Juan Orbea

There are three ways that you can interpret the underlying goal here:1) Creating new regulatory environments that let their residents have different priorities from the priorities preferred by the mainstream.

Canva's target market has always been the long-tail of less sophisticated creatives, often people without technical skills or advanced software. For that long-tail, the focus is on creating high quality designs with as little friction as possible. By bringing all of this creative surface area into the same platform they enable long-tail creators to... See more

If you add a compounding effect on top of an already large number, it becomes very difficult to predict the size of future outcomes.

But I thought a better way of thinking about how we manage our portfolios is to think about it as a funnel. If we do 36–40 deals in a Seed Fund, somewhere between 25–40% would likely see big up-rounds within the first 12–24 months. This translates to about 12–15 investments.

His aim with this challenge was to prove that you can attain an Ivy League education (without the degree) in much less time and 100x less cost.

I think there is an important idea hidden in [1]: while the "social technology" community has come up with many good ideas around better governance, and many good ideas around better public discussion, there is a missing emphasis on better social technology for sorting .