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independent inventors, small invention-focused firms, and academic researchers produce a share of discoveries wildly disproportionate to the resources they apply to the task.

In my study, I found Elad Gil to be one of the most successful angel investors. He has made investments in twenty-four billion-dollar companies—including Airbnb, Airtable, Brex, Coinbase, Gusto, Instacart, Opendoor, Pinterest, Stripe, Square, and Wish—most in the seed or series A stage. Before

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Steve Jobs was able to wander around Xerox PARC because those who brought him there trusted him. Once again, this shows that trust encourages the formation of the large networks that our society needs to accumulate knowledge and knowhow, even if trust sometimes works in mysterious ways. Trust contributes to network size by reducing the cost of link

The potential for exploitation of creative content and ideas by corporate overreach is a significant concern.

studying the motivations of individuals in isolation: the patterns we see are a fundamentally social affair. More, as Anderson