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Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
to gather and make accessible and useful the world’s information—in
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
high growth with a bad business design destroys value faster.
Adrian J. Slywotzky • The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
But it was Geoff's introduction to Vinod Khosla, who ultimately funded the company along with Geoff, that really made the difference. Vinod interrupted the demo and said, "Can your technology scale? Can it search a big database?" And we said, "That's an interesting question. Nobody's asked us before." We liked the fact that he d
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Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Over the next two weeks, he met with Omidyar outside of Benchmark’s office and discovered that he was an anomalous kind of engineer, one who was consumed by the idea of community—every other sentence, he spoke about the eBay community, building the community, learning from the community, protecting the community. It was a passion similar to what, i
... See moreRandall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
Bill Gates saw where customer priorities were shifting in the computer industry time and time again—from languages to operating systems to applications to communications to the Internet.