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FROM COMMUNIST TO VENTURE CAPITALIST
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Startups offer anyone a way to be in a situation with measurement and leverage.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
As Mitch Kapor, founding chair of the Mozilla open source code factory, observed, “Inside every working anarchy, there’s an old-boy network.”
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Kleiner Perkins built a valuable keiretsu of growing companies that could share talent and resources, increasing their chances of success.
Doug Menuez • Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000
Chris Dixon: "Web 3 is an internet owned by users and builders orchestrated with tokens."
Tim Ferriss • Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs (#542)
Back then, technical prowess meant market dominance. Y Combinator, the spiritual center of Silicon Valley,1 crowned technical founders as the chosen ones. Those who could manifest and master software were seen as gods. Venture capitalists funded those who could scale that code to massive heights. After all, software alone could transform giant, leg... See more
Repeat after me: neither venture capital investment nor easy access to risky, highly inflated assets predicts lasting success and impact for a particular company or technology. Remember the dot-com boom and the subsequent bust? Legendary investor Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway recently noted that we’re in an “even crazier era than the dot-com... See more
Tim O’Reilly • Why it's too early to get excited about Web3
Blockchain networks are a new construction material for building a better internet.