Adam Shepherd

@NTLive Peter Schaffer’s Black Comedy

What's a classic play or musical that you would love to see revived again?🤔

Consumerized enterprise software that’s easily accessible, simple to use and effortless to distribute eventually overwhelms IT’s decision making authority (e.g. DropBox, Zoom and Slack).

Really enjoyed this! bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08…

Good overview of the Spanish VC ecosystem ⁦- thanks @creandum⁩ blog.creandum.com/looking-at-the…

'Everyone I know buys vintage': the Depop sellers shaking up fashion buff.ly/2S4VAZ5

The current generation of marketplace startups has been incredibly successful. Airbnb, Lime, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. I've been doing a broad survey of the best writing on this topic and wanted to share my list of 20 best links I've seen.

Monzo adds IFTTT integration | WIRED UK wired.co.uk/article/monzo-…

@DecodingVC @juancastillo_es Just reading this versionone.vc/incentives-bes…

@DecodingVC @juancastillo_es I assumed you were talking about mining... you don’t need to code to mine crypto... 🙂

@DecodingVC @juancastillo_es 2) regular expected rewards may work, whereas for Wikipedia the humans are writing free form / far more creativity is required so bonuses may hinder performance. Nb. long time since read it. Enjoyed it tho!

@DecodingVC @juancastillo_es 1) as Juan says he distinguishes between algorithmic tasks (those with a defined path) v heuristic (no defined path). So could argue that crypto is the former (the computers may be finding new paths but the humans are doing very repeatable things) and therefore...

Anonymous Bitcoin Donor Rains $56 Million on Stunned Nonprofits - The Chronicle of Philanthropy philanthropy.com/article/Anonym…

State of the Cloud Report 2018 - Bessemer Venture Partners buff.ly/2ESmo8v

Depop Secures $20 Million for US Expansion buff.ly/2DZOo9T

The Hard Math Behind Bitcoin's Global Warming Problem buff.ly/2Bw8fPe

‘Substitute Phone’ artfully satisfies your compulsion to swipe and scroll buff.ly/2AfXD69

If You Want to be Highly Creative, Do these 8 Things buff.ly/2iYrnuM

The case for startups in the age of Goliaths buff.ly/2B8759H

Budget 2017: Green light for driverless car testing bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

Sean Parker unloads on Facebook: “God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains” buff.ly/2AwMNWM