Luc Cheung
@luccheung
Luc Cheung
Some of the best startup ideas live in a grey area of legality. Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, YouTube, Coinbase were all somewhere between questionable and flat-out illegal in their early days.
One reason for this is that incumbents cannot take any legal risk on a new initiative. Even if Google execs saw Uber and thought "that... See more
Jared Friedmanx.comAfter 10 years of building consumer social apps, I've decided to start exploring new areas. Building these products is an unforgiving grind—but I learned a lot along the way.
For those embarking on this path, here's everything you need to know:
TIME FOR A THREAD 👇
Nikita Biertwitter.comAll of my startup experience summed up:
The right person with the precise right focus and completely unshackled is 10x as effective as 10 pretty smart people working hard in a vague general direction
Austen Allredx.com
With more creators , more content , and more choice than ever before, consumers are now being consumed by a state of analysis paralysis. The real scarcity isn’t content anymore. It’s attention. When it’s impossible to absorb everything from the flood of information, the best we can do is pick and choose what matters to us most — or, better yet,... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators Are the New Creators
Cost of sequencing a human genome 🔬
• 2001 - $95 million
• 2008 - $342,502
• 2011 - $7,743
• 2023 - $200 with the new Illumina machine
Cc: @PeterDiamandis @azeem @erikbryn @rtnarch
Paul Graham on how to make yourself a big target for luck:
“When you read biographies of people who've done great work, it's remarkable how much luck is involved.
They discover what to work on as a result of a chance meeting, or by reading a book they happen to pick up.... See more
David Senrax.com