Philipp Rimmler

“Why isn’t it an app?” This argument feels like the make change from the inside. We know that’s not how the world works, but it’s hard to see that you’re in water as a fish.

But what’s hanging in the balance is the image-cultural environment of the future. One not dominated by a format monopoly.

both aesthetic appreciation and something more scientific

tanning in “prison.”

Mobile Sports Gambling amplifies sports watching. Gets your adrenaline up.

It obsolesces the gambling house and diamond district bookies a la Uncut Gems.

It retrieves personal stakes for events that don't involve you.

But put all of these clues together and a story emerges: if they really do have a high bar for mere mediocrity, but they also have the operating leverage to make a successful employee have a bigger impact on the world (and a bigger impact on their own net worth) than anywhere else, then their optimal strategy is to be a bit bloated specifically so... See more

Those that have found themselves caught in arguments over overcrooks and alley-oops know there’s a fine mesh of rules that govern our language, a lexicon and syntax that can only be understood through experience.

a16z is positioning itself to manufacture the conditions under which outcomes occur —through media, markets, talent pipelines, political alignment, and institutional influence.