Micro-Targeting

3411 days ago

The Rise of Information Imperialism

3425 days ago

The First Modern Election

3432 days ago

Where Airbnb May Be More Vulnerable than Uber

3446 days ago

Why Today’s Tech Narrative is Way Ahead of Reality

3460 days ago

How Data Analytics is Changing Startup Financing

3474 days ago

Uber’s Self-Driving Car Puzzle

3488 days ago

What Everyone Is Missing about Venture Returns

3502 days ago

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

3509 days ago

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

3522 days ago

Why the Bonus Culture Will Spread

3537 days ago

How to Profit from Political Correctness

3550 days ago

Bots in 2016: Mid-Year Check In

3565 days ago

The Negative Side of Incubators

3579 days ago

Era of Lean Startups Nears an End

3593 days ago

The Non-Monetizable Product Blind Spot

3607 days ago

Why the Home Wars Aren’t the Phone Wars

3621 days ago

The New Business of Editing

3635 days ago

The Coming End of Capitalism

3649 days ago

Why Tech Needs Epic Failures

3663 days ago

Why We Should Abolish Time Zones

3684 days ago

Startups Need to Fire More Customers

3698 days ago

Why Startups Are Doomed, Part Two

3719 days ago

On Bots, Conversational Apps and Fin

3733 days ago

Personal Voice Analysis for the New Year

3747 days ago

Star Wars’ Private Tech Valuation Formula

3747 days ago

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

3761 days ago

The Good Enough Stuff Revolution

3775 days ago

Kodak’s Lesson for Detroit

3789 days ago

The New Winners and Losers in the Boredom Market

3803 days ago

How Growth Will Burst the Tech Bubble

3817 days ago

Why It’s Hard to Fix Failing Tech Cos.

3831 days ago

The Case Against Product-Market Fit

3845 days ago

Paying Up Front is a Legacy Concept

3866 days ago

Understanding the Hidden ‘Costs’ of Products

3880 days ago

Oculus Is for the Elderly

3894 days ago

The Hidden Costs of Pivoting

3908 days ago

Startups Need Shade—Not Just Time—To Grow

3922 days ago

Why VCs are the New Investment Bankers

3936 days ago

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

3950 days ago

Pricing for Consumer Perception

3971 days ago

The End of the Bazaar

3985 days ago

The Downside of Positive Feedback

3999 days ago

A Call for New Type of Mapping Platform

4013 days ago

The Economics of Sharing: Past and Present

4020 days ago

How Startups Get Their Metrics Wrong

4034 days ago

Why Tech Comp is Broken and Ideas To Fix It

4048 days ago

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

4062 days ago

Leapfrogging the U.S.: Transportation in Sao Paulo

4076 days ago

Labor Economics and How Uber is Going to Disrupt Starbucks

4090 days ago

Native Advertising: A Convenient Pitch I’m Not Buying

4104 days ago

My 2020 Predictions: A Reality Check

4111 days ago

Technology, Taxi Medallions and the Ancien Régime

4118 days ago

How Digital Photography Is Altering Our Memory

4124 days ago

Economy Soars, Uber Drops in The Information Survey

4125 days ago

The Race to Become the Apple of Drones

4132 days ago

As Technology Kills GDP, What’s Next?

4139 days ago

When Tech Companies Enter Zero-Sum Markets

4146 days ago

Uber As Gatekeeper to the Physical World

4152 days ago

The Information Subscribers Say…

4153 days ago

Native Apps: A Game Startups Can’t Win

4160 days ago

Big Brands Have Become Liabilities

4167 days ago

Growth: Design It, Buy It or Get Stuck

4174 days ago

What I’ve Learned Since Leaving Facebook

4181 days ago

Time to Hang up on Voice

4188 days ago

How the Sharing Economy Threatens the Traditional Economy

4195 days ago

The Second Coming of Non-Consensus Currencies

4202 days ago

Why Universities Should Wise Up and Retain Their ‘Users’

4209 days ago

The ‘Uber Effect’ on the Property Market

4216 days ago

Selfies, Emoji and the Economics of Communication