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I've been working on a theory. I call it "community is the new scarcity", or "the unbundling of venture capital" Let's try this, hive-mind.

Reduced to its simplest form, LinkedIn is a digital resume. A profile consists of your past work experience, education, skills, and references. The posts, comments, and messages are like a cover letter. But we’ve long decided that there are better ways to showcase your ability than a list of the places you’ve worked, the school you went to, and a h... See more

Your competitors are the most successful tech companies in the world, who have enormous war chests of cash, with an in-built hardware advantage, who can use audio as a loss leader for their existing products and services. I’m comfortable with this risk because this has been the case for years now, and Spotify through focus and execution has maintai... See more

Even absent external feedback, it's possible to train yourself to spot the limits to your product. One approach I've taken when talking to companies who are trying to achieve initial or new product-market fit is to ask them why every person in the world doesn't use their product or service.

A friend of mine recently asked me if I thought everything was systemic. I said I think that’s sort of right. Take systemic racism. I tend to think that while systemic racism exists, “progress” on questions of race is no less systemic. This is not how we like to talk about things in the United States. We imagine entrenched injustice that is righted... See more

Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create. Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.