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He moved us by speaking in our own language about the absolute necessity of companies to do well by doing good.

Howard Schultz • Onward

Jeff Jordan – who’s been involved in everything from eBay to OpenTable to Airbnb – said off the cuff “the secret to everything I’ve done, and it’s not a secret, is economic empowerment. It is building things that help people make money.”

D'arcy Coolican • The ____ Economy

Self-Markups. In order to show gains on its investments, SoftBank invested in follow-on rounds at higher valuations. Since no one else was willing to pay what they were, they were artificially setting prices higher than the private, and eventually public, markets were willing to bear.

Packy McCormick • Masa Madness

Since we’re seed investors, we’re looking for markets where significant dollars are flowing between businesses. These are often older, more established buying patterns where the innovation is launching the marketplace itself.

Sacra • Ameet Shah, partner at Golden Ventures, on the economics of vertical SaaS marketplaces

In 2014, Forbes ranked him as the 134th richest American, at $3.8 billion. One of his hires was Jeff Bezos, who, while researching business opportunities in 1994 for Shaw, got the idea for an online bookstore and left to start a company called Amazon.com. At $30 billion in 2014, Bezos was the fifteenth richest American.

Edward O. Thorp • A Man for All Markets

In 2007, the preeminent business philosopher Dov Seidman published a groundbreaking book on culture, HOW: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything … in Business (and in Life). Dov started from the premise that culture guides people’s behaviors, or how things really happen in an organization. In our open-sourced, hyperconnected world, behavior define

John Doerr • Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth

“No matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire. ”

― Akio Morita (founder of Sony), Made in Japan

Remarkably, it is wholly owned by Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster, who are two of the most understated billionaires in tech.

Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

What we’ve done is really productize services. That was the sophisticated issue, which was to create a skew-like system, a true e-commerce experience, where you have a true catalog of productized services.