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Brian Flynn • Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood
After a few more go-rounds with the lawyers, we signed the contract in blood. (Actual blood. It was a metal label; we figured that was appropriate.) They paid us $100,000 for the eternal rights to the album that we’d recorded for $20,000 (territory: “the universe,” just in case our albums started selling big on Mars). Thanks to the lawyer, I kept m
... See moreAmanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
kulesa.substack.com • Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world
Ramsey Beirne pitch to take on a search assignment, say he would consider it, then disappear for a few days before returning with an answer. The CEO’s of these small companies were consulting someone else, and that someone else, upon investigation, turned out to be the venture capitalist who sat on the company’s board of directors.
Randall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
The business hadn’t even really been Sam’s idea but Tara’s. Tara had been running the Centre for Effective Altruism, in Berkeley, and Sam, while at Jane Street, had become one of her biggest donors. Through the spring and summer of 2017, the two of them were on the phone constantly. At some point Sam revealed his romantic interest in her; at some o
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
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