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Starlink is coming to India. Here’s what to know An alliance with Airtel, one of India’s largest telcos, opens the door for Elon Musk’s satellite...
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An alliance with Airtel, one of India’s largest telcos, opens the door for Elon Musk’s satellite giant to access the world’s second-largest internet user base.
Stephen Diehl
Ice-Nine for Markets
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Noahpinion
Mass deportation would accomplish nothing Trump's signature policy would frighten Americans without improving the immigration situation.
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AI does not produce reliable information. As Donald Trump's lawyer has fucked around and found out. Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, used an artificial...
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Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, used an artificial intelligence program to generate bogus legal citations in his motion for early termination of his supervised release. Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 for...
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Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an...
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls…
Paul Graham: Essays
High Resolution Fundraising
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Dubai’s robotaxi dreams are coming for human drivers The UAE plans to become the world’s testing ground for autonomous vehicles and upend the lives of...
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The UAE plans to become the world’s testing ground for autonomous vehicles and upend the lives of 30,000 cabbies in the process.
Noahpinion
Why Trump (or Harris) might fail to stand up to China A very real possibility that more people need to be worried about.
a year ago
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Hermès Is "Costly" (But Not "Expensive") The $270B+ French firm is at the top of the luxury world (worth the same as LVMH on 1/6th of the...
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The $270B+ French firm is at the top of the luxury world (worth the same as LVMH on 1/6th of the sales)...and apparently not worried about tariffs.
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The case of WOPR and the lost code... I got an email earlier this week from a guy reaching out after he read a post of mine on a gaming...
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I got an email earlier this week from a guy reaching out after he read a post of mine on a gaming forum that was posted over two decades ago! I couldn't for the life of me remember what I had said, but he reiterated that it was about a simulation that I wrote in BASIC that was...
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Between failure and Facebook Recently, a friend was trying to recruit a programmer to join his early-stage startup. The...
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Recently, a friend was trying to recruit a programmer to join his early-stage startup. The programmer had just graduated from college and…
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Let's talk about startup costs
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Better doctor visits: house calls
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is twitter done? Elon took possession of Twitter on October 27. Since then, lots has happened. Many are wondering: is...
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Elon took possession of Twitter on October 27. Since then, lots has happened. Many are wondering: is this going to kill Twitter?
Nadia Asparouhova
Mapping digital worlds I gave a talk at The Stoa in February about “Mapping digital worlds to understand our present and...
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I gave a talk at The Stoa in February about “Mapping digital worlds to understand our present and future.” You can watch the video here; the following is a transcript of that talk. Peter Limberg asked me to talk about an analysis I did late last year, where I mapped out all the...
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Founder/market fit An extremely useful concept that has grown popular among startup founders is what eminent...
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An extremely useful concept that has grown popular among startup founders is what eminent entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen calls…
Paul Graham: Essays
How Y Combinator Started
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Platformer
How Sundar Pichai is thinking about AI Three takeaways about Google's approach to this moment, after an interview with Google's CEO
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AVC
What Is A Protocol And Why Does It Matter? USV’s current thesis is: Enabling trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and...
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USV’s current thesis is: Enabling trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols. https://www.usv.com/#thesis-3-0 That last word is powerful but unfortunately less understood than the other words in that...
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The Newest Members of the USV Team Last Thursday, three new blog posts hit USV.com announcing our three new analysts: This is our...
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Last Thursday, three new blog posts hit USV.com announcing our three new analysts: This is our tradition at USV. When someone starts at USV, we ask them to write a post on the USV blog introducing themselves. This helps founders who come to talk to us about their companies...
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musk twitter quitter, bitter? I've been a big Twitter user since 2008. In nearly 14 years on the platform, Twitter's had a...
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I've been a big Twitter user since 2008. In nearly 14 years on the platform, Twitter's had a net-positive effect on my life. But now with Elon’s takeover, Twitter is in the hands of a man whose behavior I find reprehensible.
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As Zimbabwe’s economy collapses, traditional healers are selling wealth advice on TikTok Locally known as sangomas, spiritual guides are gaining fame online, but they face criticism from...
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11 Creative Lessons from Brian Eno The legendary composer on the creative process, importance of deadlines, problem with software in...
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The legendary composer on the creative process, importance of deadlines, problem with software in arts and what is art actually for?
Paul Graham: Essays
Some Heroes
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How Pakistan can join the South Asia growth boom A guest post by Murtaza Hussain
over a year ago
Steve Blank
Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets Bill Gurley was one of Silicon Valley’s smartest and most successful VCs. He recently gave a talk at...
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Bill Gurley was one of Silicon Valley’s smartest and most successful VCs. He recently gave a talk at the All-In Summit that was really two talks in one. The first part was railing against the consequences of regulatory capture on innovation and a second part, about the...
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Fight Amazon
over a year ago
Working Theorys
Taste is Eating Silicon Valley. Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now...
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Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now eating software—and with it, Silicon Valley.
Noahpinion
The Middle East is getting older Why I'm optimistic about the waning of conflict in the region.
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Our First Community Call This week Danny jumped on a live Twitter Spaces with me. We talked about: When to "quit" XO...
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This week Danny jumped on a live Twitter Spaces with me. We talked about: When to "quit" XO community, courses, Motivations for picking a startup idea Decision making differences between short holds and longer holds.
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Naming a company Great company names are worth millions. In fact, choosing a name is one of the most important...
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Great company names are worth millions. In fact, choosing a name is one of the most important decisions you will make as an entrepreneur. Your company's name could be a lever that separates you from your competition. It could be the key element that helps your customers...
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Why people buy software
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Do poor countries need a new development strategy? Bangladesh and Southeast Asia are defying the economists who say industrialization is dead.
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel Peter and I have had a number of conversations about what we expect the world to look like in 2030...
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Peter and I have had a number of conversations about what we expect the world to look like in 2030 so we can plan and position our future work accordingly.
Dustin Curtis
The 16-inch MacBook Pro: A Faster Horse From Apple’s announcement of the 16-Inch MacBook Pro a couple of weeks ago: “Our pro customers tell...
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From Apple’s announcement of the 16-Inch MacBook Pro a couple of weeks ago: “Our pro customers tell us they want their next MacBook Pro to have a larger display, blazing-fast performance, the biggest battery possible, the best notebook keyboard ever, awesome speakers and massive...
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South Africans are using a power outage notification app to sell weed, find odd jobs With blackouts devastating the country’s economy, EskomSePush’s AskMyStreet feature has become a...
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In-home beauty service in Pakistan: the woman sweet-talking tough clients Though gig work gives respite from the grind of working in a salon, choosy clients make a...
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Data Boutique
From Zero to a Fully Automated Web Data Pipeline Step by step guide
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About the “other” Startup Hubs. There is an energetic discussion going on in the Web-Tech Startup World. Each city wants to know -...
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There is an energetic discussion going on in the Web-Tech Startup World. Each city wants to know - “Can we become the next Silicon...
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Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to get the most out of it. Everyone is doing pitch training. Almost no-one does training for the mentoring session, but this is...
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Everyone is doing pitch training. Almost no-one does training for the mentoring session, but this is where most startups get the m...
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Casualties of the Chip War The biggest threat to Nvidia isn’t coming from China
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China shows a glimmer of hope for Western business Think of it as "conscious decoupling."
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Jim Simons and the Making of Renaissance Technologies The philosophy and lessons behind "a moneymaking machine like no other" (with a cumulative trading...
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Samsung’s predicament In the past year, Samsung went from being a moderately successful electronics manufacturer to the...
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In the past year, Samsung went from being a moderately successful electronics manufacturer to the leading non-iOS mobile device maker…
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What are the conservatives going to do - talk to each other? The fundamental truth at the heart of right-wing communities: the satisfaction derived from...
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The fundamental truth at the heart of right-wing communities: the satisfaction derived from sharing their viewpoints and beliefs is intrinsically linked to the presence of a progressive adversary who will respond to them. It's not the platform that matters, nor the freedom...
Steve Blank
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class...
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We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class – now part of our Stanford Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to 1) give our students an appreciation of the...
Paul Graham: Essays
How Art Can Be Good
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What comes after big data? A new push to carve data collection out of the humanitarian tech stack.
a year ago
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Lessons from the PC video game industry The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and...
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The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and media products depends on complicated…
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Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed...
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