Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
But it was Geoff's introduction to Vinod Khosla, who ultimately funded the company along with Geoff, that really made the difference. Vinod interrupted the demo and said, "Can your technology scale? Can it search a big database?" And we said, "That's an interesting question. Nobody's asked us before." We liked the fact that he d
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— Bill Gates (as relayed by Chamath Palapithiya)
Sameer Singh • The Platform Matrix: All Platforms Are Not Created Equal
Some venture capital funds are pursuing clean-tech approaches, like Khosla Ventures, TBL Capital and the Patient Capital Collaborative.
R. Paul Herman • The HIP Investor
VCs and especially the LP community.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
There should be Retroactive Public Goods Funding for those founders crazy enough to try something truly new that failed as a business but succeeded in creating useful mutations, maybe even ticker tape parades, and certainly not derision.
Venture capital actually does a pretty great job here (the beauty of the model is a subject for a future piece, ... See more
Venture capital actually does a pretty great job here (the beauty of the model is a subject for a future piece, ... See more
Packy McCormick • The Experimentation Layer
