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Ben Bowers • J.Crew’s ‘The Bear’ Collab Celebrates the Show’s Best Characters
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 Follow-Through
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
The technology companies that have come to dominate our lives were in many cases small nations, built around a set of ideals that many young people craved: freedom to build, ownership of their success, and a commitment above all to results. The Sunnyvales, Palo Altos, and Mountain Views of the world were company towns and city-states, walled off
... See moreNicholas W. Zamiska • The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
Stock-rich eBay was tempting, but Winamp had buzz. Plus, the company’s offices were in a hip neighborhood of San Francisco, thus avoiding a grinding commute to eBay’s bland precincts forty miles down the freeway in San Jose.
Margaret O'Mara • The Code
They’ve put a supercomputer in your pocket, are bringing the internet into developing countries, and are mapping the Earth’s land mass and oceans.
Scott Galloway • The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Peter Thiel doesn’t need much of an intro. He has been at both sides of the fundraising table, sometimes concurrently. He first invested in a precursor to what would become PayPal and soon after joined it in the early days as a co-founder and CEO. Later he founded and invested in Palantir, which specializes in big-data analytics. In August 2004,
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