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Near the end of my stint as an entrepreneur, my friend Henri Verdier (now the chief information officer of the French government) and I wrote a book together: L’Âge de la multitude[177]. We designed it as both a testimonial of what the startup world was all about and a wake-up call for the old world of elected officials, civil servants, and corpora
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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
It has since triggered a positive feedback loop. A significant part of the venture capital community has adopted Carlota’s system as the bedrock of their investment theses. In turn, investors echoing Carlota’s ideas in their day-to-day practices have had the effect of getting her even more interested in technology. As of now, Carlota has become one
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
the son of a computer science pioneer. He was a soft-spoken nonconformist, a rebel with a 10x cause:
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
To be sure, it is those entrepreneurs—people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Michael Dell in the personal computer era; Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg in the web era—who saw that this world driven by a passion for discovery and sharing could become the cradle of a new economy.