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73 days ago
Meet the M...eta-Yankees
80 days ago
Socialism Blowback + Hiring & Sourcing in Age of AI...
88 days ago
AI Pokemon (catch'em all) & Hierarchy of Business Models
94 days ago
Scale, Sambot, Harvard Reunion
102 days ago
Bears and Books no E, no T
107 days ago
who is single?... and steven pinker
116 days ago
Vibecode Reality, OF, and Incumbents
123 days ago
experiences' airbnb, farming, brokers
130 days ago
Tel Aviv
135 days ago
Antisemitism and AI
144 days ago
WTFVC 2025, Anti-Trust, and Ruck Rock
151 days ago
Harvard, and Decolonization
165 days ago
Tariffs and Spies...
170 days ago
Mostly Skiing... a few other thoughts
179 days ago
Spies, Teams and Themes
184 days ago
Space Bet, Softbank, and Bill Maher
193 days ago
Again and Again, Nothing is New
200 days ago
Narrative Selloff, HP, and Harvard
214 days ago
Slow Creator I, Merit First, and Memes
219 days ago
Understanding Memecoins, and Merit First
228 days ago
Deepseek, Memes, and oh my Jelly-Jelly...
235 days ago
Tiktok, Trade Wars, and Financial Nihilism
249 days ago
The 2025 Gameplan, Free Speech, and Degen Investing
270 days ago
Elon 'Zaphod' Musk and AI pragmatism
277 days ago
Sora, United Health, Survivability of Seed Capital
284 days ago
Aaron Levie, Voight-Kampff, Retail Fomo
291 days ago
Venmo, Sling & Techbro Culture
298 days ago
Fwd Health, VC Regatta Model, Value Seed Investing
305 days ago
Summers, DOGE, Storytelling
312 days ago
Election Thoughts...
319 days ago
Tech Earnings, Destroying Trust in Reality
326 days ago
Vision Pro Failure, AI Cherry on Top
333 days ago
Planet Elon & Seed 'Value' Investing
340 days ago
Google Antitrust, The State of Seed
347 days ago
Monster F-it Funding Rounds, Golf Curious VC
354 days ago
Meta, Death of SaaS and YC...
359 days ago
the children, aleo, and hustle culture
367 days ago
Beast is Buzzfeed... Google SEO sadness
375 days ago
Founder Mode, Packy and Harry discoveries...
382 days ago
VC Reset, and Some Hiring
396 days ago
Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop In
410 days ago
AI Earnings, Harvard Wins
417 days ago
Opensource AI, Topaz, and Netanyahu
424 days ago
Trump, Kiki, and the Olympics
438 days ago
Patriotism and Summer
443 days ago
Hearsay, Debates and Hacks
655 days ago
Followup from Capital Light Conference
658 days ago
Reminder - Capital Light Conference Tomorrow AM
662 days ago
Invite to The Capital Light Conference on the 29th
662 days ago
Capital Light Conference on the 29th
676 days ago
Post-Factory VC' Conference Invite...
683 days ago
Followup from the 'State of VC' deck
697 days ago
Followup from the 'State of VC' deck
699 days ago
The State of VC in 2023 - a Techno-Realist Manifesto
699 days ago
What To Do About Misinformation in the Upcoming Election Cycle?
718 days ago
Scott Belsky & Why Your AI Startup is Probably Already Dead*
732 days ago
The Apple Episode (Carbon Neutralish)
746 days ago
Notes from Beijing, Energy Vampires and a Venture Capital Therapy Session
753 days ago
Why Hybrid Work Doesn't Work, Long Live the Phone Call
760 days ago
You should kill your startup, What replaces globalization
774 days ago
Where's the Barbie business pop? Where brands beat marketplaces
781 days ago
Episode 7: Elon's X game and RIP seed investing
784 days ago
More or Less Podcast
960 days ago
The Best Time to Build
992 days ago
Creator Financing Is Going Mainstream
1041 days ago
From Theranos to FTX: Silicon Valley’s ‘No Additional Work Required’ Late-Stage VC Culture and What to Do About It
1239 days ago
Elon Musk Is Silicon Valley’s New Hero—for Better or Worse
1300 days ago
How to Put Physical Assets on the Blockchain
1384 days ago
Facebook’s Decade-Old Missteps Should Be a Lesson for Web3
1404 days ago
The Metaverse Is Coming. What Happens Next?
1411 days ago
Investing Directly in People Is the Future of VC. Here’s How to Do It.
1420 days ago
What Sequoia Gains by Blowing Up the VC Fund Structure
1435 days ago
A test title
1505 days ago
The End of Venture Capital as We Know It
1637 days ago
‘MrBeast’ Explains His Plans to Help YouTube Creators Raise Equity Finance
1639 days ago
The Future of Investing Directly In People
1659 days ago
Collectibles, Crypto NFTs, and the Monetization of Influence
1671 days ago
Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms
1694 days ago
Equity Financing for Influencers
1709 days ago
How Blocking Trump Puts the Future of the Internet at Risk
1729 days ago
How Covid Accelerated Changes Already in the Making
1770 days ago
The Societal Problem of Only Needing 1,000 True Fans to Be Successful Online
1793 days ago
How to Prevent Social Media’s Editorial Role From Becoming Censorship of Speech
1811 days ago
Lessons From the Rise of OnlyFans
1842 days ago
California’s 2020 Budget Solution: A Startup Equity Tax
1863 days ago
Why Instagram’s Reels Rollout Will Slow, but Not Stop, TikTok’s Growth
1884 days ago
The Simple and Practical Steps the Federal Government Should Take to Fix Online Speech
1890 days ago
The Escalating War Between Our Physical and Digital Realities
1912 days ago
On Feed Ranking and Free Speech
1926 days ago
The Slippery Slope to Censored Speech
1933 days ago
The Over-Under on New Voice-Chat App Clubhouse
1946 days ago
How Covid-19 Is Changing Seed Companies and Financing in Silicon Valley
1960 days ago
How Google and Apple Need to Play the Covid Contact Tracing Debate’s Next Phase
1965 days ago
The Long-Term Implications of Extended Work From Home
1989 days ago
Technology’s Role in Shaping the Impact of Covid-19
2017 days ago
How Coronavirus Epidemics Could Alter the Future of Tech
2045 days ago
The 10 Ways TikTok Will Change Social Product Design
2072 days ago
My Predictions for the Next Decade
2073 days ago
Grading My 2010 Predictions—and What I Learned
2101 days ago
In Defense of Deep Fakes
2115 days ago
Four Paths Forward for ‘Social Products’
2143 days ago
The Key Themes That Matter for the Future of Work
2156 days ago
The Challenges Facing Free Speech
2185 days ago
The Home Camera Wars
2192 days ago
A Solution for Gig Economy Labor: Lightning Strikes
2248 days ago
On Inequality and Risk Capacity
2255 days ago
The Future of Free Speech
2325 days ago
Remote Work and the Politics of Decentralization
2340 days ago
Why the Internet Could Help Small Businesses Regain Power
2360 days ago
What Will Happen to the Social Wealth of Instagram Influencers as They Age?
2375 days ago
The Cost and Risk of Regulations That Make Information ‘Own-able’
2385 days ago
A Warning on the Dangers of Ephemeral Messaging
2395 days ago
ISAs and the Future of Securitization
2409 days ago
The Pressure on the News Industry Is a Symptom of Disempowerment
2410 days ago
Modest Conversations: Income Share Agreements
2417 days ago
How to Introduce a Wealth Tax
2430 days ago
How Political Content Fills the Void Left by Micro-Targeting
2458 days ago
What Technologists Can Learn From Religions
2465 days ago
My Predictions for Crypto in 2019
2479 days ago
We Need Better Measures of Social and Environmental Impacts
2500 days ago
Is Uber Cash a Crypto Play?
2528 days ago
The Coming of the Human Knowledge-Work Cloud
2570 days ago
How the Internet Broke and What to Do About It
2575 days ago
Introducing “B is for Bitcoin”
2584 days ago
The Future of Privacy: Disinformation
2605 days ago
Scooters: The New Self-Driving Cars
2646 days ago
It’s Time for an American Internet Privacy Framework
2669 days ago
Instagram Is the Real Virtual Reality, Not Oculus
2689 days ago
Venmo Trust and The Blockchain
2717 days ago
Governing the Internet
2752 days ago
The Double-Edged Sword of Using Blockchains for Identity Portability
2773 days ago
The Intellectual Tension Between Social Networking and Blockchains
2780 days ago
Stable Coins, Oracles, Trust, and Identity
2787 days ago
Open vs. Closed in National Tech Strategies: the U.S. and China
2801 days ago
The Future of Hybrid Centralized-Decentralized Apps
2829 days ago
Blockchains and the Right to Be Forgotten
2843 days ago
14 Ways the Cryptocurrency Market Will Change in 2018
2858 days ago
Modest Conversations: Runaway Objective Functions & Human Agency with Tim O’Reilly
2871 days ago
The Tower of Babel: Five Challenges of the Modern Internet
2872 days ago
Modest Conversations: Attention and Addiction
2893 days ago
Modest Conversations: The Human Side of Building Technology
2900 days ago
The Future of Work
2928 days ago
The Future of Free Speech
2963 days ago
On Bitcoin Cash & New Ways Crypto-Projects Move Forward
2969 days ago
The Future of Truth
2971 days ago
On Product Management - Rousseau Kazi
2977 days ago
Building Platform Products - Raylene Yung of Stripe & Facebook
2984 days ago
Viewpoint From The Silicon Valley Entering Class of ‘17
2991 days ago
Modest Conversations: Solving The Problems of Modern Cities
2998 days ago
Seven Key Questions in the Cryptocurrency World
2999 days ago
Modest Conversations: What You Know vs. Who You Know
3005 days ago
Modest Conversations: On Metrics & Building What Your Competitors Can’t Measure
3019 days ago
Modest Conversations: Jobs, Inequality, and UBI
3025 days ago
A Game Plan for VR and AR in 2017
3026 days ago
Modest Conversations: Cryptocurrency & ICOs vs. Venture Capital
3032 days ago
Modest Conversations: Building Great Relationships With Kids
3040 days ago
Time to Pay Attention to Cryptocurrencies
3040 days ago
Modest Conversations: The Near Future of AI
3047 days ago
Modest Conversations: Morning Routines of 2027 and 2047
3053 days ago
The Wrinkle In Forecasting Autonomous Cars
3054 days ago
Modest Conversations: 09 - Have We Reached The Limits of VC? - Bryce Roberts of OATV & Indie.vc
3062 days ago
08 - Entrepreneurial Resilience - Leila Janah, Founder Samasource and LXMI
3068 days ago
The Bay Area Should Levy a 5% Equity Tax on Startups
3068 days ago
Modest Conversations: The Future of Real Estate
3075 days ago
Modest Conversations: Is Meditation The Next Yoga?
3081 days ago
The Second Coming of IT
3082 days ago
Modest Conversations: New York Tech & Social Media Fame
3089 days ago
Why Twitter Should Start Charging
3089 days ago
Modest Conversations: Virtual and Physical Communities
3096 days ago
Modest Conversations: Unions, Regulatory Capture, and Tech
3103 days ago
Who Pays for Redesigning Streets for Self-Driving Cars?
3103 days ago
Modest Conversations: Who Drives Corporate Benefits and Responsibility?
3110 days ago
The Information Presents: Modest Conversations
3116 days ago
Slowing Down the Digital Escapist Movement
3130 days ago
The Return of History: Google Photos and Personal Big Data
3137 days ago
The Similarity Between Silicon Valley and Trump
3165 days ago
Our Silent Future
3178 days ago
Bot Check-In: A Year of Disappointment
3185 days ago
In 2017, Tech Will Seek to Regain Moral High Ground
3193 days ago
Why Amazon Should Launch a Bank—But Won’t
3207 days ago
Free Speech and Democracy in the Age of Micro-Targeting
3221 days ago
The Rise of Information Imperialism
3235 days ago
The First Modern Election
3243 days ago
Where Airbnb May Be More Vulnerable than Uber
3256 days ago
Why Today’s Tech Narrative is Way Ahead of Reality
3270 days ago
How Data Analytics is Changing Startup Financing
3284 days ago
Uber’s Self-Driving Car Puzzle
3299 days ago
What Everyone Is Missing about Venture Returns
3313 days ago
Why I Like, but Won’t Use, Instagram Stories For Now
3319 days ago
Olympic Coverage: The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
3333 days ago
Why the Bonus Culture Will Spread
3348 days ago
How to Profit from Political Correctness
3360 days ago
Bots in 2016: Mid-Year Check In
3376 days ago
The Negative Side of Incubators
3390 days ago
Era of Lean Startups Nears an End
3403 days ago
The Non-Monetizable Product Blind Spot
3417 days ago
Why the Home Wars Aren’t the Phone Wars
3431 days ago
The New Business of Editing
3445 days ago
The Coming End of Capitalism
3459 days ago
Why Tech Needs Epic Failures
3473 days ago
Why We Should Abolish Time Zones
3494 days ago
Startups Need to Fire More Customers
3508 days ago
Why Startups Are Doomed, Part Two
3529 days ago
On Bots, Conversational Apps and Fin
3543 days ago
Personal Voice Analysis for the New Year
3557 days ago
Star Wars’ Private Tech Valuation Formula
3557 days ago
Why Aren’t We Talking More About Autonomous Passenger Planes?
3571 days ago
The Good Enough Stuff Revolution
3585 days ago
Kodak’s Lesson for Detroit
3599 days ago
The New Winners and Losers in the Boredom Market
3614 days ago
How Growth Will Burst the Tech Bubble
3628 days ago
Why It’s Hard to Fix Failing Tech Cos.
3642 days ago
The Case Against Product-Market Fit
3655 days ago
Paying Up Front is a Legacy Concept
3676 days ago
Understanding the Hidden ‘Costs’ of Products
3691 days ago
Oculus Is for the Elderly
3704 days ago
The Hidden Costs of Pivoting
3719 days ago
Startups Need Shade—Not Just Time—To Grow
3733 days ago
Why VCs are the New Investment Bankers
3746 days ago
‘It’s a Trap’: The Danger Zone for Series B and C Startups
3761 days ago
Pricing for Consumer Perception
3782 days ago
The End of the Bazaar
3796 days ago
The Downside of Positive Feedback
3809 days ago
A Call for New Type of Mapping Platform
3824 days ago
The Economics of Sharing: Past and Present
3831 days ago
How Startups Get Their Metrics Wrong
3845 days ago
Why Tech Comp is Broken and Ideas To Fix It
3858 days ago
Why Late-Stage Investing is Becoming More Like Seed-Stage
3872 days ago
Leapfrogging the U.S.: Transportation in Sao Paulo
3886 days ago
Labor Economics and How Uber is Going to Disrupt Starbucks
3900 days ago
Native Advertising: A Convenient Pitch I’m Not Buying
3914 days ago
My 2020 Predictions: A Reality Check
3921 days ago
Technology, Taxi Medallions and the Ancien Régime
3928 days ago
How Digital Photography Is Altering Our Memory
3934 days ago
Economy Soars, Uber Drops in The Information Survey
3935 days ago
The Race to Become the Apple of Drones
3942 days ago
As Technology Kills GDP, What’s Next?
3949 days ago
When Tech Companies Enter Zero-Sum Markets
3956 days ago
Uber As Gatekeeper to the Physical World
3962 days ago
The Information Subscribers Say…
3963 days ago
Native Apps: A Game Startups Can’t Win
3970 days ago
Big Brands Have Become Liabilities
3977 days ago
Growth: Design It, Buy It or Get Stuck
3984 days ago
What I’ve Learned Since Leaving Facebook
3992 days ago
Time to Hang up on Voice
3998 days ago
How the Sharing Economy Threatens the Traditional Economy
4006 days ago
The Second Coming of Non-Consensus Currencies
4013 days ago
Why Universities Should Wise Up and Retain Their ‘Users’
4019 days ago
The ‘Uber Effect’ on the Property Market
4026 days ago
Selfies, Emoji and the Economics of Communication