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It is part of the Silicon Valley circle of life that this happens—that tiny, high-energy startups eventually grow to be large and unwieldy, and the most entrepreneurial employees go on to spread their know-how, money,
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
“The American Room.”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Belong Anywhere,”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“We had a blanket rule against investing in clean-tech companies for about a decade,” said Peter Thiel, the PayPal cofounder and venture capitalist at Founders Fund. “On the macro level, we were right because clean tech as a sector was quite bad. But on the micro level, it looks like Elon has the two most successful clean-tech companies in the U.S.
... See moreAshlee Vance • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
The notion of the “organization man”—a term popularized by William H. Whyte’s seminal 1956 book that describes the subsuming of individual agency in service of a large corporation—is giving way to the rise of “micro-entrepreneurs,” or free agents, creators, freelancers, and independent workers who utilize digital platforms to make a living by lever... See more
Li Jin • Unbundling Work from Employment
I had a chat last night with a billion-dollar SaaS founder/CEO. He's raised $200M at a $2B valuation in 2021.
Living the high life in SF with a crazy house and a Porsche 911. On the surface, it seems like he has it all and living the dream.
But he called me out of the blue at 11p last night to vent.
It’s been 9 years since he started the compan... See more
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