tech, startups, internet
What makes some lending companies more valuable than others?
“[I]n many ways … “all lending companies sorta sound the same” unless you’ve looked at… well… hundreds.” | learn more
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tech, startups, internet
Everyone is an entrepreneur
“Situation: The nature of work is changing. The era when you could pick a career through a four-year university degree program, enter the workplace and commit to an employer and profession for 30 years, and then retire comfortably is gone.” | learn more
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Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg
“People often ask me to compare working for Bezos vs Zuck. I worked with Mark much more closely for much longer, but I did work directly with Jeff in my last 2 years at Amazon incubating the Kindle. Here are […]
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SpaceX wants to be a phone company too
SpaceX’s petitioned the FCC, “aiming to offer cheaper phone plans for people with lower incomes through Starlink.” They’re thinking $9.25 per month for broadband and $5.25 for phone service. Move over, AT&T! | learn more
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Missed the internet wave
“In the interview [Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress] talks about how early in his career he felt like he missed the wave of the Internet revolution.” | learn more
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Creeping as a Service
There’s a twitter app called Spoonbill that keeps a log of profile changes in a user’s network. The resulting feed is a window to the evolving way people choose to portray themselves. “How Spoonbill reveals our obsession with identity.” | learn more
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Study: Apple Watch can predict COVID-19 diagnosis a week before testing
The predictive ability we gain from new sensors + cheaper hardware + more data + better algorithms is incredible. And I think we’re just getting started. “A new study from Mount Sinai researchers published in the peer-reviewed “Journal of Medical […]
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Nextdoor is quietly replacing the small town paper
“While Facebook and Twitter get the scrutiny, Nextdoor is reshaping politics one neighborhood at a time.” | learn more
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The European longevity startups hacking the aging process
“We are living in the first iteration of humans on the planet that for the very first time understands, on a biochemical level, what makes us age.” | learn more
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Emerging roles in tech
Ann Bordetsky on Twitter: “What do you call someone who’s really great at stitching together modular tools like Airtable + Notion + Zap + Slack + …. to build quasi-products? Not a PM. Not a Marketer. Not Ops per se. […]