Mo Shafieeha

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The Problem For every business in the world, they tend to bring together three groups of people:

Capital providers — those that provide the start-up financial capital and own the shares in the company. They hold all of the decision making power.

Supply-siders — those that provide the human or machine capital that ultimately creates a good or service.

Camron Miraftab • Page not found - Rarestone Capital

Opportunity for Technology to Add Value. Zillow gives homebuyers access to a lot of data that was previously kept in proprietary systems. Using Uber's system, you can use more cars, earn more fares per hour, and get a faster pickup. Facilitating work-flow helps participants do more, and increases switching costs.

Bill Gurley • All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces - Above the Crowd

There are a lot of approaches to organization design, but none are reliable and construct-valid. It ignores how personhood and work are intertwined. In addition, the organization isn't a self-aware social singularity, so employees are differentiated as futuristic cogs who 'energize' themselves autonomously. A strategy that can only focus on one... See more

Nathan Snyder • The Problem with Organization Design

Our Investment in StackBlitz

Sarah Guo • Instant, Collaborative Developer Environments | Greylock

If you have a decrease in grip strength of 10% or more, skip the gym that day; grip strength plays a big role in performance and recovery. Your body needs to be in the least abrasive sleeping position. You can sleep in uncomfortable positions, but your body gets stressed when you're awake. Sleeping positions influence how you move while awake. You... See more

Andrew Huberman • Jeff Cavaliere: Optimize Your Exercise Program with Science-Based Tools

------------------------------------------------------------- Curve War TL;DR Essentially, the Curve War(s) is an ongoing event where different parties fight for Curve voting power in order to bootstrap liquidity, deepen liquidity, increase yield, and fulfill other self-serving purposes.

xkydo • Metagovernance in Crypto

---------PROTOCOL LEADERSHIP Kain Warwick, Synthetix's former "benevolent dictator," recently explained a problem arising from the decentralized governance of Synthetix. Warwick recalls stepping away from his de facto leadership position and leaving the Spartan Council, a democratically elected body that approved Synthetix protocol changes and was... See more

Sam McCarthy • Cryptociety | Sam McCarthy | Substack

😓 the number of companies out there that won't pay $20K a year for off-the-shelf SaaS, but then spend unlimited engineering effort building internal tooling themselves and then complain they don't have enough engineering capacity

sarah guo // conviction twitter.com

Saas and Engineering Management

The purpose of organization design is to assist organizations in excelling at what they do by taking a holistic approach to the work they do. It is a process for structuring and running organizations. The design of an organization can help improve the quality of goods and services it produces, increase profits, and strengthen relationships with its... See more