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EBay had an enormous advantage over the competition that it only then, under challenge, was coming to appreciate: a nicely balanced critical mass of sellers and buyers in each of hundreds of categories. This delicate balance had been achieved through the natural evolution of the eBay ecosystem, without the intervention of any guiding hand. If in an
... See moreRandall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Don’t be a product visionary—or, worse, a product dictator. Your company shouldn’t be a cult of personality, building exclusively what you want on the timelines you decide. WeWork is one example of how that path leads to certain doom. Among the numerous excesses, questionable decision making, and lavish capital infusions based on little evidence th... See more
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
There are very few Level 5 investors, but Warren Buffet is certainly among them. Buffett has steadily increased his public presence over the last several decades and he was even more present in the media than usual during the 2008 financial crisis. He regularly went on CNBC and Charlie Rose to try to calm market participants and encourage Congress ... See more
Sridhar Ramaswamy: Your search history is "incredibly personal"
audacy.comIn the Web2 era, platforms like Twitter and Facebook ran powerful but temporary versions of the “commoditize the complement” strategy early in their growth phase. By giving away their products and APIs for free, the platforms were able to attract invaluable social graphs and user data, which in turn helped attract an ecosystem of third-party develo... See more
Jesse Walden • Product vs. Protocol: Finding a Balance in Web3 – Variant
But as is so often the case with men who have made it like this, he was arrogant and self-righteous.