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It's a good essay. The only problem is that it's Peter Thiel behind it. The problem isn't just that "we got 140 characters." The problem is that Peter Thiel asked for it by investing in and therefore promulgating Mark Zuckerberg's vision of ubiquitous irrelevance. I think he's right that VC is destroying itself by investing in what I have often referred to as trivial nonsense, but he and his firm are part of the prob…
It's a good essay. The only problem is that it's Peter Thiel behind it. The problem isn't just that "we got 140 characters." The problem is that Peter Thiel asked for it by investing in and therefore promulgating Mark Zuckerberg's vision of ubiquitous irrelevance. I think he's right that VC is destroying itself by investing in what I have often referred to as trivial nonsense, but he and his firm are part of the prob…
This is a really honest question, what are you trying to do?
So, we will continue to invest in very talented entrepreneurs
who are pursuing ambitious, challenging tasks. We will treat them
with respect and hope for the best.
What happened to HTML? If this were formatted with web standards, I could resize the fonts, scroll with my browser's built-in preferred scrolling mechanisms that aren't chunky, laggy, and painful, and I could actually read it. I'm not the only one to comment on this, but apparently whoever did this page is dense enough about web standards that the point needs to be repeated. How do you run a VC and not get this? My o…
The primitive steam based engine was discovered by ancient Greeks and technologically they could improve upon it further. Their slave based society wasn't ready for it.
Like Greeks and steam power, today we have the primitive access to space - and surprise!, instead of actively working upon improving it, pouring all our resources into it, we're still discussing whether it has economical reasons, and like in case of Greeks, we can't find much of such economical reasons for it.
It's a good essay. The only problem is that it's Peter Thiel behind it. The problem isn't just that "we got 140 characters." The problem is that Peter Thiel asked for it by investing in and therefore promulgating Mark Zuckerberg's vision of ubiquitous irrelevance. I think he's right that VC is destroying itself by investing in what I have often referred to as trivial nonsense, but he and his firm are part of the prob…
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This is a really honest question, what are you trying to do?
According to their last statement: So, we will continue to invest in very talented entrepreneurs who are pursuing ambitious, challenging tasks. We will treat them with respect and hope for the best. Basically they're looking for social-mobile-local marketing companies that target the robotics and biotech industries.
> SpaceX ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTFlFFrfEB0&feature=youtu... )
> Halcyon Molecular ( http://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/halcyon-molecular-develo... )
> Palantir
> Pathway Genomics ( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/pathway-genomics )
> Gene Security Network ( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/gene-security-network )
> CDD ( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/collaborative-drug-discove... )
> ImmunePath ( www.immunepath.com/ )
> RoboTex ( http://www.robotex.us/ )
> SmartDrive ( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/smartdrive-systems )
> Navia ( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/navia-systems )
That doesn't sound like a social-mobile-local marketing companies portfolio to me, and yes I've seen their investments in companies such as Yammer, RapLeaf, but clearly they aren't their entire portfolio and they have taken a series of really impressive long term bets.
Enough with the flying cars! That was never a good idea.
What happened to HTML? If this were formatted with web standards, I could resize the fonts, scroll with my browser's built-in preferred scrolling mechanisms that aren't chunky, laggy, and painful, and I could actually read it. I'm not the only one to comment on this, but apparently whoever did this page is dense enough about web standards that the point needs to be repeated. How do you run a VC and not get this? My o…