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My one-liner on this is 2000s were the tech companies, 2010s: crypto protocols, 2020s: startup cities, 2030s: network states.
Shaan Puri • #178 with Balaji - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto
Marc Andreessen explained how this has worked in tech: “All of the ideas that people had in the 1990s were basically all correct. They were just early.” The infrastructure necessary to make most tech businesses work didn’t exist in the 1990s. But it does exist today. So almost every business plan that was mocked for being a ridiculous idea that fai... See more
collaborativefund.com • Experts From a World That No Longer Exists · Collaborative Fund
Fantastic startup advice from Marc Andreessen 15 years ago. https://t.co/slnUkIGB5j
Ben Horowitz on the ideal founding team for a startup
Ben looks for two people on a founding team:
1. The inventor. “It’s the inventor’s job to build a product that’s 10x better than anything that’s available to solve that problem.”
2. The entrepreneur. “The entr... See more
Startup Archivex.comhe helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The new hires took advantage of Xerox’s abundant resources and loose oversight to creatively interpret Goldman’s definition of “data processing technology,” pursuing projects inspired by Doug Engelbart’s ideas about augmented intelligence and by hacker culture more generally. Engelbart’s SRI operation had drifted after the great demo—investors coul
... See moreMargaret O'Mara • The Code
Engineer Paul Baran made a number of breakthroughs that are relevant to the public, decentralized technologies to this day, including “message blocks” (a component in blockchain technology) and advocacy for private digital networks via cryptography.