Business Building

identifying the root cause of a problem is the most important thing

On the long game of developing CUDA: “I like hard things because it takes a long time to do. If it takes a long time to do, it takes a really resilient person to do it.”

AJ Asver x.com

alex

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

Dan Gardner • 4 highlights

amazon.com

sari

Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail

johnsalvatier.org johnsalvatier.org

Tanuj and

Here are (some) steps founders can take to get reporters to write about their companies (a thread). (Caveat: this thread is not exhaustive and really applies only to me)

✡️ Jon Shieber ✡️twitter.com

Jordan Bester

One result of this past tech cycle was a view that companies needed to build hyper complex ponzi schemes of ambition in order to accumulate capital and be valued. This led to a variety of shooting stars that never realized their main goal.

Another view was an insane amount of value ascribed to hyper-narrow features masquerading as companies, leading... See more

Michael Dempsey • On Scope Creep & ZIRP Lessons

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expand the product, not the mission

Death is the default

Gena Gorlin genagorlin.substack.com

Sarah Drinkwater

Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value

Teresa Torres • 6 highlights

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sari

Increasing Returns and the New World of Business

W. Brian Arthur hbr.org

aandrea

In more physical industries, there are generally diminishing marginal returns: the next acre you plant and next oil well you drill is probably not as productive as the last one—because if it were, you would have done it first! But the next user of a software platform is often more valuable than the previous one, because they increase the size of the network.