Leo Nasskau
- This is why successful companies still pursuing breakthroughs are always led by live players, often the founders.
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USV - Trusted Brands
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.
“The modern man is always claiming a self-sufficiency which he is unable to achieve. He constantly compares himself with other people and, afraid that they might be superior, he secretly copies their manners and borrows their desires.”
from René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race by Leo Nasskau
- 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
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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!
- Facebook makes me feel the way I feel when I’m in a hospital.
from The Bitter End of "Content" by Freddie DeBoer
