“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

— André Gide, 1925

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

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

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.

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

With certain projects, we might pull up specific data or metrics to see if the data gives us any more insights, but it’s not the way we make decisions. We don’t do A/B tests. We validate ideas and assumptions that are driven by taste and opinions, rather than the other way around where tests drive decisions. There is no specific engagement or other... See more

Facebook makes me feel the way I feel when I’m in a hospital.

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Girard believes that this concept permeates every aspect of society. “Enlightenment concepts of the individual persist all the way into existentialist thought,” he argues. In espousing equality between all men, the Enlightenment propagated the belief that the individual should not be subsumed to another. Indeed, the individual should not be subsume... See more