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8VC does some meaningful defense investing - they were founded by Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir) and they are invested in Anduril, and have some folks on the team who specif…

OT (and pretty random, apologies in advance!) but my company is distributed and might be a good fit for your spouse (we're an international e-commerce marketplace) if interested at…

ya, i did the same, took a few tries - i actually ended up reading the pale king first, might be worth trying that. it's shorter (around 500 pages) and i think written in a more di…

i immediately fell in love with dostoevsky's work (just finished my third read of TBK), but it took me a long time to get into david foster wallace - now, i think of them as very s…

a few years back i learned that glassdoor was co-founded by Rich Barton who founded both Zillow and Expedia (another interesting fact I didn't know until then: Expedia was a MS spi…

it's normal and you can expect that no matter what, as CEO you'll have phases like this on/off throughout your tenure, for better/worse it is part of the job. that being said, with…

biggest jump ball: Apple/Google/Amazon competing services. spotify deserves real credit for changing how people consume music, and I think that story will serve them well in the sh…

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also - all of the above applies to the CEO as well, so if you're not already talking to the non-founder board / investors, then I'd guess the CEO is (or should be).

a lot of the comments are about the validity/tenability of your position, and while I overall agree with a lot of what is being said (unfortunately, the fact that an adversarial dy…

even worse for spotify: Tim Cook said that Apple isn't particularly interested in on Apple Music turning a profit - when asked the question directly, he responded: "you're right, w…

Native Americans used to live in North America, the colonists who became the United states nearly annihilated the native americans, and certainly annihilated their way of life.

one way scammers make $$ is by using stolen accounts to purchase goods and then re-sell them, but in general they have pretty much one shot before they are found out and the creden…

agreed, very likely a factor as well.

PS - if you want to know more about IPO road, here's a decent summary: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020916/inside... if you want to dig really deep (like, 284 pag…

per earlier comment, yes, way more volatile because supply/demand will be less managed - as you say, IPO sets price, and this is done when bankers effectively pre-negotiate price a…