I was at dinner with a bunch of tech people in their 20s last week, and ever since, I’ve been playing around with this idea of “generational tailwinds.” It’s still half-baked, but I’m going to throw it out there anyway:
I was lucky to begin my startup career in 2009 on the heels
Ashley Mayerx.comI was at dinner with a bunch of tech people in their 20s last week, and ever since, I’ve been playing around with this idea of “generational tailwinds.” It’s still half-baked, but I’m going to throw it out there anyway: I was lucky to begin my startup career in 2009 on the heels
Analogizing the current era in tech with the recent, software-dominated era is a mistake.
A much better analogy would be the Second Industrial Revolution in America, the Gilded Age when entrepreneurs built businesses using every new technological tool at their disposal to pull humanity to a new level of prosperity and became unbelievably rich in th... See more
A much better analogy would be the Second Industrial Revolution in America, the Gilded Age when entrepreneurs built businesses using every new technological tool at their disposal to pull humanity to a new level of prosperity and became unbelievably rich in th... See more
Better Tools, Bigger Companies
Fantastic startup advice from Marc Andreessen 15 years ago. https://t.co/slnUkIGB5j
For the past decade, our idolatry of startups and innovation has meant the focus has been: What can we disrupt? How fast can we grow? How big can we get? How much can we raise?
Founders are taught to possess enough faith that they can build something very big very fast. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the p... See more
Founders are taught to possess enough faith that they can build something very big very fast. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the p... See more
sublimeinternet.substack.com • Can I Ramble for a Sec?
... See moreIn other words, today’s cloud and mobile companies — Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google — may very well be the GM, Ford, and Chrysler of the 21st century. The beginning era of technology, where new challengers were started every year, has come to an end; however, that does not mean the impact of technology is somehow diminished: it in fact means