Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
ANTISTATIC: Untitled presentation
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One of my favourite living documents on the internet - a living slide deck I check every few months that never ceases to be full of surprising and weird connections
Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
youtube.comOnce Upon a Time… at Bennington College on Apple Podcasts
podcasts.apple.comidea generation and
The Indie Era of Startups
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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
The Optimism Collective is a large-scale experiment in digital democratic governance, built to drive rapid and sustainable growth of a decentralized ecosystem, and stewarded by the newly formed Optimism Foundation.
Introducing the Optimism Collective
Near the end of last year, I asked myself:What do you want from the internet, anyway?
Robin Sloan • Specifying Spring '83
ChatGPT as muse, not oracle
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