Abie Cohen
@abejcohen
Abie Cohen
New @ThePeelPod episode The Story of Haystack with @Semil Semil is the Founder of Haystack, a venture capital firm backing outlier founders at the earliest stages. Semil started Haystack in 2013, and has since invested in 16 unicorns like DoorDash, Instacart, Figma, HashiCorp,… Show moreFund II- 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 - "So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like a failure in the short term."
On failure
- “Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication…In the long run—in the long run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about ... See more
on success
- Having this vessel that you’re motivated to fill encourages being more observant and analytical in daily life too.
Dan Wang 2023 letter
- Data Provocation: Hospitals are broken and ripe for technological disruption. I have been following General Catalyst’s bold moves lately, including helping found several healthcare companies and most recently acquiring an entire healthcare system in the United States. My hope is that this leads to a vertically integrated re-imagination of healthca
... See morefrom The Rise of Open-Sourced R&D, How Communal Resourcefulness Will Protect Us, & Wild Data Provocations by Scott Belsky
Broken healthcare system
- So, as a builder, you must learn to gain confidence from doubt. And you must remember, nothing extraordinary is ever achieved through ordinary means.
- The Impending VR Moment
The iPhone didn’t happen in a vacuum. Apple needed to learn to make low-power devices with the iPod; flash memory needed to become viable at an accessible price point; Samsung needed to make a good enough processor; 3G networking needed to be rolled out; the iTunes Music Store needed to provide the foundation for the App Stor... See morefrom Sora, Groq, and Virtual Reality (Stratechery Article 2-20-2024)
The impending VR Moment re iphone moment.
- Patient-Directed Care
Circling around all of this continues to be a more fundamental shift of how people are paying attention to biology and their own health.
While patient-directed care broadly is an increasingly consensus trend (borne out of the rise of the quantified self of yesterday and a large number of growing podcasters/authors today) the nua... See moreDecentralized science