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Current: @a16zcrypto and @aarthisrirampod . ex-building products at Meta and Twitter/X. into tech in the UK, decentralization, how systems work and more.
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New post: on strategy change (prompted by
@kevin_scott
's email)
To change strategy, you rarely need a fancy offsite or large presentation. In my experience, large strategy shifts at companies often happen with a simple email or conversation from the CEO or blessed by the CEO.…
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Now that the word is out: I’m helping out
@elonmusk
with Twitter temporarily with some other great people.
I ( and a16z) believe this is a hugely important company and can have great impact on the world and Elon is the person to make it happen.
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A lot of us born in the 80s and 90s will remember this 🙂
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
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Amazing how many people have reached out to me over these photos with
@elonmusk
.
Late night coding sessions + whiteboards are at the heart of what this industry was built on.
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I would pay serious $ to never have to hit "Accept All" on any website online ever again.
The whole mess should be a cautionary tale on bad advocacy + regulation and the EU inadvertently setting the tone for everyone else.
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Tips on negotiating an offer: You've done well in the interview. Now you have the recruiter calling you and reading out some numbers for you. What do you do? Here are some tips I give people.
A 🧵
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I'm hearing from multiple CEOs how
@elonmusk
has shifted the toolset/culture they thought available to them.
In particular,
- Demanding more of their teams and themselves than before
- Cutting non-essential functions
- Focus on speed/rapid progress
- Focus on the core essence
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The shift from China to India of all things global manufacturing (iPhones, etc) is going to have huge ramifications next 7-10 years.
Was struck by the early signs of this change in my trip to India.
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🚨👋 Thrilled to announce a passion project I've been working on for a while. Here's "The Observer Effect" with our very first interview w/ the one and only Marc Andreessen.
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🚨 ANN: I’m super thrilled to finally be able to announce this - I’m moving to the a16z crypto team and will be investing only in web3/crypto going forward.
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Twitter is at its most interesting, most vibrant and - perhaps most important - crucial source of real time news and commentary it has ever been right now.
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It’s remarkable that the mainstream press hasn’t covered
@lexfridman
more given he’s one of the most influential podcast hosts out there now.
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There is a vibe shift.
A few years ago at the smallest risky tweet or post or comment, you would get people running a campaign to try and get you fired - often using this platform. The process would happen behind opaque bureaucracies.
It’s now the opaque bureaucracies being…
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Having
@elonmusk
interview
@vladtenev
live on our show was just incredible. Don't think I've ever been part of anything so electric.
Thank you everyone who listened in and all the comments.
Now might just go lie down and not move for a while.
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👋🚨[new] I love reading great internal company memos for the insight they give into institutions and behavior. Over the years, I've been collecting public ones and I started putting up a few on my site -->
Some previews below.
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👉🧵 How to build a personal brand in tech - available to anyone with a laptop with an internet connection.
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The core of the Michael Lewis book is the author unable to reconcile himself with the fact that he has spent hundreds of hours essentially with a con man.
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Recent PM interview question I've been using: You're the PM at Netflix handling the home screen. How do you determine how shows get promoted editorially vs algorithmically recommended? Walk through metrics/principles/trade-offs and how it impacts various parts of the biz.
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🧵 Someone asked on Discord how to "learn" a new space. I'm not an expert but here's my algorithm mid-2021. This works for me, may or may not work for you.
Tried to use the example of NFTs below that I tried to learn this year but can work for any space.
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Two schools of thought in tech strategy I think are fundamentally new, as impactful as ‘crossing the chasm’ or ‘Porter’s six forces’ and will probably be taught in B-schools in future.
1.
@benthompson
on “aggregation theory”
2.
@kevinakwok
on “loops”
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A couple of years ago, I set a personal rule to never be negative to any company/product on Twitter.
I’ve mostly lived up to that (minus a couple of airlines exceptions!) - and it has made me so much happier.
Building stuff is hard, no reason to pile on.
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EP 51:
@VitalikButerin
has been someone
@aarthir
and I wanted to get on the pod for a long time and he didn't disappoint.
From his thoughts on the events of the last year in crypto, SBF, zk-SNARKs and AI safety, ChatGPT to more, this was a delight.
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Finally watched RRR. Spectacular. Epic. No words. Everyone should see it immediately. Maybe the best Indian movie I’ve seen in many years.
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From the day 6 years ago when we got citizenship- still remember the moment the assembled crowd cheered when the judge declared us all citizens.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Thanks to popular demand yesterday, I put up a page that will collect some good content on business strategy especially as it applies to tech.
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👋🚨: Some personal news: I've gotten to know a lot of the amazing people at
@a16z
over the last few years and have been struck by their culture, their values and how they do business, their optimism on tech/building and their relentless focus on supporting founders.
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👋 Some personal news: After some of the most fun and fulfilling few years in my career, I’m leaving Twitter next month to spend more time working with startups and other projects.
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Controversial take: think Zoom is getting some unfair criticism mixed with some fair critiques. And they should be getting more credit for scaling to pretty crazy numbers.
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Props to Reed Hastings for saying what many leaders might be thinking or worried about around working from home but not saying out aloud.
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⏰ We have a very special cricket edition tomorrow! Super excited to announce our guests:
🇮🇳 🏏From team India
@ashwinravi99
along with
@prithinarayanan
🎙the voice of cricket I have grown up with : the one and only
@bhogleharsha
📰 Vice Chairman of Times Internet
@satyan
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The biggest sign of competence in any role, in any level of seniority: the prompt reply to an email / text / DM.
Even just a “will read and get back soon”.
The biggest sign of incompetence: a lack of prompt reply or acknowledgement.
I’ve noticed this pattern for near 20…
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⏰ 🔥We are thrilled to announce we are hosting the one and only
@MrBeastYT
and
@reedjd_
on our Clubhouse show
@GoodTimeShowCH
at *6pm* PT today. (note time).
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Two levels of the org chart
I recently met a former US ambassador who had served in a challenging post in an important country and achieved great results.
“What is the difference between a good and bad ambassador?” I asked.
Without missing a beat, he replied “When you meet…
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The family WhatsApp groups will be on 🔥 today
Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. Wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world and a good reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants. 🇮🇳🇺🇸 (Congrats,
@paraga
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This India-China app ban is huge. Separate from the geopolitical considerations, this is going to energize the Indian startup/founder ecosystem.
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back to the basics for tech
- focus on the essentials with engineering at the core
- hire/keep ppl who truly enjoy tech.
- more: speed, iteration, quality, "show your work"
- less: recurring meetings, consensus, anything that doesn't tangibly contribute to core biz.
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I’ve noticed I now like to have subtitles on always for any content I watch ( from never ever using them a decade ago).
Are others here going through a similar phase?
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Have met multiple people in the last few weeks who are dropping out of business school because the opportunity cost of two years is too high given the momentum in consumer/web3 right now.
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What is consumer behavior on the edge today that will be widely adopted in 4-5 years?
Near term sci fi is fun.
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India's lockdown is staggering. 1.3b people indoors for the next 21 days.
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Effective altruism might be the villain a lot of us here should be focused on.
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Now every Tamil person in tech will have to deal with their parents+relatives telling them “did you hear how Sundar is now CEO of Google?”
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Several of the critiques of the $8 / verification are logically inconsistent.
“verification solves for impersonation, this will cause more”
1. using a CC/mobile checkout dramatically increases friction. And everyone caught impersonating will lose their money.
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Most interesting ideas last few years for me
-
@VitalikButerin
legitimacy as a scarce resource
-
@elonmusk
on entertaining outcome being most likely
- Liu’s Dark Forest Theory
-
@tszzl
- shape rotators/wordcels
-
@cdixon
on web3 as web2 with opposite laws of physics.
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On Google and Gemini - having been part of organizations where there was an implicit progressive political leaning, I can see why it would have been hard for anyone to point out the obvious.
No employee can easily file a bug as you would have to wade through layers of policy…
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Would love a "personal CRM" that I can help automate some of the below
- 🔔to check-in on ppl I haven't seen/heard from in a while.
- Track folks per city so I can visit people I don't see in SF.
- 🔔 when they have job change/birthday/"news" (LNKD +FB)
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⏰ excited to announce a special show tomorrow. We have the one and only
@MKBHD
at 6pm PT/9pm ET ( note time).
@aarthir
and I have been fans for years and are super excited for this.
he will also be joined for a portion by
@brian_armstrong
to talk all things crypto!
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🇬🇧 Really excited for
@a16z
’s expanding to the UK with our first international office in London.
And personally excited to be moving there later this year.
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NEW OBSERVER EFFECT 🚨: Thrilled to publish our interview with Daniel Ek, Founder/CEO of Spotify.
In a wide conversation
@eldsjal
talks decisions, learning from people like Zuck/Beyoncé, being a dad, "algotorial" and much much more.
Full interview👇
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PS. Still very much in my day job at
@a16zcrypto
🙂. If you’re a crypto founder, you know how to find me!
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One reason I love pfps+ pseudonymous names on social media: you have no idea of anyone's age/race/background/institutional credentials.
You have to engage *only* on their ideas and work. It's the purest form of meritocracy.
For example:
@punk6529
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The advice I often find myself wanting to give people is to treat most interactions as part of an infinite game/longterm relationship as opposed to a short term transaction.
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The great web2-web3 talent migration
Large groups of talented engineers, builders, designers, marketers, etc are moving to web3. Working full-time/starting something/seriously considering it.
My personal move to crypto prompted multiple conversations from peers. Some themes
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On India: I have had two decades of discussions with various people on what India needs to do. They fall roughly into two camps
A) India has deep issues. Poverty, health, infrastructure. Fix that first.
B) India has strengths. A thriving market. Build on those strengths and go…
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Nolan’s diagrams for Tenet. From the excellent “The Nolan Variations” book.
The third is his for Inception.
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PROPOSAL: Transparent content moderation:
A proposal for social media platforms to commit to transparency on all moderation and algorithmic decisions
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One of the most helpful books I’ve read on being a manager is “Non-violent communication” - the Rosenberg book is good.
I dislike the name NVC and it caused to me to be quite skeptical. But NVC is actually highly logical and should appeal to anyone w/ an eng/science background.
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A KPI I would love to set for every CTO/CPO at a media org: reduce login-walls for existing subscribers. Every successful password entry should be a negative signal.
If I’m a subscriber, ideally shouldn’t hit a login wall on the same device ever.
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A reader sent me this old classic -
@BillGates
yelling at a bunch of MSFT execs about how bad a download experience is. I was at MSFT at the time and remember this well...
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If I was part of the Google war room dealing with this
Would NOT do: "let's analyze the class of queries we are getting heat on. Historical figures, etc. Let's fix egregious cases and then make others offer safer context"
I WOULD do: let's re-eval the underlying principles on…
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After about 10 back to back video calls, seeing massive difference in reliability. Stack ranking:
1. Zoom (by far the best)
2. Facetime Video (for 1:1)
3. G Meet/Hangout/Suite/whatever it is called now
4. Audio by traditional phone
5. WhatsApp Video (for India mostly)
6. BJN
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🚨 NEW FULL EP: Nathan Mhyrvold is someone
@aarthir
and I have idolized for decades. Microsoft's first CTO, renowned chef with multiple books, paleontologist, worked with Stephen Hawking, the list is endless.
We had an absolute blast talking to him on this episode. From how to…
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best part of last week are the lovely tweets from the Indian/South Asian community.
Since she won’t say it, I will:
@aarthir
has gotten an incredible number of tweets and DMs from Indian women loving seeing one of their own on stage with Mark, Elon and others. It’s been great
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HBO Max should take today’s incident and talk about it at every new employee orientation as
1. the kind of mistake that is ok for ppl to make
2. how the engineer who did it has done well at their career at HBO since.
3. Talk about the almost minimal process added after
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Favorite meme on Indian immigrant WhatsApp groups now: with the end of affirmative action, what excuse do your kids have for not getting into Stanford?
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I trot out this tweet every two years or so but today felt appropriate given most of the 2012-2015 unicorns are just regular boring public companies now (or will soon be).
Without further ado, I give you the yearly NYTimes "Are we in a tech bubble" pieces.
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Can't recommend the
@balajis
and
@lexfridman
podcast enough. It's true information diet protein.
No one, not even me, agree with Balaji on everything. But I challenge you to listen to it and not get exposed to 4-5 new ideas and ways of seeing the world you haven't seen.
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If you want to build something wildly ambitious, start by doing the simplest thing at the highest quality with the best people possible.
And then repeat.
Attempting something like that right now 👀
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Lots of parallels between Tendulkar's cricket WC 2011 win and Messi's 2022 WC win.
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One real issue for FAANG style companies with web3 is retaining talent.
Very simply: the smartest engineers/designers are working on crypto definitely on the side and are interested in moving fulltime.
Has come up with multiple exec conversations.
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As someone who works "in tech", really proud of how the tech industry has responded so far
1/ Most important: stuff has just kept working. This is non-trivial given the excess loads. From video to collab to email to this very platform. Lots of folk working around the clock.
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Idea partially inspired by
@pmarca
: we need more storytelling and “high culture” based on an optimistic future with tech.
I stopped watching Black Mirror ( a great show) because I was tired of a dystopian future being the only thing portrayed in all pop culture.
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One of the most profound mental shifts for me has been to try and actively practice an "abundance mindset".
Very practically, you can cheer for people/help them/be relationship oriented without having to worry about the value exchange at every interaction.
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One mindset shift I’ve experienced: before COVID-19 I always looked at preppers/people worried about dystopian scenarios as...a little crazy.
Post COVID-19, now more inclined to think “what if a low probability scenarios happens/ what would we need to do now to prepare”.
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@elonmusk
All of the
@hubermanlab
basics (you should watch him)
- get sunlight first thing when you wake up
- try and be productive first thing in the morning
- intermittent fasting
- some NSDR
- heavy lifting a few times a week
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In an introductory meeting today, I was asked a question that I’m definitely going to steal.
“Out of all the experiences in your career, what six month period was the most energizing/fun?”
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Studying biz history and turnarounds/great execution in key moments. Fascinating how same patterns keep coming up.
1. Speed. Over all else.
2. Decisive leadership by one individual
3. Focus on 1-2 key efforts + attention to detail
4. Increase quality/bar
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When Google finds out that their real shot at taking over social media wasn’t Google Plus but actually Google Docs. 🙂
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Some folks who I appreciate/admire/a little bit jealous of/learn from for their skills online. Also, just fun people to follow.
If you’re getting into creating content online, you can learn from all of these folks. 👇
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What run-of-mill tech interactions makes you go "wow"?
Here's one I run into every couple of years: I have to go buy USB sticks from Amazon - and see a *256gb* stick for $30.
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For folks in school/other roles looking to break into PMing: write a strategy memo for a company you want to be PM at and publish it online ( tweet/post). I’ll bet you that it will get you a serious conversation with their product leads.
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🇬🇧ANN: London office opening for Andreessen Horowitz.
I'm excited to officially open the
@a16z
office in London. I've moved here along with
@liz_harkavy
and
@jay_drainjr
More below (and photos from our launch event last night with
@bhorowitz
and
@cdixon
)
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Fwiw : I hate the old verification system. Endless favor trading / corruption / people getting some random press piece written just to get verified / unhappy customers and uneven implementation. This is so much better and cleaner.
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Breaking into PMing - a 🧵 // A question folks from eng/design/other functions often have how to become a PM in a tech co.
It can seem non-obvious and differs with each company but here are some patterns I've seen work. All the below assumes you have no PMing on your resume.
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As you get older, people you know will experience professional setbacks.
They get fired, demoted, run into a press scandal, have gossip about them or any number of weird things.
I’ve found that assuming the best about them+reaching out to help/listen goes a long way.
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Calling out the unsaid
A few years into my first job, we were doing a product review with a senior executive who was legendary for his temper and for not tolerating dissent. About halfway into the slide deck, the executive looked around and made a suggestion for a new feature.…
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Loving my iPad Pro +
@Qwerkywriter
setup at work. Feels like I should be writing the next great American novel and not regular email on this thing.
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