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Remember when Steve Jobs said Bill Gates “shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas?” Then came Web 2.0 and a new clash of titans who lorded over companies of unprecedented size and power. This was when Mark Zuckerberg went to war against Tim Cook, with Facebook at one point funding a false Cook presidential campaign to undermine Apple’s supposed... See more
The Information • Can Peace Last Between Crypto’s Visionary Rivals?
He built a VR headset that could kill you.
Facebook tried to silence him for $100M.
Now, his new $14 Billion company is building AI drones & underwater ghost ships.
The incredible story of Palmer Luckey, Silicon Valley's most controversial founder🧵 https://t.co/btZdTfB3l3
Apple & IBM PCs - 1981 - CBS Evening News
youtube.comPage rarely visited YouTube HQ—one person there while he was CEO remembered two trips—but during his rare appearances Page stuck to one edict: make videos load faster. Staff recalled Page stopping meetings to complain about YouTube’s buffering speed, which he once called, to YouTube’s embarrassment, “the biggest problem Google-wide.”
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
And the way we fund this is primarily through US-based venture capital funding, which demands hockey stick growth in return.
All the focus goes into making hundreds of millions or ideally billions of dollars in profit to pay back their investors.
As a member of a team that's in the middle of doing this, I can say it affects every single decision abou... See more
All the focus goes into making hundreds of millions or ideally billions of dollars in profit to pay back their investors.
As a member of a team that's in the middle of doing this, I can say it affects every single decision abou... See more
Maggie Appleton • Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
What made his free-range access especially remarkable was the culture of Silicon Valley—despite the superficial pizza-and-foosball looseness, the rival tribes inventing the digital future were manic, competitive, prone to extreme paranoia.
Doug Menuez • Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000
Sergey Brin: "Irate call from Steve Jobs"
February 13, 2005 https://t.co/zn2mfhFXEv
Open source or closed? Regulated or unfettered? A war of words and influence is underway to shape AI policy.
Billionaire investors of the internet era -- Vinod Khosla, Reid Hoffman and Marc Andreessen -- are leading the charge.
My @forbes cover story:
https://t.co/lIrWJRePS8... See more