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201 days ago

Meet the M...eta-Yankees

208 days ago

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

216 days ago

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

222 days ago

Scale, Sambot, Harvard Reunion

230 days ago

Bears and Books no E, no T

235 days ago

who is single?... and steven pinker

244 days ago

Vibecode Reality, OF, and Incumbents

251 days ago

experiences' airbnb, farming, brokers

258 days ago

Tel Aviv

263 days ago

Antisemitism and AI

272 days ago

WTFVC 2025, Anti-Trust, and Ruck Rock

279 days ago

Harvard, and Decolonization

293 days ago

Tariffs and Spies...

298 days ago

Mostly Skiing... a few other thoughts

307 days ago

Spies, Teams and Themes

312 days ago

Space Bet, Softbank, and Bill Maher

321 days ago

Again and Again, Nothing is New

328 days ago

Narrative Selloff, HP, and Harvard

342 days ago

Slow Creator I, Merit First, and Memes

346 days ago

Understanding Memecoins, and Merit First

356 days ago

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

363 days ago

Tiktok, Trade Wars, and Financial Nihilism

377 days ago

The 2025 Gameplan, Free Speech, and Degen Investing

398 days ago

Elon 'Zaphod' Musk and AI pragmatism

405 days ago

Sora, United Health, Survivability of Seed Capital

412 days ago

Aaron Levie, Voight-Kampff, Retail Fomo

419 days ago

Venmo, Sling & Techbro Culture

426 days ago

Fwd Health, VC Regatta Model, Value Seed Investing

433 days ago

Summers, DOGE, Storytelling

440 days ago

Election Thoughts...

447 days ago

Tech Earnings, Destroying Trust in Reality

454 days ago

Vision Pro Failure, AI Cherry on Top

461 days ago

Planet Elon & Seed 'Value' Investing

468 days ago

Google Antitrust, The State of Seed

475 days ago

Monster F-it Funding Rounds, Golf Curious VC

482 days ago

Meta, Death of SaaS and YC...

487 days ago

the children, aleo, and hustle culture

495 days ago

Beast is Buzzfeed... Google SEO sadness

503 days ago

Founder Mode, Packy and Harry discoveries...

510 days ago

VC Reset, and Some Hiring

524 days ago

Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop In

538 days ago

AI Earnings, Harvard Wins

545 days ago

Opensource AI, Topaz, and Netanyahu

552 days ago

Trump, Kiki, and the Olympics

566 days ago

Patriotism and Summer

571 days ago

Hearsay, Debates and Hacks

783 days ago

Followup from Capital Light Conference

786 days ago

Reminder - Capital Light Conference Tomorrow AM

790 days ago

Invite to The Capital Light Conference on the 29th

790 days ago

Capital Light Conference on the 29th

804 days ago

Post-Factory VC' Conference Invite...

811 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

825 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

827 days ago

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

827 days ago

What To Do About Misinformation in the Upcoming Election Cycle?

846 days ago

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

860 days ago

The Apple Episode (Carbon Neutralish)

874 days ago

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

881 days ago

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

888 days ago

You should kill your startup, What replaces globalization

902 days ago

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

909 days ago

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

912 days ago

More or Less Podcast

1088 days ago

The Best Time to Build

1120 days ago

Creator Financing Is Going Mainstream

1169 days ago

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

1367 days ago

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

1428 days ago

How to Put Physical Assets on the Blockchain

1512 days ago

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

1532 days ago

The Metaverse Is Coming. What Happens Next?

1539 days ago

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

1548 days ago

What Sequoia Gains by Blowing Up the VC Fund Structure

1563 days ago

A test title

1632 days ago

The End of Venture Capital as We Know It

1765 days ago

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

1767 days ago

The Future of Investing Directly In People

1787 days ago

Collectibles, Crypto NFTs, and the Monetization of Influence

1799 days ago

Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms

1822 days ago

Equity Financing for Influencers

1836 days ago

How Blocking Trump Puts the Future of the Internet at Risk

1857 days ago

How Covid Accelerated Changes Already in the Making

1898 days ago

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

1920 days ago

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

1938 days ago

Lessons From the Rise of OnlyFans

1970 days ago

California’s 2020 Budget Solution: A Startup Equity Tax

1991 days ago

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

2011 days ago

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

2017 days ago

The Escalating War Between Our Physical and Digital Realities

2040 days ago

On Feed Ranking and Free Speech

2054 days ago

The Slippery Slope to Censored Speech

2061 days ago

The Over-Under on New Voice-Chat App Clubhouse

2073 days ago

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

2087 days ago

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

2093 days ago

The Long-Term Implications of Extended Work From Home

2117 days ago

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

2145 days ago

How Coronavirus Epidemics Could Alter the Future of Tech

2173 days ago

The 10 Ways TikTok Will Change Social Product Design

2200 days ago

My Predictions for the Next Decade

2200 days ago

Grading My 2010 Predictions—and What I Learned

2229 days ago

In Defense of Deep Fakes

2243 days ago

Four Paths Forward for ‘Social Products’

2271 days ago

The Key Themes That Matter for the Future of Work

2284 days ago

The Challenges Facing Free Speech

2312 days ago

The Home Camera Wars

2320 days ago

A Solution for Gig Economy Labor: Lightning Strikes

2376 days ago

On Inequality and Risk Capacity

2383 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

2453 days ago

Remote Work and the Politics of Decentralization

2467 days ago

Why the Internet Could Help Small Businesses Regain Power

2488 days ago

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

2502 days ago

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

2512 days ago

A Warning on the Dangers of Ephemeral Messaging

2523 days ago

ISAs and the Future of Securitization

2537 days ago

The Pressure on the News Industry Is a Symptom of Disempowerment

2538 days ago

Modest Conversations: Income Share Agreements

2544 days ago

How to Introduce a Wealth Tax

2558 days ago

How Political Content Fills the Void Left by Micro-Targeting

2586 days ago

What Technologists Can Learn From Religions

2593 days ago

My Predictions for Crypto in 2019

2607 days ago

We Need Better Measures of Social and Environmental Impacts

2628 days ago

Is Uber Cash a Crypto Play?

2656 days ago

The Coming of the Human Knowledge-Work Cloud

2697 days ago

How the Internet Broke and What to Do About It

2703 days ago

Introducing “B is for Bitcoin”

2712 days ago

The Future of Privacy: Disinformation

2733 days ago

Scooters: The New Self-Driving Cars

2774 days ago

It’s Time for an American Internet Privacy Framework

2796 days ago

Instagram Is the Real Virtual Reality, Not Oculus

2816 days ago

Venmo Trust and The Blockchain

2845 days ago

Governing the Internet

2880 days ago

The Double-Edged Sword of Using Blockchains for Identity Portability

2901 days ago

The Intellectual Tension Between Social Networking and Blockchains

2908 days ago

Stable Coins, Oracles, Trust, and Identity

2915 days ago

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

2929 days ago

The Future of Hybrid Centralized-Decentralized Apps

2957 days ago

Blockchains and the Right to Be Forgotten

2971 days ago

14 Ways the Cryptocurrency Market Will Change in 2018

2986 days ago

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

2999 days ago

The Tower of Babel: Five Challenges of the Modern Internet

3000 days ago

Modest Conversations: Attention and Addiction

3021 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Human Side of Building Technology

3027 days ago

The Future of Work

3055 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

3091 days ago

On Bitcoin Cash & New Ways Crypto-Projects Move Forward

3097 days ago

The Future of Truth

3099 days ago

On Product Management - Rousseau Kazi

3105 days ago

Building Platform Products - Raylene Yung of Stripe & Facebook

3112 days ago

Viewpoint From The Silicon Valley Entering Class of ‘17

3119 days ago

Modest Conversations: Solving The Problems of Modern Cities

3125 days ago

Seven Key Questions in the Cryptocurrency World

3127 days ago

Modest Conversations: What You Know vs. Who You Know

3133 days ago

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

3147 days ago

Modest Conversations: Jobs, Inequality, and UBI

3153 days ago

A Game Plan for VR and AR in 2017

3154 days ago

Modest Conversations: Cryptocurrency & ICOs vs. Venture Capital

3160 days ago

Modest Conversations: Building Great Relationships With Kids

3167 days ago

Time to Pay Attention to Cryptocurrencies

3168 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Near Future of AI

3175 days ago

Modest Conversations: Morning Routines of 2027 and 2047

3180 days ago

The Wrinkle In Forecasting Autonomous Cars

3182 days ago

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

3189 days ago

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

3195 days ago

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

3196 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Future of Real Estate

3203 days ago

Modest Conversations: Is Meditation The Next Yoga?

3209 days ago

The Second Coming of IT

3210 days ago

Modest Conversations: New York Tech & Social Media Fame

3216 days ago

Why Twitter Should Start Charging

3217 days ago

Modest Conversations: Virtual and Physical Communities

3224 days ago

Modest Conversations: Unions, Regulatory Capture, and Tech

3230 days ago

Who Pays for Redesigning Streets for Self-Driving Cars?

3231 days ago

Modest Conversations: Who Drives Corporate Benefits and Responsibility?

3238 days ago

The Information Presents: Modest Conversations

3244 days ago

Slowing Down the Digital Escapist Movement

3258 days ago

The Return of History: Google Photos and Personal Big Data

3265 days ago

The Similarity Between Silicon Valley and Trump

3293 days ago

Our Silent Future

3306 days ago

Bot Check-In: A Year of Disappointment

3313 days ago

In 2017, Tech Will Seek to Regain Moral High Ground

3321 days ago

Why Amazon Should Launch a Bank—But Won’t

3335 days ago

Free Speech and Democracy in the Age of Micro-Targeting

3349 days ago

The Rise of Information Imperialism

3363 days ago

The First Modern Election

3370 days ago

Where Airbnb May Be More Vulnerable than Uber

3384 days ago

Why Today’s Tech Narrative is Way Ahead of Reality

3398 days ago

How Data Analytics is Changing Startup Financing

3412 days ago

Uber’s Self-Driving Car Puzzle

3426 days ago

What Everyone Is Missing about Venture Returns

3440 days ago

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

3447 days ago

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

3460 days ago

Why the Bonus Culture Will Spread

3475 days ago

How to Profit from Political Correctness

3488 days ago

Bots in 2016: Mid-Year Check In

3503 days ago

The Negative Side of Incubators

3517 days ago

Era of Lean Startups Nears an End

3531 days ago

The Non-Monetizable Product Blind Spot

3545 days ago

Why the Home Wars Aren’t the Phone Wars

3559 days ago

The New Business of Editing

3573 days ago

The Coming End of Capitalism

3587 days ago

Why Tech Needs Epic Failures

3601 days ago

Why We Should Abolish Time Zones

3622 days ago

Startups Need to Fire More Customers

3636 days ago

Why Startups Are Doomed, Part Two

3657 days ago

On Bots, Conversational Apps and Fin

3671 days ago

Personal Voice Analysis for the New Year

3685 days ago

Star Wars’ Private Tech Valuation Formula

3685 days ago

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

3699 days ago

The Good Enough Stuff Revolution

3713 days ago

Kodak’s Lesson for Detroit

3727 days ago

The New Winners and Losers in the Boredom Market

3741 days ago

How Growth Will Burst the Tech Bubble

3755 days ago

Why It’s Hard to Fix Failing Tech Cos.

3769 days ago

The Case Against Product-Market Fit

3783 days ago

Paying Up Front is a Legacy Concept

3804 days ago

Understanding the Hidden ‘Costs’ of Products

3818 days ago

Oculus Is for the Elderly

3832 days ago

The Hidden Costs of Pivoting

3846 days ago

Startups Need Shade—Not Just Time—To Grow

3860 days ago

Why VCs are the New Investment Bankers

3874 days ago

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

3888 days ago

Pricing for Consumer Perception

3909 days ago

The End of the Bazaar

3923 days ago

The Downside of Positive Feedback

3937 days ago

A Call for New Type of Mapping Platform

3951 days ago

The Economics of Sharing: Past and Present

3958 days ago

How Startups Get Their Metrics Wrong

3972 days ago

Why Tech Comp is Broken and Ideas To Fix It

3986 days ago

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

4000 days ago

Leapfrogging the U.S.: Transportation in Sao Paulo

4014 days ago

Labor Economics and How Uber is Going to Disrupt Starbucks

4028 days ago

Native Advertising: A Convenient Pitch I’m Not Buying

4042 days ago

My 2020 Predictions: A Reality Check

4049 days ago

Technology, Taxi Medallions and the Ancien Régime

4056 days ago

How Digital Photography Is Altering Our Memory

4062 days ago

Economy Soars, Uber Drops in The Information Survey

4063 days ago

The Race to Become the Apple of Drones

4070 days ago

As Technology Kills GDP, What’s Next?

4077 days ago

When Tech Companies Enter Zero-Sum Markets

4084 days ago

Uber As Gatekeeper to the Physical World

4090 days ago

The Information Subscribers Say…

4091 days ago

Native Apps: A Game Startups Can’t Win

4098 days ago

Big Brands Have Become Liabilities

4105 days ago

Growth: Design It, Buy It or Get Stuck

4112 days ago

What I’ve Learned Since Leaving Facebook

4119 days ago

Time to Hang up on Voice

4126 days ago

How the Sharing Economy Threatens the Traditional Economy

4133 days ago

The Second Coming of Non-Consensus Currencies

4140 days ago

Why Universities Should Wise Up and Retain Their ‘Users’

4147 days ago

The ‘Uber Effect’ on the Property Market

4154 days ago

Selfies, Emoji and the Economics of Communication