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A few months ago I was at a conference where Robin Hanson spoke about prediction markets.[1] He argued that given how much of companies' outcomes are driven by who they choose to hire, and how non-rigorous the process of selecting employees and revisiting those selections is, there's a literal trillion-dollar opportunity in getting it right. Predic... See more
Byrne Hobart • How Many Trillion-Dollar Companies Should There Be?
In a famous paper, ‘Are ideas getting harder to find?’, Nicholas Bloom and collaborators found that research productivity has been falling quite dramatically since the 1970s. Their data suggests that it now takes 18 times as many resources as it did then to work out how to double the number of transistors on a microchip.
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Copy of Prime Macaya Capital Management LP - January 2023 Thoughts - Barriers to Scale.pdf
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new VC funds at / below $200M in size by Shai Goldman @shaig - Google Drive
docs.google.comAbout 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to “shirking from home.” We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000- employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly assigned to work from home or in the office for 9 months. ... See more
Nicholas A. Bloom • Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment
Alex Danco: Funding the Future - David Perell
perell.com“Patents per researcher” has been falling for most of the twentieth century.