Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
Research requires commitment to evidence, broadly defined. In the sciences, this might involve running experiments and quantitatively analyzing the results; in the humanities, this might involve translating or transcribing primary sources and qualitatively interrogating them. (But this is oversimplifying things: the “sciences” and the “humanities”
... See morequestions are the guide to life
Why did I want to join a startup to figure out if all the things I had learnt actually worked? I wanted evidence for my research. The only way to find the answer was to join a startup

Young people look at so many of the status games of older folks—what brand of car is parked in your garage, what neighborhood can you afford to live in, how many levels below CEO are you in your org—and then look at apps like Vine and Musical.ly, and they choose the only real viable and thus optimal path before them. Remember the second tenet:
... See morewhen we expand a technology we expand it towards both the divine and the profane. But it is up to us to both define that which is divine/profane — instead of a broad acceptance of the profane as “just another use case that we can’t avoid”.
e says the biggest mistake an investor can make is to sell a stock that goes on to rise tenfold not from owning something into bankruptcy but that's what everyone thinks at least judging by the questions that we get from our clients we got questions about our holding in Northwest Airlines rather than the sale of Apple earlier this year but selling
... See more"spend all your time on your single best idea" and people's biggest mistakes
My big mistake was not holding Amyris so bankrupcy.
It was selling Palantir when I knew it was a guaranteed success and holding it
It might have been buying more in Oscar instead of buying more in Lemonade and Hims
Bryce Roberts describing Soleio:
The "culture of Soleio” seems to contain a bunch of contradictions — care for craft with an obsession for speed. A clearly massive ambition coupled with a desire to be a “trim boat” that can be lean and focused.