Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
Pretty basic! And yet, nothing on the internet presently allows me to do this — not in a way that’s sufficiently simple, expressive, and predictable.
Robin Sloan • Specifying Spring '83
Status Signaling and why curation...
Just proved the thesis of this piece - on the endless selfish human desire to signal - in adding this to my sublime nail painting emoji
Book Review: The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
Rose Dellerblogs.lse.ac.uk
perspectives on funding and venture capital (VC) and venture capital
As the amount of capital raised by venture capital firms nearly 8x’d between 2013 and 2022, the number of new startups funded didn’t even double.
When you take total VC dollars raised, divided by the number of new companies, you’ll see the average startup today has 5x more VC capital available than its counterpart did in 2013.
Rather than fund more ideas or more types of founders, most VCs simply ended up giving more dollars to more of the same founders and ideas they’d always back.
Great businesses aren’t good enough to drive the kinds of returns needed to generate the kinds of returns mega funds demand. As more capital was consumed, more risk was layered on to push from a great outcome to a mega-fund returning outcome.
Today, the fuel for startups and the oxygen for funds are being cut significantly. There is less available capital and appetite for burn
Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world
https://www.latimes.com/people/nilesh-christopherlatimes.com
Areas of opportunity; hiring, creating products for founders like NFX's Signal, and processes such as indexing people instead of companies.
Erik Torenberg • Productizing Venture
