Here’s an interesting take from Can writing for Margins. “As workers are more and more removed from the business, companies will get better at identifying what can be “automated”.” And as that happens, their collective power decreases. Will they lose […]
Prolific AI investor Rob May briefly considers what might come in 2030 from the groundwork laid recently in the field. It’s an analog to this: “The Internet Boom of the late 1990s laid the groundwork for subsequent booms in social […]
Alex Danco (I’ve become a big fan of his) expands on the famous quote “the medium is the message” by way of an illustrative example from venture capital. “VC content marketing has evolved from hot towards cool media formats (and […]
A podcast interview with Shane Parish of The Knowledge Project (and Farnam Street). “Mike Maples, partner at the VC firm Floodgate, shares how mental models shape his decision making process, where to find the next big idea, and how to […]
Data gathered by Starting Line VC from consumer surveys points to a shift away from, “American families’ reliance on the service economy as they became forced to adapt to the reality of fending for themselves while sheltering in place – […]
Benedict Evans discusses prediction-making, touching on the subject near and dear to science: falsification. His point is that, “that a theory might be right or wrong, but first it has to rise to the level of being a theory at […]
“Sandalphon Capital conducted a survey of Midwest Startup CEOs and founders to gauge the impact COVID-19 has been having on their companies and the ecosystem” | learn more
This is a short and interesting read. “Patio11’s Law: The software economy is bigger than you think, even when you take into account Patio11’s Law.” | learn more
Byrne Hobart offers an intriguing analysis on the incentives of VC associates. They’re not partners, and typically not on track to be partners, so he says they’re best served by promoting high-publicity deals rather than high-return deals. For those subscribers […]
Elon Musk made a second appearance on the Joe Rogan show this week. “Musk said the BMI unit would be implanted in a human’s skull and would basically restore anything that’s wrong with the brain, citing how it can improve […]