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In the past two years, Tiger has developed an entirely unique investment platform in venture/growth based on Maximum Deployment Velocity and Better/Faster/Cheaper Capital for Founders. These two pillars represent the most significant development in venture strategy since the advent of the growth fund7, and the best way to explain their significance... See more

Braintrust does have a revenue model in the form of taking a % - they take 10% from employers. The innovation here is replace the middleman with software and use a token to incentivize community behavior like inviting talent, inviting clients. Braintrust doesn't spend $ on marketing - the core innovation is taking cost of acquisition to zero by... See more

But I’m not quitting on Slack. Partially because it’s underperformed SaaS so badly during COVID, I think it’s one of the best opportunities in tech. Wall Street hates it because of the threat from Microsoft Teams, but that’s our opportunity. Slack is the rare chance to be contrarian and right by betting on a fast-growing public SaaS company with... See more

The spread of ideas depends on their ability to be understood. The adoption of technology depends on how easy it is to use.

It is interesting to consider developing systems which may overcome some or all of these issues.

7. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?

I never chatted with Bezos about this, so I don't know if it was an explicit strategy on his part, but one of his great strengths as a communicator was the ability to encode the most important strategies for Amazon in very concise and memorable forms.

Take one example "Day 1." I don't know when he first said this to the company, but it was repeated

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