"This paper characterizes the first protein to be discovered in a meteorite." Yes, you read right. A protein found on a extraterrestrial meteorite!!! 😮😱https://t.co/KkXUglEHw4
— Shai "provisionally accepted" Bel (@Mucus_Man) February 28, 2020
Trammel Traveler pic.twitter.com/688gVQkEPk
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) February 29, 2020
Consider the 1967 IBM System/360.
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) February 29, 2020
It cost ~$253,000 in 1967— typical RAM memory was 512 KB.
iPhones are over 175 times faster and can have 256GB of memory.
The FAA had the last working model operating in the early 2000s.
This is the lost commercial for the IBM System/360. pic.twitter.com/fmai2Pop9h
Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default https://t.co/sXFHkNSlvJ pic.twitter.com/qIeEW9CkWY
— The Verge (@verge) February 29, 2020
Walmart launching competitor to Amazon Prime. Well put by @DelRey.
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) February 29, 2020
"The reality Walmart is facing is that Prime, which boasts more than 150 million members worldwide, has become a retail wrecking ball that’s impossible for competitors to ignore..."https://t.co/Q3L2fcxQDA
Corporate VCs are getting more active in the early stages & building larger funds to keep pace with competition.
— Brett Bivens (@brettbivens) February 28, 2020
I wrote about why — perhaps counterintuitively — starting small is a more sustainable way for corporates to pursue venture enabled growth. https://t.co/I69lypbwtz
Check out a new approach to ultra-high resolution image analysis that pushes the boundary of massive data and model parallelism by using Mesh-TensorFlow with halo exchange to evaluate segmented 3D CT scans of liver tumors. Learn more below https://t.co/uum7AtCumf
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) February 28, 2020
Submit to the Deep Declarative Networks (DDN) workshop! https://t.co/0TrAW6UeCl
— Brandon Amos (@brandondamos) February 28, 2020
The DDN paper (https://t.co/M0FT06Gemc) by @sgould_au, R. Hartley, and D. Campbell gives an excellent overview and connects many of the key ideas in this space https://t.co/7kCQ9OAtKv pic.twitter.com/Uo7IAeyJC6
The Next Generation of Batteries Could Be Built by Viruses:
— SynBioBeta (@SynBioBeta) February 27, 2020
Angela Belcher found a way to turn nature's zombies into a tiny assembly line. But creating a new power cell might be just the beginning. https://t.co/116pPD2ir2
‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially https://t.co/OwaqzFq4oG (https://t.co/fu8vDGrzeN)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) February 27, 2020
New blog: Every year the tech community witnesses the implosion of once-promising startups. There’s a lot of advice on how to find product-market fit but a lot less on how not to blow it once you have it. I hope this new post spares founders some pain. https://t.co/fGLawarOxU
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) February 26, 2020
Good news! Something new is (probably) NOT ruining the planet!
— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) February 27, 2020
Good read by @SteveLohr https://t.co/hkTUVhHyXe
1/2 Quite the fintech newsletter this month @a16z!
— Rex Salisbury (@rexsalisbury) February 27, 2020
1️⃣What Credit Karma's acquisition means for its products
2️⃣Whether FICO's new scoring really matters
3️⃣The context behind NYC's cashless business ban
4️⃣The broader trend behind #debtfreeisthenewsexy https://t.co/wxSXNjHeRQ
Our latest fintech newsletter is out👇
— a16z (@a16z) February 27, 2020
-FICO’s new scoring system
-Credit Karma's acquisition
-NYC bans cashless businesses
-The trend behind #debtfreeisthenewsexy
-LendingClub buys a bank
-Varo to *become* a bank
-Tech for tenants
Read & subscribe: https://t.co/RuJU9ibJK3
NEW from me:
— Jason Del Rey (@DelRey) February 27, 2020
Walmart is working on an Amazon Prime competitor called Walmart+ that could launch next month
Grocery delivery is at core, but plan is to add more perks that Amazon can’t easily match. Fuel and prescription drug discounts being consideredhttps://t.co/X29TdzSB5s
Don't be surprised when consumers don't trust retailers on the matter of facial recognition. Also, telling story on how there's no perpetual "narrow" use cases for tech!
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) February 28, 2020
(https://t.co/cgid1CD9Dr). https://t.co/8vNlHFdVDD pic.twitter.com/XCR12sZlpc
More people should understand Bitcoin.
— Hello Bitcoin (@hello_bitcoin) February 27, 2020
If you’re a Bitcoiner with an interest in educating regular people about how Bitcoin works and why it’s important, then consider giving this intro presentation in your local community:https://t.co/K6K5YdmloQ
Now up on @crunchbasenews: It’s Not Just You, Seed Rounds Are Actually Getting Biggerhttps://t.co/evwv4zf8L0 pic.twitter.com/8oEqAkaRWi
— Jason D. Rowley (@Jason_Rowley) February 27, 2020
Much like life electrons always find the path of least resistance.
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) February 26, 2020
The path becomes reenforcing.
Knowing this is magic.
In this video these elections find a path.
This is How @ThingsWork:pic.twitter.com/rwLUIvITvn
"If you could use this as an actuator, like an artificial muscle, the actuator could be any arbitrary shape that transforms into another arbitrary shape. Then you're entering an entirely new design space in soft robotics." https://t.co/TUlV0JOjKI
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) February 27, 2020
The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, or the impossible tribar, is a triangular impossible object, an optical illusion consisting of an object which can be depicted in a perspective drawing, but cannot exist as a solid object.
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) February 27, 2020
📱https://t.co/BleMiQE3F8 pic.twitter.com/kE7LhbXNhH
https://t.co/A4QiCsCGfX raises $16 million for AI that spots abnormalities in chest and head scans https://t.co/OFAqD96ifS by @Kyle_L_Wiggers
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) February 27, 2020
#Statistics for people in hurry https://t.co/DoWE6v7wCf
— Cassie Kozyrkov (@quaesita) February 27, 2020
Hindi: स्टेटिस्टिक्स, खास उन लोगों के लिए जो बहुत जल्दबाज़ी में हैं। https://t.co/NCmrj1bTdB
Thanks to Aayush Mishra and Priyanka Vergadia (@pvergadia) for a lovely #Hindi translation!#rstatshttps://t.co/DoWE6v7wCf
Amazing how far mesh generation has been pushed! I post a video from Pointer Networks (2015), in which results like the one below by @charlietcnash et al seemed impossible. https://t.co/ms1K7kRTIG pic.twitter.com/pPkwczl1NO
— Oriol Vinyals (@OriolVinyalsML) February 27, 2020
Hard Startups: https://t.co/BKtjt5dO5v
— Sam Altman (@sama) February 26, 2020
If you are looking to raise a series A in the next 6-12 months - YC has now made public our Series A fundraising guide. You can read it here: https://t.co/MVWmXMD8Q6
— Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) February 26, 2020
Every year, we pick 10 recent technological breakthroughs that we predict will have a big impact in the years to come. We're proud to release this year’s list of the technologies that we believe will make a real difference in solving important problems. https://t.co/ct3KYjwebB
— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) February 26, 2020
Walmart Gets Into Health Care https://t.co/HHPbBZgBBz (https://t.co/vXDcVavEUG)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) February 26, 2020
Watching markets this week pic.twitter.com/2u27To8TIg
— Jeremy Ross (@jebus911) February 26, 2020
If you like neuroscience, AI, philosophy, and listen to the Artificial Intelligence podcast, here are some podcasts I'm a fan of that you should listen to as well, or instead ;-)
— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) February 26, 2020
Brain Inspired with @pgmid
TWIMLAI with @samcharrington
Philosophize This with @iamstephenwest
OpenAI’s Jeff Clune on deep learning’s Achilles’ heel and a faster path to AGI https://t.co/Y9gSNp3lF4
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) February 26, 2020
The traders of /r/wallstreetbets, a subreddit that describes itself as “like 4chan found a Bloomberg terminal,” are reshaping the options market and sparking wild rallies https://t.co/vDiOrwZnuh via @BW
— Bloomberg (@business) February 26, 2020
We made a 300-page book featuring the four favorite tools of 150 remarkable people. The book is now available for $2. It's a PDF, in full color, with active links to the tools. Features @donttrythis and @tferriss and @KariByron among many others. https://t.co/b0yFIQ2DcP
— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) February 25, 2020
Vimeo launches AI-powered social video editing platform out of beta https://t.co/JURRkQRN4s
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) February 26, 2020
I just published Food Delivery Wars: 3 Takeaways From The UberEats, Postmates, Grubhub, DoorDash Ecosystem — How It Boomed, And Why It’s At A Crossroads https://t.co/fybNZn0O4q
— Sarah Tavel (@sarahtavel) February 26, 2020
Holy Crap. This is going on the wall.
— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) February 26, 2020
Talk about Game Speed https://t.co/qR5r4j6b3R
The history of "FinTech" from 2016 in @nytimes ... and I had to go check that E-Trade was indeed founded in 1982... https://t.co/zUJ7NOXlSS
— Christian Hernandez (@christianhern) February 25, 2020
Bill. com offers the sort of unglamorous, workhorse software that’s often taken for granted (accounts payable/receivable). So how did it become one of 2019's top IPOs? @seema_amble reveals what startups can learn from the company's viral growth strategy: https://t.co/a05roPWHNE
— a16z (@a16z) February 24, 2020
"We see ~ 3,000 inbound referred opportunities per year. There are about 200 of these startups a year that are fundable by top VCs. … about 15 of those will generate 95% of all the economic returns … even the top VCs write off half their deals.” @pmarca https://t.co/02AtXWcKnW
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) February 25, 2020
"He’s not given credit as a teacher. But he’s the best teacher I ever had by far. There was nothing traditional about him as a teacher. But he was the best. He was the absolute best."@tim_cook On Steve Jobs
— Dickey Singh (@DickeySingh) February 24, 2020
Remembering Steve Jobs on his 65th birthday. pic.twitter.com/KY55XdKHLX
Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height https://t.co/x8fTBonIBl (https://t.co/4rPcqyY3le)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) February 24, 2020
Evolution has been hacking biology for the past 4 billion years.
— a16z (@a16z) February 24, 2020
What will it take for us to reach the next evolution of bioengineering?
Find out from @alectricity in this a16z Summit talk.https://t.co/lHtnFge0GY pic.twitter.com/ud6g0Ey1rD
Interview with Doug Leone from @sequoia on firms history and future https://t.co/BfMRLJ3a1Y
— Elad Gil (@eladgil) February 24, 2020
The latest issue of @eugenewei’s Substack ‘Remains of the Day’ is great. Go read it!https://t.co/gZFvc8TrC5
— Dan Romero (@dwr) February 24, 2020
— Gopi Vikranth (@GopiVikranth) February 24, 2020
eMarketer estimates Twitch will have 37.5M monthly active viewers in the US this year and is on pace to surpass the 44M mark by 2022 (@sarahintampa / TechCrunch)https://t.co/xxityofXGMhttps://t.co/Fdx2TwEofp
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) February 24, 2020
Cord-cutting is getting much, much worse (via Hollywood Torrent, @Lucas_Shaw) pic.twitter.com/XJHmI3JHaw
— Andy Weissman (@aweissman) February 23, 2020
Tesla's hardware seems to have stunned rivals. https://t.co/whziG47jpy
— Futurism (@futurism) February 23, 2020
• Read everyday.
— Richard Feynman (@ProfFeynman) February 23, 2020
• Spend time with nature.
• Ask questions.
• Never stop learning.
• Don't pay attention to what others think of you.
• Do what interests you the most.
• Study hard.
• Teach others what you know.
• It's Okay to make mistakes.
• Make mistakes and learn!
— Archillect (@archillect) February 23, 2020
and this from today, @MylesUdland https://t.co/dflxRoaVv4
— Andy Weissman (@aweissman) February 23, 2020
Stumbled by great lecture series on MIT's Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation (👌instructor) https://t.co/14h9qFJTud (am finding lectures mix very well with indoor cycling cardio sessions 💥)
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) February 23, 2020
Import AI issue 186 comes out this Monday. On average, I read ~20 papers per issue (many don't get written up, 60% because I don't find them compelling, 40% because I don't yet understand them). That means I've probably read on the order of 3700 distinct papers. Things add up.
— Jack Clark (@jackclarkSF) February 23, 2020
"This week’s Office launch, however, showed Microsoft’s embrace of AI as not merely augmenting what you can already do with the productivity suite, but added new use cases altogether." https://t.co/xxHDlX4M8A
— Emil Protalinski (@EPro) February 22, 2020
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon have come up with an intriguing way to hunt for new startups: by personally investing in other 'microfunds.' @KateClarkTweets reportshttps://t.co/7FREGlJat6
— Nick Wingfield (@nickwingfield) February 21, 2020
We're launching a book club and author series for @theinformation subscribers. Thrilled @StevenLevy is first up to join us to discuss his new book on Facebook. https://t.co/kehvP0aXSX
— Jessica Lessin (@Jessicalessin) February 22, 2020
Why AI companies don't always scale like traditional software startups https://t.co/XiM8dpHqvv by Martin Casado and Matt Bornstein
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) February 22, 2020
🏦 Banks call bitcoin a "bad idea"
— Blockfolio (@blockfolio) February 22, 2020
🚖 Taxis called Uber a "bad idea"
🏨 Hotels called Airbnb a "bad idea"
🎵 Labels called streaming a "bad idea"
📰 Papers called internet a "bad idea"
📻 Radio stations called TV a "bad idea"
It's simple, they're afraid.
Nothing like watching General Magic on a plane heading home to SFO.
— Bobby Goodlatte (@rsg) February 22, 2020
There’s so much magic left to build 🎩🐰https://t.co/GQWjnIstV4
Warren Buffett’s latest annual letter is now available for reading 🙏🏽https://t.co/hG2HEj6wgy
— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) February 22, 2020
Most people still do not understand what caused the Great Financial Crisis:
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) February 21, 2020
There were many, many causes. The environment for it developed over decades. And many of the factors that led up to the crisis still exist https://t.co/zp91TN3zy3 pic.twitter.com/kMTFY08bxF
Scientists at Facebook AI have done what was previously considered out of reach for deep learning models, solving complex, symbolic math equations using a neural network. https://t.co/gmtbQicEz3 pic.twitter.com/KsHCV4Vi0m
— Facebook AI (@facebookai) February 21, 2020
Introducing the TensorFlow Constrained Optimization library, a new tool to configure and train #MachineLearning models based on combinations of metrics, making it easy to formulate and solve problems of interest to the ML fairness community. Learn more at https://t.co/vVdqfHgWnL pic.twitter.com/9yuDLb4YxF
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) February 21, 2020
ProBeat: AI is helping Microsoft rethink Office for mobile https://t.co/38VbwG0VUH by @EPro
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) February 21, 2020
"In 1920, Americans spent more than half their income on food (38 percent) and clothing (17 percent). Today, food eaten outside the home and in it accounts for 10 percent of spending and clothing just 2.4 percent." https://t.co/MQukAB2W0V
— Rachel Premack (@rrpre) February 21, 2020
And one day these products and services will just be called 'therapeutics' and 'care'! @seanduffy https://t.co/7xVwqXSyTL
— Julie Yoo (@julesyoo) February 21, 2020
"Seen a shooting star tonight
— BobDylan (@Bob41Dylan) February 21, 2020
And I thought of you
You were trying to break into another world
A world I never knew
I always kind of wondered
If you ever made it through
Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of you." pic.twitter.com/RjELS1Ydpg
How to Write Usefully: https://t.co/Bu41gy8Fmx
— Paul Graham (@paulg) February 21, 2020
MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning https://t.co/5j1n6GLBJW (https://t.co/MgLmw6bi1k)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) February 21, 2020
Canada's Laffer Curve Lesson: Government Collects Less Revenue from High-Income Earners after Trudeau Tax Hike | Daniel J. Mitchell https://t.co/TLAjl6AHxH via @feeonline
— Louis Gagnon (@rskmngr) February 20, 2020
Does that Goldman presentation have a cash flow chart?
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) February 21, 2020
"Many IPOs generated gross profit, but only two companies were cash flow positive: Uber and Zoom...In contrast, companies like Lyft, Slack and Peloton had hundreds of millions in negative cash flow." https://t.co/PYJZv3sId1
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.” – Albert Einstein
— Crypto Rand (@crypto_rand) February 21, 2020
Love this Wired piece on Wikipedia, one of the true marvels of the internet. Just imagine if you told someone in 2020 "I am going to build a site anyone on the internet can edit to hold all knowledge". It would be deemed - rightfully - impossible.https://t.co/tyN16Z2XPC
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) February 21, 2020
DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M, profitability https://t.co/9h7hPlS6De via @techcrunch
— Michael Arrington (@arrington) February 20, 2020
A screenshot speaks a thousand words, but sharing your interactive TensorBoard is even more valuable.
— TensorFlow (@TensorFlow) February 20, 2020
With the new share button, we’ve made it easier to collaborate by sharing your ML experiments with anyone on https://t.co/jqBFn3ecdD. pic.twitter.com/qqEqpgzDem
Twitch is making it easier to understand League of Legends matches https://t.co/QwIHGLLBPT pic.twitter.com/Dit1S56Ayn
— The Verge (@verge) February 20, 2020
"At Google, we had to build our own tools to enable our developers to safely access data, because the tools that we needed didn’t exist” -- Sridhar Ramaswamy, a former @Google executive, and now a partner at @GreylockVC https://t.co/ose8nD3Xju
— Gretel.ai (@gretel_ai) February 20, 2020
DeepMind releases Haiku and RLax, libraries for neural networks and reinforcement learning based on the JAX framework. https://t.co/DD1szcJzv4
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) February 20, 2020
Final thoughts:
— Gagan Biyani (@gaganbiyani) February 20, 2020
Prepare for a grind. Udemy is 10yo and worth “only” $2B. You don’t have 2 be Uber to be a gr8 biz.
Don't be a sore loser. Eren + I are v good friends. We respect those who rejected us + those who fired us.
Blog post(s) forthcoming; please follow me for more :)
I’m biased but @udemy is a true underdog story + thought I’d share details we’ve never shared before.
— Gagan Biyani (@gaganbiyani) February 20, 2020
ICYMI, we announced a $50M raise at $2B valuation.
Udemy almost died at least 5x. We got rejected by everyone in the Valley. Startups are never a straight line.
*Read on*
A rare deep-dive with @dougleone on his 30+ years at @Sequoia... have probably learned more from Doug than anyone else on investing, leadership and even just how to live life with a smile :)
— Matt Huang (@matthuang) February 19, 2020
👂 https://t.co/HQowLJBAiZ pic.twitter.com/BjHD9fMAZH
Augmented Reality: Nice 👍🏿 pic.twitter.com/txMTUgk5RT
— MC HAMMER (@MCHammer) February 20, 2020
Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.
— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) February 19, 2020
It is a crazy story. With many twists and turns, including a fake invoice, an escape from SF, and more. https://t.co/qgzz1BhQad
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings https://t.co/CdNMugrX8z // Super excited to preorder the new book by @reedhastings and @ErinMeyerINSEAD. Available for pre-order now (my smile link choice is @Water). pic.twitter.com/l7bWQGb5f2
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) February 19, 2020
When evaluating an AI company, the main question we seek to understand is whether or not it solves a real problem. Here’s the framework that @KonstantineBuhl uses to determine whether the product’s value proposition is actually feasible. https://t.co/fvJ5C4L9tI
— Sequoia (@sequoia) February 19, 2020
These 20 articles & books helped shape our thinking on the dynamics, historical context, & future of marketplaces, featuring @benthompson, @labunleashed, @ai, @JuliaMorrongiel, @teisenmann, @MikeIsaac & more. https://t.co/XUE9OCttzq
— a16z (@a16z) February 19, 2020
Conversations with Meena sound a lot more natural than ones you may have had with SmarterChild. https://t.co/ap7cVUKNHx
— Futurism (@futurism) February 19, 2020
Podcast: Amazon’s ML Solutions Lab head on the biggest AI mistakes businesses make https://t.co/cPvYQaLDKG
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) February 19, 2020
Key insights to building a VC-backed AI startup from none other than @a16z.
— Allie K. Miller (@alliekmiller) February 18, 2020
Ex: “Treat model maintenance and human failover as first-order problems.”https://t.co/EsfYtscP82
Very hard to put together the top 100 of privately held marketplaces but @a16z did a thorough job with this list - interesting take-away: 4 co's driving 3/4 of GMV.
— Boris Wertz (@bwertz) February 18, 2020
Also: nice to see our portfolio co @headout among the top 5 fastest-growing marketplaces.https://t.co/KZ1evFZGs9
Andreessen Horowitz's Marketplace 100 via @a16z https://t.co/z5tYDJqIfQ pic.twitter.com/P5Etsv4BhG
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) February 18, 2020
The wait is over. Acquired returns with Part II of the Sequoia Capital story, joined by the very best person in the world to tell it - @Sequoia’s Global Managing Partner @dougleone.https://t.co/cXU7NTdg7G
— Acquired Podcast (@AcquiredFM) February 18, 2020
An obvious next step would be to colorize the video. Neural networks can do that, too, using the same basic technique: start with a bunch of color photos, convert them to black and white, and then train a neural network to reconstruct the color originals. https://t.co/SRfNcW3ehK
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) February 18, 2020
I've talked to 50+ VCs in the course of @AvomaInc's journey and after reading this article by @martin_casado, finally felt someone truly understands how AI software companies are being built: https://t.co/qgBcvx3W7F
— Aditya Kothadiya (@AdityaKothadiya) February 18, 2020
A must-read for AI founders, VCs, and also acquirers.
California’s data privacy rules get clearer https://t.co/LzzrzJdU5P
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) February 17, 2020
A crisper #CRISPR: David Liu and his team are researching how to make gene editing more precise. Fewer off-target edits and greater targeting scope bring #geneediting technology closer to treating human diseases https://t.co/fwZvAItr0h @davidrliu #synbio
— SynBioBeta (@SynBioBeta) February 17, 2020
— Gopi Vikranth (@GopiVikranth) February 18, 2020
1/ This morning I reread the epilogue of 'Winning' by Michael Moritz of @Sequoia.
— Steve Schlafman 🌎 (@schlaf) February 17, 2020
It's one of my favorite essays on leadership and greatness.
There are countless nuggets of wisdom about Manchester United, Sequoia and company building.
Here's a thread with the highlights: pic.twitter.com/57M5ZKwlXL
Didn't expect this tweet to blow-up like this so here's a link to the original source:https://t.co/wfcE6itSas
— Jonathan Mendez (@jonathanmendez) February 17, 2020
Search https://t.co/CaT26vTuGQ for it. They have multiple versions including a mesh/armor version
— Ray Takayama (@ami_racing) February 17, 2020
Infinity cube
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) February 17, 2020
📱https://t.co/FPe1wvmNhF pic.twitter.com/oFzBCBrddr
Can building an app over a weekend backfire on you? 👀
— AngelList (@AngelList) February 17, 2020
Here's how @SvenVD_Zee built a side project that got over 10 million users 🤯https://t.co/YezOwXCF0y
Consistent with FB’s own data that absence a predisposition to the product, their digital ads have no measurable impact.
— John R Fuisz (@jrfuisz) February 17, 2020
There is a massive change coming - we’ve been waiting. https://t.co/Q7mRV5WJ5N
Number of paying subscribers:
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) February 16, 2020
Netflix +167 million
Amazon Prime +150 million
Spotify +124 million
Apple Music +60 million
Hulu +30 million
Disney+ +29 million
HBO Now +8 million
YouTube TV +2 million
Crazy (really not) that Uber cut $120M of its $150M programmatic display budget and it had no impact on performance due to the fraudulent attribution that was occurring.
— Jonathan Mendez (@jonathanmendez) February 16, 2020
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) February 17, 2020
Apple Marketing Philosophy 1977 pic.twitter.com/eqfiCtmcrV
— cristina berta jones (@cristinagberta) February 16, 2020
It was 1988 Steve Jobs presented the most amazing insight about technology.
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) February 16, 2020
“This is field where one does not write a Principia which holds up for years—this is not a field where one paints a painting that will be looked at for centuries"
Sedimentary layers.
This is stunning. pic.twitter.com/9GguXZDxoy
What is the best book you read this month?
— Norgard (@BrianNorgard) February 16, 2020
Any topic is fair game (bonus points for posting the Amazon link).
My suggestion is Lost Japan.https://t.co/k8e16IQFfX
Mumbai hit the mute button on its drivers. https://t.co/9b5eAIoohy
— Futurism (@futurism) February 16, 2020
AI may look like software. AI may replace software. But AI companies don't seem to be software companies as we know them. @martin_casado & Matt Bornstein explain how AI business may be part software, part services. https://t.co/iLVUvYHBMg
— a16z (@a16z) February 16, 2020
The haunting art behind Death Stranding’s gear and ghouls https://t.co/w6lRlefCdN pic.twitter.com/kwmHMhUeOr
— The Verge (@verge) February 16, 2020
Nice work on speeding up physics simulations with convolutional nets & neural architecture search. https://t.co/sfS1xQUbY1
— Quoc Le (@quocleix) February 15, 2020
Amazing thread from @balajis in which he fact-checks line by line a recent @Recode article designed to embarrass Silicon Valley for being overly cautious about #COVID_19
— Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) February 14, 2020
Take-away: lazy journalism is not just annoying, it's a threat to public health https://t.co/2JDbjMjm8n
This was the week Chinese industry was supposed to stir back to life. "One day before reopening, we got a notice from the government that the policy changed," says one Shenzhen car parts factory owner. "There is nothing we can do."@tmitchpk https://t.co/MAWQj6kbMP
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) February 15, 2020
It's a puzzle that many inventions could have been invented much earlier than they were, using what was available at that time. My explanation was that they were partially invented, but died before being complete. My chart: pic.twitter.com/r04tBL9nHV
— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) February 15, 2020
CITATIONS
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) February 15, 2020
Twitter didn't have space to link these inline, but I compiled all the references in this thread into a Medium post.
Here it is!https://t.co/BXqgAz5UGV
Incredible.
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) February 14, 2020
Last week I called out a journalist who I thought was writing a piece that would be a disservice to public health.
Unfortunately, my concerns proved well-founded. Recode’s virus piece ignores WHO & CDC, gets the science wrong…and focuses on handshakes!
Thread: 🧵 pic.twitter.com/fnxOmRL7j5
Benchmark has set the standard for more than two decades. I wrote a deep dive on why.
— Brett Bivens (@brettbivens) February 14, 2020
1/ Seth Klarman & the perils of thesis driven investing
2/ Uber as the ultimate bottoms up investment
3/ “Liquidity Quality” in an increasing returns worldhttps://t.co/E93WW4cjRN
Watch how a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster comes back and lands on its tail:
— Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) February 15, 2020
Thanks to this tracking camera view you can see every part in detail — from the engines firing to the legs deploying, and even a little bounce on the landing! pic.twitter.com/BoCuy6sdvq
It was 1991 and this rare Steve Jobs video is just as powerful today as it was then.
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) February 14, 2020
“America is in a though spot right now. I think we’ve forgotten the basics. We’ve become prosperous for so long we forgot how much work it took to build”
Honest vision.pic.twitter.com/lFdButPwDM
1/ Don Valentine (Sequoia founder):
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) February 15, 2020
"The art of storytelling is incredibly important. Learning to tell a story is critically important because that’s how the money works. The money flows as a function of the story.”
A venture capitalist get to see all kinds of storytellers.
I'm not even sure #Netflix gets out of the #streamingwars alive.
— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) February 15, 2020
The original gangster can’t rely on gross margin dollars from Mandalorian action figures, handsets, or paper towels — no flywheel.https://t.co/gg5RQYvwGu
Comparing valuations:
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) February 14, 2020
Amazon: $1.06 trillion
Walmart
Best Buy
Macy’s
Target
Costco Combined:
Gap $1.06 trillion
Sears
Home Depot
Starbucks
Foot Locker
Lowe’s
Bed Bath Beyond
J.C. Penney
Office Depot
Nordstrom
Big Lots
Kohl’s
brilllllllianthttps://t.co/qv8Fn3vBjX
— Stuart A. Thompson (@stuartathompson) February 14, 2020
Because, really, why the hell not. https://t.co/KEFypz70OC
— Futurism (@futurism) February 14, 2020
In 2013 as Bitcoin was trading around $130 @chamath wrote a Bloomberg op-ed, hypothesizing that the upper bound of the digital currency could be $400,000.
— keysheet (@keysheet) February 14, 2020
Since then he's remained one of the most vocal advocates for $BTC.
A thread:https://t.co/hlf5WkKk55
It's true that #deepfakes are coming and are alarming in so many ways. But @Kyle_L_Wiggers explains the challenges and solutions really well--I learned a great deal from this piece. https://t.co/0CvOGx7Wqw
— Seth Colaner (@SethColaner) February 11, 2020
Today we launched our second VB Special Issue, on the topic of AI and security. Heavy stuff? Yes. Incredibly interesting? Also yes. Surprising learnings? Yes again. #AI #cybersecurity @VentureBeat https://t.co/pjCYFSLkDz
— Seth Colaner (@SethColaner) February 11, 2020
Microsoft's AI improves text summarization by focusing on the intro https://t.co/bnc8QB6QRM by @Kyle_L_Wiggers
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) February 14, 2020
