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He says that at the beginning of the summer the Start Fund’s backers, Yuri Milner and Ron Conway, had made $150,000 investments in startups that in almost every case were undeserving.

I have found the “The Basics of Production,” the first chapter of Andy Grove’s High Output Management,

It is providing, he wrote, echoing John Perry Barlow, “a new mind for an old species.” In the end, “we will live inside this thing.”

Google turned to its mission statement: Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

nerdly narrow, supersmart specialists.

In the meantime, there was a scramble among publishing entrepreneurs to gain market share for their books, not unlike the jostling we see today for control of search, social media, and apps for mobile devices. Printers pioneered consumer-friendly features such as the small-format volumes (octavo size, the equivalent of today’s paperback books), new

He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.

Embedded with high doses of technology,