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Founder of Technology Incubator Idealab and 100 companies in last 30 years. Tweeting while on my quest for learning in life and at conferences.
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Top 7 Lessons from 50 years of Entrepreneurship:
My latest talk with lessons that will hopefully help you in business and in life..
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In the "I'm getting old" department.., a kid saw this and said, "oh, you 3D-printed the 'Save' Icon."
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Every one of these U.S. tech companies was founded by 1st or 2nd generation immigrants:
Apple
Google
Amazon
Facebook
Oracle
IBM
Uber
Airbnb
Yahoo
Intel
EMC
eBay
SpaceX
VMWare
AT&T
Tesla
NVIDIA
Qualcomm
Paypal
ADP
Reddit
SlackHQ
WeWork
Stripe
Cognizant
Intuit
via Vala Afshar..
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This is unbelievable to watch..
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Los Angeles with no smog..
Amazing aerial view of downtown from Echo Park
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The emotional journey of creating anything great requires crossing the dark swamp of despair..
Outsiders almost never see the crazy belief and persistence required to cross that chasm..
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Every one of these U.S. tech companies was founded by 1st or 2nd generation immigrants:
Apple
Google
Amazon
Facebook
Oracle
IBM
Uber
Airbnb
Yahoo
Intel
EMC
eBay
SpaceX
VMWare
AT&T
Tesla
NVIDIA
Qualcomm
Paypal
ADP
Reddit
SlackHQ
WeWork
Stripe
Cognizant
Intuit
Optimism at
#DLD19
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Steve Jobs is SO known for Apple, I didn't know that he bought Pixar for $5,000,000 in 1986..
And then sold it to Disney for $7.4 BILLION 20 years later in 2006!
via Jon Erlichman
#CodeCon
..
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You'll be able to see a rare, super-blue-blood-moon on the 31st of January - Not only will it be the second full moon this month, but it will also be a supermoon during a total lunar eclipse.. The first time all 3 events occurred simultaneously since 1866!
via UberFacts
#Davos
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Here is why a fix in software is sometimes called a "patch." It was once a piece of tape covering some punched holes.
#DLD17
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Here is one of the coolest shots I have seen so far. Over exposed right at the moment of totality. by Alex Strohl.
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"Land doesn't vote, people do."
Here is what the United States looks like when you represent votes and not land area..
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The reason it's called a "patch" in software is because you could make small corrections in a programmed sequence by "patching over" the paper tape and re-punching holes in that section..
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This is pretty amazing..
#AirPods
do more in revenue than
#Spotify
,
#Twitter
, &
#Snap
*combined*
via
@rex_woodbury
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This is one of the coolest Milky Way pictures I have ever seen. I can't imagine how much experimenting with lighting and exposure it took to get this just right! Wow! by Nicholas Roemmelt..
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"I didn't get this far by being a dumb blond, but by pretending to be one.." -Paris Hilton at
#UpfrontSummit
now with $3B in sales, 25 fragrances, 50 stores, traveling 250 days per year.
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I am really excited about a new frontier where an engineer can specify the "objective" of a product and then software can optimize on many dimensions to create it. Here's "generative design" optimizing a chair for stiffness and mass..
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Every single one of these states in Blue has a smaller population than Los Angeles County in Red..
via
@NinjaEconomics
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Great map of the United States overlaid on Europe at the correct Latitude (via Randy Olson)
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No one lives here. This is a map of all the census districts in the US with zero people-ALL the green = 0 population
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Interesting data about human collaboration with computer..
Overall cancer diagnosis error rate:
Human: 3.5%
AI: 7.5%
Human + AI together: 0.5%
via
@ianbremmer
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This map of the United States overlaid at the correct latitude over Europe/Africa/Middle East is so surprising to me. Shocking to see Paris at Northern Border of US, Florida over Egypt. What surprises you..?
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A view into the challenging emotional journey of creating anything great. It's often very hard to cross the chasm of the "dark swamp of despair!" via Chris Maddern
#Davos
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If 100 people lived on earth:
1 person has 50% of all the money
56 people have no internet access
14 people cannot read
13 people have no clean water
Staggering inequality..
#WEF18
via Vala Afshar
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"Humans walked on the moon before it occurred to anyone to put wheels on suitcases." Opening sequence at
#TED2016
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My mind was blown when I heard this earlier today..
"Imagine we discovered a new continent with 100 BILLION people on it, and they're all willing to work for free!
That's what's about to happen with
#AI
, so you'd better factor that into your plans."
@natfriedman
#Abundance360
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Have you EVER seen a restaurant give a discount for well-behaved kids?!?!?
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A world map created by every road that Google Street View has driven on.. Pretty amazing! via Randy Olson:
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I am so excited to announce our solar breakthrough at . We can now achieve temperatures between 1000C and 1500c for the first time. With this, we can replace the fossil fuel used to make cement, steel, glass, Hydrogen & more..
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10 things that require no talent or luck, via Fouad ElNaggar. Actually, I'd consider one showing these AS talented!
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When some kids saw this, they said, "oh, you 3D printed the SAVE icon!"
http://t.co/cvFBM1nV26
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The
#LadyGaga
#SuperBowl
Half-time show had 300
#Drones
flying in formation to make the flag in the sky.
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I didn't know this:
The United States has 393 million guns (46% of all the guns in the world)..
That means we have 1.21 guns per person, while the rest of the 7.4 billion people have 0.11 per person, or more than 10x less.
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Some Sunday Motivation..
Dig deep to find the strength to exhibit persistence when you are in the "dark swamp of despair." It's part of the emotional journey of creating anything great.
There will always be challenging days. It's how you manage adversity to power through!
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This has been my dream all my life - Powering the entire planet from the sun.
Look how little land it takes. Just 0.3% of the Sahara would power all of Europe..
I am working hard at to make this a cost-effective reality!
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I want everyone in my company to speak up honestly. "To disagree silently is disloyal.." Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix at
#TED2018
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Google's Self-Driving Car gathers almost 1 GB per SECOND. Here's what it "sees" making a left turn:
http://t.co/vZCWhEeBmF
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"America had 11,000 gun-related homicides in 2008. Japan had 11. Does anyone know if they play video games in Japan?"
@JensenClan88
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Amazon doubles Walmart: It took Amazon 18 years as a public company to catch Walmart in market cap, but only two more years to double it.
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27 U.S. Technology Companies founded by 1st and 2nd generation immigrants:
Apple
Google
Amazon
Facebook
Oracle
IBM
Uber
Airbnb
Yahoo
Intel
EMC
eBay
SpaceX
VMWare
AT&T
Tesla
NVIDIA
Qualcomm
Paypal
ADP
Reddit
SlackHQ
WeWork
Stripe
Cognizant
Intuit
3M
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Here's where the term software bug came from. An actual "moth" got stuck inside one of the early mechanical computers.
#DLD17
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"Our smartphones are 120 million times more powerful than the computers that guided Apollo 11. That has enabled us to progress from moon landings to cat videos.." -William Easterly
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The emotional journey of creating anything great. It's often very hard to cross the chasm of the "dark swamp of despair!" via Chris Maddern
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Self-driving cars will turn 50 billion hours of boring driving time (8% of GDP) into 50 billion new hours in moving living room.
#CodeCon
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This infographic shows the length of time it took for different technology products to reach 50 million users. From decades, to years, to mere days..
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"In 1990, the size of the US software industry was $3.2 billion - the same size as the gourmet popcorn industry in that same year." - PSaffo
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Imagine if last names were invented now, so instead of “Smith” & “Baker” we had Frontenddeveloper and Socialmediaconsultant -via
@riscfuture
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#Amazon
's revenue versus profit graph. Jeff had a very long term view, and investors allowed it.. Graph via Eric Jackson
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Awesome tiny Abacus-Ring from Chinese Qing Dynasty. World's first "wearable" computer from 300 years ago? via Farbod Saraf
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Here's a 5 megabyte IBM hard drive from 1956. Today, that would "barely" hold one compressed MP3 song file!
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Indian housewives hold 11% of the World's gold. That is more than the reserves of USA, IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together..
In
#Davos
, people talked about Bitcoin replacing gold, but I don't think it will for this use.
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Every single item in this full page Radio Shack ad from 1991 is all inside ONE Smartphone today!
http://t.co/M1vSNWq0on
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Memories: On the right, some handcrafted core memory. 32 wires by 32 wires for 1024 BITS. On the left, 2 BILLION times as much memory in about 1/100th the space..
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"Poverty is NOT a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash." Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian and basic income advocate at
#TED2017
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Amazing how similar this is to Steve Jobs' view. And not surprising to see the results both of their companies have delivered and the impact they have had..
“Customer obsession is not just listening to customers. Customer obsession is also inventing on their behalf. Because it’s not their job to invent for themselves.”
—
@JeffBezos
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@SONZWairaka
That's funny. Can you believe how much USB's hold now. One usb could old 1,000's if not 10's of thousand of these! Incredible.
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When I 1st saw each of these technologies, I knew life & work would never be the same..
IBM PC – 1981
Lotus 1-2-3 – 1983
Multimedia CD-Rom -1990
Netscape – 1994
RIM Pager – 1996
Laptop Wifi - 1999
iPhone – 2007
ChatGPT – 2022
What else in the last 50 yrs made you feel that way?
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This is pretty awesome: A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD.
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Jeff Bezos is a super long-term thinker & ultimate disrupter. Here is his awesome interview w/Charlie Rose:
http://t.co/pgGFEm3I
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10 years of progress in 10 weeks..
US e-commerce has grown that much. What else has had this big of a boost this year?
Tele-medecine? That was probably 10 years in 10 days!
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Here are 10 things that don't require talent or luck for success. But doing them all is harder than it sounds & maybe is the biggest skill!
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This is now the coolest Milky Way picture I have ever seen.. Brazilian photographer Marcio Cabral won the long-exposure award for this galaxy-revealing shot from Veadeiros National Park in Brazil.
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LA with no smog..
Aerial photo of downtown Los Angeles from Echo park.
Thanks to
@dannysullivan
for finding the great photographer here:
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"It’s easy to take our freedoms for granted until we see the horrible results of when those freedoms are taken away. Russia is one of the best examples of how life disintegrates when people can’t think or speak freely.." Bill Browder
#Davos
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We love talking about the starts. It's romantic. And we love talking about the finishes. But the "Messy Middle" is full of ups & downs & requires crazy persistence for success. I can totally relate to this from
@scottbelsky
great new book. Cross that middle to change the world..
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When I first got my high density floppy disk in 1987, I could hold one 'book' in my pocket. Now I can hold 80,000 songs on my fingernail!
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Each of these US tech companies was founded by 1st or 2nd generation immigrants:
Apple
Google
Amazon
Facebook
Oracle
IBM
Uber
Airbnb
Yahoo
Intel
EMC
eBay
SpaceX
VMWare
AT&T
Tesla
NVIDIA
Qualcomm
Paypal
ADP
Reddit
Slack
WeWork
Stripe
Cognizant
Intuit
3M
..via Vala Afshar
#WEF18
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"Moses was technically the first person to download files to his tablet from the cloud.." - Dire Wolf, on Passover
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All truth passes through 3 stages
1st it is ridiculed.
2nd it is violently opposed.
3rd it is accepted as being self evident.
I like this quote so much we have it painted on the wall of our building. If you take an idea through these stages then you have truly changed the world..
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Here are 10 things that require zero talent, but which make a huge difference in life..
What else would you add to this list?
#Davos
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Ride-hailing apps are now 65% bigger than taxis in New York City. Look at the slope of these graphs..
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Optical illusion that saves lives?This illusion makes drivers slow down for crosswalks.
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It’s hard to believe that this Sunday will be Idealab’s 25th anniversary. With so much help from so many people I have learned many hard-earned lessons. I’ll be sharing
#25Lessons
starting on Sunday at
I look forward to your thoughts & feedback. Thanks..
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When I looked at what factors matter most to
#startup
success, I found these five were tops.
#TED
#TED2015
http://t.co/R2YPwrZDwZ
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A great list of the differences between amateurs and professionals..
1. Amateurs stop when they achieve something.
2. Amateurs think they are good at everything.
3. Amateurs focus on being right.
4. Amateurs focus on the short-term.
Many more here:
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@djrothkopf
It's so depressing that no-nothing-ism is the case for such a big part of the country now. Meecham on Morning Joe just said that we have a party that is now listening to the "whims of a King," - the exact thing we fought in the revolution to avoid..
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We landed a man on the moon before we put two wheels on luggage. Then it took 34 more years before we thought of adding two more.
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"It will soon be obvious that half of our job tasks can be done better at almost no cost by AI and robots. This will be the fastest transition humankind has experienced, and we’re not ready for it.." Kai-Fu Lee
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Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did..
#Davos
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Tests vary GREATLY by state..
Here is a graph of Covid tests per 1000 people by state.
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Social Media..
Lust - Tinder
Gluttony - Yelp
Greed - LinkedIn
Sloth - Netflix
Pride - Instagram
Envy - Facebook
Wrath - Twitter
via
@AdamMGrant
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Machine learning-based voice recognition finally hit 95% accuracy this year, equaling a typical human. Mary Meeker at
#CodeCon
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Future generations won't know:
Dial the phone, Roll up the window, I taped the football game, Don't touch that dial!
http://t.co/b34xDmsEIl
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Honored to get to meet hero Bill Browder (
@Billbrowder
) in
#Davos
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This graph is staggering to me!
The virus is not like abortion or gay marriage. It does not care whether you are a Republican or a Democrat and also does not care about borders.. How could something so scientific and uniform be so partisan?
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14 rejected designs of the Eiffel tower..
So cool to see the iteration on the concept from over 100 years ago.
Is the one that was built the best one, or are we just used to it because it is now so iconic?
Great picture via
@ValaAfshar
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If you were to read just ONE book about the future of technology and the huge transformation the world is about to face, it should be Kai-Fu Lee's amazing new book on
#AI
, coming out in a few weeks..
Its message is both scary, exciting, and wildly enlightening..
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