instabram
September 1 2023
Do you remember?
vc-culture
instabram
August 22 2023
New season of Hearthstone! Goodbye, next forty-eight hours.
instabram
May 20 2023
The deadliest boss in Elden Ring, Git Submodules, Black Mirror WoW HC, Zoom Calls in 2033 will still suck, Patreon vs VC rant, a park that looks like a fish
ai
Cheap Wins and ChatGPT
People don’t really want innovation People talk about innovation a whole lot, but what they are usually looking for is cheap wins and novelty. If you truly innovate, and change the way that people have to do things, expect mostly negative feedback. If you believe in what you’re
crypto
Crytpo is Full of Con Artists, Good Riddance
Lord give me the confidence of a disgraced South Korean cryptocurrency developer who just vaporized $45 billion (View Tweet) or SBF going on his media tour literally days before his arrest[1] In a Twitter Spaces during the day on Monday, Bankman-Fried said, “I don’t think I will be
vc-culture
Give Recruiters an Inch They Take a Mile Bro
Is this crazy? Yes. LinkedIn really flies under the radar as the social media platform that’s absolutely the most unhinged (View Tweet) Me, after deleting the 100th outbound email of the day (View Tweet)
business
Whatever I Do What I Want
threatened legal action against a 20-year-old, pontificated on how doxing is banned on the platform, and then immediately posted a video doxing a man (View Highlight) Musk is free to moderate his new platform as he wishes. That was the entire premise of Twitter's previous approach, which, for
vc-culture
The Chamath ETF
Chamath was working at Facebook before you even joined. Chamath bought Bitcoin before you even knew what it was. Chamath invested in the Warriors before you became a fan. Chamath lost 90% of his portfolio before you lost 90% of yours. Always two steps ahead. (View Tweet) get yaself a
entrepreneurship
To Stoke the Flames Vs Burn Low and Slow
Early-stage companies are obsessively focused on growth,[1] usually at the expense of retention. That methodology is backwards, because retention should be the north-star metric of any early-stage product. If someone builds a great product that users keep coming back to, it will be easy to figure out how to
vc-culture
Validating Your Idea Without Really Trying
Learn how to validate an idea with as little time and financial investment as possible. Do you have a plan to validate your ideas cheaply? (Location 439) This can come off as very tech bro circa 2019 speak where the idea is more about hype than actual delivering. The Silicon
game-theory
The Principal-Agent Problem
The Principal Agent Problem: Only 1.5 percent of the purchase price goes directly into your agent’s pocket. So on the sale of your $300,000 house, her personal take of the $18,000 commission is $4,500. . . . Not bad, you say. But what if the house was actually
vc-culture
LLM Economics, LLC
Hypothesis: The unit economics of the machine learning space LLM 2020's startups are not similar to the social networking space in the mid-2000s. This will create a five year vacuum in VC's expecting returns Why? * Metcalfe's law is at play for people-run networks, but