Prologue
Software used to be the hard thing about startups. Now software is easier, and networks are hard. The rare skill today is network bonding and community building.
James Currier • Network Bonding Theory: Grow Your Startup By Making It A Network
The essential task in a startup is to create wealth; the dimension of wealth you have most control over is how much you improve users' lives; and the hardest part of that is knowing what to make for them. Once you know what to make, it's mere effort to make it, and most decent hackers are capable of that.
Paul Graham • Startups in 13 Sentences
The Mechanics of Mafia by Peter Thiel
founderstribune.org
Blockchains are at the computing frontier, as PCs were in the 1980s, the internet was in the 1990s, and mobile phones were in the 2010s. People look back today on classic moments in computing and wonder what it was like to be there. Noyce and Moore. Jobs and Wozniak. Page and Brin. Hobbyists dabbling, debating, driving forward. Tinkerers hacking a... See more
Chris Dixon • 16 insights from New York Times bestseller Read Write Own - a16z crypto
Business is simply a vehicle to push the future forward and drive human progress. Whether that is accomplished through an open source project, an academic paper, or a research lab, the tool doesn’t matter. The goal is to advance technology.