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132 days ago

Meet the M...eta-Yankees

139 days ago

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

147 days ago

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

153 days ago

Scale, Sambot, Harvard Reunion

161 days ago

Bears and Books no E, no T

166 days ago

who is single?... and steven pinker

175 days ago

Vibecode Reality, OF, and Incumbents

182 days ago

experiences' airbnb, farming, brokers

189 days ago

Tel Aviv

194 days ago

Antisemitism and AI

203 days ago

WTFVC 2025, Anti-Trust, and Ruck Rock

210 days ago

Harvard, and Decolonization

224 days ago

Tariffs and Spies...

229 days ago

Mostly Skiing... a few other thoughts

238 days ago

Spies, Teams and Themes

242 days ago

Space Bet, Softbank, and Bill Maher

252 days ago

Again and Again, Nothing is New

259 days ago

Narrative Selloff, HP, and Harvard

273 days ago

Slow Creator I, Merit First, and Memes

277 days ago

Understanding Memecoins, and Merit First

287 days ago

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

294 days ago

Tiktok, Trade Wars, and Financial Nihilism

308 days ago

The 2025 Gameplan, Free Speech, and Degen Investing

329 days ago

Elon 'Zaphod' Musk and AI pragmatism

336 days ago

Sora, United Health, Survivability of Seed Capital

343 days ago

Aaron Levie, Voight-Kampff, Retail Fomo

350 days ago

Venmo, Sling & Techbro Culture

357 days ago

Fwd Health, VC Regatta Model, Value Seed Investing

364 days ago

Summers, DOGE, Storytelling

371 days ago

Election Thoughts...

378 days ago

Tech Earnings, Destroying Trust in Reality

385 days ago

Vision Pro Failure, AI Cherry on Top

392 days ago

Planet Elon & Seed 'Value' Investing

399 days ago

Google Antitrust, The State of Seed

406 days ago

Monster F-it Funding Rounds, Golf Curious VC

413 days ago

Meta, Death of SaaS and YC...

418 days ago

the children, aleo, and hustle culture

426 days ago

Beast is Buzzfeed... Google SEO sadness

434 days ago

Founder Mode, Packy and Harry discoveries...

441 days ago

VC Reset, and Some Hiring

455 days ago

Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop In

469 days ago

AI Earnings, Harvard Wins

476 days ago

Opensource AI, Topaz, and Netanyahu

483 days ago

Trump, Kiki, and the Olympics

497 days ago

Patriotism and Summer

501 days ago

Hearsay, Debates and Hacks

714 days ago

Followup from Capital Light Conference

716 days ago

Reminder - Capital Light Conference Tomorrow AM

721 days ago

Invite to The Capital Light Conference on the 29th

721 days ago

Capital Light Conference on the 29th

735 days ago

Post-Factory VC' Conference Invite...

742 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

756 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

758 days ago

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

758 days ago

What To Do About Misinformation in the Upcoming Election Cycle?

777 days ago

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

791 days ago

The Apple Episode (Carbon Neutralish)

805 days ago

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

812 days ago

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

819 days ago

You should kill your startup, What replaces globalization

833 days ago

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

840 days ago

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

843 days ago

More or Less Podcast

1019 days ago

The Best Time to Build

1051 days ago

Creator Financing Is Going Mainstream

1100 days ago

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

1298 days ago

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

1359 days ago

How to Put Physical Assets on the Blockchain

1443 days ago

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

1463 days ago

The Metaverse Is Coming. What Happens Next?

1470 days ago

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

1479 days ago

What Sequoia Gains by Blowing Up the VC Fund Structure

1493 days ago

A test title

1563 days ago

The End of Venture Capital as We Know It

1696 days ago

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

1698 days ago

The Future of Investing Directly In People

1718 days ago

Collectibles, Crypto NFTs, and the Monetization of Influence

1730 days ago

Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms

1753 days ago

Equity Financing for Influencers

1767 days ago

How Blocking Trump Puts the Future of the Internet at Risk

1788 days ago

How Covid Accelerated Changes Already in the Making

1829 days ago

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

1851 days ago

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

1869 days ago

Lessons From the Rise of OnlyFans

1901 days ago

California’s 2020 Budget Solution: A Startup Equity Tax

1922 days ago

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

1942 days ago

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

1948 days ago

The Escalating War Between Our Physical and Digital Realities

1971 days ago

On Feed Ranking and Free Speech

1985 days ago

The Slippery Slope to Censored Speech

1992 days ago

The Over-Under on New Voice-Chat App Clubhouse

2004 days ago

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

2018 days ago

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

2024 days ago

The Long-Term Implications of Extended Work From Home

2048 days ago

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

2076 days ago

How Coronavirus Epidemics Could Alter the Future of Tech

2104 days ago

The 10 Ways TikTok Will Change Social Product Design

2131 days ago

My Predictions for the Next Decade

2131 days ago

Grading My 2010 Predictions—and What I Learned

2160 days ago

In Defense of Deep Fakes

2174 days ago

Four Paths Forward for ‘Social Products’

2202 days ago

The Key Themes That Matter for the Future of Work

2215 days ago

The Challenges Facing Free Speech

2243 days ago

The Home Camera Wars

2251 days ago

A Solution for Gig Economy Labor: Lightning Strikes

2307 days ago

On Inequality and Risk Capacity

2314 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

2384 days ago

Remote Work and the Politics of Decentralization

2398 days ago

Why the Internet Could Help Small Businesses Regain Power

2419 days ago

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

2433 days ago

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

2443 days ago

A Warning on the Dangers of Ephemeral Messaging

2454 days ago

ISAs and the Future of Securitization

2468 days ago

The Pressure on the News Industry Is a Symptom of Disempowerment

2468 days ago

Modest Conversations: Income Share Agreements

2475 days ago

How to Introduce a Wealth Tax

2489 days ago

How Political Content Fills the Void Left by Micro-Targeting

2517 days ago

What Technologists Can Learn From Religions

2524 days ago

My Predictions for Crypto in 2019

2538 days ago

We Need Better Measures of Social and Environmental Impacts

2559 days ago

Is Uber Cash a Crypto Play?

2587 days ago

The Coming of the Human Knowledge-Work Cloud

2628 days ago

How the Internet Broke and What to Do About It

2634 days ago

Introducing “B is for Bitcoin”

2643 days ago

The Future of Privacy: Disinformation

2664 days ago

Scooters: The New Self-Driving Cars

2705 days ago

It’s Time for an American Internet Privacy Framework

2727 days ago

Instagram Is the Real Virtual Reality, Not Oculus

2747 days ago

Venmo Trust and The Blockchain

2776 days ago

Governing the Internet

2811 days ago

The Double-Edged Sword of Using Blockchains for Identity Portability

2832 days ago

The Intellectual Tension Between Social Networking and Blockchains

2839 days ago

Stable Coins, Oracles, Trust, and Identity

2846 days ago

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

2860 days ago

The Future of Hybrid Centralized-Decentralized Apps

2888 days ago

Blockchains and the Right to Be Forgotten

2902 days ago

14 Ways the Cryptocurrency Market Will Change in 2018

2916 days ago

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

2930 days ago

The Tower of Babel: Five Challenges of the Modern Internet

2931 days ago

Modest Conversations: Attention and Addiction

2952 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Human Side of Building Technology

2958 days ago

The Future of Work

2986 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

3022 days ago

On Bitcoin Cash & New Ways Crypto-Projects Move Forward

3028 days ago

The Future of Truth

3030 days ago

On Product Management - Rousseau Kazi

3036 days ago

Building Platform Products - Raylene Yung of Stripe & Facebook

3043 days ago

Viewpoint From The Silicon Valley Entering Class of ‘17

3050 days ago

Modest Conversations: Solving The Problems of Modern Cities

3056 days ago

Seven Key Questions in the Cryptocurrency World

3058 days ago

Modest Conversations: What You Know vs. Who You Know

3064 days ago

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

3078 days ago

Modest Conversations: Jobs, Inequality, and UBI

3084 days ago

A Game Plan for VR and AR in 2017

3085 days ago

Modest Conversations: Cryptocurrency & ICOs vs. Venture Capital

3091 days ago

Modest Conversations: Building Great Relationships With Kids

3098 days ago

Time to Pay Attention to Cryptocurrencies

3099 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Near Future of AI

3106 days ago

Modest Conversations: Morning Routines of 2027 and 2047

3111 days ago

The Wrinkle In Forecasting Autonomous Cars

3113 days ago

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

3120 days ago

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

3126 days ago

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

3127 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Future of Real Estate

3134 days ago

Modest Conversations: Is Meditation The Next Yoga?

3140 days ago

The Second Coming of IT

3141 days ago

Modest Conversations: New York Tech & Social Media Fame

3147 days ago

Why Twitter Should Start Charging

3148 days ago

Modest Conversations: Virtual and Physical Communities

3155 days ago

Modest Conversations: Unions, Regulatory Capture, and Tech

3161 days ago

Who Pays for Redesigning Streets for Self-Driving Cars?

3162 days ago

Modest Conversations: Who Drives Corporate Benefits and Responsibility?

3168 days ago

The Information Presents: Modest Conversations

3175 days ago

Slowing Down the Digital Escapist Movement

3189 days ago

The Return of History: Google Photos and Personal Big Data

3196 days ago

The Similarity Between Silicon Valley and Trump

3224 days ago

Our Silent Future

3237 days ago

Bot Check-In: A Year of Disappointment

3244 days ago

In 2017, Tech Will Seek to Regain Moral High Ground

3252 days ago

Why Amazon Should Launch a Bank—But Won’t

3266 days ago

Free Speech and Democracy in the Age of Micro-Targeting

3280 days ago

The Rise of Information Imperialism

3294 days ago

The First Modern Election

3301 days ago

Where Airbnb May Be More Vulnerable than Uber

3315 days ago

Why Today’s Tech Narrative is Way Ahead of Reality

3329 days ago

How Data Analytics is Changing Startup Financing

3343 days ago

Uber’s Self-Driving Car Puzzle

3357 days ago

What Everyone Is Missing about Venture Returns

3371 days ago

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

3378 days ago

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

3391 days ago

Why the Bonus Culture Will Spread

3406 days ago

How to Profit from Political Correctness

3419 days ago

Bots in 2016: Mid-Year Check In

3434 days ago

The Negative Side of Incubators

3448 days ago

Era of Lean Startups Nears an End

3462 days ago

The Non-Monetizable Product Blind Spot

3476 days ago

Why the Home Wars Aren’t the Phone Wars

3490 days ago

The New Business of Editing

3504 days ago

The Coming End of Capitalism

3518 days ago

Why Tech Needs Epic Failures

3532 days ago

Why We Should Abolish Time Zones

3553 days ago

Startups Need to Fire More Customers

3567 days ago

Why Startups Are Doomed, Part Two

3588 days ago

On Bots, Conversational Apps and Fin

3602 days ago

Personal Voice Analysis for the New Year

3616 days ago

Star Wars’ Private Tech Valuation Formula

3616 days ago

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

3630 days ago

The Good Enough Stuff Revolution

3644 days ago

Kodak’s Lesson for Detroit

3658 days ago

The New Winners and Losers in the Boredom Market

3672 days ago

How Growth Will Burst the Tech Bubble

3686 days ago

Why It’s Hard to Fix Failing Tech Cos.

3700 days ago

The Case Against Product-Market Fit

3714 days ago

Paying Up Front is a Legacy Concept

3735 days ago

Understanding the Hidden ‘Costs’ of Products

3749 days ago

Oculus Is for the Elderly

3763 days ago

The Hidden Costs of Pivoting

3777 days ago

Startups Need Shade—Not Just Time—To Grow

3791 days ago

Why VCs are the New Investment Bankers

3805 days ago

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

3819 days ago

Pricing for Consumer Perception

3840 days ago

The End of the Bazaar

3854 days ago

The Downside of Positive Feedback

3868 days ago

A Call for New Type of Mapping Platform

3882 days ago

The Economics of Sharing: Past and Present

3889 days ago

How Startups Get Their Metrics Wrong

3903 days ago

Why Tech Comp is Broken and Ideas To Fix It

3917 days ago

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

3931 days ago

Leapfrogging the U.S.: Transportation in Sao Paulo

3945 days ago

Labor Economics and How Uber is Going to Disrupt Starbucks

3959 days ago

Native Advertising: A Convenient Pitch I’m Not Buying

3973 days ago

My 2020 Predictions: A Reality Check

3980 days ago

Technology, Taxi Medallions and the Ancien Régime

3987 days ago

How Digital Photography Is Altering Our Memory

3993 days ago

Economy Soars, Uber Drops in The Information Survey

3994 days ago

The Race to Become the Apple of Drones

4001 days ago

As Technology Kills GDP, What’s Next?

4008 days ago

When Tech Companies Enter Zero-Sum Markets

4015 days ago

Uber As Gatekeeper to the Physical World

4021 days ago

The Information Subscribers Say…

4022 days ago

Native Apps: A Game Startups Can’t Win

4029 days ago

Big Brands Have Become Liabilities

4036 days ago

Growth: Design It, Buy It or Get Stuck

4043 days ago

What I’ve Learned Since Leaving Facebook

4050 days ago

Time to Hang up on Voice

4057 days ago

How the Sharing Economy Threatens the Traditional Economy

4064 days ago

The Second Coming of Non-Consensus Currencies

4071 days ago

Why Universities Should Wise Up and Retain Their ‘Users’

4078 days ago

The ‘Uber Effect’ on the Property Market

4085 days ago

Selfies, Emoji and the Economics of Communication