Entrepreneurial Statecraft Gets the Goods
“It’s Time to Build,” says Venture Capitalist Marc Andreesen. He’s not wrong. But the summons to create and to break through complacency can only go so far if we do not heed another summons before, after, and alongside it: “It’s Time to Inspire.” In another moment, riffing on Heidegger, I might have said, “It’s Time to Dwell.” But Dwelling sounds a... See more
Productive entrepreneurs create a space for the future by innovating new combinations of economic activity and pushing back against entrenched interests.
Philip Auerswald • The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy
Like nations, individuals have to find a functional balance between order (skills) and adaptability (creativity).
Philip Auerswald • The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy
"One of the reasons I first started The Generalist was because I believe that the great epics of our era will occur in the tech sector . No other field asks – and tests – so many consequential philosophical, psychological, and societal questions so frequently. What is money? What makes something valuable? Will nations exist in the cloud? Can we hac... See more
Mario Gabriele • Generalist Capital: In Search of Epics | The Generalist
recent years, Giussani noticed how elites seemed increasingly guided by lite facsimiles of change. These ideas largely exempted markets and their winners from scrutiny, despite their immense power in deciding how people’s lives were lived and their support for a system that produced extraordinary fortunes and extraordinary exclusion. These notions
... See moreAnand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Today, we are in a crisis. Silicon Valley's best — our top operators, exited founders, and most powerful investors — are almost all on bad quests. Exiting your first startup only to enter venture capital and fight your peers for allocation in a hot deal is a bad quest. Armchair philosophizing on Twitter is a bad quest. Ya
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