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Also, the DNA example tells us that the presence of information is independent from our ability to decode it.

It’s no secret that many billion-dollar founders come out of top universities. Stanford, in particular, has a reputation as a startup factory, graduating more billion-dollar founders than any other university—thirty-eight during the time period of my study, compared to twenty-six from Harvard and twenty from MIT. (Among these top three schools,

while doing this research I could not help but notice the lack of diversity among these founding teams.

fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity

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

When we do, we assume the politicians are clients in a patron–client relationship, and we assume their obligations will cloud their impartial judgment.

Character doesn’t just aid in creating wealth, it’s the key to protecting it.

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

In Orange, the world presents a new face. We see it no longer as a fixed universe governed by immutable rules, but as a complex clockwork, whose inner workings and natural laws can be investigated and understood.