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Everybody Hates Facebook

Packy McCormick notboring.substack.com

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My one and only Zuckerberg story

Nick Sylvester substack.com

Inside the elite startup retreat where Satya Nadella and Condoleezza Rice just spent their weekend

Biz Carson businessinsider.com

Source: New York Post

Lisa Fickenscher • Saks Fifth Avenue owner developing luxury hotel, apartments in former department stores

Booms, Busts And Billionaires: A Decade Of Forbes Oil Stories

Christopher Helman

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Cover of Booms, Busts And Billionaires: A Decade Of Forbes Oil Stories

The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster--and How Nine Other Startups Left the Rest in the Dust

Sean Ammirati

amazon.com

Cover of The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster--and How Nine Other Startups Left the Rest in the Dust

VC is a Power Law business which means only a few cos deliver most of the returns - David Clark from VenCap breaks it down with data on 11.350 companies from 259 funds from 1986 - 2018. Only 1.1% out of 11,350 cos returned the whole fund!

David Clark responded to my tweet that median fund size for fund returners was $350M and many funds >$1b

Inbox (6,480) - tyler.faught92@gmail.com - Gmail

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Caved and got o1 Pro. I asked it my favorite question to ask these models, and it gave much more interesting answers than either o1 preview or Claude 3.5 Sonnet. They're not quite as mind-bending as I'd want -- I've seen a version of all of them except #7 -- but still better: https://t.co/8TP93VBK8w

Packy McCormick

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