Abie Cohen
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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 more
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When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything... See more
James Somers • More People Should Write
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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Selling a unit of work
Deep Dive: Building an American TSMC | Contrary Research
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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... See more
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... See more
Sora, Groq, and Virtual Reality (Stratechery Article 2-20-2024)
The impending VR Moment re iphone moment.
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Having them is literally like outsourcing your heart and letting pieces of it walk around the world completely unprotected. But ironically, that doesn’t actually make them extensions of us. Like I think the reason those pieces of heart feel unprotected is because they’re still mine, but not part of me anymore.