Silicon Valley Bank bears responsibility for its demise, but it symbolizes a Silicon Valley reality that is very different from the myth — and the ultimate cause is tech itself.
Narratives
What Elon Musk got wrong about Twitter, journalists and VCs got wrong about FTX, and Peter Thiel got wrong about crypto and AI — and why I made many of the same mistakes along the way.
An Interview With Babylist Founder and CEO Natalie Gordon
An interview with Babylist founder and CEO Natalie Gordon about Babylist’s founding, her growing ambition, and why the company is a shining example of Aggregation Theory in action.
iPhone Production Site Locked Down, An Interview With Bill Bishop about China (and Substack)
An Interview With Bill Bishop about China’s COVID outbreak, the Ukraine war, and Substack
More on Substack, Faceless Publishers and ATT, Apple’s ATT Deliberations
More on Substack, and how they have done right by publishers, and why their approach may be essential in a post-ATT world.
Substack Launches App, Substack and the Four Bens, In-App Purchase and the Substack Bundle
Substack launched an app, which isn’t a surprise given their VC model, but which portends change all the same.
Microsoft Earnings, Microsoft Advertising, The Deflating Balloon
Microsoft had great earnings, but had to reassure investors all the same. Plus, new advertising efforts, and why shrinking private valuations help Redmond.
OpenSea, Web3, and Aggregation Theory
OpenSea is positioned as another Aggregator, which is evidence that Web 3 is a layer on top of the Internet, not a replacement.
Sequoia Productive Capital
Sequoia’s transformation of its venture capital model is actually a shift from financial capital to productive capital
Pandemic Progress
Marc Andreessen has changed his tone over the past year; there is a cynical interpretation, but I think the shift is justified.