Juan Orbea

To appreciate the nature and significance of the coming “singularity,” it is important to ponder the nature of exponential growth. By the end of the first half of the chess board, the inventor had accumulated one large field’s worth (4 billion grains), and the emperor did start to take notice. Incidentally, with regard to the doublings of... See more

Third — and here I can only describe what I am observing across the industry — marketing seems to be substituting for real, hard science in the presentation of these startups.

Are the people in this city like me? Each city has a vibe that may or may not fit with you. Each city calls ambitious people to improve in some area. NYC calls you to earn more money. Seattle and Portland call you to recreate more. DC calls you to be more connected. SF calls you to create more, invent more. It’s the garage where the crazy uncle is... See more

You can find a bunch more juicy examples in the chapter titled, appropriately, "If the News is Fake, Imagine History". 

I do already see a return of normalcy on the amount of time investors have to conduct due diligence and make sure there is not only a compelling business case but also good chemistry between the founders and investors.

For example, Indians are not familiar with the concept of salary/hour, which makes products whose value proposition is “convenience” very hard to sell, as opposed to the west.Maybe soulfulness is a function of chaos and inefficiencyIt is impossible to scale in life without standardizing, and standardization is the enemy of soulfulnessStandardized... See more