You can always trace a product’s flaws back to its motivations.

The web hasn’t had its artisanal moment. Right now, giant, ad-based networks created by six men that everyone begrudgingly uses with diminishing emotional returns, control the vast majority of the web.

Agriculture was a tremendous invention – it got people fed and freed them to do many things. But agriculture – taken to the extreme in the pursuit of profit leads to a sick and obese population and industrialized farms with little regard for the environment or animals. And in response to that, we now have amazing artisanal and healthy food choices ... See more

Most organizations cannot ship the most basic applications imaginable with any consistency, and you're out here saying that the best way to remain competitive is to roll out experimental technology that is an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything else your I.T department runs, which you have no experience hiring for

"Seeing is Believing as a Potential Entrepreneur" -

@davidcummings

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I credit a lot of my self-belief with having worked in startups before making the jump to my own.

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Direct exposure to other founders/operators dispels the myths of going from 0 to 1 or 1 to 10.

Being “good at hiring” means either accurately betting on undiscovered talent or being good at persuading obvious talent.

For someone to be successful in starting a company and then turning it into a multigenerational business, they need to have good taste in at least these two things: ideas to pursue and people to recruit.

So if not for the structure, what caused venture’s shift towards such risk-averse investing? As fund sizes grew dramatically and a tech boom spurred a startup surge, the industry's emphasis shifted from discerning selection towards a more diversified 'spray and pray' approach, diluting the value of traditional tasteful investing. When the game of b... See more