Juan Orbea

Amazon is the example I think of most often, because its not actually some magical event that gave Bezos any unfair advantage. It was simply appreciating the present as it was. I would also argue there were two examples of Amazon's journey that represented an arbitrage opportunity in terms of TAM. 

The way we see it is that in venture right now you have 2 choices — super size or super focus. W e largely sat out fundings of NFTs or other areas where we didn’t feel like we were the expert or where the valuation metrics weren’t in line with our funding goals.

So, specifically, I imagine that what happened in 2008 crisis is that, consciously or unconsciously, a decision was made to prevent or inhibit the negative consequences of the financial and to a lesser, but very important extent, economic layers by actually spending resources at the sociopolitical and cultural layers.

What Happens Next?There is a LOT of money still sitting on the sidelines waiting to be deployed. And it WILL be deployed, that’s what investors do. Pitchbook estimates that there is about $290 billion of VC “overhang” in the US alone. But I believe it will be patiently deployed , waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to... See more

The underlying mechanism for Zipf’s law is not yet agreed on but the main hypothesis is that it’s an outgrowth of the Principle of Least Effort. In short, systems that survive and operate at steady state optimize for efficiency. When they do, things tend to look like Zipf distributions.

Unlike most who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, nonconformist, analytical and control-oriented. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically peculiar? What part did these differences play in our history, and what do they mean for our collective identity?