One way to think about employee stock option programs (ESOPs) is that they’re good because they align economic interests between the business and its workers. When the business does well,… Read more Employee Stock Options: free money, kinda →
A lot of VCs play poker, and I get why. But as a metaphor for venture capital, or as a skill-honing extracurricular activity if you want to call it that, I… Read more VCs should play bridge →
Here are two aspects of the anti-tech backlash that I believe are both true, and are actually reciprocally related to each other: Critics in media, politics, and even in tech… Read more Progress, Postmodernism and the Tech Backlash →
Before I found my way to the tech world, I was a grad student in the neuroscience department at McGill University. I never took the opportunity to get my PhD,… Read more Can Twitter Save Science? →
Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”? Debt is going to finally come to the… Read more Debt is Coming →
Here is a wild story: You should read the original thread of tweets here, but here’s what happened: Pim Techamuanvivit, the owner and chef of a few popular restaurants in… Read more Counterfeit Food →
It’s January 2020. And if you’re a founder just starting out, trying to create something out of nothing, one of the best investments you can make is still a plane… Read more Social Capital in Silicon Valley →
Ten predictions for the next ten years. #1: Enterprise software in the 2020s will replay Softbank’s Capital-as-a-Moat disaster of the late 2010s. Here’s a thesis I’ve been chewing on for… Read more Ten Predictions for the 2020s →
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