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Readers, Starting from a blank canvas is the absolute hardest thing to do. It’s insanely hard. And yet the brave entrepreneurs in the tech industry do it, time and time again, and every year, a few are successful. It’s an awesome thing when it works though. Anyone who’s working on a new product has…

Growing startups and evaluating startups share common skills Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. This was a big moment for me, and the result of a long…

Dear readers, Building a new growth team is hard. You have to figure out the macro organizational issues – how it fits in with marketing, product, and other functions – as well as the micro, like how to measure the success of these teams. It’s a tricky topic and something that a lot of teams are…

Above: New technology has always captivated consumers! Dear readers, I’m often asked- so what kind of startups are you investing in at Andreessen Horowitz? And since I’m focused mostly on consumer companies – is there anything exciting happening? After all, if we’re “between” platforms, and there…

BRUSSELS – The latest global climate summit in Poland has generated familiar predictions of doom and disaster from environmental activists. Climate change seems to freeze our capacity for critical thinking: we are too eager to believe the problem is far worse than science shows, and – conversely –…

What’s on your mind? Right now, as I’m writing this, The New York Times is breaking the news that Facebook, after a year of staggering revelations concerning everything from misuse of private data to enabling Russian election interference to knowingly providing inflated metrics publishers used to…

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, at a Senate hearing in April. Internal Facebook records describe data-sharing deals that benefited more than 150 companies. Credit Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far…

W hen my mum lost her dad in her early twenties, she was looking for answers and a soft place to land. It was the early 1970s — a confusing time to be human, amidst the Vietnam War, the continuing struggle for equal rights, and the disruption of all kinds of traditional values. She found sanctuary…

Mark Zuckerberg in 2007 presenting some of the ways Facebook can target its users. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, file) Another week, another story about Facebook sharing its users’ data without their knowledge or consent. This past June Facebook argued that granting access to your personal private data to…

DHH Nov 25, 2015 I grew up lower-middle class on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Anywhere outside of Scandinavia, the socioeconomic label would probably have been ‘poor’, but Danish safety nets and support systems did their best to suspend the facts and offer better. Me in the middle in home-made…

I was born into a nation of conspiracy-mongers. For all their many admirable qualities, Iranians have a penchant for explaining the world through conspiracy theories, a talent for discovering a hidden hand — usually a Jewish or American one — behind every national setback and personal mishap. Now…

Maria Butina: Who is the alleged Russian spy? Maria Butina was arrested on a charges of conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of the Russian government. Who is she and what have been her interaction with the United States? A 29-year-old Russian woman accused of working as a covert spy while in…

Tajja Isen | Longreads | September 2018 | 10 minutes (3,511 words) Imagine the kind of company I was: Between sixteen and twenty-three, solitude lit up the part of my brain that other people save for smoking breaks. How long it had been since my last bout and how soon till the next, when I’d finally…

Anand Giridharadas poses for a portrait at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn. In August 2018, Mr. Giridharadas published the book “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World” which investigates philanthrocapitalism.Photograph: Elias Williams for the Guardian A nand Giridharadas was…

Jacqueline Alnes | Longreads | December 2018 | 11 minutes (2,773 words) Early in the morning, the light soft and warm and the air cool after yesterday’s thunderstorms, Jaclyn Gilbert runs a new route. From Grand Army Plaza she makes her way toward the Green Wood cemetery, hugging it through the…

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One thing I see most SaaS companies do a pretty poor job of until they have a great finance team is a go-forward model. A real financial model for the next year. It’s not that everyone doesn’t do one. Most do. It’s just … they tend to not really make any sense. Not when you do a deep dive and really…

Is Listening to a Book the Same Thing as Reading It? Each is best suited to different purposes, and neither is superior. Mr. Willingham is a psychologist at the University of Virginia. Credit Erik Blad A few years ago, when people heard I was a reading researcher, they might ask about their child’s…

Editor’s Note: This post is co-authored by Todd Caponi and Jeff Rosset. After reading a number of end-of-year articles predicting the trends for the coming year, myself and Jeff Rosset recognized five trends which haven’t made the headlines – but believe require the attention of tech sales leaders…

LONDON (AP) — Bickering in the Oval Office. Shouting at the Houses of Parliament. Rioting on the Champs-Elysees. It’s a chaotic moment for the countries that have long underpinned the global order, a time of instability for the balance of power that has reigned for decades. Across the world, people…

I n early 2016, two years into running Microsoft , CEO Satya Nadella needed advice from one of his newest employees, the cofounder of an app-tool maker Microsoft had just bought. Nadella was close to pulling off his blockbuster $27 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, but he wanted to talk about another…

The young Tesla engineer was excited. Ecstatic, in fact. It was a Saturday in October 2017, and he was working at the Gigafactory, Tesla’s enormous battery manufacturing plant in Nevada. Over the previous year, he had been living out of a suitcase, putting in 13-hour days, seven days a week. This…

AddThis Sharing Buttons According to a recent Ifop poll, Marine Le Pen holds a large lead over Emmanuel Macron. Le Pen’s National Rally (RN), receives 23.5 per cent of support, while beleaguered Emmanuel Macron’s La Republique en Marche (LREM) has only 15 per cent of support. For populist supporters…

Share 607 Reddit 69 Share 676 Shares Despite an unrelenting daily attack from CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post , the New York Times , and countless other news outlets and pundits, President Trump’s approval rating matches President Obama’s at the same point of their presidencies. Trump’s job approval…

Given the presidency's evolution, Donald Trump, the overlord of American politics, is not a fluke, or some historic anomaly. He’s an inevitability. President Donald Trump (Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) Another day, another avalanche of news about the President: berating Democratic leaders…

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Dec. 12, 2018 / 12:37 PM PST By Shamard Charles, M.D. Stanford researchers warn that the number of animal bites is likely to rise amid climate change and developmental…

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On Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was interrogated by the House Judiciary Committee over a number of topics including potential bias in the search results it provides users. DuckDuckGo — a privacy-focused search engine company that competes with Google Search — released a study last week that…

Tweet Share Share Mail Share The opening panel of the Stigler Center’s annual antitrust conference discussed the source of digital platforms’ power and what, if anything, can be done to address the numerous challenges their ability to shape opinions and outcomes present. Google CEO Sundar Pichai…

Facebook's year of scandals is driving young users away from the platform, according to a Pew survey . Pew surveyed more than 3,400 U.S. Facebook users in May and June, and found that a whopping 44 percent of those ages 18 to 29 say they've deleted the app from their phone in the last year. Some of…

On Nov. 12, 2016, a group of seven women held a meeting in New York. They had never worked together before—in fact, most of them had never met—but they were brought together by what felt like the shared vision of an emerging mission. There were effectively two different cohorts that day. The first…

We are, almost certainly, the only intelligent life in the universe. But anyone who says they know for sure is full of hot air, argues new research. We simply don’t know enough about what’s out there to come up with a precise answer either way. There are billions and billions of stars and galaxies…

When I became an anarchist I was 18, depressed, anxious, and ready to save the world.

Reports on the Marriott guest data breach have suggested themost probable cause was a result of the technology platform deployed byStarwood under the name “Valhalla.” As the senior vice president of technologysolutions at Starwood Hotels & Resorts from 2001 to 2006, I worked onValhalla and…

F oreign criminals sentenced to deportation are to be banished to a remote island off the coast of Denmark, the country's government has announced. Finance minister Kristian Jensen said the criminals will be detained at a facility on Lindholm, an uninhabited seven-hectare island in the province of…

Photo: Mehdi Taamallah/NurPhoto via Getty Images France’s gilets jaunes protesters, called yellow vests in the English-speaking press, scored one victory earlier this week. President Emmanuel Macron announced that his government will no longer levy the fuel tax that so outraged the country’s middle-…

Children who use screens for seven hours or more a day are showing signs that their brain cortex is thinning prematurely. The findings show that children are at risk of deteriorating memory function, perception skills and cognitive abilities, according to new major US study. The ongoing $300 million…