More recently I’ve kept repeating to myself, don’t abandon your vision . Decisiveness is knowing myself well enough to take the plunge, then the rest is all faith.

If you were magically given 10,000 hours to be amazing at something, what would it be? The more clarity you have on this response, the better off you’ll be.

There’s a reason why the most popular words in tech right now are acceleration, destruction, disruption.

Have you figured out what they want to destroy and disrupt? Here’s a clue—take a look in the mirror.

We are formed by the structures of modern society to be insatiable consumers of an increasing range of commodified things and experiences and services. There is no art in this, because the tacit assumption that we must buy into along the way is that there is no limit to what we can consume.

• Working with friends


• Small core team (<10 people)


• Remote-first


• Asynchronous communication


• Very few meetings


• No managers or PMs


• Transparent decision-making


• Profit-sharing among the team


• Annual liquidity windows for equity


• No institutional investors


• No required work hours; everyone is responsible for their own tasks


• Focus on creating high-quality produc

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

Working even a good job cramps your sense of possibility, imposes narrow objectives, and eats away at the little things that could grow into big things if they weren’t so oppressed by the rigors of existing structure. I’ve seen this with my friends, in how they are full of ideas and adventurous spirit a few months after I convince them to quit thei... See more

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

The death of the press release Why launching products on social media is the only way to go Recently I've been working with a lot of early startups as part of A16Z SPEEDRUN — our accelerator focused on the intersection of TECH x GAMES — and many of these teams end up launching… Show more