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Every year, Naval, Nivi, and Brian, through Spearhead, give up to $1 million to 30 founders; the founders then use the money to invest in friends

So, using visit duration to evaluate an app strays away from my aspirations and understanding of the internet. Everyone only has 24 hours in a day. The mission of developers shouldn’t be to make users spend all their time on their phones aside from when they eat and sleep.

"Today’s “best practices” lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried."

In contrast, while Uber pitches itself as “The Amazon of Transportation”, in practice, there is not much a platform. While one can certainly order an Uber or now order a e-scooter or e-bike, these are offerings through Uber, not an independent third party. A given third party for example, couldn’t use Uber’s software to build out a business beyond ... See more

But this also points at a further advantage of social investing: the decentralization of thought leadership.

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man ... It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.

— Rod Serling