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David Graeber, the author of the book Bullshit Jobs, walked out of the room twice when Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant confronted him with pitfalls in his reasoning. https://www.volk…

Barry Diller's wife, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, was a proofreader of Sam Altman's last article 'How to be successful'.

Most surprising thing about this article: Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer and wife of billionaire media entrepreneur Barry Diller, was a proofreader.

Stanford course by Russell Berman and Peter Thiel

The author does write about GE's business problems. GE capital, as mentioned above. And the Alstom acquisition, which was a too expensive bet on the wrong horse.

Non-paywalled version here. https://outline.com/zyHms4

Nrs. 2, 6, 10, 11, 17 and 24 went through YC. Respectively, they are: Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Instacart, Machine Zone and Doordash.

In march of 2016, Asana also raised $50 million. Sam Altman led that round, at a valuation of $550 million. Crunchbase wrongfully states that YC led it. If Sam Altman's investment …

It's also badly written, with many me's an I's, like 'I squint at the plant names that have been rendered into Dutch.' and uninteresting facts about the appearance of the scientist…

YC has funded approximately 1,900 companies. 93 are valued at $100 million or more. 19 are valued at $1 billion or more. Stripped from nuance, one could say that if you get accepte…

With a post money valuation of 14.6 billion dollar, Cruise surpasses Dropbox as the third most valuable company that YC has invested in. The valuation of Airbnb is 31 billion, Stri…

Former SEC enforcement attorney John Reed Stark wrote about the complaint against Musk: (...) But here’s the rub. The SEC does not typically file SEC enforcement actions like the o…

You're so right about The Guardian. The opinion and political sections are full of politically correct, anti tech, anti freedom, pro SJWGLBT, anti common sense, pro decadence and a…

You are right. Right now, 1 euro is worth about 1.17 dollars.

Some valuation context, although I'm fully aware that Stripe is a private company and that many of its investors could have investing or striking privileges. Stripe: 20 billion. Ad…

Stripe is the second most valuable YC company. Total valuation of all companies that YC funded (more than 1,900) now exceeds 100 billon dollars. Airbnb has a private valuation of 3…

Non-paywalled version: https://riskcapitalpartners.co.uk/2018/09/23/luke-johnson-fo...