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My book The World After Capital in 64 tweets
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Proudly announcing the print edition of my book The World After Capital -- go buy it now!
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@EricTopol
Was just in Berlin: medical grade masks on all public transport, free testing everywhere, pervasive contact tracing, 24 hour negative test / vaccination required for many indoor activities
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If you are not terrified by the acceleration of the
#ClimateCrisis
, you are not paying attention
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Visiting two of our kids at their respective colleges for parents weekend. Our hotel room numbers yesterday and today
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My short summary on the 2010s: we are stuck in the past
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Only 650 more donors needed to get
@AndrewYangVFA
across the 40,000 mark - $1 is all it takes
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My take on the Amazon HQ2 fiasco
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At
@usv
we looked at several of the high-priced Reddit investment rounds and each time passed because there was no good answer to the question about how this won't ultimately pit the company against the people on the platform
CEO Steve Huffman says Reddit's API was "never designed to support third-party apps" and now takes issue with apps that are building a business on top of Reddit (
@jaypeters
/ The Verge)
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Some Lessons I Learned from the Dotcom Bubble for the Coming Crypto Bubble - I spent a bunch of time at ...
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A better set of policies to restore competition in the digital age would be (1) consumer right to API access (2) consumer right to side load apps (3) restored ability for small companies to go public / sensible regulation of crypto currencies.
Senator Warren's proposal would create massive new problems, have significant unintended consequences, and not address the issues she is concerned about (
@benthompson
/ Stratechery)
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If you care about a future-oriented alternative in the Democratic 2020 Primary, now is the time to support
@AndrewYang
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DAO/crypto governance seems fun and easy when everyone is making money. The real test will come when prices fall.
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As an alum I am deeply ashamed by this. I won't make any more donations to
@Harvard
until the university has paid this money back or given it to recipients in greater need.
Harvard University will receive nearly $9 million in aid from the federal government through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, the Department of Education announced last week.
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Crypto is endlessly fascinating, including its uncanny ability to turn otherwise sane people into raving absolutists (among both supporters and detractors).
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Dropping Parler at the platform level sets a terrible precedent.
i know no one wants to hear this but it is a short path from Apple, Google, and Facebook dropping Parler (a shit show hellsite) to those same companies being pressured to drop apps like Signal. At a certain point we need to decide where moderation should and shouldn't happen...
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Copy editing my book The World After Capital and not hating it
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I am excited for
@AndrewYang
mayoral campaign. Move
#NYC
forward.
I moved to New York City 25 years ago. I came of age, fell in love, and became a father here. Seeing our City in so much pain breaks my heart.
Let’s fight for a future New York City that we can be proud of – together. Join us at
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It boggles my mind how many startup founders/CEOs still think they will be able to raise in 2023 on meh metrics and carrying a huge post money valuation 1/3
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Revised mission: "To organize the world's information, excluding Google salaries"
Google says it is too expensive to hand over salary records to the gov't in gender pay case
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Scalia died 269 days before the election. RBG died tonight 49 days before the election, 123 days before the next inauguration. Republican Senators refused to hold hearings on the nomination of Merrick Garland.
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Took the train through an incredible winter wonderland in Germany this morning
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"strong opinions, weakly held" - is one of the more intellectually corrosive attitudes
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Big news on my book The World After Capital: it's basically finished and a print version is coming!
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If you are a Democrat and care about genuinely new ideas, instead of the retreading of old ones, support
@AndrewYangVFA
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Celebrating 25th anniversary with the amazing
@susandanziger
is making me so happy -- we are still discovering new things together all the time
#grateful
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Celebrated our 27th anniversary with a magical one night staycation in New York. Love you
@susandanziger
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Interesting visualization of the scale of different asset types
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Our first ever investment in Africa: Shift EV is retrofitting vehicles to electric, starting in Cairo, Egypt
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Spring has sprung in New York City and it is glorious
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Wondering what level of weather event has to occur for a majority of the US population to support World War II Level mobilization against the
#ClimateCrisis
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Another example of why we need open phones: app stores are central choke point for governments
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Literally no one:
@Google
: let me take up mobile screen real estate with a useless inbox status indicator and a promotion for a subpar product
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Turns out that instead of terraforming Mars, we have been marsforming Earth
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2020 script team working overtime as we are headed into the season finale
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Great to see
@AndrewYang
finally getting the attention he deserves
Opinion: Andrew Yang is just a long shot — for now
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Our democracy has accumulated excessive tech debt. We need to re-architect the system if we want to stay innovative.
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Finally finished
#BadBlood
. Takeaways 1 if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is and 2 social proof is for suckers, do your own homework!
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Finally
#web3
gets the quality of critics it deserves
Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3:
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Excited for
@AndrewYang
, the candidate with 21st century solutions for 21st century problems
It's official! We're headed to the December Debate! Couldn't have done it without all the amazing support from the
#yanggang
. Keep the momentum going by making a donation tonight!
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If Benchmark can sell (most of) their shares at anything close to the $8B mark as a result, then the suit will have been a brilliant tactic
Shervin Pishevar and two other Uber investors demand Benchmark give up Uber board seat
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I am teary eyed in this moment which powerfully reminded me of why I became a US citizen - thanks,
@TheAmandaGorman
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Really enjoying this current season of Succession ... amazing scripting with board coups and inside intrigue. And it's playing live on X!
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Started taking cold showers about six months ago. At first could barely stand a few seconds while hyperventilating and was dreading it. Now at over a minute with calm breath and really looking forward to it.
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Some Thoughts on the State of Bitcoin and Ethereum - Upfront disclosure: I am long both ...
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Meeting climate entrepreneurs from all around the world makes me optimistic. People are working on so many exciting approaches to emissions reduction and drawdown!
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LOL -- we do love food though at
@usv
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The New York Times reports that Danny Meyer has purchased iconic vc shop Union Square Ventures. This is probably a surprise to all involved.
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Sad to see friendships falling apart over people not recognizing trauma responses in themselves and in others
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Easy to be pessimistic at the moment. What is something that happened in technology in 2018 that makes you optimistic?
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My Book: World After Capital (Rough Draft) ...
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A post about Sarah Sanders, personal responsibility and abuse of government power
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How To Cold Email an Investor - I have received several cold emails from entrepreneurs ...
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New blog post: Notes on fundraising
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Excited for the coming years!
Big news at
@USV
today! We're excited to introduce our 2019 funds, welcome
@gillym
and
@nickgrossman
to the partnership, and continue our commitment to support all 85 companies in the
#USVNetwork
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Super slow today but will generate tons of training data for fast, mostly autonomous stocking
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It was a mistake to tweet about what happened in a pitch. That should stay between a company and investors. I wrote this in a state of frustration over seeing Reddit repeat the mistakes of Twitter, starting with raising too much money at too high a valuation, ...
At
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we looked at several of the high-priced Reddit investment rounds and each time passed because there was no good answer to the question about how this won't ultimately pit the company against the people on the platform
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1 - restore full API access - anyone should be able to write a full client, including their own timeline algorithm (this could require a monthly subscription)
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The worst enablers are those who believe they can harness a rising tyrant to advance their own agendas
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Follow up here
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The handling of this case is a travesty of justice. I just signed the petition and gave to
@sdonziger
's legal defense fund.
Next Monday, our team will be sending a petition to the DOJ with thousands of people demanding my case be dismissed.
This matters.
@Chevron
is only doing all of this to stop me from fighting for those dying in Ecuador.
Add your name.👇🏻
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Excited to announce a nuclear energy investment from
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@Transmutex_SA
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Blog post on Israel/Gaza
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Blog post explaining why I would vote for Sanders over Trump in a general election
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Amused by all the people suddenly discovering that Apple might not be all that serious about privacy after all.
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Looking forward to reading this latest from
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I’m thrilled to announce my new book FORWARD, coming Oct. 5! It’s about the broken machinery of our democracy, misaligned political incentives and a path forward. I wrote it after the presidential campaign and it feels even more relevant today. Preorder:
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Coming soon! Audio version of my book The World After Capital
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New York City energy efficiency at its "finest" - the radiator is piping hot but the AC is on full blast to keep the room from overheating (at NY court house where I am for jury duty)
#ClimateCrisis
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The iconography in this dystopian movie seems a bit heavy handed
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