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Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics(coindesk.com)
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The epic story of dropbox exodus from the amazon cloud empire https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama... But some companies get so big, it actually makes sense to build their own network with
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You pick the Valuation, I set the Terms… https://medium.com/@Alexoppenheimer/you-pick-the-valuation-i...
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Why Blockchain Needs ‘Proof of Authority’ Instead of ‘Proof of Stake’ or ‘Proof of Work’ https://cointelegraph.com/news/why-blockchain-needs-proof-of...
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The Strange Story of Tether, the Digital Money That Claims It Isn’t Money(cointelegraph.com)
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Blockchain-Backed SALT Loans Platform(forbes.com)
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The Best Venture Capitalists Harvest Optionality(25iq.com)
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“Nowadays people talk about pivoting as changing the homepage on your website and calling that a pivot. That’s not a pivot. A pivot is when you feel sick and you are going to throw up because what you are working on is such a dramatic shif
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How would Ann Miura-Ko have reacted if Gates had walked into her office in 1975?(25iq.com)
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exactly. by the way Ethereum scalability problems are much greater than Bitcoin.
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Donald Trump wipes $5.7bn off the value of Amazon with single tweet(independent.co.uk)
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Chris Sacca investor that owns 4% of Uber 'barely speaks' with Uber's CEO (2015) http://www.businessinsider.com/investor-chris-sacca-owns-4-o... Chris Sacca on Uber, Retirement, TV .... (2017) http:/&#x
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also Ethereum doesn't have an hardcoded cap limit.
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Looks like Data sets are going to be the moat of AI companies.
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Restructuring the Startup compensation (2016)(thinkpiece.club)
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Benchmark: We should have sued Kalanick sooner(techcrunch.com)
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quoting Greylock here: If we rewind the clock to 2012, Lyft launched a peer-to-peer ridesharing service and Uber was a black car marketplace. Lyft and Sidecar’s P2P taxis were a bigger idea in a bigger space. And like most marketplaces, it
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Tesla’s new self-driving car can only make you money on the ride-sharing ‘Tesla Network’, not Uber or Lyft (2016) https://electrek.co/2016/10/19/teslas-new-self-driving-car-c... that is the bigest challenge f
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Capitalism as in the private accumulation of large sums of capital.
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it's capitalism at is best you start a company in your garage take it to be worth Bilions an then give it all away, doesn't get better than this.
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probably the money is more wisely spent by the private institution than the government.
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> Uber isn't anything special. A case could be made to say that Travis is special in my opnion a very strong case, if you compare it to a proxy like Lyft, very competent funding team they preceded Uber by several years [1], add ac
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> Steve Jobs returned to Apple after 10+ yrs also the Steve that returned to Apple was a complete different person.
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It just adds more appeal to the deflationary flavour of Bitcoin.
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Travis is probably the best entrepreneur ever in fundraising, so good he managed to at such later stage to keep control and even have a disproportionate power in relation to is ownership. Mobody is crying for Benchmark and this lawsuit look
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Just wondering if Travis could ever imagined the Uber success he could have funded Uber Angel round of $1,2M by inself he had the money to do it. Everything being equal he now would own 20% but probably would have the same problem with Benc
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As a side note the cap table of Netscape Why was Netscape a weird example (to me) of Equity Sharing between Founders http://www.startup-book.com/tag/kleiner-perkins/
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Create a board that reflects the ownership of the company (2007) http://venturehacks.com/articles/board-structure as a side-note actually current Uber board doesn't reflect the ownership Benchmark as ~13,5% and on
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The Curse of the Diaeresis http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-t...
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“There was no way we were ever going to take money from Sequoia, given what they’d done to me,” says Parker. For those who don't know the story. Mark Zuckerberg's Brutal Prank On Sequoia (2010) http://www.businessinsi

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