Max Beauroyre

Part of the problem seems to be that nobody these days is content to merely put their dent in the universe. No, they have to fucking own the universe. It’s not enough to be in the market, they have to dominate it. It’s not enough to serve customers, they have to capture them.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could pay $9.99 a month and read all of the books you want? Just like you get all the movies you want from Netflix? Or all the music you want from Spotify?

Technically, it does exist. Kindle Unlimited is the largest, followed by Scribd. Audible isn’t quite all-access, but then Spotify got into audiobooks and made them so.... See more

Become an AI-first company. There is a great story about Mark Zuckerberg refusing to look at desktop mocks when the world started shifting to mobile.

passion without boundaries will lead you to burnout.

Instead, it’s becoming obvious that the “software” businesses of the future will be more like compound companies that combine software with operational excellence, services, and/or real world physical businesses. And software might be the least interesting part of that to work on!

The mode profile of people in the 80-99th percentile is always what you’d expect. The 99th to 100th percentile is unexpected. It’s never the ivy-leaguer. It's not the one who trained with a professional coach at the age of 5. The average person at Goldman Sachs went to Harvard. But the CEO of Goldman, David Solomon went to a small liberal arts... See more

I wish patronage were widely adopted as an explicit social norm

We live in a culture that venerates productivity above all else. For centuries, success—particularly in the West—has hinged on a simple dictum: “Do more, faster.”

We're living through one of the most significant technology shifts in history, yet we're still distributing products like it's 2015.