Mo Shafieeha

Investing in companies at times of uncertainty can be an opportunity for investors. Silver Lake's early investment in AirBnB during a time of "distress" was a stroke of genius. Being willing to "be greedy" and take chances can generate outsized returns. It is likely that the best companies during this period will become leaner, more long-term... See more

A lot of products require a mixture of taste and customer obsession. So if you try to copy Amazon's PR/FAQ process without someone with product taste in the room, you're pretty likely to fail. There's also the tacit component to success, which is harder to articulate and, therefore, harder to acquire.

More listening, less talking The interviewer may just be thinking over the question at hand, so don't rush to fill those silences when you're less experienced.

Alcohol can disrupt the brain's function if you drink a lot, even at low or moderate levels, like 1-2 drinks a day or 7-14 drinks a week. Drinkers' prefrontal cortex and top-down inhibition will be diminished, so they'll act impulsively. Long-term drinkers (even those who drink 1-2 nights a week, long term) tend to rewire circuitry outside of... See more

The cloud developer environment is expensive and heavy and cannot be used offline. It is severely affected by latency. The obvious answer is to move web development to the web, as Google Docs and Figma did for knowledge workers. As a result of WebAssembly's increasing maturity and new browser capabilities, the browser-as-operating-system continues... See more

Implementing ML requires high coordination, highly skilled engineering, and product development. Baseten's co-founders were data scientists who scrappily became full-stack engineers so they could use machine learning to mitigate fraud and abuse and moderate user-generated content. At Clover Health, Amir led teams that developed machine learning... See more

4. Podcasts Edutainment podcasts are also popular. Podcasts are refined versions of information and news. Podcasts cover a wide range of topics and are delivered by professionals who are skilled speakers who can keep listeners interested. Professionals or guest speakers often speak. Podcasts are easy to listen to while driving, travelling, or doing... See more