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Quibi Leadersā $1.7 Billion Failure Is a Story of Self-Sabotage:
[..] the company did little to seek out the up-and-coming talent that has proven successful on YouTube, instead relying on classic Hollywood formulas served up by pricey established producers and stars [But] I wonāt necessarily care if thereās a āstarā in a show as long as it looks good and my friends recommend it.
š¤·āāļø Curators are the new creatorsāBloomberg
The āProblematic,ā VC-Threatening Study That Has Split Harvard Professors:
Overall, however, Eisenmann said the findings suggested that early-stage investors could benefit by expanding the definition of ājockeyā to include not just the founder and CEO but all the other human capital components of a start-up, including strategic partners and other resource providers.
šµļø Look for founder-community fitāInstitutional Investor
The Silicon and Industrial Revolutions:
Every advance is shepherded into existence by a small group of skilled engineers, perhaps with a single individual named as the motive force or originator of an idea. But the success of all these inventions - transisitors, integrated circuits - is the continual series of improvements to production techniques and performance that were made by the unnamed engineers of the Valley.
š¦øāāļø That myth of the lone geniusāDietrich Vollrath
š§ Listening
Cloud Gaming: The Progress and the Mind-Bending Promise:
If you look at what the history of the internet is: you had the Internet of Text, and now there's the Internet of Videoākids go to YouTube to search now [..] And the future is The Internet of Experiences, and cloud native gaming is going to enable that Internet of Experiences.
Jade Raymond, Jonathan Laiāa16z Podcast
The paradox of Apple:
This is the maturity stage of an industry, and it also comes with all sorts of optimisation and accessories around the edges - so, the credit card and AirPods, and also subscription, TV, cases and colours and new sizes (and the whole in-app payment argument). Juice the ecosystem.
Episode 6āAnother Podcast
Build for markets you understand:
Our whole thing was, we wanted to make beautiful games. It was a pretty simple mission. And we could have executed on that with phenomenal designers in China. We could have executed on that anywhere in the world. It didn't have to be out of New York.
Paul MurphyāLanded
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