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IronSource & WETA acquisitions may have been expensive mistakes

hack: do a startup only after you already have living money assured (savings from earlier corporate jobs, now invested & producing). you have time & energy, and no obligations.

now do Ironsource ($4.4B)

pure speculation: ChatGPT training dataset contains massive amounts of copyrighted material, and he told the board it didn't. now there's a big looming liability.

spending $4B for ironsource ads and $1B for weta authoring stuff was expensive and took lots of their more indie-friendly choices off the table. maybe the ipo path they took made t…

I still use Palm Desktop (c1996)

I remember getting a Lafayette 3-pickup electric guitar and building a Heathkit guitar amplifier. That thing had a dual-spring reverb too. I got a 4x12" speaker cabinet with Celsti…

used their soaps for years. dilute it with water and use in foaming pump dispensers for hand soap - super economical. use it to wash dishes versus using name-brand detergents (soap…

There's putting in tons of hours of effort to uncover an answer. There's knowing all the ways that didn't work before and why, and then knowing where to look for an answer. Certain…

Still waiting for the Octave equivalent for Matlab's Simulink. I'd drop Matlab for good if that appeared.

Ive is a great soldier, but Jobs knew which battles to fight. Apple has lost its way and doesn't know what directions to go in, where technology needs to move to serve its users. A…

Consumer DNA sequencing to get personalized nutritional, exercise, pharmaceuticals, and medical preventative monitoring advice will become commonplace.

At the risk of offending some folks, let me offer some conclusions based on living near the Waymo facilities for 4+ years. Their autonomous cars are already driving better than abo…

Man, she sounds like she hates her life. That truly sucks. My advice is to get to Burning Man. She needs to see another way of defining value in herself and others.

Never a big believer in energy over ultrasound. Maybe for low amounts of power it could work. But so could power beamed over IR lasers into photovoltaic patches. And lasers would w…

A great approach to find a good opportunity is to look at the failed business ideas of 10 years ago. The reasons they failed back then may not be valid today because of 10 years of…

--- putting the "dead" back into "deadlock"

Eye see what you're looking at, their vision has blurred, and putting on blinders or rose-colored glasses won't alter that view.

VR would be nice for shut-ins (infirm, imprisoned, remote, etc) to vector somewhere else.

Strip & Flip Bain loads their acquisitions up with debt to pay themselves off, and then runs for the hills. Like with Toys-R-Us now going bankrupt. Recall Mitt Romney was CEO of Ba…

Creativity comes in various flavors - exploiting the latest technical advances into something new. Favors recent academic grads ==> youth - ideas that require lots of hours of work…

Two aspects: performance and content. For performance I concur with the other folks advice here to practice a lot. For content I recommend reading Story - by Robert McKee. There's …