Max Beauroyre

Indeed raised a single round of $5 million before its acquisition for $1 billion.

When people can’t move, neither can labor, families, or fertility. There’s a new study showing that housing costs account for about half the US fertility decline between 2000 and 2020. It’s childcare too - a new paper from Abigail Dow reports that a 10% increase in the price of childcare leads to a 5.7% decrease in the birth rate

The goal is to make technology something that extends human potential rather than reducing it to nothingness - to create visible prosperity rather than just extracting it.

I interviewed two people I respect a lot about this, and the conversation kept circling back to the same place: we have to prepare people. Reskilling isn’t enough. The problem is not just jobs, it’s what happens to purpose and meaning when work disappears. If we erase the first step of the ladder, we can’t just tell people to climb harder.

An entire generation has grown up thinking that extraction, as opposed to building, is the path to riches […] To recover the sense of optimism and opportunity that once characterized American commerce, Americans need to be confident that — even if they don’t work for a platform — they can reap what they sow.

Demographic shifts too - Americans aged 70 and older own almost 40% of all stocks in the US and those 55 and older own over half of all homes. It’s invisible prosperity and visible decay.

What became clear almost immediately is that the prosperity is real, it’s just not showing up in the places people actually live. It exists in balance sheets, in stock portfolios, in data centers behind chain-link fences. But in daily life like in commutes, in childcare costs, in housing, in safety, in community, people are feeling decay. I kept... See more

To be of use. https://t.co/QTcPMt5U01

I’ve been banging my head against the wall trying to articulate my definition of “Life’s Work” Then @GrahamDuncanNYC pointed me to this, by the incredible poet David Whyte Hard to imagine improving this discussion: https://t.co/WQaz9rDCws