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277 days ago

Meet the M...eta-Yankees

284 days ago

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

292 days ago

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

298 days ago

Scale, Sambot, Harvard Reunion

306 days ago

Bears and Books no E, no T

311 days ago

who is single?... and steven pinker

320 days ago

Vibecode Reality, OF, and Incumbents

327 days ago

experiences' airbnb, farming, brokers

334 days ago

Tel Aviv

339 days ago

Antisemitism and AI

348 days ago

WTFVC 2025, Anti-Trust, and Ruck Rock

356 days ago

Harvard, and Decolonization

369 days ago

Tariffs and Spies...

374 days ago

Mostly Skiing... a few other thoughts

383 days ago

Spies, Teams and Themes

388 days ago

Space Bet, Softbank, and Bill Maher

397 days ago

Again and Again, Nothing is New

404 days ago

Narrative Selloff, HP, and Harvard

418 days ago

Slow Creator I, Merit First, and Memes

423 days ago

Understanding Memecoins, and Merit First

432 days ago

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

440 days ago

Tiktok, Trade Wars, and Financial Nihilism

454 days ago

The 2025 Gameplan, Free Speech, and Degen Investing

474 days ago

Elon 'Zaphod' Musk and AI pragmatism

481 days ago

Sora, United Health, Survivability of Seed Capital

488 days ago

Aaron Levie, Voight-Kampff, Retail Fomo

496 days ago

Venmo, Sling & Techbro Culture

503 days ago

Fwd Health, VC Regatta Model, Value Seed Investing

509 days ago

Summers, DOGE, Storytelling

517 days ago

Election Thoughts...

523 days ago

Tech Earnings, Destroying Trust in Reality

530 days ago

Vision Pro Failure, AI Cherry on Top

538 days ago

Planet Elon & Seed 'Value' Investing

544 days ago

Google Antitrust, The State of Seed

551 days ago

Monster F-it Funding Rounds, Golf Curious VC

558 days ago

Meta, Death of SaaS and YC...

563 days ago

the children, aleo, and hustle culture

572 days ago

Beast is Buzzfeed... Google SEO sadness

579 days ago

Founder Mode, Packy and Harry discoveries...

587 days ago

VC Reset, and Some Hiring

601 days ago

Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop In

614 days ago

AI Earnings, Harvard Wins

622 days ago

Opensource AI, Topaz, and Netanyahu

628 days ago

Trump, Kiki, and the Olympics

643 days ago

Patriotism and Summer

647 days ago

Hearsay, Debates and Hacks

859 days ago

Followup from Capital Light Conference

862 days ago

Reminder - Capital Light Conference Tomorrow AM

866 days ago

Invite to The Capital Light Conference on the 29th

866 days ago

Capital Light Conference on the 29th

881 days ago

Post-Factory VC' Conference Invite...

887 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

901 days ago

Followup from the 'State of VC' deck

904 days ago

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

904 days ago

What To Do About Misinformation in the Upcoming Election Cycle?

922 days ago

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

937 days ago

The Apple Episode (Carbon Neutralish)

951 days ago

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

957 days ago

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

964 days ago

You should kill your startup, What replaces globalization

978 days ago

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

986 days ago

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

988 days ago

More or Less Podcast

1164 days ago

The Best Time to Build

1197 days ago

Creator Financing Is Going Mainstream

1245 days ago

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

1444 days ago

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

1505 days ago

How to Put Physical Assets on the Blockchain

1589 days ago

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

1609 days ago

The Metaverse Is Coming. What Happens Next?

1616 days ago

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

1625 days ago

What Sequoia Gains by Blowing Up the VC Fund Structure

1639 days ago

A test title

1709 days ago

The End of Venture Capital as We Know It

1842 days ago

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

1844 days ago

The Future of Investing Directly In People

1864 days ago

Collectibles, Crypto NFTs, and the Monetization of Influence

1876 days ago

Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms

1899 days ago

Equity Financing for Influencers

1913 days ago

How Blocking Trump Puts the Future of the Internet at Risk

1934 days ago

How Covid Accelerated Changes Already in the Making

1975 days ago

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

1997 days ago

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

2015 days ago

Lessons From the Rise of OnlyFans

2047 days ago

California’s 2020 Budget Solution: A Startup Equity Tax

2068 days ago

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

2088 days ago

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

2094 days ago

The Escalating War Between Our Physical and Digital Realities

2117 days ago

On Feed Ranking and Free Speech

2131 days ago

The Slippery Slope to Censored Speech

2138 days ago

The Over-Under on New Voice-Chat App Clubhouse

2150 days ago

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

2164 days ago

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

2170 days ago

The Long-Term Implications of Extended Work From Home

2194 days ago

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

2222 days ago

How Coronavirus Epidemics Could Alter the Future of Tech

2250 days ago

The 10 Ways TikTok Will Change Social Product Design

2277 days ago

My Predictions for the Next Decade

2277 days ago

Grading My 2010 Predictions—and What I Learned

2306 days ago

In Defense of Deep Fakes

2320 days ago

Four Paths Forward for ‘Social Products’

2348 days ago

The Key Themes That Matter for the Future of Work

2361 days ago

The Challenges Facing Free Speech

2389 days ago

The Home Camera Wars

2397 days ago

A Solution for Gig Economy Labor: Lightning Strikes

2453 days ago

On Inequality and Risk Capacity

2460 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

2530 days ago

Remote Work and the Politics of Decentralization

2544 days ago

Why the Internet Could Help Small Businesses Regain Power

2565 days ago

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

2579 days ago

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

2589 days ago

A Warning on the Dangers of Ephemeral Messaging

2600 days ago

ISAs and the Future of Securitization

2614 days ago

The Pressure on the News Industry Is a Symptom of Disempowerment

2614 days ago

Modest Conversations: Income Share Agreements

2621 days ago

How to Introduce a Wealth Tax

2635 days ago

How Political Content Fills the Void Left by Micro-Targeting

2663 days ago

What Technologists Can Learn From Religions

2670 days ago

My Predictions for Crypto in 2019

2684 days ago

We Need Better Measures of Social and Environmental Impacts

2705 days ago

Is Uber Cash a Crypto Play?

2733 days ago

The Coming of the Human Knowledge-Work Cloud

2774 days ago

How the Internet Broke and What to Do About It

2780 days ago

Introducing “B is for Bitcoin”

2789 days ago

The Future of Privacy: Disinformation

2810 days ago

Scooters: The New Self-Driving Cars

2851 days ago

It’s Time for an American Internet Privacy Framework

2873 days ago

Instagram Is the Real Virtual Reality, Not Oculus

2893 days ago

Venmo Trust and The Blockchain

2922 days ago

Governing the Internet

2957 days ago

The Double-Edged Sword of Using Blockchains for Identity Portability

2978 days ago

The Intellectual Tension Between Social Networking and Blockchains

2985 days ago

Stable Coins, Oracles, Trust, and Identity

2992 days ago

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

3006 days ago

The Future of Hybrid Centralized-Decentralized Apps

3034 days ago

Blockchains and the Right to Be Forgotten

3048 days ago

14 Ways the Cryptocurrency Market Will Change in 2018

3062 days ago

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

3076 days ago

The Tower of Babel: Five Challenges of the Modern Internet

3076 days ago

Modest Conversations: Attention and Addiction

3098 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Human Side of Building Technology

3104 days ago

The Future of Work

3132 days ago

The Future of Free Speech

3167 days ago

On Bitcoin Cash & New Ways Crypto-Projects Move Forward

3174 days ago

The Future of Truth

3176 days ago

On Product Management - Rousseau Kazi

3182 days ago

Building Platform Products - Raylene Yung of Stripe & Facebook

3188 days ago

Viewpoint From The Silicon Valley Entering Class of ‘17

3195 days ago

Modest Conversations: Solving The Problems of Modern Cities

3202 days ago

Seven Key Questions in the Cryptocurrency World

3203 days ago

Modest Conversations: What You Know vs. Who You Know

3209 days ago

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

3224 days ago

Modest Conversations: Jobs, Inequality, and UBI

3230 days ago

A Game Plan for VR and AR in 2017

3231 days ago

Modest Conversations: Cryptocurrency & ICOs vs. Venture Capital

3236 days ago

Modest Conversations: Building Great Relationships With Kids

3244 days ago

Time to Pay Attention to Cryptocurrencies

3244 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Near Future of AI

3251 days ago

Modest Conversations: Morning Routines of 2027 and 2047

3257 days ago

The Wrinkle In Forecasting Autonomous Cars

3259 days ago

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

3266 days ago

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

3272 days ago

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

3272 days ago

Modest Conversations: The Future of Real Estate

3279 days ago

Modest Conversations: Is Meditation The Next Yoga?

3286 days ago

The Second Coming of IT

3286 days ago

Modest Conversations: New York Tech & Social Media Fame

3293 days ago

Why Twitter Should Start Charging

3293 days ago

Modest Conversations: Virtual and Physical Communities

3300 days ago

Modest Conversations: Unions, Regulatory Capture, and Tech

3307 days ago

Who Pays for Redesigning Streets for Self-Driving Cars?

3307 days ago

Modest Conversations: Who Drives Corporate Benefits and Responsibility?

3314 days ago

The Information Presents: Modest Conversations

3321 days ago

Slowing Down the Digital Escapist Movement

3335 days ago

The Return of History: Google Photos and Personal Big Data

3342 days ago

The Similarity Between Silicon Valley and Trump

3370 days ago

Our Silent Future

3383 days ago

Bot Check-In: A Year of Disappointment

3390 days ago

In 2017, Tech Will Seek to Regain Moral High Ground

3398 days ago

Why Amazon Should Launch a Bank—But Won’t

3412 days ago

Free Speech and Democracy in the Age of Micro-Targeting

3426 days ago

The Rise of Information Imperialism

3440 days ago

The First Modern Election

3447 days ago

Where Airbnb May Be More Vulnerable than Uber

3461 days ago

Why Today’s Tech Narrative is Way Ahead of Reality

3475 days ago

How Data Analytics is Changing Startup Financing

3489 days ago

Uber’s Self-Driving Car Puzzle

3503 days ago

What Everyone Is Missing about Venture Returns

3517 days ago

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

3524 days ago

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

3537 days ago

Why the Bonus Culture Will Spread

3552 days ago

How to Profit from Political Correctness

3565 days ago

Bots in 2016: Mid-Year Check In

3580 days ago

The Negative Side of Incubators

3594 days ago

Era of Lean Startups Nears an End

3608 days ago

The Non-Monetizable Product Blind Spot

3622 days ago

Why the Home Wars Aren’t the Phone Wars

3636 days ago

The New Business of Editing

3650 days ago

The Coming End of Capitalism

3664 days ago

Why Tech Needs Epic Failures

3678 days ago

Why We Should Abolish Time Zones

3699 days ago

Startups Need to Fire More Customers

3713 days ago

Why Startups Are Doomed, Part Two

3734 days ago

On Bots, Conversational Apps and Fin

3748 days ago

Personal Voice Analysis for the New Year

3762 days ago

Star Wars’ Private Tech Valuation Formula

3762 days ago

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

3776 days ago

The Good Enough Stuff Revolution

3790 days ago

Kodak’s Lesson for Detroit

3804 days ago

The New Winners and Losers in the Boredom Market

3818 days ago

How Growth Will Burst the Tech Bubble

3832 days ago

Why It’s Hard to Fix Failing Tech Cos.

3846 days ago

The Case Against Product-Market Fit

3860 days ago

Paying Up Front is a Legacy Concept

3881 days ago

Understanding the Hidden ‘Costs’ of Products

3895 days ago

Oculus Is for the Elderly

3909 days ago

The Hidden Costs of Pivoting

3923 days ago

Startups Need Shade—Not Just Time—To Grow

3937 days ago

Why VCs are the New Investment Bankers

3951 days ago

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

3965 days ago

Pricing for Consumer Perception

3986 days ago

The End of the Bazaar

4000 days ago

The Downside of Positive Feedback

4014 days ago

A Call for New Type of Mapping Platform

4028 days ago

The Economics of Sharing: Past and Present

4035 days ago

How Startups Get Their Metrics Wrong

4049 days ago

Why Tech Comp is Broken and Ideas To Fix It

4063 days ago

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

4077 days ago

Leapfrogging the U.S.: Transportation in Sao Paulo

4091 days ago

Labor Economics and How Uber is Going to Disrupt Starbucks

4105 days ago

Native Advertising: A Convenient Pitch I’m Not Buying

4118 days ago

My 2020 Predictions: A Reality Check

4126 days ago

Technology, Taxi Medallions and the Ancien Régime

4133 days ago

How Digital Photography Is Altering Our Memory

4138 days ago

Economy Soars, Uber Drops in The Information Survey

4140 days ago

The Race to Become the Apple of Drones

4147 days ago

As Technology Kills GDP, What’s Next?

4154 days ago

When Tech Companies Enter Zero-Sum Markets

4161 days ago

Uber As Gatekeeper to the Physical World

4167 days ago

The Information Subscribers Say…

4168 days ago

Native Apps: A Game Startups Can’t Win

4175 days ago

Big Brands Have Become Liabilities

4182 days ago

Growth: Design It, Buy It or Get Stuck

4189 days ago

What I’ve Learned Since Leaving Facebook

4196 days ago

Time to Hang up on Voice

4203 days ago

How the Sharing Economy Threatens the Traditional Economy

4210 days ago

The Second Coming of Non-Consensus Currencies

4217 days ago

Why Universities Should Wise Up and Retain Their ‘Users’

4224 days ago

The ‘Uber Effect’ on the Property Market

4231 days ago

Selfies, Emoji and the Economics of Communication