Sublime

Like Gary, Nishad was the child of immigrants. His parents had come to Silicon Valley from India with little, turned themselves into upper-middle-class Americans, and never stopped charging forward. It bothered Nishad when they went back to India on a visit and ignored the people starving on the side of the road, and he let them know it. It bothere

From my perspective, this wasn’t the beginning of the Internet Revolution, but the end. We were starting to care less about how this technology could augment humanity and more about how it could bolster a flagging stock exchange.

I’m famous for having invested $25,000 in Uber when it was worth around $5 million—it’s now worth $70 billion in the private markets. When I invested, Uber was operating in one city and they only had a couple of Lincoln Town Cars signed up. It wasn’t clear if the business could scale or make money, but I knew the founder was exceptionally driven an

Historically, our amateur ancestors grew out of the Ben Franklin tradition of tinkering at home. In the mid-nineteenth century, the homebrew style had to contend with a societal drive to professionalize, a movement that accelerated with the arrival of the Industrial Revolution.