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216 days ago

Meet the M...eta-Yankees

223 days ago

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

231 days ago

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

237 days ago

Scale, Sambot, Harvard Reunion

245 days ago

Bears and Books no E, no T

250 days ago

who is single?... and steven pinker

259 days ago

Vibecode Reality, OF, and Incumbents

266 days ago

experiences' airbnb, farming, brokers

273 days ago

Tel Aviv

278 days ago

Antisemitism and AI

287 days ago

WTFVC 2025, Anti-Trust, and Ruck Rock

294 days ago

Harvard, and Decolonization

308 days ago

Tariffs and Spies...

313 days ago

Mostly Skiing... a few other thoughts

322 days ago

Spies, Teams and Themes

327 days ago

Space Bet, Softbank, and Bill Maher

336 days ago

Again and Again, Nothing is New

343 days ago

Narrative Selloff, HP, and Harvard

357 days ago

Slow Creator I, Merit First, and Memes

362 days ago

Understanding Memecoins, and Merit First

371 days ago

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

378 days ago

Tiktok, Trade Wars, and Financial Nihilism

392 days ago

The 2025 Gameplan, Free Speech, and Degen Investing

413 days ago

Elon 'Zaphod' Musk and AI pragmatism

420 days ago

Sora, United Health, Survivability of Seed Capital

427 days ago

Aaron Levie, Voight-Kampff, Retail Fomo

434 days ago

Venmo, Sling & Techbro Culture

442 days ago

Fwd Health, VC Regatta Model, Value Seed Investing

448 days ago

Summers, DOGE, Storytelling

455 days ago

Election Thoughts...

462 days ago

Tech Earnings, Destroying Trust in Reality

469 days ago

Vision Pro Failure, AI Cherry on Top

477 days ago

Planet Elon & Seed 'Value' Investing

483 days ago

Google Antitrust, The State of Seed

490 days ago

Monster F-it Funding Rounds, Golf Curious VC

497 days ago

Meta, Death of SaaS and YC...

502 days ago

the children, aleo, and hustle culture

511 days ago

Beast is Buzzfeed... Google SEO sadness

518 days ago

Founder Mode, Packy and Harry discoveries...

525 days ago

VC Reset, and Some Hiring

539 days ago

Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop In

553 days ago

AI Earnings, Harvard Wins

560 days ago

Opensource AI, Topaz, and Netanyahu

567 days ago

Trump, Kiki, and the Olympics

581 days ago

Patriotism and Summer

586 days ago

Hearsay, Debates and Hacks

798 days ago

Followup from Capital Light Conference

801 days ago

Reminder - Capital Light Conference Tomorrow AM

805 days ago

Invite to The Capital Light Conference on the 29th

805 days ago

Capital Light Conference on the 29th

819 days ago

Post-Factory VC' Conference Invite...

826 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

840 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

842 days ago

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

842 days ago

What To Do About Misinformation in the Upcoming Election Cycle?

861 days ago

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

875 days ago

The Apple Episode (Carbon Neutralish)

889 days ago

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

896 days ago

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

903 days ago

You should kill your startup, What replaces globalization

917 days ago

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

924 days ago

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

927 days ago

More or Less Podcast

1103 days ago

The Best Time to Build

1135 days ago

Creator Financing Is Going Mainstream

1184 days ago

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

1382 days ago

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

1443 days ago

How to Put Physical Assets on the Blockchain

1527 days ago

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

1547 days ago

The Metaverse Is Coming. What Happens Next?

1554 days ago

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

1563 days ago

What Sequoia Gains by Blowing Up the VC Fund Structure

1578 days ago

A test title

1648 days ago

The End of Venture Capital as We Know It

1780 days ago

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

1782 days ago

The Future of Investing Directly In People

1802 days ago

Collectibles, Crypto NFTs, and the Monetization of Influence

1814 days ago

Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms

1837 days ago

Equity Financing for Influencers

1852 days ago

How Blocking Trump Puts the Future of the Internet at Risk

1872 days ago

How Covid Accelerated Changes Already in the Making

1913 days ago

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

1936 days ago

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

1954 days ago

Lessons From the Rise of OnlyFans

1985 days ago

California’s 2020 Budget Solution: A Startup Equity Tax

2006 days ago

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

2027 days ago

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

2033 days ago

The Escalating War Between Our Physical and Digital Realities

2055 days ago

On Feed Ranking and Free Speech

2069 days ago

The Slippery Slope to Censored Speech

2076 days ago

The Over-Under on New Voice-Chat App Clubhouse

2089 days ago

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

2103 days ago

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

2108 days ago

The Long-Term Implications of Extended Work From Home

2132 days ago

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

2160 days ago

How Coronavirus Epidemics Could Alter the Future of Tech

2189 days ago

The 10 Ways TikTok Will Change Social Product Design

2216 days ago

My Predictions for the Next Decade

2216 days ago

Grading My 2010 Predictions—and What I Learned

2244 days ago

In Defense of Deep Fakes

2258 days ago

Four Paths Forward for ‘Social Products’

2286 days ago

The Key Themes That Matter for the Future of Work

2299 days ago

The Challenges Facing Free Speech

2328 days ago

The Home Camera Wars

2335 days ago

A Solution for Gig Economy Labor: Lightning Strikes

2391 days ago

On Inequality and Risk Capacity

2398 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

2468 days ago

Remote Work and the Politics of Decentralization

2483 days ago

Why the Internet Could Help Small Businesses Regain Power

2503 days ago

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

2518 days ago

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

2528 days ago

A Warning on the Dangers of Ephemeral Messaging

2538 days ago

ISAs and the Future of Securitization

2552 days ago

The Pressure on the News Industry Is a Symptom of Disempowerment

2553 days ago

Modest Conversations: Income Share Agreements

2560 days ago

How to Introduce a Wealth Tax

2574 days ago

How Political Content Fills the Void Left by Micro-Targeting

2602 days ago

What Technologists Can Learn From Religions

2608 days ago

My Predictions for Crypto in 2019

2622 days ago

We Need Better Measures of Social and Environmental Impacts

2644 days ago

Is Uber Cash a Crypto Play?

2671 days ago

The Coming of the Human Knowledge-Work Cloud

2713 days ago

How the Internet Broke and What to Do About It

2718 days ago

Introducing “B is for Bitcoin”

2727 days ago

The Future of Privacy: Disinformation

2748 days ago

Scooters: The New Self-Driving Cars

2789 days ago

It’s Time for an American Internet Privacy Framework

2812 days ago

Instagram Is the Real Virtual Reality, Not Oculus

2832 days ago

Venmo Trust and The Blockchain

2860 days ago

Governing the Internet

2896 days ago

The Double-Edged Sword of Using Blockchains for Identity Portability

2916 days ago

The Intellectual Tension Between Social Networking and Blockchains

2923 days ago

Stable Coins, Oracles, Trust, and Identity

2930 days ago

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

2945 days ago

The Future of Hybrid Centralized-Decentralized Apps

2972 days ago

Blockchains and the Right to Be Forgotten

2986 days ago

14 Ways the Cryptocurrency Market Will Change in 2018

3001 days ago

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

3015 days ago

The Tower of Babel: Five Challenges of the Modern Internet

3015 days ago

Modest Conversations: Attention and Addiction

3036 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Human Side of Building Technology

3043 days ago

The Future of Work

3071 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

3106 days ago

On Bitcoin Cash & New Ways Crypto-Projects Move Forward

3112 days ago

The Future of Truth

3114 days ago

On Product Management - Rousseau Kazi

3120 days ago

Building Platform Products - Raylene Yung of Stripe & Facebook

3127 days ago

Viewpoint From The Silicon Valley Entering Class of ‘17

3134 days ago

Modest Conversations: Solving The Problems of Modern Cities

3141 days ago

Seven Key Questions in the Cryptocurrency World

3142 days ago

Modest Conversations: What You Know vs. Who You Know

3148 days ago

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

3163 days ago

Modest Conversations: Jobs, Inequality, and UBI

3168 days ago

A Game Plan for VR and AR in 2017

3169 days ago

Modest Conversations: Cryptocurrency & ICOs vs. Venture Capital

3175 days ago

Modest Conversations: Building Great Relationships With Kids

3183 days ago

Time to Pay Attention to Cryptocurrencies

3183 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Near Future of AI

3190 days ago

Modest Conversations: Morning Routines of 2027 and 2047

3196 days ago

The Wrinkle In Forecasting Autonomous Cars

3197 days ago

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

3205 days ago

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

3211 days ago

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

3211 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Future of Real Estate

3218 days ago

Modest Conversations: Is Meditation The Next Yoga?

3224 days ago

The Second Coming of IT

3225 days ago

Modest Conversations: New York Tech & Social Media Fame

3232 days ago

Why Twitter Should Start Charging

3232 days ago

Modest Conversations: Virtual and Physical Communities

3239 days ago

Modest Conversations: Unions, Regulatory Capture, and Tech

3246 days ago

Who Pays for Redesigning Streets for Self-Driving Cars?

3246 days ago

Modest Conversations: Who Drives Corporate Benefits and Responsibility?

3253 days ago

The Information Presents: Modest Conversations

3259 days ago

Slowing Down the Digital Escapist Movement

3274 days ago

The Return of History: Google Photos and Personal Big Data

3281 days ago

The Similarity Between Silicon Valley and Trump

3309 days ago

Our Silent Future

3322 days ago

Bot Check-In: A Year of Disappointment

3328 days ago

In 2017, Tech Will Seek to Regain Moral High Ground

3336 days ago

Why Amazon Should Launch a Bank—But Won’t

3350 days ago

Free Speech and Democracy in the Age of Micro-Targeting

3364 days ago

The Rise of Information Imperialism

3378 days ago

The First Modern Election

3386 days ago

Where Airbnb May Be More Vulnerable than Uber

3399 days ago

Why Today’s Tech Narrative is Way Ahead of Reality

3413 days ago

How Data Analytics is Changing Startup Financing

3427 days ago

Uber’s Self-Driving Car Puzzle

3442 days ago

What Everyone Is Missing about Venture Returns

3456 days ago

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

3462 days ago

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

3476 days ago

Why the Bonus Culture Will Spread

3491 days ago

How to Profit from Political Correctness

3503 days ago

Bots in 2016: Mid-Year Check In

3519 days ago

The Negative Side of Incubators

3533 days ago

Era of Lean Startups Nears an End

3546 days ago

The Non-Monetizable Product Blind Spot

3560 days ago

Why the Home Wars Aren’t the Phone Wars

3574 days ago

The New Business of Editing

3588 days ago

The Coming End of Capitalism

3602 days ago

Why Tech Needs Epic Failures

3616 days ago

Why We Should Abolish Time Zones

3638 days ago

Startups Need to Fire More Customers

3651 days ago

Why Startups Are Doomed, Part Two

3673 days ago

On Bots, Conversational Apps and Fin

3686 days ago

Personal Voice Analysis for the New Year

3700 days ago

Star Wars’ Private Tech Valuation Formula

3701 days ago

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

3715 days ago

The Good Enough Stuff Revolution

3729 days ago

Kodak’s Lesson for Detroit

3742 days ago

The New Winners and Losers in the Boredom Market

3757 days ago

How Growth Will Burst the Tech Bubble

3771 days ago

Why It’s Hard to Fix Failing Tech Cos.

3785 days ago

The Case Against Product-Market Fit

3798 days ago

Paying Up Front is a Legacy Concept

3819 days ago

Understanding the Hidden ‘Costs’ of Products

3834 days ago

Oculus Is for the Elderly

3847 days ago

The Hidden Costs of Pivoting

3862 days ago

Startups Need Shade—Not Just Time—To Grow

3876 days ago

Why VCs are the New Investment Bankers

3889 days ago

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

3904 days ago

Pricing for Consumer Perception

3925 days ago

The End of the Bazaar

3939 days ago

The Downside of Positive Feedback

3952 days ago

A Call for New Type of Mapping Platform

3967 days ago

The Economics of Sharing: Past and Present

3974 days ago

How Startups Get Their Metrics Wrong

3988 days ago

Why Tech Comp is Broken and Ideas To Fix It

4001 days ago

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

4016 days ago

Leapfrogging the U.S.: Transportation in Sao Paulo

4029 days ago

Labor Economics and How Uber is Going to Disrupt Starbucks

4043 days ago

Native Advertising: A Convenient Pitch I’m Not Buying

4057 days ago

My 2020 Predictions: A Reality Check

4064 days ago

Technology, Taxi Medallions and the Ancien Régime

4071 days ago

How Digital Photography Is Altering Our Memory

4077 days ago

Economy Soars, Uber Drops in The Information Survey

4078 days ago

The Race to Become the Apple of Drones

4085 days ago

As Technology Kills GDP, What’s Next?

4093 days ago

When Tech Companies Enter Zero-Sum Markets

4099 days ago

Uber As Gatekeeper to the Physical World

4105 days ago

The Information Subscribers Say…

4106 days ago

Native Apps: A Game Startups Can’t Win

4113 days ago

Big Brands Have Become Liabilities

4120 days ago

Growth: Design It, Buy It or Get Stuck

4127 days ago

What I’ve Learned Since Leaving Facebook

4135 days ago

Time to Hang up on Voice

4141 days ago

How the Sharing Economy Threatens the Traditional Economy

4149 days ago

The Second Coming of Non-Consensus Currencies

4156 days ago

Why Universities Should Wise Up and Retain Their ‘Users’

4162 days ago

The ‘Uber Effect’ on the Property Market

4169 days ago

Selfies, Emoji and the Economics of Communication