Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
Celo is a carbon-negative EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed to make it accessible and usable by anyone with a smartphone, anywhere in the world. It’s unique among blockchains in many ways, including the fact that it has its own native stablecoins in different denominations and in that it plans to back those stablecoins with 40% natural... See more
Packy McCormick • Celo: Building a Regenerative Economy
Advertising has successfully used these strategies to accelerate identity formation/dissolution and, by extension, consumer capitalism. There is no reason that radical groups could not use similar methods to challenge capitalism and develop alternative collective identities.
Jonah Peretti • Negations: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
For early-stage investing, I believe that the small flat partnership is the best structure if the goal is to produce high return on capital funds. Here are some reasons why this model is superior for early-stage investing:- At the early stage, investors must bet on teams and ideas that have not been proven. The biggest winners almost always come... See more
Fred Wilson • The Partnership - AVC
GP partnerships are highly time and attention constrained, making them the opposite of scalable. Most processes are run manually, and there is rarely much use of software or automation to help source, assess, or execute deals.
Erik Torenberg • Productizing Venture
Murmurations in software!
We’re also seeing a mental health renaissance in reaction to the Millennial and Gen Z mental health crisis. Companies like Headway, Real, and Pace are building better ways to access therapy and to find community.
Rex Woodbury • Welcome to the Internet: Millennial & Gen Z Ennui
Because we don’t ship our shit back to where the food comes from, we keep perpetuating the redistribution of nutrients on the planet. Soils grow barren, so we use synthetic fertiliser, which isn’t anywhere near as good as the real shit, and also is very polluting to produce. Scientists call this phenomenon the metabolic rift.
Lina Zeldovich • Our excrement is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource – if only we can overcome our visceral disgust of it
Most startups don’t die because someone is actively trying to kill them, but simply because the founders stop trying to keep them alive.
Gena Gorlin • Death is the default
ReFi seems hippie, but it isn’t anti-growth or anti-progress. It’s for a new financial model that includes and regenerates people as individuals with unique talents, communities as economic hubs, and the health and biodiversity of global ecosystems. Its participants want to accelerate the development of new, planet-positive technologies through... See more