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Marc himself just commented on this https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1481095915427577856?s=21 And https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1481098552658956290?s=21

OP here. This is part of a new in-depth interview series with founders. Would love any thoughts/feedback.

Thanks for the post. I run The Observer Effect, would love any feedback or questions!

Interviewer here. Thanks for the post. It was a lot of fun to ask Marc about his productivity routine, how he spends time, how he makes decision and his "build" essay.

[OP - I posted the tweet] If you liked this, you might like my collection of business memos here. https://sriramk.com/memos I remember this particular memo very well as I was at Mi…

I came here to ask the same thing!

I just noticed who the OP is. Kind of cool to see Ray active on HN!

Absolutely do. Ex-MSFTer. This exactly fits with the kind of behavior you see from him internally.

I can testify to this. I'm 6'6, turned 30 recently and developed chronic back pain which made walking/standing for over 15-20 minutes painful. I got frustrated and started going to…

FWIW, I think Nathan will make a fascinating commencement speaker. He gets a lot of flak (rightfully) for Intellectual Ventures but he has a lot of success in multiple unrelated fi…

You mean when Netflix streaming started - they've been around for a long time doing DVDs :).

I was about to come say this. That sentence is provably false - Foursquare took great pains to launch Swarm first and launched the other app months later. They also did extensive c…

That's not corporate speak - that's very precise language in different domains. For example, anyone in sales knows exactly what that means.

I think Uber is being unfairly maligned here - too long for a comment, long piece at https://medium.com/@sriramk/in-defense-of-uber-in-india-f81c... . tldr: Uber just can't do the …

That's fair but I was trying to come up with a list that wouldn't require too much tech knowhow. I'd worry much more about deleting all copies from the cloud than someone retrievin…

I once got to meet a bunch of M&A/corp dev people from Google/FB and other companies together and asked them "What would you do if you were a founder and wanted to streamline an ac…