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Embracing Paradox
Exploring the balance between opposing principles in investment, such as trust versus skepticism, patience versus urgency, and transparency versus confidentiality, emphasizing the importance of harmony in decision-making.
static1.squarespace.comTrends – Artificial Intelligence (AI) – May 2025 – BOND
The document analyzes rapid growth and transformative trends in artificial intelligence, highlighting unprecedented user adoption, technological advances, global competition, enterprise AI integration, and associated benefits and risks shaping the future.
bondcap.comPeter Thiel: “Vertical integration is an under-explored modality of technological progress”
“In my mind, there probably are only two broad categories in the entire history of the last 250 years where people have actually come up with new things and made money doing so.”
The first is... See more
Startup Archivex.comBrian Armstrong shares the most important lesson from his startup failure before Coinbase
After realizing he could make $60/hour tutoring as a college student, Brian and his roommate decided to build an online marketplace for tutors. They would match tutors with students and https://t.co/1zeJHelWlz
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BREAKING: Who is Elad Gil?
Elad Gil (@eladgil) of Gil Capital + Gil & Co. explains.
- Angel checks → Leading $500M+ rounds
- 200+ investments, 40+ over $1B each
- Lessons from Dot-com IPO Bubble
- Investing through tech cycles (fintech,... See more
Molly O’Sheax.comThe "80/20 principle" for founders
Traction: 80% distribution, 20% product
Growth: 80% retention, 20% acquisition
Revenue: 80% existing customers, 20% new leads
Pricing experiments: 80% positioning tweaks, 20% actual price changes
Brand building: 80% customer experience, 20% logo design
Sales: 80% listening, 20% pitching
Community building: 80% empowering... See more
Traction: 80% distribution, 20% product
Growth: 80% retention, 20% acquisition
Revenue: 80% existing customers, 20% new leads
Pricing experiments: 80% positioning tweaks, 20% actual price changes
Brand building: 80% customer experience, 20% logo design
Sales: 80% listening, 20% pitching
Community building: 80% empowering... See more
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Peter Thiel: “Vertical integration is an under-explored modality of technological progress”
“In my mind, there probably are only two broad categories in the entire history of the last 250 years where people have actually come up with new things and made money doing so.”
The first is... See more
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Q: Is it better to target a small market or a large one?
In the clip below, Peter Thiel (billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir) describes his framework for evaluating markets:
“It’s always a big mistake going after a giant market on day 1. That’s… Show more