Sublime

Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- l... See more

Barton career can be summed up by his mantra “Power to the People”. His companies take power from the incumbents and give it to consumers. Instead of trying to hoard information, they are on the side of consumers and giving them more data transparency.

With prices like $5 / month or $8 / month for a commodity mobile platform, the concern is that pricing will soon shift to a “first year free” model or be entirely free, shifting the economic model to one that emphasizes broadcast advertising sales patterns. While this could bolster early acquisition, it degrades Hollywood’s trust in the platform. W... See more

"We think eventually, by open-sourcing knowledge you can change labor dynamics so that it levels the playing field where the best person can get a job based on what they know versus just whether or not they went to an Ivy League school," he said.

Internally at OpenAI, insiders say that disagreements had emerged over the speed at which Altman was pushing for commercialization and company growth, with Sutskever arguing to slow things down. Sources told reporter Kara Swisher that OpenAI's Dev Day event hosted November 6, with Sam front and center in a keynote pushing consumer-like products was... See more

From the perspective of an operations guy, there is a lot of riff-raff in venture capital: posers, herd mentality, technology infatuation, too much education, not enough experience to appreciate what grit and focus it takes to grow a business out of nothing. To have a fighting chance, you want to be with the best firms, and the best partners in tho

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Replay probably did us a fabulous favor when they stepped across the line. There's a line in the sand that those media companies think about. You don't know where it is, but if you step over it, they're going to get you. Replay stepped over it by doing automatic commercial skipping. You didn't even have to fast-forward through the commercials. They

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