Leo Nasskau
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Progress Studies and Tech and Policy
Takes that aged badly: see this from 1937 the problem with our modern world is all of these newfangled toilets and umbrellas get rid of the books!
USV - Trusted Brands
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We recently held our annual CEO summit where 65 of our portfolio company CEOs came together in NYC. Because we had updated our thesis since last year’s summit, we wanted to share some of our thinking with the group around trusted brands, one of the newer concepts added to the thesis. Below is the deck we shared with the CEOs last week. It spurred a great conversation at the summit and we hope it will bring up some interesting ideas and conversations for you too.
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
— André Gide, 1925
— André Gide, 1925
Dylano | Essayful • Tweet
Determine which lane is a natural fit for your business model
I remember 2015 or so, Jeff Bezos came on stage and said that this sort of way of doing grocery shopping doesn't seem like it's the right solution. And the whole team was like, shit, Jeff Bezos saying this. But actually, in our model, the marketplace model was superior to our first-party fully integrated model for various reasons. And our first pri... See more
Elad Gil • Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart
Instacart CEO on first first principles thinking
When institutions become powerful and entrenched, the logic of state interest begins to override the more fundamental interests of continuity. The qualities which brought the state into being may ultimately conflict with and upset its stability and end up suppressed. The militant hero culture of the old patrician families gave Rome its empire, but ... See more
Palladium Editors • New Article: You Won’t Survive As Human Capital
Statesmanship and Roman Empire
thought the sum of the essay was lower than its best claims, like this claim
This is why successful companies still pursuing breakthroughs are always led by live players, often the founders.
Only Mark Zuckerberg could have changed Facebook's name and decided it was now a virtual reality hardware company.
Only Mark Zuckerberg could have changed Facebook's name and decided it was now a virtual reality hardware company.
Bismarck Analysis • Tweet
Governments sporadically got things spectacularly wrong. In 1865, the rail and horse-drawn carriage lobbies in the U.K. drummed up enough outrage to pass the Locomotive Act, whose most notable feature was an absurd requirement that a man walk in front of any self-propelled vehicle waving a red flag and blowing a horn. It stunted the U.K. automobile... See more
Matt Boulos • Towards guardrails, not guidelines: a policy framework for powerful AI systems
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