Timour Kosters

Assess the potential and spot the openings:  “We spent a lot of time thinking about ‘What is the market for this?’ Spreadsheets have been around forever, but most of the time, people use them to track objects: people, companies, simple tables. They're not doing modeling and number crunching, which they were invented for,” says Ofstad. “And when

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Although my work as a nonduality teacher is aligned with the shentong view, I do not speak of fundamental consciousness as a metaphysical reality. I cannot claim to know what it is. Buddhists often speak of it as the nature of the mind, while many Hindu philosophers have asserted that it is the nature of the universe. Still others claim that we

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Brush up on the prior art:  “We were intellectually excited about going down that path of this general space of software creation. So we spent a lot of time doing research. It was almost like being on a sabbatical, reading all this prior art of old computing pioneers, like  Douglas Engelbart  and  Bill Atkinson , and even contemporaries, like  Bre

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Key Ideas

The core question explored in this post: do highly decentralized DAOs work, or should their governance start to more closely resemble trad corporations?

Vitalik's main point: there are certain use cases where decentralization is very important. There may be a relatively small number of these orgs, but they will be the very important ones.... See more

Over the past decade, two primary forces have powered technology: mobile and cloud.

Digital Object Applications

For the first time in human history, blockchains empower any digital object to enjoy the properties of verifiable scarcity, durability, divisibility, and globally networked markets.

As a result, these internet-optimized objects now have the same or greater potential to become globally networked as a (1) product/service;... See more

Google, Facebook, and Amazon are monopolizing digital ad spend, and even newsfeeds and search results are finite. Limited supply + growing demand = rising prices

SHEIN’s explosion is nothing short of remarkable: SHEIN has grown over 100% every year for eight straight years (!), and its latest private market valuation makes it worth more than Zara and H&M combined.