better doing
Marketing directory.
“A curated directory of top marketing, branding, and PR resources.” From Jack Randall, former head of communications at Robinhood. | learn more
tech, startups, internet
1% of Salesforce’s revenue makes a unicorn.
“We have reached a point in SaaS where a small fraction of an incumbent is a billion-dollar company. If you start a business tomorrow that is able to cleave 1% of revenue from Salesforce, you will have built a billion-dollar […]
tech, startups, internet
The three eras of startup valuations.
How do you value a company? “Reflecting on this question a founder posed this week, I remembered how we came to be here, the three eras of startup pricing: cash-flow, multiples, and discount-to-future-value.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
Zero marginal cost content and the metaverse, powered by DALL-E.
“Machine learning generated content is just the next step beyond TikTok: instead of pulling content from anywhere on the network, GPT and DALL-E and other similar models generate new content from content, at zero marginal cost. This is how the […]
fun facts
What artists notice.
“Painters at work notice details we’d ignore. From those details they develop delightful insights into reality.” | learn more
fun facts
Rapping Rabbi.
An excellent musical treat for those who like Jewish things. “LChaim by Ari Lesser – Zoltronic” | learn more
fun facts
What’s a chuck?
Wikipedia: “A chuck is a specialized type of clamp used to hold an object with radial symmetry, especially a cylinder.” | learn more
under the microscope
Infrared mind control.
“Now, scientists at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University have developed the first non-invasive technique for controlling targeted brain circuits in behaving animals from a distance.” | learn more
under the microscope
DNA synthesis is the workhorse of modern biotech.
Part 2 of the 4-part series I started sharing last week. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a talk at a biology conference and said that he felt “your industry is at the same stage mine was in 40 years […]
under the microscope
New technique kills tumors with sound waves.
This is an incredible development and it’s already in human trials. “The new treatment is called “histotripsy,” and it noninvasively directs ultrasound waves so that the target tissue is mechanically destroyed — and with millimeter precision. This novel technique is […]