All-star resume guide: Step 1 - Outbid Automattic, buy Tumblr at ~$3.5M Step 2 - Make yourself CEO of a company that's been valued at over $1B Step 3 - Save millions by not bribing Stanford to let you in

For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know - based on the facts and data. A thread. (1/x)

“There is a real risk that the meaning of “sustainable” will be diluted to what “healthy” means on food labels—virtually everything and nothing at once.” fortune.com/2019/10/07/all…

Awesome and therapeutic way to learn a little more about our wild oceans!

Startup idea: a better mousetrap

An absolutely badass graph. UC Berkeley educates almost as many low income students as all of the Ivy Leagues combined.

Excited to be investing in the future of education alongside Seven Seven Six 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ & Learn Capital. Huge congrats to the Prenda Microschools team on their $20M Series B!

Of all the ways to cut LPs a better deal, Sequoia changing to management fees based on capital deployed (vs committed) seems likely to misalign incentives by encouraging more rapid mega-dealmaking when many LPs are hoping for slower, more thoughtful deployment. What am I missing?

Super excited to be a small part of supporting the Stell team as they modernize aerospace manufacturing! Awesome team tackling a hugely important problem techcrunch.com/2023/01/17/ste…

If depositors deserve to be wiped out, should we limit checking accounts to accredited investors?

Lot of skepticism with respect to application layer gen AI defensibility, but I wonder how many months (weeks?) until we can ask "Make a faster/easier to use Airtable/Superhuman/Outreach/etc., different enough to not violate any IP, and set pricing to 10% of the incumbent"

Vision pro looks cool but it'd be nice if macOS let you tile things left/right as intuitively, quickly, and universally (i.e. keyboard shortcut that doesn't interfere with Chrome) as Windows

CA: Introducing $20 min wage for fast food chains (Unless you're a bakery - we got your back, Panera/Gavin Newsom donor)! McDonalds: Introducing the McCroissant and McBread, among our many other bakery items!

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If, due to a technological breakthrough, a significantly greater number of people begin referring to Jevons Paradox, the overall demand for people to keep referring to Jevons Paradox will actually decrease.

Big milestone for Upscale AI. Taking a full-stack approach to AI networking across hardware, software, and ops is hard, but exactly what hyperscale workloads require. Congrats to the team on an impressive step forward.

Fun feature in WSJ today, and great to have JR on board to help founders with government GTM!