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I cannot recommend "About Face" enough. However it is a long read and covers the whole life story of Colonel Hack. Instead you might want to check out "Steel My Soldiers' Hearts" w…

The "20% of the world's oxygen" claim is unfounded. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/08/23/as-the... As the professor states in his tweets, there are legitimate reas…

If you run a root cause analysis of SB or the explosion of VC in general, low rates will be at the top of the list. And this is by design.

Android was also an acquisition.

I find it very ironic that someone would mention Cuba in this post. Cuba is the epitome of income inequality where the ruling party (Castro and friends) controls all the capital, w…

Let me rewrite the first paragraph: "Flying to Vegas? Look to your left. Now look to your right. Statistically speaking, everyone of you is about to get ripped off."

I actually LOL'd, which is rare.

You may or may not like DML's antics, but you can't say the guy doesn't have some balls.

That's just framing. Had the IPO come out at $20 and popped to the very same $26, everybody would be celebrating it as an amazing success. But Goldman Sachs and DST had to get thei…

While the market for seed rounds has been generally frothy, I believe these wild valuations are very specific to YC. Maybe they are indeed adding real value to investors by attract…

"Rip-off"? It's a help desk service for Pete's sake, not the Xerox GUI or the Page-rank. If Freshdesk can deliver the same value to customers for a fraction of Zendesk's cost, kudo…