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Yes- Microsoft laid off 6,000 people BUT... they dropped a pretty brutal new policy overhaul:
-2-year rehire ban for anyone pushed out over performance
-A new “good attrition” metric (yes, they track if they’re happy you’re gone)
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Amanda Goodallx.comZoning is losing its power. New ventures are able to reach a meaningful scale before regulators (and competitors) react. The boundaries between different uses are blurring, with people lodging in apartment buildings, living in hotels, working in restaurants and retail malls, and sleeping or socializing at the office.
Dror Poleg • Dror’s Substack | Substack
Our ability to attract the best startups is based on our reputations.
Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
It traditionally assumed that firms were independent, and so changes would be independent, and so their sizes and aggregate effects would be distributed normally.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
ONE bird in the hand is worth TWO in the bush
Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
lacks necessary granularity to explain the context for a specific startup.
Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
Working Without Borders: The Promise and Peril of Online Gig Work
Exploring the role of local/regional online gig platforms in promoting inclusion for gig workers in developing countries and supporting local private sector growth while addressing challenges in sustainability.
documents1.worldbank.orgAt its core, the Uber playbook for competition worked by relying on the Economic network effect—when it was the larger player in a city, it could subsidize the driver side of its network more efficiently.