Mo Shafieeha

Why EdTech Should Care About Blockchain1. Blockchain is Part of the Future2. Decentralized Education3. Thank You Tokens

Technology cost curves: the speed with which solar power cost fell beat the predictions by ~6X https://nytimes.com/2022/06/05/opinion/climate-change-should-you-have-kids.html?referringSource=articleShare…

1. Market Size If you target a small market, you can probably build a niche business. However, you won't be able to raise money from investors. Therefore, you need to raise small amounts of money, keep your costs extremely low, and become cashflow positive as soon as possible.

A company that avoids hard truths assumes that an engineer who knows the company has missed a quarter will leave for sunnier pastures, so it's best to keep them in the dark until the problem is resolved. In their hearts, the CEO and her staff know the truth. They're smart enough to see it for themselves.

Popular belief holds that making the right decision is the most challenging part. I have found that making a decision you don't want to make is the most challenging part of the process. You can terminate your subordinate, quit your job, lay off a quarter of your employees, and break up with your partner if things don't seem to go well.

Data science teams can use Baseten to efficiently serve, integrate, design, and ship their custom machine learning models with ease. A key benefit of Baseten is that it collapses the innovation cycle for ML apps, resulting in cheaper experimentation and greater success. It unblocks ML efforts currently bottlenecked by infrastructure, frontend, and... See more

Company purpose Start here: define your company in a single declarative sentence. This is harder than it looks. Getting caught up in listing features is easy instead of communicating your mission. Problem Describe the pain of your customer. How is this addressed today, and what are the shortcomings of current solutions? Solution Explain your eureka... See more