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Pro rata is a bad term for founders
For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade and was comfortable with it. As a partner at YC, I thought it made enough sense that I helped...
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JWZ on iPhone OS development: "This is why I sell beer"
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The myth of the overnight success
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Business questions worth asking
This is a list of questions I’ve collected over the years that resonate with my business and product philosophies. Most are not original and were collected from or inspired by various books…
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On Mining
<i><em>Decentralization, n.</em> The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK, and maybe not, have not yet...
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BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet
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The Vision Pro is a flop
The product’s failure should further dispel the myth of tech inevitability
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Thoughts on tech employment
The Washington Post writes The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? This article has some good data, but I think misses the point with sub-heads like “Shine has co…
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Clubhouse’s Inevitability
Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.
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The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems
A case study in elite misinformation.
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RedHat found a way to get around the GPLv2 license intention with contract law
OCV starts companies around the most promising open source projects.
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Lovable raises $400M Series C
Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT.
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Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yellow border"
SparkFun is forced to incinerate 2,000 multimeters because they are yellow.
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The Great Asshole Fallacy
On Michael Jordan being a jerk to make the Bulls great…
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Life as a Service
I was born on a rainy morning, the 20th of March 1965, 3:15 am on the outskirts of a big European city. There wasn’t much to do for me other than to drink my milk so I’m kind of surprised that I don’t remember the man with the contract that I signed within a few hours of being born. Stupid me. I really shouldn’t have…
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Why geothermal isn't ubiquitous and how it might get that way
Geothermal seems so simple, endless heat out of the ground. It is currently a niche electricity source, generating 0.4% of electricity in the United States. Several factors have kept geothermal from scaling.
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Why Codeless Software Is Doomed to Fail
Every couple of years, the hope surfaces that a simple graphical interface will replace teams of developers. Business people to quickly and easily create beautiful expressions of their ideas and launch them into production seamlessly. A handful of startups in every generation take up this challenge, and they mostly…
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Clearing Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners
We're facing questions about whether Facebook gave large tech companies access to people's information and, if so, why we did this.
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Political Chips
Chips are the clearest example that economic efficiencies will not be the ultimate decider of technology’s end state: politics will play an important role.
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The curious pricing of the 27" iMac
The more I think and learn about the curious pricing of the 27” iMac , the more bizarre and incredible it seems.
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TSMC Risk
If hyperscalers and chip companies don’t build up a TSMC competitor they are set to forego billions of dollars in revenue and stunt the AI revolution.