Abie Cohen
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Abie Cohen
- eing well-resourced and well-organized matters.
In one of my favorite essays, Choose Good Quests , Trae Stephens and Markie Wagner write about the moral imperative for founders who’ve gained experience, resources, and connections building easier companies early in their careers to use their experience, resources, and connections to tackle really ha... See morefrom The Gang Captures Washington by Packy McCormick
- That horizon is massive and inevitable. We can take lessons from the evolution of social media to will a new multiplayer future of shopping into existence and change for the floundering paradigm forever.
from The Internet Rhymes: Lessons from the Evolution of Social Media by Sam Blumenthal
- The most contrarian bet in venture capital right now is Thrive’s investment in OpenAI at an $80B valuation.
Before you bring your pitchforks against me or wonder if I’ve gone crazy, let me explain.
You can be contrarian in two ways:1- Having a different POV than the mainstream
- Having 100% conviction in the mainstream POV and doubling down on it in a way
from The Most Contrarian Bet in Venture Capital by Pratyush Buddiga
- “The greatest trick the devil ever played was making you believe that the pessimists are the good guys.” – Packy McCormick
- The world doesn’t reward the people with the best ideas. It rewards the people who are best at communicating ideas. Want to publish a bestseller or launch a startup? Want to spread your ideas across the Internet like schmear on a New York bagel? Then become a better writer .
from [Announcement] Write of Passage Is Now OPEN!
On the importance of writing.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch: 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Are Foundation Models Commoditising | Why Frontier Models Will Be Closed Source...
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- Simply put, success breeds confidence. The longer this success lasts, the more a leader’s confidence grows.
The tricky part is that this increase in confidence is initially a positive because it is what enables a leader to take risks, expand, and grow. However, if success is sustained for long enough, an increase in confidence can morph from an adva... See more - Speculative frenzies are part of technology, and so they are not something to be afraid of. Those who remain level-headed through this moment have the chance to build extremely important companies. But we need to make sure not to believe in the delusion that has now spread from Silicon Valley to the rest of the country, and indeed the world. That d... See more
from AI’s $600B Question by David Cahn