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But today there are more people "helping the builders" than actually building, fighting one another in a zero-sum game for allocation in competitive deals. Incredibly, being an investor has become one of the highest status jobs in Silicon Valley — higher even than playing an important operating role at a great company. This has led to an over

Mike Solana • Choose Good Quests

In its variety, the Substack corpus resembles the blogosphere. It is produced by a mix of career journalists, bloggers, specialists, novelists, hobbyists, dabblers, and white-collar professionals looking to plump up their personal brands. The company has tried to recruit high-profile writers, offering (to a select few) health-care stipends, design ... See more

Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?

The architects watched and listened and learned. They could see that these FTX people, like their leader, essentially lived in the office. Sam famously slept on the beanbag chair beside his desk in Hong Kong, but Nishad, too, had made a bed under his desk. Ordinary employees who thought that to be as successful as Sam was they must live as Sam did

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

But Silicon Valley’s friction fighting has come at a price. Some of it is related to where friction goes, once it has disappeared from a consumer’s phone or computer screen. Often “eliminating friction” in a tech product simply means transferring the burden to a low-paid worker. Amazon’s all-out attempts to reduce customer friction have put additio... See more

Kevin Roose • Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation

Smartphones shrunk the market for handheld gaming devices, and the rise of app stores dramatically changed the economics of how handheld/mobile games monetize. Nintendo lacks experience in this new domain, and it so far hasn’t found repeatable and scalable success in a world dominated by free-to-play games.

Aaron Bush • Why Nintendo Isn't the Next Disney (And What It Will Be Instead) — Naavik

Bezos began the meeting by asking Price what the customer wait times were. Price then violated a cardinal rule at Amazon: he assured Bezos that

Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

One of the rare inspirational subplots of our current financial panic has been the rise of Meredith Whitney. An obscure and little-noticed analyst of Wall Street banks, working for an obscure and little-noticed Wall Street bank (Oppenheimer & Co.), Whitney has become, in a matter of months, a woman who moves markets.

It all started back on Oct.... See more

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In Levie’s telling — and he also wrote a blog post about the Slack sale — it all comes down to sales. The idea that workers would someday choose all their own tools was always a fantasy, he told me, in part because most workers don’t event want to think about their tools. In such a world, the winning app will almost always be one with a giant, er, ... See more

platformer.news • How Microsoft Crushed Slack

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OK maybe smartphones were a mistake

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