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Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech: Part II
It is clear that in this new age of money management, people are focused on two things: minimizing volatility and short-term time horizons. Focus your creativity, research, and acquiring of expertise in the OPPOSITE of these things.
Capital Flows • Brainstorms: Creativity and Complexity
Wang Xing embodied a philosophy of conquest tracing back to the fourteenth-century emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the leader of a rebel army who outlasted dozens of competing warlords to found the Ming Dynasty: “Build high walls, store up grain, and bide your time before claiming the throne.” For Wang Xing, venture funding was his grain, a superior product
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I think the skill is holding both of those… to borrow a phrase from my wife, she loves this phrase, “holding both of those things in your head at the same time.” One is absolute dedication and commitment to a vision of the future that you see, your recursive vision about the future. And two, an utter lack of bias or pre-determined thought on how yo... See more