Timour Kosters
@timourkosters
Investor & builder working in blockchain and ml. Tweeting: @timourxyz
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Early on, the way we approached our go-to-market was opposite of what most companies do, which is start with a super niche audience, find them, target them and expand to new markets
We started completely horizontal with a blank-slate product, and we got more and more narrow with our focus on landing customers over time. We started seeing organic
... See moreFirst Round Capital • Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit
Over the years, plenty of responsible experimenters – think of the more pragmatic elements among the back-to-the-landers, kibbutzim, Tolstoyan farmers and so on – have managed to demonstrate that new societies can form successfully at modest scales. The best among them also managed to establish a productive and beneficial relationship with the... See more
Matt Prewitt • Secret Societies, Network States, Burning Man, Zuzalu, and More: Thoughts on New Political Communities
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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Multiplicity principle: we are not one, we are many
Parts can be seen as clusters of beliefs and emotions and values that get activated at different times, and that can be interfaced with by treating them as if they were actual subminds.
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
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
Derek • Storing Value in Digital Objects
Another example is SHEIN, who have done the same for commerce.
Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything
Alpha: Stay lean while you de-risk your biggest hurdle.
Beta: Test, test, test — but push to go faster.
Beta: Test, test, test — but push to go faster.
First Round Capital • Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit
Are DAOs bad at building products? - Product teams need continuity and shared context - We need more tools that can coordinate things like product work.
Rehash: A Web Podcast • S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick
Dao efficiency parity forecast. The flipenning of DAOs creating more value than tradcos - Tradcos learn linearly - DAOs have strong network effects, both internally but also learning from each other. This creates an exponential learning rate.- We're still early in DAOs. Figuring stuff out - Bitcoin is a dao - We’ve learned about Governance tokens -... See more