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Eric Steven Raymond • The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Parag Khanna • Great Protocol Politics
Kleinberg was trying to understand network behavior. Page and Brin were building something.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
With capital at zero cost, growth at all costs became the mantra. How fast can you gr... See more
Where does VC go from here?
the technology transition has been moving from cost and efficiency to speed and adaptability (of course, customer value is everyone’s primary fitness function). This transition is illustrated by an article and a book published 10 years apart. In 2003, Nicholas Carr wrote a controversial article in the Harvard Business Review titled “IT Doesn’t Matt
... See moreDavid Robinson • EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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The less-famous history of an ultra-famous icon captures one person’s evolution toward this balance. During Steve Jobs’s first stint at Apple, he called his loonshot group working on the Mac “pirates” or “artists” (he saw himself, of course, as the ultimate pirate-artist). Jobs dismissed the group working on the Apple II franchise as “regular Navy.
... See moreSafi Bahcall • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
it’s a misconception that more people make better stuff. With our teams at Pure, and all around Silicon Valley, I could see the power of small, unencumbered teams.