“95% of people are affected by acne so it doesn't make sense to position it as an aberration. It is a great equalizer—you can see that high-profile public figures have acne. There is no expensive cure. Self acceptance is the #1 thing...You don’t have to arrive at this finish line that is clear skin.”
Every company that sells products and services digitally factors in assumed losses due to fraud. Albeit a small percentage of revenue, fraud can add up to millions of dollars over time. It will continue to rise due to fraudsters getting more sophisticated and the patched-up nature of banking infrastructure. I’m excited by the large opportunity to... See more
As the 6 most expensive ballot measures in the past 20 years have all gone in favor of the bigger spender, it seems like Uber et. al. have a good chance of winning. But is this the kind of country we want to live in, one in which special interest groups are re-writing and buying their own employment law?
Of course, whether Facebook draws the line in the right place, or according to the right considerations, is a matter of legitimate public debate. And it is entirely reasonable to argue that private companies shouldn’t be making so many big decisions about what content is acceptable on their own. It would clearly be better if these decisions were... See more
VCs have become used to 70–80%+ margins in software businesses. Well, that is hard,if not impossible, to achieve in hardware companies. So many entities along the value chain ‘touch’ the product that if everyone took such high margins, products would become too expensive to be useful. But 40–50% margins are not to be scoffed at, and we need to... See more
None of this should come as a surprise. Millennials like me comprise the largest living generation in North America, yet we are grossly underrepresented in the ranks of homeowners in the US and Canada alike. In both countries, a rising proportion of this demographic is delaying marriage or forgoing it completely.
"The emergence of the metaverse as a computer-generated scaled shared space means that there will be a whole new (virtual) world where we can express ourselves and potentially introduce a different version of who we are all while playing together, learning together, creating together and more. Essentially, we think of the metaverse as the next... See more