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Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
youtube.comAuren Hoffman: It used to be that “who you know” — not “what you know” — held the most value. But in the last 15 years, it has become much more important to build something than to know people.
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
"We help companies build, survive, and scale, but one of the main components of my job is understanding how and when the world is going to change. Our portfolio is a collage of various futures that we believe in, and our capital and expertise are assets to hopefully pull these futures forward."
Kyle Harrison • Markets, Markets, and Markets
Build a network of people who can make introductions and open doors, and do the same for others.
Lauren M Taylor • Community is the New Moat
Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons
Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that
Every young person (and plenty of non-young people), trying to strike gold and solve problems, is architecting themselves after a dominant personality of our field.
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of t... See more
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of t... See more