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177 days ago

Meet the M...eta-Yankees

184 days ago

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

192 days ago

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

198 days ago

Scale, Sambot, Harvard Reunion

206 days ago

Bears and Books no E, no T

211 days ago

who is single?... and steven pinker

220 days ago

Vibecode Reality, OF, and Incumbents

227 days ago

experiences' airbnb, farming, brokers

234 days ago

Tel Aviv

239 days ago

Antisemitism and AI

248 days ago

WTFVC 2025, Anti-Trust, and Ruck Rock

255 days ago

Harvard, and Decolonization

269 days ago

Tariffs and Spies...

274 days ago

Mostly Skiing... a few other thoughts

283 days ago

Spies, Teams and Themes

288 days ago

Space Bet, Softbank, and Bill Maher

297 days ago

Again and Again, Nothing is New

304 days ago

Narrative Selloff, HP, and Harvard

318 days ago

Slow Creator I, Merit First, and Memes

322 days ago

Understanding Memecoins, and Merit First

332 days ago

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

339 days ago

Tiktok, Trade Wars, and Financial Nihilism

353 days ago

The 2025 Gameplan, Free Speech, and Degen Investing

374 days ago

Elon 'Zaphod' Musk and AI pragmatism

381 days ago

Sora, United Health, Survivability of Seed Capital

388 days ago

Aaron Levie, Voight-Kampff, Retail Fomo

395 days ago

Venmo, Sling & Techbro Culture

402 days ago

Fwd Health, VC Regatta Model, Value Seed Investing

409 days ago

Summers, DOGE, Storytelling

416 days ago

Election Thoughts...

423 days ago

Tech Earnings, Destroying Trust in Reality

430 days ago

Vision Pro Failure, AI Cherry on Top

437 days ago

Planet Elon & Seed 'Value' Investing

444 days ago

Google Antitrust, The State of Seed

451 days ago

Monster F-it Funding Rounds, Golf Curious VC

458 days ago

Meta, Death of SaaS and YC...

463 days ago

the children, aleo, and hustle culture

471 days ago

Beast is Buzzfeed... Google SEO sadness

479 days ago

Founder Mode, Packy and Harry discoveries...

486 days ago

VC Reset, and Some Hiring

500 days ago

Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop In

514 days ago

AI Earnings, Harvard Wins

521 days ago

Opensource AI, Topaz, and Netanyahu

528 days ago

Trump, Kiki, and the Olympics

542 days ago

Patriotism and Summer

547 days ago

Hearsay, Debates and Hacks

759 days ago

Followup from Capital Light Conference

762 days ago

Reminder - Capital Light Conference Tomorrow AM

766 days ago

Invite to The Capital Light Conference on the 29th

766 days ago

Capital Light Conference on the 29th

780 days ago

Post-Factory VC' Conference Invite...

787 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

801 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

803 days ago

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

803 days ago

What To Do About Misinformation in the Upcoming Election Cycle?

822 days ago

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

836 days ago

The Apple Episode (Carbon Neutralish)

850 days ago

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

857 days ago

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

864 days ago

You should kill your startup, What replaces globalization

878 days ago

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

885 days ago

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

888 days ago

More or Less Podcast

1064 days ago

The Best Time to Build

1096 days ago

Creator Financing Is Going Mainstream

1145 days ago

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

1343 days ago

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

1404 days ago

How to Put Physical Assets on the Blockchain

1488 days ago

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

1508 days ago

The Metaverse Is Coming. What Happens Next?

1515 days ago

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

1524 days ago

What Sequoia Gains by Blowing Up the VC Fund Structure

1539 days ago

A test title

1609 days ago

The End of Venture Capital as We Know It

1741 days ago

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

1743 days ago

The Future of Investing Directly In People

1763 days ago

Collectibles, Crypto NFTs, and the Monetization of Influence

1775 days ago

Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms

1798 days ago

Equity Financing for Influencers

1812 days ago

How Blocking Trump Puts the Future of the Internet at Risk

1833 days ago

How Covid Accelerated Changes Already in the Making

1874 days ago

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

1897 days ago

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

1915 days ago

Lessons From the Rise of OnlyFans

1946 days ago

California’s 2020 Budget Solution: A Startup Equity Tax

1967 days ago

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

1987 days ago

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

1993 days ago

The Escalating War Between Our Physical and Digital Realities

2016 days ago

On Feed Ranking and Free Speech

2030 days ago

The Slippery Slope to Censored Speech

2037 days ago

The Over-Under on New Voice-Chat App Clubhouse

2049 days ago

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

2063 days ago

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

2069 days ago

The Long-Term Implications of Extended Work From Home

2093 days ago

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

2121 days ago

How Coronavirus Epidemics Could Alter the Future of Tech

2149 days ago

The 10 Ways TikTok Will Change Social Product Design

2176 days ago

My Predictions for the Next Decade

2176 days ago

Grading My 2010 Predictions—and What I Learned

2205 days ago

In Defense of Deep Fakes

2219 days ago

Four Paths Forward for ‘Social Products’

2247 days ago

The Key Themes That Matter for the Future of Work

2260 days ago

The Challenges Facing Free Speech

2288 days ago

The Home Camera Wars

2296 days ago

A Solution for Gig Economy Labor: Lightning Strikes

2352 days ago

On Inequality and Risk Capacity

2359 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

2429 days ago

Remote Work and the Politics of Decentralization

2443 days ago

Why the Internet Could Help Small Businesses Regain Power

2464 days ago

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

2478 days ago

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

2488 days ago

A Warning on the Dangers of Ephemeral Messaging

2499 days ago

ISAs and the Future of Securitization

2513 days ago

The Pressure on the News Industry Is a Symptom of Disempowerment

2514 days ago

Modest Conversations: Income Share Agreements

2520 days ago

How to Introduce a Wealth Tax

2534 days ago

How Political Content Fills the Void Left by Micro-Targeting

2562 days ago

What Technologists Can Learn From Religions

2569 days ago

My Predictions for Crypto in 2019

2583 days ago

We Need Better Measures of Social and Environmental Impacts

2604 days ago

Is Uber Cash a Crypto Play?

2632 days ago

The Coming of the Human Knowledge-Work Cloud

2673 days ago

How the Internet Broke and What to Do About It

2679 days ago

Introducing “B is for Bitcoin”

2688 days ago

The Future of Privacy: Disinformation

2709 days ago

Scooters: The New Self-Driving Cars

2750 days ago

It’s Time for an American Internet Privacy Framework

2772 days ago

Instagram Is the Real Virtual Reality, Not Oculus

2792 days ago

Venmo Trust and The Blockchain

2821 days ago

Governing the Internet

2856 days ago

The Double-Edged Sword of Using Blockchains for Identity Portability

2877 days ago

The Intellectual Tension Between Social Networking and Blockchains

2884 days ago

Stable Coins, Oracles, Trust, and Identity

2891 days ago

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

2905 days ago

The Future of Hybrid Centralized-Decentralized Apps

2933 days ago

Blockchains and the Right to Be Forgotten

2947 days ago

14 Ways the Cryptocurrency Market Will Change in 2018

2962 days ago

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

2975 days ago

The Tower of Babel: Five Challenges of the Modern Internet

2976 days ago

Modest Conversations: Attention and Addiction

2997 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Human Side of Building Technology

3003 days ago

The Future of Work

3031 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

3067 days ago

On Bitcoin Cash & New Ways Crypto-Projects Move Forward

3073 days ago

The Future of Truth

3075 days ago

On Product Management - Rousseau Kazi

3081 days ago

Building Platform Products - Raylene Yung of Stripe & Facebook

3088 days ago

Viewpoint From The Silicon Valley Entering Class of ‘17

3095 days ago

Modest Conversations: Solving The Problems of Modern Cities

3101 days ago

Seven Key Questions in the Cryptocurrency World

3103 days ago

Modest Conversations: What You Know vs. Who You Know

3109 days ago

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

3123 days ago

Modest Conversations: Jobs, Inequality, and UBI

3129 days ago

A Game Plan for VR and AR in 2017

3130 days ago

Modest Conversations: Cryptocurrency & ICOs vs. Venture Capital

3136 days ago

Modest Conversations: Building Great Relationships With Kids

3143 days ago

Time to Pay Attention to Cryptocurrencies

3144 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Near Future of AI

3151 days ago

Modest Conversations: Morning Routines of 2027 and 2047

3156 days ago

The Wrinkle In Forecasting Autonomous Cars

3158 days ago

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

3165 days ago

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

3171 days ago

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

3172 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Future of Real Estate

3179 days ago

Modest Conversations: Is Meditation The Next Yoga?

3185 days ago

The Second Coming of IT

3186 days ago

Modest Conversations: New York Tech & Social Media Fame

3192 days ago

Why Twitter Should Start Charging

3193 days ago

Modest Conversations: Virtual and Physical Communities

3200 days ago

Modest Conversations: Unions, Regulatory Capture, and Tech

3206 days ago

Who Pays for Redesigning Streets for Self-Driving Cars?

3207 days ago

Modest Conversations: Who Drives Corporate Benefits and Responsibility?

3214 days ago

The Information Presents: Modest Conversations

3220 days ago

Slowing Down the Digital Escapist Movement

3234 days ago

The Return of History: Google Photos and Personal Big Data

3241 days ago

The Similarity Between Silicon Valley and Trump

3269 days ago

Our Silent Future

3282 days ago

Bot Check-In: A Year of Disappointment

3289 days ago

In 2017, Tech Will Seek to Regain Moral High Ground

3297 days ago

Why Amazon Should Launch a Bank—But Won’t

3311 days ago

Free Speech and Democracy in the Age of Micro-Targeting

3325 days ago

The Rise of Information Imperialism

3339 days ago

The First Modern Election

3346 days ago

Where Airbnb May Be More Vulnerable than Uber

3360 days ago

Why Today’s Tech Narrative is Way Ahead of Reality

3374 days ago

How Data Analytics is Changing Startup Financing

3388 days ago

Uber’s Self-Driving Car Puzzle

3402 days ago

What Everyone Is Missing about Venture Returns

3416 days ago

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

3423 days ago

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

3436 days ago

Why the Bonus Culture Will Spread

3451 days ago

How to Profit from Political Correctness

3464 days ago

Bots in 2016: Mid-Year Check In

3479 days ago

The Negative Side of Incubators

3493 days ago

Era of Lean Startups Nears an End

3507 days ago

The Non-Monetizable Product Blind Spot

3521 days ago

Why the Home Wars Aren’t the Phone Wars

3535 days ago

The New Business of Editing

3549 days ago

The Coming End of Capitalism

3563 days ago

Why Tech Needs Epic Failures

3577 days ago

Why We Should Abolish Time Zones

3598 days ago

Startups Need to Fire More Customers

3612 days ago

Why Startups Are Doomed, Part Two

3633 days ago

On Bots, Conversational Apps and Fin

3647 days ago

Personal Voice Analysis for the New Year

3661 days ago

Star Wars’ Private Tech Valuation Formula

3661 days ago

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

3675 days ago

The Good Enough Stuff Revolution

3689 days ago

Kodak’s Lesson for Detroit

3703 days ago

The New Winners and Losers in the Boredom Market

3717 days ago

How Growth Will Burst the Tech Bubble

3731 days ago

Why It’s Hard to Fix Failing Tech Cos.

3745 days ago

The Case Against Product-Market Fit

3759 days ago

Paying Up Front is a Legacy Concept

3780 days ago

Understanding the Hidden ‘Costs’ of Products

3794 days ago

Oculus Is for the Elderly

3808 days ago

The Hidden Costs of Pivoting

3822 days ago

Startups Need Shade—Not Just Time—To Grow

3836 days ago

Why VCs are the New Investment Bankers

3850 days ago

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

3864 days ago

Pricing for Consumer Perception

3885 days ago

The End of the Bazaar

3899 days ago

The Downside of Positive Feedback

3913 days ago

A Call for New Type of Mapping Platform

3927 days ago

The Economics of Sharing: Past and Present

3934 days ago

How Startups Get Their Metrics Wrong

3948 days ago

Why Tech Comp is Broken and Ideas To Fix It

3962 days ago

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

3976 days ago

Leapfrogging the U.S.: Transportation in Sao Paulo

3990 days ago

Labor Economics and How Uber is Going to Disrupt Starbucks

4004 days ago

Native Advertising: A Convenient Pitch I’m Not Buying

4018 days ago

My 2020 Predictions: A Reality Check

4025 days ago

Technology, Taxi Medallions and the Ancien Régime

4032 days ago

How Digital Photography Is Altering Our Memory

4038 days ago

Economy Soars, Uber Drops in The Information Survey

4039 days ago

The Race to Become the Apple of Drones

4046 days ago

As Technology Kills GDP, What’s Next?

4053 days ago

When Tech Companies Enter Zero-Sum Markets

4060 days ago

Uber As Gatekeeper to the Physical World

4066 days ago

The Information Subscribers Say…

4067 days ago

Native Apps: A Game Startups Can’t Win

4074 days ago

Big Brands Have Become Liabilities

4081 days ago

Growth: Design It, Buy It or Get Stuck

4088 days ago

What I’ve Learned Since Leaving Facebook

4095 days ago

Time to Hang up on Voice

4102 days ago

How the Sharing Economy Threatens the Traditional Economy

4109 days ago

The Second Coming of Non-Consensus Currencies

4116 days ago

Why Universities Should Wise Up and Retain Their ‘Users’

4123 days ago

The ‘Uber Effect’ on the Property Market

4130 days ago

Selfies, Emoji and the Economics of Communication