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Brian Balfour is recognized as a growth expert. He has started and grown multiple VC-backed companies with millions of users and is the former VP of Growth at HubSpot. Brian runs a terrific blog discussing the latest growth strategies and techniques (http://www.coelevate.com) and leads masterclasses on the topic at http://www.reforge.com
Cliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
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
Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Eventual elites typically devote less time early on to deliberate practice in the activity in which they will eventually become experts. Instead, they undergo what researchers call a
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“However,” they added, “the distribution of effort across different instruments seems important. Those children identified as exceptional by [the school] turn out to be those children who distributed their effort more evenly across three instruments.”
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Agent_Zero. Geoff’s work is so fantastic in this space. Cities, just like ecosystems, are more diverse as they get bigger. Why is that? Well, if you think about it from a biological perspective, there’s just more diversity carrying capacity, right? Like if I’m interested in European soccer and I live in a town of 500 people, there’s just no one to
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
We are not, one of Adam’s papers proves, wired to see slow, background change, when something bright and colorful is waving in our faces.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Joshua Rothman • In the Age of A.I., What Makes People Unique?
Our newfound ability to make edits to our genes raises some fascinating questions. Should we edit our species to make us less susceptible to deadly viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! Right? Should we use gene editing to eliminate dreaded disorders, such as Huntington’s, sickle-cell anemia, and cystic fibrosis? That sounds good, too. And
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